This Shouyuan civilization really doesn’t know what sustainable development is; they act without considering the consequences for virtually anything and everything.
Song Chi’s brows were tightly knitted together as he thought to himself that if he had been born within such a civilization, he would likely feel despair.
Whirring!
Having confirmed the lack of substantial value, Song Chi naturally did not linger. The spatial jump device activated, and he set off once again towards the second level 3 Starry Sea Floating Land guarded by a Shouyuan mothership.
Over ten days later, he successfully resolved the second target as well.
However, this time he had learned his lesson and did not sink the Shouyuan mothership; instead, he completely deprived it of its ability to resist before taking control of it.
With this in mind, the "Origin Core Harvesting Device" inside the Shouyuan mothership remained intact, but the bad news was that this piece of equipment wasn’t a Strange Object.
Since it was not a Strange Object and could not be disassembled from the Shouyuan mothership, in order to make use of this special device for himself, he had to package the entire Shouyuan mothership along with it, and a group of knowledgeable Shouyuan Race individuals had to be brought along to operate the mothership.
The Shouyuan Race was not a big problem; they could either be detained in the cages located in Cang Qiong’s hanger or placed within the Ruins Market Secret Realm.
Of course, the Cultivation Secret Realm was not included in this; it was currently undergoing secret realm acceleration. Centuries were passing by rapidly, perhaps many generations would have already cycled through by the time he returned, and without a proper education system, those newly born members of the Shouyuan Race wouldn’t know the first thing about operating the mothership.
The difficulty lay in the Shouyuan mothership itself, a behemoth that was twenty thousand meters long.
Thinking about it, Song Chi naturally thought of the [Proportional Scaling Instrument] component. Now at enhancement level 40, it was not only effective on the Shouyuan mothership, which was also a fourth rank unit, but the maximum scaling ratio had also reached 200 times.
Soon, the Shouyuan mothership transformed from a twenty-thousand-meter leviathan to a small and exquisite warship of a hundred meters in length and was easily taken into Cang Qiong’s hanger.
Upon successfully securing the opponent in the hanger, Song Chi was quite pleased; this meant he could one day actively use it to extract from the Floating Land Origin Core, which would undoubtedly bring significant profits for himself.
However, despite his contentment, he wasn’t entirely satisfied.
After all, the upper limit of this "Origin Core Harvesting Device" was apparent; it had value, but its capabilities did not reach an outrageous level, especially considering that the time required for it to extract a Floating Land Origin Core was not significantly shorter than if a fourth rank lifeform performed the extraction manually.
Therefore, Song Chi still had a greater desire in his heart for a device that could be converted into a shipboard component.
After dealing with the second Shouyuan mothership, Song Chi’s subsequent actions were the same as before, beginning to scavenge the nearby level 3 Floating Land, though the result was still much the same.
Like the previous Floating Land, the value of this level 3 Floating Land had also been nearly fully stripped; he barely managed to secure any truly valuable resources from it.
With no other choice, Song Chi could only proceed to the final Floating Land.
This level 3 Floating Land, named Shouyuan 001, was the fundamental Floating Land of the Shouyuan civilization. Originally a peak level 3 Floating Land, just one step away from level 4, it had regressed to ordinary level 3 status due to prolonged exploitation by the Shouyuan Race.
However, as the civilization’s fundamental Floating Land, the last two Shouyuan motherships were stationed near this Floating Land.
For a cruiser of respectable strength, this might pose some trouble, but for Song Chi, the difference between fighting one or two motherships really wasn’t much.
The Flame Giant only made a brief appearance before easily intimidating both ships, which Song Chi then successively took over one after the other.
After searching through the third Shouyuan mothership, Song Chi’s brows were still furrowed.
Twenty minutes later, an excited shout suddenly came from the main control room of Cang Qiong; through the vision of Void Assassin Clan Soldier Figurines, he saw a Starry Sea Oddity within the last Shouyuan mothership that emitted an enchanting orange glow.
[Strange Object: Origin Core Harvesting Device]
[Quality: Orange]
[Convertible: {Floating Land Origin Core Energy Theft Instrument}]
[Remark: A special device created by the Shouyuan civilization through the utilization of an unknown wrecked warship, which after twenty thousand years of gradual evolution, transformed into an orange oddity.]
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Floating Land Origin Core Stealing Artifact lv0
Quality: Orange
Feature: Energy Theft
Feature 2: 25% Reduction in Cooldown Time
Consumption: 10/s (Spectral Energy Points)
Charge: 1 hour; Buffer: 7.5 years
Effect: Consumes 10,000 Spectral Energy Points, after a certain period of operation (which varies depending on the Enhancement Level of the component and the Level of the Floating Land affected), it steals the Origin Core from a designated Starry Sea Floating Land that does not exceed the Enhancement Rank of the artifact.
UpRank Requirement: 10 strands of Floating Land Origin (Zero Rank), 1000 Spectral Energy Points
{Energy Theft: Warships equipped with this component will gain a special "Energy Theft" feature, which can autonomously absorb free energy from the environment to empower the ship’s energy supply components, boosting the Energy Supply Efficiency of said components by 45%.}
Upon examining the two attributes of this Strange Object, Song Chi exclaimed it was top-notch.
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He was already coveting the ability to steal Floating Land Origin Cores, but the mere appearance of the first feature, "Energy Theft," had him ecstatic.
Although the [Light Energy Aggregation Engine] on board the Cang Qiong had been enhanced to lv59, as the Enhancement Level of the gold, silver, and red energy-consuming components continued to rise, coupled with the recent addition of another silver component, the energy supply of the Cang Qiong was about to fall into imbalance once again.
And it was known that the [Mirage Transformation Pearl of the Mirage Dragon] component was only enhanced to lv20 at the moment, and it was inevitable that the energy supply would be completely out of balance if there were attempts to enhance it to the Fourth or even Fifth Rank in the future.
Song Chi had been troubled by this, but the emergence of the "Energy Theft" feature undoubtedly perfectly solved the problem.
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Even if the [Light Energy Aggregation Engine] component would eventually be replaced, the beneficial effects of the "Energy Theft" feature would not change, and once Cang Qiong replaced it with a higher-quality engine, the benefits it could provide would be even more astonishing.
As for the fundamental ability of the component to steal the Origin Core of the Floating Land, it was not yet entirely apparent from the properties panel alone, and its full effects would only be known after personal testing.
However, it was certain that, once enhanced to the Fifth Rank, it would definitely be able to extract the Origin Core of Level 5 Starry Sea Floating Land.
"A Level 5 Floating Land Origin Core, that’s equivalent to a Silver Legendary Oddity, but I wonder how long the stealing process will take..."
Muttering to himself, Song Chi then proceeded to tow both of the Shouyuan Race’s mother ships into the Cang Qiong in the same manner.
One of them was fitted with an ordinary "Origin Core Harvesting Device," which would be extremely valuable whether he kept it for himself, or gave it to those within the Pulse or to the Song family.
Inside the Cang Qiong Main Control Room, several pointed-eared, four-clawed members of the Shouyuan Race were lying prostrate on the ground in terror.
These four were the highest authorities of the Shouyuan civilization’s council and had been brought over directly by the Void Assassin Clan Soldier Figurines.
Song Chi’s goal was very simple.
"Is the wreckage of that alien starship from 20,000 years ago still around? Can you still make this ’Origin Core Harvesting Device’ now?"
Since the technology of the Origin Core Harvesting Device originated from the wreckage of that unknown alien starship, its value was self-evident. If some of the technological data from that starship wreckage could be obtained and then handed over to the family research institute, it was expected to be highly valuable.
If this led to controlling the technique to mass-manufacture the "Origin Core Harvesting Device," it would certainly become a fresh foundation for the family.
The imagination was indeed beautiful, but reality was brutally harsh.
The answer Song Chi received was that the remains of the alien starship had turned to ash in the scramble for it long ago, although the "Origin Core Harvesting Device" could still be manufactured.
But don’t get too excited too soon.
The core materials for this device were obtained from the wreckage of that alien starship and were now nearly depleted, only enough to manufacture five more "Origin Core Harvesting Devices."
Song Chi examined them carefully for a good while and couldn’t recognize the origin of the materials, which were not recorded in the Dinghai Song family’s database.
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