Global Era of Star trekking-Chapter 1031 - 540: Ascension of the Time Field and the Ruins Market_2

Chapter 1031: Chapter 540: Ascension of the Time Field and the Ruins Market_2

0.3 light-years away, inside the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, Song Chi swiftly assessed the specific conditions within and outside the warship through his Ethereal Body.

[External time slowed by 6.8–7.2 times, internal time slowed by 2.5 times.]

The result felt acceptable, so Song Chi directly jumped 0.7 light-years next.

[External time slowed by 60–62 times, internal time slowed by 18 times.]

...

After two jumps, Song Chi stopped. The [Aurora Transition Device] had exhausted its two jump opportunities and would need to cool down before further use.

Several hours later, Song Chi resumed his testing.

After jump charging was complete, the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong soon appeared 1.8 light-years away from the Seven-Colored Light Point.

[External time slowed by 280–290 times, internal time slowed by 70 times.]

Another jump brought the distance to only 1 light-year from the Seven-Colored Light Point.

[External time slowed by 1000–1030 times, internal time slowed by 300 times.]

When the warship was 0.5 light-years away from the Seven-Colored Light Point, the time slowdown rate soared to an alarming 3000 times, with internal time slowing by 1000 times.

At this point, Song Chi dared not continue experimenting. Given the current level of time resistance aboard the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, proceeding further could risk irrecoverable consequences.

He gazed at the Ruin Market Firmament and took a glance at the Oddity Exchange Shop.

Currently, he had accumulated over thirty Strange Objects that couldn’t be converted into ship components.

Seeing this, Song Chi’s gaze sharpened.

He directly manipulated his Ethereal Body left outside the warship to attempt activation of the [Ruin Market Projection Rank] he held.

Yet what had previously taken only one second now took nearly twenty minutes for the Ethereal Body to complete.

Fortunately, the [Ruin Market Projection Rank] was finally activated in the end.

Above the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, the condensation speed of the Ruin Market Projection was also much slower than usual, but not egregiously thousands or tens of thousands of times slower—still manageable.

The Purple Mist Energy sent across the Starry Sky Projection barely reached the Seventh Rank level, its impact greatly reduced by the time slowdown.

Time flowed on. Once the Purple Mist Projection completely enveloped the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, the thousandfold internal time slowdown was drastically weakened. With the protection of the Power of Domination, the external power of time influencing the warship was significantly mitigated.

The original thousandfold time slowdown was astonishingly reduced to only a hundredfold.

Seizing the opportunity, Song Chi continued maneuvering the warship forward through another jump.

Eventually, when the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong was only several billion kilometers away from the Seven-Colored Light Point, even the Ruin Market Projection could no longer endure.

Realizing this, Song Chi hurriedly returned to the warship while the Ruin Market Projection was not yet fully eroded by the external power of time.

At the current warship location, he set down a Spatial Anchor Point, quickly recalled the warship, and then used the [Star Sea Ruins Market Rank] to return to Zhu Tian Ruins Market.

The series of operations nearly took him an hour, even with the shelter of the Ruin Market Projection. Without it, Song Chi couldn’t even fathom achieving this.

What’s most aggravating, however, is that despite being only several billion kilometers away from the [Time Chess Board], progressing even an inch farther would prove incredibly, incredibly difficult.

...

"Given the current configuration of the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, it’s definitely not feasible. But once the Ruins Market ascends to Sixth Rank, and the Power of Domination granted by the Dominion Position reaches the Eighth Rank, along with adding more time resistance components, it should become much more operable!"

Back in the Ruins Market, Song Chi—barely having returned—was deep in thought, brainstorming solutions.

His first thought naturally turned to the [Shaking Light Star Order Group Chat]; to borrow high-rank time resistance components, no broader network than the Star Tower members would be more suitable.

Without delay, he returned to the Torch Human Civilization Territory via the Spatial Anchor Point set on Dragon Spine Continent and immediately took out his [Shaking Light Star Rank].

He quickly sent out several messages in their group chat.

"32nd ’Waking of Insects’: @all members, I need high-quality time resistance components—borrowing or trading, either is fine."

Unsurprisingly, as soon as his message was posted, replies from several members came rolling in.

"18th ’Blood Essence’: Is this urgent?"

"32nd ’Scorching Sun’: Extremely urgent. Please help out, everyone. If the components can’t be unmounted without damage, I’ll fully cover the cost of reinforcement materials."

"18th ’Blood Essence’: Okay, I have one Silver [Time Mirror]; let me ask the elders in my clan!"

"16th ’Lan Cang’: My flagship has one of Silver Quality as well."

"17th ’Yulong’: I remember our family’s elder ancestor holding a Golden time-related Oddity. I’ll ask my sister for help, but it might be difficult to secure."

...

"A Golden Sanctuary Quality time-related Oddity, huh. As expected, the resources of Star Tower members are beyond imagination."

Reading the responses in the Star Rank group chat, Song Chi silently praised his expectations.

As for Yulong’s comment about it being unlikely, he understood perfectly. After all, it wasn’t hers but an elder ancestor’s in the Zhangsun Family. Considering the rarity of a Golden Sanctuary Quality time-related Oddity, unless there’s a deep friendship, who would lend it out so easily?

Time passed swiftly. Before long, Sixth Rank Fearless Captains like Corpse Dog and Heavenly Dragon also stepped forward, with Corpse Dog’s uncle agreeing to lend a Golden Quality [Age Book].

In a short time, Song Chi had gathered four Silver time-related Oddities, five Red Quality time-related Oddities, and one Golden Quality time-related Oddity.

If he could manage to mount all these onto the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, its time resistance would reach an exceedingly terrifying level.

Unfortunately, the bad news was that not all components could be used. Torch Warships can only mount up to two specialized components of the same category—for instance, Song Chi’s own [Purusa Zen Seal] is classified as a domain-type component.

Among the components offered by Star Tower members, three were domain-type time components. Even temporarily unmounting the [Black Hole Evolution Layer], he could only mount one more.

In the end, Song Chi borrowed one Golden, two Silver, and three Red components.

With these components safely collected, the next step was waiting for the Ruins Market to ascend to the Sixth Rank.

...

Two months later, in Zhu Tian Ruins Market.

As the trading period in the market concluded, Song Chi opened the Ruins Market Attribute Panel.

Confirming that the trading volume had met the requirements, he retrieved a Mixed Elemental Copper from the sealed storage chamber.

Instead of initiating the market’s ascension directly, however, he went to the market’s extra configuration section.

After retrieving a Sixth Rank [Silver Apple], the previously Orange Quality [Stealth Light Platform] was evolved to Red Quality.

After enhancing the [Stealth Light Platform] to level 60, only then did he formally begin the market’s ascension.

[This ascension process will require one month. Remaining time: 29 days, 23:59:56]

Seeing this prompt, Song Chi could only wait once more.

A month later, standing atop the Ruin Market Firmament, Song Chi personally witnessed the tremors of the market below gradually subsiding over the past month.

Following this was the expansion of the market’s area, which lasted roughly several minutes. Once the dazzling light dimmed, it marked Zhu Tian Ruins Market’s successful ascension to the Sixth Rank.

Opening the market’s attribute panel, Song Chi’s gaze quickly scanned the changes brought by the ascension.

However, this time he was somewhat disappointed: despite reaching the Sixth Rank, no new market configurations appeared, no new features were generated, and even the Ruins Market Inn remained unchanged.

The most frustrating aspect wasn’t these, but rather the [Spirit Mechanism Synthesis Platform]. After ascending to Sixth Rank, the configuration that had previously provided Song Chi with countless Floating Land Origins drastically reduced its effectiveness.

Even after upgrading it to Sixth Rank, its capacity to synthesize Seventh Rank Floating Land Origins was dismal, dropping from the original 100 strands per month to merely 1 strand.

In other words, moving forward, Song Chi would be able to synthesize at most 12 strands of Seventh Rank Floating Land Origins per year.

Although this was distressing, it wasn’t entirely unacceptable; the Seventh Rank Floating Land Origins are exceedingly rare in the Shattered Starry Sea, far surpassing the rarity of Sixth Rank Floating Land Origins. Synthesizing 1200 strands a year would indeed be excessive.

Nonetheless, it wasn’t all bad news; for instance, the Spatial Anchor Point feature increased from four usable anchor points to five.

Another notable improvement was the "Dominion Position" feature.

As expected, the Power of Domination granted by the Sixth Rank Ruins Market successfully elevated from being at Seventh Rank Peak to having newly entered the Eighth Rank.

Though seemingly a minor improvement, the difference between each rank at the Dominion level is fundamentally immense.

Aside from these two changes, the [Miracle Origin Improvement Platform] remained intact; after being upgraded to Sixth Rank, it could now modify the attributes of Black Ultimate Oddities.