In less than half an hour, more than forty thousand First Rank and Second Rank Double-Winged Tiger-Headed Insects were utterly eradicated within the eye of the storm.

Song Chi sighed lightly, it was a pity that the massive number of Double-Winged Tiger-Headed Insects were all gone; not to mention whether they had energy crystals or not, tens of thousands of First Rank and Second Rank Insects, just the meat that could be cut, was already quite valuable.

After a brief sigh, Cang Qiong returned swiftly to the ruins space. Although it was a pity to lose that Insect Race meat, compared to the meat of the Mother Insect infused with Fourth Rank energy essence, and the Crystal Box in the third layer space of the ruins, these were simply not worth mentioning.

In the second layer space of the ruins, thousands of the Insect Race had already appeared. What Cang Qiong had drawn out by poking into the third layer was not only the Double-Winged Tiger-Headed Insects. There was no shortage of Splatter Insects either.

For these Splatter Insects, Song Chi naturally killed them directly with the Electromagnetic Ray Cannon.

As for leaving them unchecked?

Don’t be ridiculous, there are still over thirty thousand Splatter Insects within the ruins, and more than thirty thousand First Rank and Second Rank Insect corpses. What does that mean?

Even if every corpse only produced one pound of meat, that’s thirty thousand pounds of Insect meat. Even if the First Rank Insect meat no longer had much effect on him, for Song Ting, Song Bo, Song Shishi, and others who had yet to awaken, it was an excellent aid for cultivation.

Look at it another way, even if all this First Rank Insect meat was exchanged with the family, it could probably yield thousands, if not tens of thousands, of Merit Points, right?

Of course, Ordinary Merit Points, Golden Merit Points are impossible, unless he is willing to offer the Mother Insect meat infused with Fourth Rank energy essence. That might be possible to exchange for Golden Merit Points, but obviously, Song Chi would not do that.

Instead, he would rather use that Mother Insect meat to enhance his Guidance Technique level.

With the threat from those Double-Winged Tiger-Headed Insects gone, the Splatter Insects were naturally not a concern to Song Chi; in less than half an hour, he cleared the second layer of all Splatter Insects.

Without hurrying to collect these Insect corpses, Song Chi continued to control Cang Qiong into the third layer of the ruins space.

As expected, near where the Crystal Box was located, the Third Rank Mother Insect was already lifeless, but still, there were tens of thousands of Splatter Insects in the third space, and a few hundred Double-Winged Tiger-Headed Insects were scattered about.

Nearly two hours later, the third layer space was also cleared, all the Insects eradicated. As for the pile of countless insect corpses, in Song Chi’s eyes, these were all chunks of meat.

Humming!

Cang Qiong slowly hovered above the Crystal Box, having already secured the strand of Third Rank Floating Land Origin, Song Chi was no longer worried whether the Mother Insect was feigning death.

Click, click, click!

The doors of Cang Qiong opened, and ten Fire Peony Soldier Figurines holding cutters jumped from high above, beginning to dissect the shriveled and unrecognizable Mother Insect corpse.

Although he was eager to open the Crystal Box below, Song Chi decided to let the Fire Peony Soldier Figurines handle it first to avoid the might of the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon from damaging the Mother Insect’s body.

Even if the defense of the Mother Insect’s Purple Crystal Skin was frighteningly strong, his concerns were basically unwarranted, but there was no choice, the body’s value was immensely high, and Song Chi had to play it safe.

Not to mention the chunk of Mother Insect meat inside, even if there were no energy crystals, just the layer of Purple Crystal Skin was worth more than an ordinary Purple Relic.

From what he understood, this unique Purple Crystal Skin from the Mother Insect could be used to make bionic skin battle armor. And particularly this Peak period, Fourth Rank Level Purple Crystal Skin.

Bionic skin battle armor not only had a defense far superior to ordinary exoskeleton armor or alloy battle armor, but its material also made it as comfortable as regular clothing without affecting the Torch Ship Captain’s maneuverability.

This Pseudo Fourth Rank Purple Crystal Skin battle armor could likely withstand most attacks below Fourth Rank, an absolute dream for all Torch Ship Captains.

However, Song Chi found it problematic that the Pseudo Fourth Rank Purple Crystal Skin’s defense was indisputable, but it also made it extremely difficult to dissect. Even though Song Chi had equipped the Fire Peony Soldier Figurines with High-Level Alloy Cutters, it still took almost four hours to completely strip the Purple Crystal Skin from the Mother Insect body.

Upon finishing with the Purple Crystal Skin, what followed was much simpler; ten Fire Peony Soldier Figurines quickly cut out a full 100 kilograms of Mother Insect meat from the corpse. However, the bad news was that no energy crystals were discovered.

After carefully storing the 100 kilograms of Mother Insect meat into the Ruins Market Secret Realm, Song Chi finally turned his focus towards the Crystal Box below.

After two hours of continuous bombardment by the Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon, the Crystal Box finally shattered completely.

At the moment of its breaking, Song Chi’s heart suddenly stopped, as did his breathing, and his gaze firmly fixed on the scene below.

Because the radiance bursting forth from the shattered Crystal Box was an eye-piercing red.

Yes, a red radiance. Song Chi rubbed his eyes to make sure he was not mistaken. Once confirmed, his heart began to pound like a drum, thumping erratically.

What did the red radiance signify?

It signified that the item sealed within the Crystal Box was an Epic Level Starry Sea Oddity.

Orange Glory, Red Epic...

Meaning, below laid an even higher Quality Starry Sea Strange Object than Orange Quality!

"It must be an Epic Treasure that can be transformed into a shipborne component!!"

At this moment, Song Chi’s heart roared.

PS: An 8200-word mega-chapter, including a 4000-word bonus for last month’s Monthly Tickets!

Well... and still seeking Monthly Tickets!!!

(You can guess what type of Strange Object it is)

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