After collecting the remaining 17 strands of Second-Rank Floating Land Origin and 9 Titanium Crystals, this round of enhancements officially came to an end.


    Taking the Cang Qiong back into the Ancestral Torch, Song Chi turned his figure and walked toward the All-Attributes Cultivation Room on the side of the Ruins Market.


    After the trade in the marketce ended, with the upgrade of the Zhu Tian Ruins Market to Level 17, the "All-Attributes Cultivation Room," "Ultra Long-Distance Space Gate Random Deployment tform," and "Spectral Energy Protective Array" were also elevated to Level 17.


    At Level 17, the All-Attributes Cultivation Room provided an increasingly astonishing boost to the cultivation of the Spectral Energy Guidance Technique.


    With a sufficient quantity of Second-Rank Insect Race flesh, Insect Queen flesh infused with Fourth Rank energy essence, Advanced Body Tempering Potion, and Body Tempering Liquid, Song Chi had decided to spend the next period of time diligently cultivating the Guidance Technique.


    Inside the All-Attributes Cultivation Room, Song Chi first evenly applied the Body Tempering Liquid over his body. Then, he took out a twenty-pound piece of processed Second-Rank Insect Race flesh and swallowed it down with an Advanced Body Tempering Potion.


    Once he assumed the correct posture for the Guidance Technique cultivation, a relentless heat began to rise within his belly. This heat followed the circuit of Spectral Energy, brazenly surging throughout his limbs and bones.


    Just like that, seven days shed by.


    That day, within the All-Attributes Cultivation Room, Song Chi’s body suddenly started to surge with intense Spectral Energy, and before long, a forceful energy pressure emanated from within the room.


    When the door to the Cultivation Room opened, the flushed, burning-hot Song Chi emerged with a smile on his face.


    Just now, he had sessfully broken through from Level 10 to Level 11 in the Guidance Technique.


    Over the past month, he had already been consistently cultivating with Second-Rank sandworm fleshbined with the Body Tempering Liquid, so the Guidance Technique was not far from Level 11. Therefore, with the help of the Advanced Body Tempering Potion these past seven days, he was able to break through the Level 11 bottleneck in one fell swoop.


    In those seven days, he had consumed less than three hundred pounds of Second-Rank Insect Race flesh; the stock in the storage room still exceeded ten thousand pounds.


    Theoretically, he should take this opportunity to continue full-speed cultivation, especially since he still had several dozen pounds of Insect Queen flesh containing Fourth Rank energy essence, which would have allowed his Guidance Technique to break through several more levels without issue.


    The reason why Song Chi hurried out of the Ruins Market was, naturally, his own.


    Seven days had passed, and he estimated that the eleration period for the family’s Immortal Puppet Secret Realm should be about over, something he needed to attend to sooner rather thanter.


    He had been considering high-level puppetponents for more than a day or two.


    Now that his family had this benefit, all n members had the opportunity to challenge the Immortal Puppet Tower Secret Realm once, and it was free—they didn’t need to use any Merit Points nor Floating Land Origin. Naturally, it was important to him.


    After leaving the Ruins Market and having a thorough wash, Song Chi left his courtyard, nning to head toward the Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain.


    But before he could summon Cang Qiong, his mother Chen Lixia’s call came first.


    Entering his parents’ courtyard next door, Song Chi asked with a smile, "Mom, why aren’t you cultivating?"


    Chen Lixia’s Spectral Airship, Dragonfly, hadn’t even been upgraded for half a year, and her own Guidance Technique was currently stuck at Level 19, so she had been busytely with cultivation assisted by the Body Tempering Liquid and Advanced Body Tempering Potion. It’d been almost half a month since theyst met.


    Seeing her son’s concerned gaze, Chen Lixia smiled.


    "I’ve already touched the bottleneck of Second Rank; it might take half a year."


    As she spoke, she handed over a briefcase.


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    "What’s this?"


    Song Chi raised his eyebrows, and his expression turned to great joy as soon as he opened the briefcase.


    Inside the briefcase was a battle garment glowing with faint blue fluorescence, its surface covered with a grid pattern, looking extremely exquisite.


    "Bionic skin battle armor? It’s arrived so soon?"


    Amazed at the speed of the family’s Technology Department, Song Chi quickly picked up the battle garment, which felt exceptionally smooth and had none of the bulkiness typically associated with exoskeleton armors or alloy armors; it was more like a garment that could be worn close to the body. The more he looked at it, the more he liked it.


    "Mom, you should have one too, right? How does it feel?"


    Hearing this, Chen Lixia said softly,


    "Thank you, my child. Your dad and I have already put them on, and so have your grandparents and your uncle. This bionic skin battle armor has a constant temperature effect, just wear it close to the skin on the inside."


    Song Chi nodded in understanding. Previously, he had only heard his grandfather mention it briefly, and the moment he heard ’battle armor,’ he subconsciously thought it was the kind that should be worn on the outside, not realizing it was actually the kind of inner armor worn close to the skin.


    But this was better; it was more convenient.


    After greeting his mother, Song Chi summoned the Cangqiong and shot straight towards the Vault of Heaven. Before making the jump, he had put on the purple crystal bionic skin battle armor, which had Pseudo Fourth Rank defence.


    As soon as he put it on, Song Chi felt an extreme coolness spread from all over his body, but after a while, the coolness dissipated, and the armor adapted perfectly to his body temperature, exceedinglyfortable.


    Then, when he put on his outer clothes, the bionic skin battle armor waspletely concealed, providing enough defence while also having excellent concealment, simply perfect.


    Above Green Moon Lake, Song Chi didn’t rush to make the jump, but instead moved around in the cabin to personally experience the difference after putting on the bionic skin battle armorpared to before.


    After all, he had just asked his mother, and the eleration of the Immortal Puppet Secret Realm wouldn’t bepleted until the afternoon. There was no rush.


    "It’s almost no different from before, the flexibility of the body ispletely unaffected, no wonder grandpa said this purple crystal bionic skin battle armor would attract a lot of our n members’ attention..."


    ...


    Halfway up the Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain, there’s a not small t area. Within the Song family, this ce is known as the Secret Realm tform.


    Because on the side of this tform, which is over ten thousand meters in both length and width, there is an entrance that leads directly inside the mountain body of the Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain. It is said that all the entry points to the secret realms under the Song family’s jurisdiction are located within this mountain body.


    Above the Secret Realm tform today, things were extraordinarily lively. One could see hundreds of warships of various sizes suspended in the sky, all waiting for the eleration of the Immortal Puppet Secret Realm to end.


    Among these more than three hundred Torch Warships, over eighty percent were hundred-meter long Escort Ships, and there were also more than twenty Cruisers, with the rest being Spectral Airships.


    Blending in with the thirty-odd Spectral Airships, the Cangqiong was not conspicuous.


    Inside the Cangqiong, Song Chi felt a chill in his heart. Over 240 Escort Ships were suspended in the sky, with more than twenty Cruisers measuring a kilometer in length among them. At first nce, the visual impact was quite significant.


    However, this emotion did not linger in his heart for too long. Soon, his gaze shifted to the mountain body of the Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain ahead.


    Surrounded by a subtle Ghost Light, the dense and ancient patterns covered the entire body of the Divine Mountain, giving one a sense of invincibility.


    Looking up along the mountain body, the top of the Divine Mountain vanished into the clouds, and one could vaguely see where it connected with the shield that covered the sky in the depths of the Vault of Heaven.


    "This turns the entire body of the Divine Mountain into the core pir of the Dragon Spine Continent’s Floating Land Shield, bolstered by the Origin Core of the entire Dragon Spine Continent."


    "Even if a Fifth Rank powerhouse were to attack head-on, as long as the Floating Land Shield isn’t broken, as long as the Dragon Spine Continent’s Origin Core isn’t destroyed, the Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain will absolutely not fall. Moreover, with the support of this Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain, our Song family ancestors will even have the ability to fight beyond their level..."


    Through the courses he had taken regarding Floating Land Shields and Origin Cores, Song Chi had made some spections of his own.


    He knew his spection was certainly inurate, with many errors and omissions, but one thing he could be sure of was that the Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain was even more terrifying than he had imagined, and absolutely not less.


    How could the Dinghai Song Family, with nearly three thousand years of umtion, firmly control the Dragon Spine Continent for two thousand years without some means and trump cards to deter outsiders?


    While pondering, an old voice came from the mountain cave entrance.


    "The Immortal Puppet Secret Realm eleration has ended, n members wishing to challenge, recall your warships, enter in an orderly manner!!"


    Upon hearing this aged voice, Song Chi felt a chill again. If not mistaken, this voice shoulde from a Fourth Rank existence responsible for guarding the family’s various secret realm entrances.


    Fourth Rank Torch Ship Captain, controlling mechas that can enter Mythical Mech transformation like the Zhulu Warship, such a person, although not reaching the status of an ’ancestor’ within the Song family, was definitely among the family’s topbat power, capable of suppressing an entire Starry Sea Floating Land, holding significant sway within the family.


    PS: Personal term for Fourth Rank nspeople is family elder, do you guys have any other suggestions? If not, we’ll continue to use this term moving forward.


    Also, previously mentioned Thorned Flying Dragon gic bloodline has been changed to 80, at the peak of Fourth Tier, not entering the Fifth Tier.