Seeing that Bai Xiuqin’s demeanor wasn’t one of throwing a tantrum but rather of determination, the rest no longer continued to dissuade her.

In fact, inwardly, they were more supportive of this decision. The actions of Bai Chongwen had indeed filled the witnesses with revulsion.

The reason they hadn’t openly shown their support was merely to avoid making Xiuqin uncomfortable. After all, that was her natal family. If they showed too much hostility, the one who would feel distressed would be Xiuqin.

Now that they saw she had made up her mind, naturally they wouldn’t deliberately trouble themselves further.

After settling the matters from their trip to the Copper Mountain Continent, Ming Song took out the remaining ten-thousand-plus Titanium Crystals.

Apart from the four thousand plus earmarked for purchasing High-Level Void Crystals and the thousand set aside for the secret vault, the remaining crystals were divided among Xiuqin, the couple Song Hai, and Song Lin, Song Wen, and Song You.

Having handled these matters, the entire family earnestly deliberated on the advancement of the Furious Lion.

This issue was of great importance, and could be considered the most crucial matter in the history of their Tenth Direct Vein, and even for many decades to come. No one dared to take it lightly.

After a thorough discussion, Ming Song spoke:

"Let’s do it this way. In the following year, I and the eldest will join in exploration, attempting to kill High-level Aliens to increase the Furious Lion’s chance of successful advancement. Everyone else, just pay attention to Fourth Rank Life Crystals, Earth Attribute Law Crystals, and Ten Thousand Years Pure Yang Jade. Don’t bother with anything else.

You of the Second Rank won’t be much help anyway."

As he spoke, Ming Song seemed to remember something.

"Also, Fourth Rank Void Crystals— if we manage to trade for one of these, we can have the Divine Tempering Fruit and Top Rank Dragon Blood Fruits produced ahead of time. Perhaps then, we could even trade for special resources like the sap of a Ten Thousand Year Moony Tree that further increase the success rate of the ship’s advancement."

"Understood!"

"Don’t worry, Dad!"

...

After arranging all affairs, the group sequentially left the underground secret chamber.

There was actually a minor episode in between. Song Chi took out all the Void Crystals he had obtained from hunting in the Void Space. Although Second and Third Rank Void Crystals were far from matching the level of Fourth Rank ones, the total might accelerate the Dragon Blood Mystic Realm by about a hundred years.

If he remembered correctly, of the ten Dragon Blood Trees in the Mystic Realm, two already bore Dragon Blood Fruits that were over nine hundred years old. If they could accelerate the process a bit, it might yield ten ordinary Dragon Blood Fruits.

Each fruit can extend life by ten years, which indeed isn’t incredibly precious. However, each person can consume two fruits, and twenty years might very well pique the interest of many Torch Ship Captains. Read the latest on empire

It could even lead to information about Fourth Rank Void Crystals and Fourth-Rank Life Crystals.

However, the grandfather outright refused the offer.

The reason he gave was simple. With the family rank contest approaching, his main task now was to accumulate Golden Merit Points and trade for an Orange Ascension Fire Source as soon as possible, to promote himself to a Purple Quality Seed of Torch. He need not worry about the rest.

Chi had no choice but to acquiesce to this.

Returning to his own courtyard, after informing his father and mother, he entered his bedroom. The surrounding space began to shift rapidly and soon, he found himself at the Ruins Market.

Then he hurried towards the inner side of the Ruins Market.

Previously, when he was at Copper Mountain Continent, he hadn’t found the opportunity to initiate the already-cooled-down Ruins Market trade. Now back home, he naturally wouldn’t delay any longer.

While Chi was busy initiating the Ruins Market trade, a kilometer-long warship emerged from above Green Moon Manor, then swiftly ascended to the skies, hurtling towards the direction of Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain.

Inside the main control room of the Furious Lion, Ming Song activated the spatial jump component.

With the activation of the Furious Lion’s spatial jump charge, intense spatial fluctuations emanated from deep within the clouds above Green Moon Lake.

At the same time, with a thought, he looked toward the warship’s hangar.

There, a Bloodthirsty Vine Sapling, about twenty meters tall and bathed in blood-red hues, stood quietly upright. Hmm... It was indeed the sapling ’enslaved’ by the Enslavement Medal.

The aura emitted from this Bloodthirsty Vine Sapling was clearly at the Third Rank Peak, edging on half-step Fourth Rank.

After completely devouring all the flesh of the Starry Sky Behemoth, its body had reached a length of 1500 meters. Now contracted to twenty meters, it’s due to the ’size as wished’ feature of the Enslavement Medal’s Component.

Because he had already decided to participate in the upcoming Seventh Sequence contest of the family, Chi no longer bothered to conceal himself.

Take, for instance, the Enslavement Medal component on his own warship.

Of course, this doesn’t mean he has made the Red Component’s attributes obvious, but rather that he no longer deliberately misled others into believing the Enslavement Component on the Cangqiong was merely a Purple Component.

A hundredfold size reduction isn’t something a Purple Enslavement Component could achieve, it has to be at least Orange Quality.

This time, Ming Song was taking the Bloodthirsty Vine Sapling to Divine Mountain to let the family’s higher-ups extract the flesh of the Golden Armored Giant Beast that it had devoured.

Chi was already informed of this and had ordered the Bloodthirsty Vine Sapling to obey all of Ming Song’s commands.

...

At Divine Mountain, deep within the mountain’s body.

Stretching endlessly, ancient stars hung overhead in a dark, ancient hall with no visible end. Ming Song stood respectfully at the lower end of the hall.

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