These alien species usually have rapid breeding cycles, high singleton birth rates, short developmental periods, and excellent genetic bloodline traits, all intended for quick and continuous production.

This is also why the Song family could afford to transform nine ordinary Second Rank Floating Lands and one Third Rank Floating Land at a great cost, to farm these alien species; if placed in the external world, this would undoubtedly be a grand gesture.

However, for the Song family internally, merely ten farming Floating Lands were still far from sufficient. There was no helping it; there were simply too many clansmen. The number of First Rank clansmen was in the hundreds of thousands, and with such a large base of First Rank Torch Ship Captains, the quantity of Second Rank clansmen naturally couldn’t be insignificant either.

With a sigh, Song Chi returned to the homepage of the search bar and continued to input keywords:

"Methods to increase the successful promotion rate of First Rank Warships"

With this search, a string of information quickly popped up.

[Exciting news, the family’s new secret realm, "Moruo Secret Realm," produces Mo Moon Tree Sap which can increase the promotion success rate of warships!!]

[Produced by Qingling Secret Realm, Qingling Spirit Fruit, one fruit can increase a First Rank Torch Warship’s promotion success rate by 5%, only for 2 Golden Merit Points.]

[The 1200-year-old Sea Musk Beads produced by Dragon Spine Continent’s "Fallen Sea Ridge" can increase the promotion success rate of a First Rank Torch Warship by 8%, available for 4 Golden Merit Points!!]

...

"They all require Golden Merit Points, damn rip-offs!"

Song Chi, looking rather displeased, quickly closed his Quantum Communication Bracelet and stopped the subsequent searches.

He found that any resource related to warship promotions required transactions with Golden Merit Points.

After exchanging for a hundred Titanium Crystals last time, his personal account only had one final Golden Merit Point left; he had no money to purchase these items.

Moreover, he was planning to save some Merit Points to enslave a Third Rank Thorned Flying Dragon.

The thought gave Song Chi a bit of a headache as he realized he was still poor.

Thinking so, he softly murmured in his mind.

"Forget it, hopefully tomorrow’s Ruins Market trading will bring some surprises!!"

...

The next day, Zhu Tian Ruins Market.

Standing in front of the Ultra Long-Distance Space Gate Random Deployment Platform, Song Chi had a properties panel in front of him, showing the detailed information of Zhu Tian Ruins Market.

In these two months, he had successfully upgraded the Ruins Market’s level to lv19 through two trade meetings, but advancing to Second Rank was not so simple.

[Name: Zhu Tian Ruins Market]

[Ruins Market Master: Song Chi]

[Level: lv19]

[Dimensions: 1900mX1900m]

[Basic Configuration: 70 shops, 1 plot of 450mx450m stall area, 1 two-story inn, 1 lv19 All-Attributes Cultivation Room (efficiency doubles when cultivating with Spectral Energy), 1 lv19 Spectral Energy Protection Formation, 1 lv19 Ultra Long-Distance Space Gate Random Deployment Platform.]

[Additional Configuration: Stealth Light Platform (Purple) lv20 (1/8)]

[Feature: Averting Misfortune (ability to move freely within the void, intuitively avoiding natural disasters)]

[Feature 2: Spatial Anchor Point (ability to set a coordinate anchor point in any star domain of the Shattered Starry Sea)]

[UpRank Requirement: 200 strands of First Rank Floating Land Origin, Ruins Market trade volume reaching 200,000 (134800/200000) strands of First Rank Floating Land Origin]

Looking at the requirement for the twenty thousand First Rank Floating Land Origin in the UpRank Requirement section, Song Chi felt a headache coming on.

The previous few times Zhou Ping, a major customer, had placed several large orders that just managed to bring his trade volume to one hundred and thirty-five thousand strands.

Even so, he was still more than sixty thousand short of the two hundred thousand goal, and he had no idea how many more times it would take for Zhu Tian Ruins Market to complete its upgrade.

But to give credit where it’s due, after the enhancement of Zhu Tian Ruins Market to lv19, he had also strengthened the Ultra Long-Distance Space Gate Random Deployment Platform to lv19, increasing the number of spatial gates that could be deployed each time to 47.

As such, the number of alien creatures entering the Ruins Market each time had indeed increased significantly on average.

He estimated that after about four more transactions in the Ruins Market, he should be able to meet the trade volume of two hundred thousand and enable the Ruins Market to successfully advance to Second Rank.

Thinking this, Song Chi activated the Ultra Long-Distance Space Gate Random Deployment Platform.

...

Half an hour later!

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A flustered Zhou Ping appeared in one of the Ruins Market’s shops, which had been named the Immortal Cultivation Boutique. It was agreed upon by the Luofu Sword Sect and was a dedicated shop Zhou Ping had rented and set up in the Ruins Market.

However, this time was different from the usual; Zhou Ping was holding an unconscious figure in his hands.

In the distance at the free stall area, Song Chi, who had been paying attention to Zhou Ping since he came down from the guestroom, had a smile flicker across his face.

What he was looking forward to wasn’t just the titanium crystal, body tempering liquid, body tempering paste, and the monthly fee of fifty strands of Second-Rank Floating Land Origin, but also the figure he now held in his hands.

This was a deal he had specifically proposed last month during the Ruins Market transaction, where he would trade 1000 portions of body tempering liquid this month in exchange for a First Rank peak Qi Cultivator (Level Nine Qi Cultivation) along with one Foundation Establishment Pill.

As for Song Chi’s intended purpose, it was simple: naturally, it was for that high-level storage bag.

Compared to the need to actively summon the Cang Qiong, this storage bag with an interior volume reaching several dozens of cubic meters was obviously more convenient. And this Qi Cultivator was to be used by Song Chi to specifically operate the storage bag.

Well... commonly known as a tool person.

With a light wave of his hand, the Ruins Market Law mobilized, sweeping up the titanium crystal, Floating Land Origin, body tempering paste, and the still unconscious cultivator that Zhou Ping had taken out, Song Chi silently disappeared from the stall area.

Isolated space, storage room.

Spectral Energy flowed at Song Chi’s brow, and soon, an enslavement mark shot out from the Ancestral Torch and was imprinted into the body of the cultivator lying on the ground in front of him.

With the support of the Ruins Market Law and the fact that the Enslavement Medal had already been enhanced to Third Rank, the enslavement proceeded without a hitch.

Before long, the cultivator woke up from his stupor, and due to the enslavement mark, there was no sign of confusion in his eyes. His first action was to respectfully pay homage to Song Chi.

"Master!"

"Mhm," Song Chi nodded lightly.

He then began to inquire about everything related to the Primordial Continent through mind induction.

But obviously, the guy was mostly clueless about the Primordial Continent, clearly a deliberate act by the Luofu Sword Sect.

For this, Song Chi wasn’t surprised at all. The Luofu Sword Sect weren’t fools—how could they make it so easy for him to understand information about the Primordial Continent?

He tossed the Foundation Establishment Pill and the high-level storage bag to the cultivator named Zhao Lei, instructing him to try breaking through to the Foundation Establishment Stage in the All-Attributes Cultivation Room. After which, Song Chi returned to the free stall area.

This Zhao Lei was just a tool person he had acquired for immediate control over the storage bag. As for the Foundation Establishment Pill, it was to enable rapid progression to Second Rank so that he wouldn’t perish too easily in the future. There was no other intention.

Time passed quickly, and nearly twenty hours had flown by in the blink of an eye.

The number of alien creatures that entered the Ruins Market this time was quite good, exceeding fifteen hundred.

And this thus increased the related trade volume significantly, including the Floating Land Origin exchanges and the like.

For instance, the Floating Land Origin exchange shop alone had already recorded a profit of more than 300 strands of Second-Rank Floating Land Origin. Song Chi was quite satisfied with this.

The only regret was that there still hadn’t appeared any alien creatures with huge potential or latent value, which meant that Song Chi couldn’t use the remaining Ruins Market Guest Tokens in his hands, and he could only wait to see if he could try an auction later on.

However, just as Song Chi thought there wouldn’t be any new alien creatures entering, a new spatial fluctuation from the entrance of the Ruins Market caught his attention.

He was certain that this spatial gate had not been activated before.

Following a burst of spatial fluctuation, a short statured, green-skinned figure with a somewhat sleazy face appeared outside the entrance of the Ruins Market.

Song Chi’s eyebrows raised slightly.

"Is this... a goblin?"

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by Aunomay Read