The fruiting speed of stellar plants, although much slower than those of the Floating Land plants, isn’t to the extent of taking over twenty thousand years.

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As for the maturation time, Song Chi is not yet clear, but what can be surely deduced is that it’s highly unlikely to be less than the time required for fruiting.

The urgency wasn’t there, as the "Secret Realm Accelerator" in the cultivation secret realm doesn’t require any cost. Once this acceleration is over, and after waiting a year, he could conduct the second one. This also means that no matter how long the fruiting speed and maturity cycle of the Silver Apple Mother Tree are, he could reliably acquire the special resource [Silver Apples] in the future.

Of course, at present, only the lowest Fourth Rank Silver Apples, which can promote blue components to purple ones, were obtainable - After all, the Mother Tree had fallen to the Fourth Rank Level. Silver Apples of the Fifth or Sixth Rank were out of the question for now.

Unless in the future, he could enhance the rank of the cultivation secret realm and recover the Silver Apple Mother Tree to the Fifth or even Sixth Rank.

Withdrawing his spiritual focus, Song Chi waited another day until the 20 Divine Tempering Fruits were completely ripe. He immediately harvested them all, allowing them to begin the next cycle of growth.

Inside the Cang Qiong, carefully storing the 20 Divine Tempering Fruits, Song Chi didn’t rush to deliver these to the pulse and instead contemplated whether they could be used at the Pusuo Heritage Tower later on.

With a flash of light in his hand, two Silver Apples were taken out.

First, he took the larger Silver Apple, for which he had already determined the use.

As his palm slowly approached the [Light Energy Aggregation Engine] component, the mechanical voice of the ship’s onboard intelligence immediately came through.

[Confirm use of "Light Energy Aggregation Engine" as the target?]

"Confirmed!"

A rich orange glow sparkled inside the Cang Qiong, but it didn’t last long, soon dimming and being replaced by a more dazzling red glow.

When Song Chi’s gaze returned to the engine component, it had indeed been upgraded from Orange Glory Quality to Red Epic Quality.

Light Energy Aggregation Engine lv49

Quality: Red

Feature: Energy Supply Efficiency increased by 168%

Feature 2: Light Energy Aggregation

Feature 3: Can merge one specific feature from similar components

Consumption: 800/s (Spectral Energy Points)

Energy Supply: 8040/s (Spectral Energy Points)

Post-overload Buffer: 30 minutes

Energy Pool: 350,000 (can store 350,000 Spectral Energy Points)

UpRank Requirement: 40 threads of Floating Land Origin (Fourth Rank), 2 threads of Floating Land Origin (Fifth Rank), 220,000 Spectral Energy Points, 40 Law Stones, 120 Titanium Crystals, 40 Glitter Stone Crystals.

Note: Has reached the structural enhancement limit of the ship’s body, cannot be strengthened further

{Light Energy Aggregation: Consumes 50,000 Spectral Energy Points to aggregate the energy of the consumed Spectral Energy Points and put the engine into an ultra-high load operating state, improving energy supply efficiency by 500%, thrust by 500%, lasting for 1 hour with a 15-hour buffer.}

His gaze converged on the energy supply section; seeing the figure exceed eight thousand points, Song Chi completely relaxed.

Before this, the figure was just a little over five thousand points.

And don’t forget that this calculation doesn’t even include the third feature, which allows him to freely combine it with other similar engine components.

Is the Silver Apple’s value high merely because it can enhance the quality of a designated component?

Of course not. Another highly coveted reason for its pursuit is that the captain can actively combine the newly added feature.

Song Chi had learned this point from the detailed information of the Silver Apple Mother Tree provided by his family early on, so he was well-prepared.

The Ancestral Aperture at his forehead slowly opened, and several rays of light surged from the Ancestral Torch.

Among the three rays of light, two were blue and one was purple, corresponding to two blue engines and one purple engine.

Knowing the features of the Silver Apple, Song Chi had already begun purchasing engines with top-rank features. These three components were the results of that period.

The features of the two blue engine components were "Thruster power doubled" and "Engine energy supply efficiency doubled" respectively.

As for the purple engine, its feature was "Engine energy supply efficiency and thrust permanently increased by 60%."

After some deliberation over these options, Song Chi chose the "Engine energy supply efficiency doubled" feature.

Although thrust was important too, the perennial shortcoming of the Cang Qiong had been the issue of energy supply efficiency. With the "Phantom Thruster" component providing a powerful boost to thrust, it was currently quite effective.

Once he merged the blue engine component into the [Light Energy Aggregation Engine], the next second saw the engine’s energy supply skyrocketing from eight thousand points directly to sixteen thousand points, which was truly staggering.

The only regret was that the feature added by the Silver Apple could only merge the characteristics of similar components that had not been enhanced. The added features also had no growth prospects; thus, only constant or proportionally doubled features could be merged. Otherwise, Song Chi really wanted to merge the feature of an Orange Engine that had been enhanced to the Fourth or even Fifth Rank directly.

It was precisely because of this that the Silver Apple was only a scarce resource rather than a strategic-level resource.

Having upgraded the [Light Energy Aggregation Engine], Song Chi’s gaze shifted to the multitude of purple components on the Cang Qiong.

He still had one Silver Apple in hand, a lower-grade one that could only elevate purple components to orange. He was still somewhat undecided about the use of this Silver Apple.

Of course, the main targets for enhancement had already been largely identified.

[Brainwave Remote Control System][Phantom Thruster][Plasma Guardian] and [Void Escape Orb].

Even with the choice narrowed down to four, Song Chi still found it difficult to decide.

The [Brainwave Remote Control System] needs no further explanation. To date, it’s been the purple component he relies on the most, the one that has repeatedly kept him out of danger while reaping generous rewards.

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