National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 541 Time Field and Market Promotion

Time always passes quickly when one is travelling at full speed, and three years passed in the blink of an eye.

On this day, Song Chi appeared again in the Tianxu Cangqiong. Without hesitation, his mind suddenly turned and all his attention was transferred to the [Chiqiong Jump Device].

Beneath the seemingly calm appearance, the heart is actually already in turmoil.

After three years, he was only one last "Red Dome Leap" away from that colorful light spot, and now, the Red Dome Leap feature had completed cooling down again.

Suppressing his turbulent emotions, he resolutely activated the "Red Sky Leap".

The jump charging time, which was not short to begin with, now seemed even longer.

It was not until a strong feeling of dizziness and weightlessness enveloped his whole body that Song Chi realized that the jump had already started.

When it turned around again, the Tianxu Cangqiong was already millions of light years away.

The darkness and silence of the outside world remained the same, no different from before.

Song Chi was not surprised by this, because this time he did not directly land at the colorful light spot, but chose a star field tens of thousands of light years away.

Not only him, I believe any other Xinhuo captain would make the same choice.

After all, if the [Chessboard of Time] is really in the ancestral land of a certain advanced civilization, it can prevent the Tianxu Cangqiong from being directly teleported into the dragon's den and the tiger's lair.

"It seems that the worst situation has not occurred..."

After scanning the area and checking the radar chart on one side twice, Song Chi's eyes showed a hint of joy.

If it is true as we thought before, that the [Chessboard of Time] is controlled by other advanced civilizations and hidden deep in their ancestral land, then this is definitely not the case now.

The ancestral lands of advanced civilizations are mostly on the floating lands of advanced life forms, and the diameter of the star sea floating land of only level seven can reach an astonishing tens of thousands of light years. Even at a distance of tens of thousands of light years, its outline can be clearly seen, not to mention the higher level eight floating land.

Since we haven’t seen any super-giant floating land in the star sea right now, it proves that there is no high-level floating land within a large area of ​​the nearby star field.

In this way, it can naturally be confirmed that the [Time Chessboard] is not above the advanced floating land.

After confirming this, while the duration of the "neutron star fission" feature had not yet ended, he once again started a conventional jump towards the direction of the [Time Chessboard].

The first jump went smoothly, and the distance between Tianxu Cangqiong and the main body of the [Time Chessboard] was once again shortened by 13,000 light years.

But something unusual happened the second time.

As the second jump ended, the moment the Tianxu Cangqiong rushed out of the jump channel, Song Chi in the main control room of the battleship noticed something was wrong.

"The battleship's flying speed is abnormal, intelligent computer!!"

After calling out to the Sky Intelligent Brain, after a while, the Sky Intelligent Brain gave a conclusion.

[After testing, the time in the outer space was significantly slowed down, with the slowdown factor being roughly between 1.8 and 2.0, and the slowdown factor for the battleship itself was 1.2.]

"Time slowed down nearly twice?"

Upon hearing this conclusion, the first thing that came to Song Chi's mind was not worry, but joy.

The time covering a large area of ​​the starry sky slows down. Apart from high-level creatures who major in the laws of time, only high-level time artifacts can do this.

This just further foreshadows the existence of the [Time Chessboard] component, and everything that happened before was not just his personal imagination.

However, despite his joy, Song Chi's mentality was not very good.

At present, the Tianxu Cangqiong is clearly several light years away from the colorful light spot. The time slowdown rate several light years away has reached 2 times. So where is the exact center of the colorful light spot?

It can be imagined that as the Tianxu Cangqiong gets closer to the center of the starry sky, the effect of slowing down time will become more and more terrifying.

It's not just the effect of slowing down time, it may also cause time to speed up.

Although the Tianxu Cangqiong is currently equipped with components such as the [Posuo Zen Seal] and the [Time Chess], which give the battleship itself a certain time resistance, the original 2 times time slowdown has been offset to 1.2 times, but Song Chi understands that this is most likely not enough.

“I hope it won’t be too different!”

Even though he understood it in his heart, Song Chi still had to try it himself. Only by finding out more specific information about this time field could he solve it in a targeted manner. Only after solving all of these could he finally get the main part of the [Time Chessboard] component.

Buzz!

Space fluctuations came again, and space jump was activated again, but this time it was not the [Red Dome Jump Device], but the [Aurora Jump Device].

In addition, he did not dare to jump too far directly, and only jumped 0.3 light years.

It's not that I'm timid, but I'm afraid that if I get too close, time will stop.

Although he was not sure whether there would be a real time stop area, he did not dare to gamble.

Because this possibility is very high. After all, the [Time Chessboard] is very likely to be a colorful mythical object, so it is not surprising that it can make the surrounding time stop.

As for avoiding it by entering the Zhutian Market in advance?
Song Chi thought that it would most likely be of no avail, because once time was frozen, the Tianxu Cangqiong itself would lose all its abilities, unable to activate components, dodge and escape, and even unable to retract its ancestral flame.

And once he exits the market and tries to return to the battleship, he himself will be frozen at that moment.

Using brainwave imprints to reverse control the warship? This is even more impossible.

Can an orange wonder ignore the field emitted by a highly likely colorful mythical wonder?
0.3 light years away, inside the Tianxu Cangqiong, Song Chi quickly understood the specific situation inside and outside the battleship through his ethereal body.

[The time outside slows down by 6.8 to 7.2 times, and the time inside the battleship slows down by 2.5 times. ]

Feeling that this result was acceptable, Song Chi then directly jumped 0.7 light years.

[The time outside slows down by 60 to 62 times, and the time inside the battleship slows down by 18 times. ]

……

After two jumps, Song Chi stopped. The jump times of the two jump devices had been used up, and he had to wait for them to cool down before he could continue.

A few hours later, Song Chi's test began again.

After the jump charging was completed, the Tianxu Cangqiong quickly appeared at a location 1.8 light years away from the colorful light spot.

[The time outside slows down by 280 to 290 times, and the time inside the battleship slows down by 70 times. ]

Another leap, and the colorful light spot is only 1 light year away.

[Time outside slows down 1000-1030 times, and time inside the battleship slows down 300 times. ]

By the time the colorful light spot was 0.5 light years away, the slowing-down rate had reached a terrifying 3000 times, and the slowing-down speed inside the battleship had also reached 1000 times.

At this point, Song Chi no longer dared to try. With the time resistance that the Tianxu Cangqiong currently possessed, continuing to try would likely result in a situation where it could not be recalled.

The sky above the market, gritted his teeth, and took another look at the rare item exchange shop.

Seeing that there were more than 30 silver objects that could not be converted into shipboard parts, Song Chi's eyes were determined. He began to control the ethereal body left in the warship outside and tried to activate the [Market Projection Order] in his hand.

However, this operation, which could have been completed in one second before, took the ethereal body nearly twenty minutes to complete.

Fortunately, the [Market Projection Order] was activated in the end.

Above the Tianxu Cangkong, the speed at which the market projection condensed was also much slower than usual, but it was not as exaggerated as a thousand or tens of thousands times, which was still acceptable.

The purple mist energy projected across the starry sky finally reached the seventh level, and was not affected too much by the slowing down of time.

As time passed, when the purple mist projection completely enveloped the Tianxu Cangkong, the time slowed down a thousand times inside the battleship suddenly weakened drastically. With the protection of the master's power, the influence of the external time force on the battleship was greatly reduced.

The time that had originally been slowed down by a thousand times was suddenly weakened to only a hundred times.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Song Chi continued to control the warship to leap forward.

Finally, when the Tianxu Cangqiong was only hundreds of billions of kilometers away from the colorful light spot, even the market projection could not bear it.

After discovering this, Song Chi hurried back to the warship while the projection of the market place had not yet been completely erased by the external force of time.

He laid a space anchor at the location of the battleship at this moment, quickly retracted the battleship, and then communicated with the [Xinghai Market Order] to return to the Zhutian Market.

Just these few operations took him almost an hour, and this was with the protection of the market projection. If not, Song Chi wouldn't even dare to think about it.

And the most troublesome thing is that even though we are only hundreds of billions of kilometers away from the [Time Chessboard], it will be extremely difficult to move forward even a little bit.

……

"With the current configuration of the Tianxu Cangqiong, there is definitely no other way. However, once the market is promoted to the sixth level, the power of domination granted by the domination status can reach the eighth level. In addition, if more time-resistant components are installed, the operability should be much greater!"

In the market, Song Chi, who had finally returned, was trying hard to think of a solution.

The first thing that comes to mind is naturally the [Yaoguang Star Order Group Chat]. If you want to borrow high-level components that increase time resistance, who could be more suitable than the big circle of Star Tower members?
He did what he said. After returning to the territory of Xinhuo human civilization through the space anchor point left in the Dragon Ridge Continent, he took out the [Yaoguang Star Order] as soon as possible.

“No. 32 “Jingzhe”: @All members, we need to add time resistance parts. The higher the quality, the better. Temporary borrowing and trading are both acceptable.”

As expected, as soon as he sent this message, it immediately triggered responses from many members.

"No. 18 "Blood Soul": Very urgent?"

"No. 32 "Jingzhe": It's extremely urgent. Please help me. If it is not possible to uninstall without loss, I am willing to bear the full cost of the lost enhancement resources."

"No. 18 "Blood Soul": Okay, I have a silver [Time Mirror] here, I'll ask the elders in the clan later!"

"No. 16 "Lancang": I also have a silver quality one on my ship."

"No. 17 "Yulong": The ancestor of my family has a golden time artifact. I will ask for you, but don't hold your hopes too high."

……

"A time wonder of golden sanctuary quality? As expected, the energy of the Star Tower members is exaggerated."

Looking at the replies in the Xingling group chat, Song Chi said to himself, "As expected."

As for what "Yu Long" said about not having too much hope, he could also understand it.

After all, it was not hers, but in the hands of an ancestor of the Changsun family. Just imagine, if it was not a very good relationship, who would easily lend out a golden time artifact of holy quality?
As time passed, six-order fearless captains such as Corpse Dog and Tianlong also showed up one after another. Among them, the uncle "Corpse Dog" even agreed to lend a [Year Book] of the same golden quality.

In a short period of time, Song Chi collected four silver time artifacts, five red time artifacts, and one gold time artifact.

If all of them could be loaded onto the Tianxu Cangqiong, the battleship's time resistance would reach a terrifying level.

However, the bad news is that only some of these parts can be used. There is really no way around it. The Xinhuo battleship can only carry a maximum of two similar special parts.

For example, Song Chi’s own [Posuo Zen Seal] component is classified as a domain-type component.

Among the components taken out by the Star Tower members, there were as many as three domain-type time components. Even if he temporarily uninstalled the [Black Hole Evolution Layer] domain-type component, he could only load another one.

Finally, Song Chi borrowed one piece of gold, two pieces of silver, and three pieces of red.

After putting these parts away, the only thing he needed to do next was to wait for the market to be promoted to the sixth level.

……

Two months later, Zhutian Market.

As the market transaction ended, Song Chi opened the market attribute panel.

After making sure that the market transaction volume had met the requirements, he took out a Hunyuan copper from the closed storage room.

However, he did not directly start the market upgrade, but came to the market additional configuration area.

He took out a sixth-order [Silver Apple], evolved the original orange-quality [Light-Invisible Platform] into red quality, and strengthened it to lv60. Only then did he officially start the market upgrade.

[This promotion takes one month, currently 29 days remaining 23:59:56]

Seeing this prompt, Song Chi could only wait again.

A month later, standing on the sky dome of the market, Song Chi watched with his own eyes as the tremors that had lasted for a month in the market below gradually subsided.

What followed was the expansion of the market area. This process lasted for about a few minutes. When the dazzling light gradually dissipated, it also meant that the Zhutian Market officially completed its promotion to the sixth level.

Clicking on the market attribute panel, Song Chi quickly checked the changes after the promotion.

However, he was somewhat disappointed this time. When he was promoted to the sixth level, there were no new market configurations or new features, and even the market inns remained unchanged.

The most uncomfortable thing was not these, but the [Spiritual Synthesis Platform]. After being promoted to the sixth level, the effect of this device, which had provided him with countless floating land origins, was greatly reduced.

Even though it was strengthened to the sixth level, the effect of synthesizing the seventh-level floating land origin was somewhat unbearable to watch. From the original 100 strands of the more super-enhanced first-level floating land origin that could be synthesized per month, it was directly reduced to 1 strand.

In other words, in the future, at most 12 strands of seventh-level floating land origin can be synthesized every year.

Although he felt uncomfortable about this, he could accept it. The seventh-level floating land origin was extremely rare in the Broken Star Sea, much rarer than the sixth-level floating land origin. If he could easily synthesize 1200 strands every year, it would be too exaggerated.

However, there are some changes, such as the spatial anchor feature, which has increased from four available anchor points to five.

Then there is the characteristic of the “dominant person”.

As expected, the power of domination that the sixth-level market can bestow has successfully reached the beginning of the eighth level from the peak of the seventh level.

This change may seem small, but it actually has essential differences.

When it comes to the level of domination, the gap between each level is like heaven and earth.

In addition to these two, the last one is the [Rare Object Origin Improvement Platform], which has not shrunk. After being strengthened to the sixth level, it can already modify the properties of the black supreme rare object.

(End of this chapter)