Chapter 592: Chapter 313: [Hunting Source Civilization] and the Floating Land Origin Core

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The pitch-black starry sky suddenly erupted with intense spatial fluctuations, and following that, a battleship measuring 1,300 meters in length appeared out of nowhere. It was the Cang Qiong, initiating a new deployment to the Alien Star Domain.

As soon as Ansewei’s birthday banquet concluded yesterday, the Alien Star Domain deployment function of the Cang Qiong had already completed its buffer period. Therefore, after rejuvenating his spirits, Song Chi activated the exploration of the Alien Star Domain at the earliest opportunity.

Strictly speaking, he had actually gone quite a long time without exploring the Alien Star Domain. If he wasn’t eagerly developing the flagship of the Tri-Eyed Royal Family’s dominators, he was comprehending laws in the Dragon Spine Secret Realm.

Now that his hands were free of pressing matters and the assimilation of laws wasn’t something that could be finished in a short time, Song Chi finally had the opportunity to commence exploration.

“I just hope that with this first serious exploration in over a decade, luck will be on my side…”

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Muttering to himself, Song Chi shifted his gaze away from the dark projection screen of the battleship ahead and turned to look at the radar graph on the side.

His eyebrows slightly raised, it seemed his results did not disappoint him. The radar graph of the “Peeping Spirit Eyes” clearly showed that not far from the Cang Qiong, there was a sizable piece of Starry Sea Floating Land.

“Both its length and width exceed four million kilometers. Is it actually a Level 3 Starry Sea Floating Land?”

Song Chi was a bit surprised, not because the level of the Floating Land was too high, but rather, he felt it was a bit too low.

The level of the Cang Qiong’s hull was indeed only lv32, truly aligned with the Third Rank Level, but with the enhancement of numerous gold, silver, and red components, its real combat power had long since reached the level of easily suppressing ordinary Fourth-Rank life forms.

Therefore, even though the deployment function of the Alien Star Domain primarily judged based on the hull level, the current Cang Qiong would definitely not be classified as just a Third-Rank unit, but more likely a Fourth Rank.

Since it was Fourth Rank, it was normal for the corresponding Alien Star Domain exploration to be deployed near a Level 4 Floating Land. Hence, this Level 3 Floating Land actually puzzled Song Chi.

With caution in mind, he first summoned four Void Assassin Clan Soldier Figurines, affixed them with brainwave imprints, and sent them out directly using the Fixed-Point Launch Pad.

Though the combat power of the Cang Qiong was indeed formidable, Song Chi did not let his guard down because of this.

One must understand that in the exploration of unknown Alien Star Domains, even existences like Star-Annihilating Warships run the risk of being compromised, so complacency was impossible.

While controlling the warship to slowly approach the unknown Level 3 Floating Land, Song Chi’s eyes soon revealed a deep surprise.

In another perspective in his mind, he saw the full view of the Level 3 Floating Land.

It was neither a Life Floating Land nor a resource-type Floating Land but an almost entirely valueless desolate Floating Land.

As far as his eyes could see, the vast territory of the Floating Land was covered with loose stones and pervasive yellow sand. Occasional sandstorms of terrifying diameters raged madly through it, with not a hint of life in sight.

The only thing that caught Song Chi’s attention was several small-scale space fortresses floating above the Floating Land.

From the few intelligent beings still lingering in these space fortresses, it seemed likely that their presence was related to the current state of the Floating Land below, or at least they might be aware of the cause.

Thinking this, Song Chi, using the perspective of the Void Assassin Clan Soldier Figurines, closely scrutinized for a while. After confirming there were no weapons or combat units in these space fortresses that could threaten the Cang Qiong, he actively initiated a warp.

The Level 3 Floating Land was not too far from the Cang Qiong, but that was only relatively speaking. If relying on light-speed cruise, it would likely take at least several dozen hours.

As soon as the Cang Qiong appeared in the sky above the desolate Floating Land, Song Chi turned his attention toward the distant space fortresses.

The Floating Land itself had ultimately lost its value. At this moment, the Alien Species within the fortresses were clearly of greater significance.

Though called fortresses, they were more akin to small-scale space stations with their own internal ecological cycles, much more rudimentary compared to the super-large types used during wartime.

Song Chi guessed that their main purpose was probably to monitor the Starry Sea Floating Land below.

After about ten minutes, he effortlessly subdued all the Alien Species within the fortresses and also gathered some information he wanted.

This humanoid Alien Race with pointed heads and four claws called themselves the “Shouyuan Race”. Their civilization was known as the Shouyuan Civilization. Based on some fragmented information disclosed by the monitoring aliens, Song Chi deduced that the “Shouyuan Civilization” was likely an Intermediate Civilization.

It rose to prominence more than 30,000 years ago, founded on technology, and now had a domain spanning over 10,000 light-years, controlling nearly a thousand Life Floating Lands, with a population exceeding 10 billion. The strongest combat unit under its command was named the Shouyuan Mother Ship, suspected to possess Fourth-Rank Combat Power.

However, these monitoring Shouyuan Race members had ordinary status and were not aware of how many Shouyuan Mother Ships were actually under the civilization’s command.

Furthermore, there was no existence of Level 4 Starry Sea Floating Lands within the dominion of the Shouyuan Civilization, whether life-bearing or resource types, which greatly disappointed Song Chi.

A middle-level civilization lacking Level 4 Floating Lands is quite rare in the Shattered Starry Sea, usually indicating lower potential and limited cultural depth, yet he had unexpectedly encountered one, filling Song Chi with complaints.

Lastly, there was one more point that puzzling to Song Chi. In the memories of these Shouyuan Race members, their civilization’s domain apparently contained an exceedingly large number of desolate Floating Lands similar to the one before him, an obvious abnormality.

Generally speaking, Starry Sea Floating Lands in the Shattered Starry Sea are primarily categorized as either Life Floating Lands or resource-type Floating Lands, with the latter accounting for over 99%.

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