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Chapter 183: Chapter 124: The 10,000-Meter Sandstorm · Hunter of Insects (Please Subscribe)

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In the midst of an unfamiliar Star Domain, one could vaguely make out a sizeable asteroid belt at the edge of their vision. However, Song Chi had no intention of steering the Cang Qiong over to it, instead rapidly recalling the warship, while he himself also vanished into the pitch-black starry sky.

In the Ruins Market Secret Realm, he meticulously arranged the equipment he wore on his body.

Chenxing Military Exoskeleton Powered Armor, disposable single-soldier combat shields...

Once he confirmed that everything was ready, he activated the only Spatial Anchor Point coordinates of the Ruins Market.

High above the Yellow Sand Floating Continent.

Appearing suddenly from the void, Song Chi began to plummet at high speed. When he got his bearings, he immediately harnessed Spectral Energy to open the Ancestral Torch. In the next second, the Cang Qiong materialized directly below, precisely catching the falling Song Chi.

After entering the Cang Qiong, Song Chi didn't descend toward the Floating Land below but first flew over the top of a ten-thousand-meter-tall rock from the starry sky, then began to streak straight down, which saved a considerable amount of time.

The Cang Qiong passed through the clouds above the Floating Land, and the scene below came fully into view, but Song Chi's brow suddenly furrowed.

"Is that, a sandstorm?"

From a bird's-eye view, near the towering rock below, there was a strikingly large eye of the storm, wreaking havoc.

The strength of the energy at the center of the sandstorm forming this eye of the storm was terrifying, spanning over ten thousand meters in diameter, with the half-automated intelligence aboard the Cang Qiong showing that the energy intensity at the storm's center reached Fifth Rank.

Even the weaker energy reactions of the surrounding storm's gravitational field reached a strength of Fourth Rank.

Clearly, it was a giant sandstorm of the sort one might see once in a hundred years.

"Just my luck to run into this thing..."

Feeling helpless inside, Song Chi lamented his poorly-timed arrival.

Yet, he did not give up. Terrifying as the storm was, the mass of the ten-thousand-meter rock was real. He tried to control the Cang Qiong to approach the rock slowly from exactly behind it, the side opposite the eye of the storm. Your next journey awaits at M V L

After cautiously trying for about half an hour, Song Chi finally gave up.

Though the rock did diminish some of the might of the ten-thousand-meter storm, its gravitational field was alarmingly extensive. Despite being only ten thousand meters in diameter, the influence of its gravitational field stretched beyond one hundred thousand meters, making it very difficult for the Cang Qiong to stabilize its hull. Even the slightest carelessness could spell complete disaster.

For the sake of safety, he ultimately abandoned the idea of taking a gamble.

Upon raising the flight altitude of the Cang Qiong again, Song Chi contemplated his next course of action.

The ten-thousand-meter-scale sandstorm clearly wouldn't subside or change location any time soon; it might even rage on for ten days or a half a month, which meant he wouldn't be able to enter the Buluo Civilization Ruins this time.

Therefore, he naturally had to consider his next plan of action.

With more than twenty hours until his return, he obviously couldn't just wait around doing nothing.

Minutes passed, and Song Chi came around; now he faced two choices.

First, to control the Cang Qiong and leave the Yellow Sand Floating Land to explore other areas of this unknown starry space.

Second, to stay above the Yellow Sand Floating Continent. He remembered that this Floating Land harbored a creature somewhat akin to the earthworms from his previous life but magnified. He went out of his way to research these creatures after his return and concluded they seemed to be a type of insect from the Insect Race.

And since they were also from the Insect Race, it was certain that the probability of energy crystals condensing within their bodies far exceeded that of other Stellar Sea Creatures. Hence, remaining in this area to hunt these creatures was a decent choice as well.

It had only been half a year since the Cang Qiong advanced to First Rank but with Song Chi's earning capacity, he could enhance the Torch Warship's hull to lv19 and undertake the Second Rank (Escort Ship) upgrade mission whenever he wished.

Therefore, gathering specific resources needed for the Torch Warship to advance from First Rank to Second Rank, along with special materials that could further increase the warship's upgrade success rate, was equally vital for him to focus on.

However, energy crystals were ultimately a hit-or-miss affair. Even if he hunted many of those sand-dwelling Insect Race creatures later on, it was highly probable there would be no gains, and this was the reason for Song Chi's current dilemma.

But before he could ponder any further, a prompt sound helped him resolve this issue.

Some time had passed since he teleported here using the Spatial Anchor Point, and after an hour of gathering, the Star Chart collector successfully produced a ten light-year diameter nearby Star Domain map.

And it was this Star Chart that made the indecisive Song Chi come to a decision.

There were no other Floating Lands or asteroid belts, or even fragment belts, noted on this map. This meant that there were no other resource points within at least a five light-year radius, so he could dismiss the first option, leaving only the second.

Within the Cang Qiong, Song Chi's figure suddenly disappeared, and inside the enclosed storage space of the Ruins Market Secret Realm, he rummaged through with the Power of Laws and finally retrieved a glass bottle from a corner.

The label on the glass bottle read [Flesh Life Universal Pheromones]—a widely used and circulated biological attractant within Torch Human Civilization.

This substance had a single purpose: to attract those non-sentient or low-intelligence species of alien creatures, enabling a faster capture or kill.

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