Time flew by, and two hours had passed since the Fourth-Rank Golden Armored Giant Beast had been slain.

Yet even after so much time, the Bai and Song families were still incessantly arguing over the distribution ratio of the Titanium Crystal Vein.

"Impossible, a sixty-forty split is definitely not enough. You’ve already taken the flesh and blood of the Golden Armored Giant Beast, and from it, a drop of Fourth-Rank Primordial Blood can be extracted. Moreover, this is the Primordial Blood of a Starry Sky Behemoth, which is more potent than that of a common Fourth-Rank Lifeform. Eighty-twenty, it can’t be any less!"

From the Bai family’s side, a female Second-Rank Torch Ship Captain’s voice was sharp.

However, the great-aunt Zhao Hongxue was not the least bit intimidated and said coldly,

"Haha, the Golden Armored Giant Beast was killed by my Song family. What has it got to do with you? It’s laughable. To put it unpleasantly, if it weren’t for us, you would have lost your lives here. How dare you bring up such a matter?

"No matter what, we have been planning for decades, and this Copper Mountain Floating Land was discovered by my Bai family!"

The two sides kept quarreling, and in the end, it was up to the Third-Rank Torch Captains from both families to make the decision.

"Enough, let’s go with sixty-five to thirty-five. Sixty-five percent for the Bai family, thirty-five percent for the Song family."

"Agreed!"

"Let’s settle on that."

Song Mingsong was still somewhat dissatisfied. However, considering that the other party lost a senior Third-Rank Torch Captain and that they still needed the aid of their Escort Ship to return, causing a major rift would be troublesome. Furthermore, Song Shan also persuaded from the side, which led him to agree.

Once both parties consented, the mining of the small Titanium Crystal Vein officially began.

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This Titanium Crystal Vein was located in a corner region of the Copper Mountain Floating Land, thousands of meters deep underground, making the mining quite challenging.

It seemed that the Bai family had a component of high quality specifically for subsurface detection; otherwise, it would have been difficult to discover, let alone mine this vein.

With each family deploying two Floating Land Mining Carts, the mining of the vein officially commenced.

Five days later, the four Floating Land Mining Carts completed the mining of the small vein, and the amount of Titanium Crystal obtained was quite satisfying.

The initial estimate from the Bai family was over 50,000 pieces. The actual number mined was 57,500 pieces, which exceeded expectations a bit.

According to the previously agreed distribution, the Bai family received 37,375 pieces, while the Song family got 20,125 pieces.

After the distribution, there were no further actions from either side.

As for the Copper Mountain Floating Land at their feet, being a Third-Rank resource-type Floating Land, it naturally contained much more than just the small vein of Titanium Crystal, including a multitude of other metal veins, such as the large Copper Ore vein previously chosen by the Golden Armored Giant Beast.

It was certain that this Floating Land still held great value for the future. However, all this no longer had anything to do with the Song family.

The Floating Land was discovered by the Bai family. According to the default rules of Torch Human Civilization, this Floating Land was already considered the Bai family’s property unless the discoverers were incapable of developing it and chose to sell or transfer it.

Furthermore, if they were to dispute the control of Copper Mountain Floating Land with the Bai Family, it would not be a trivial matter, possibly leading to involvement from the families backing both sides.

Although the Bai family was much weaker than the Song family, this did not mean that they could be bullied by them.

As a family in the Duchy Capital Star Domain, the Bai family was different from the quasi-fiefdom Dinghai Song family; they were a vassal family of the duchy’s royal house. If the situation escalated, it could potentially involve the royal house.

So, no matter how you looked at it, Copper Mountain Floating Land was not something to covet.

Time moved on, and soon, half a month had passed since they arrived at Copper Mountain Floating Land. That day, the first of the Bai family’s transfer Warships finally arrived.

Without any hesitation, the Song family members all chose to return, while the Bai family members, including Bai Chongwen and more than ten Second-Rank Torch Ship Captains, decided to stay.

To this, no one from the Song family was surprised. With the Golden Armored Giant Beast slain, there was no longer any danger on Copper Mountain Floating Land. The Bai family would naturally focus all efforts on exploiting the resources of the Third-Rank Floating Land.

Their campaign had been costly, losing both personnel and resources, and they naturally had to make up for it with other resources.

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Outside the Golden Moon Floating Continent in outer space, two Bai Family Escort Ships guarded a desolate Star Domain, waiting for the clan members from Copper Mountain Floating Land to return.

After an unknown number of hours, suddenly a violent space fluctuation transmitted from the empty space ahead. It was the transfer Escort Ship launched the previous day that had successfully returned.

When the space around them stabilized again, the hatch of the Escort Ship abruptly opened, and ten Torch Ship Captains burst out.

The first to rush out were nine people from the Song family. They hadn’t let the Torch Warship Boarding Certificate seal themselves and all chose to pay with Second-Rank Floating Land Origin.

Aside from preventing any tricks from the Bai family, this was also because they had made a substantial haul this time around. The total cost of several hundred to a thousand strands of Second-Rank Floating Land Origin was affordable.

The last person, naturally, was Bai Xiurong. After sweeping out of the Warship, she approached her grandfather and uncle and said softly,

"This time our side had incorrect intelligence, and I really am sorry. As for the old master’s behavior, don’t take it to heart. He’s just like that, and furthermore, with his life not much longer, it’s inevitable he becomes a bit anxious. We can’t let this incident sour the relationship between our two houses.

Hearing this, Song Mingsong and Song Shan simply nodded lightly, and as for what they truly thought, only they themselves knew.

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