Chapter 505 - 270: Cang Qiong's Promotion Quest Begins

Chapter 505: Chapter 270: Cang Qiong’s Promotion Quest Begins

Yes, after returning to the Tenth Direct Vein’s residence, Song Chi immediately commenced the spaceship upgrade mission, without even rushing to absorb that strand of orange top-quality “Starfire.”

Before Cang Qiong’s promotion to Cruiser, regardless of whether the Fire Seed was purple or orange, the warship’s component enhancement level couldn’t possibly break through the Fifth Rank. Coupled with the fact that there were more than enough special slot positions, and grandpa was also urging him on, Song Chi simply went ahead and initiated the warship upgrade mission.

[Warship Upgrade Mission (Cang Qiong)]

[Current Success Rate of Promotion: 0.1%]

[Special Resource Recipe for Promotion (0/3): Ice Origin Stone*1, Ten Thousand Years Volcanic Magma Iron Essence*1, Third-Rank Blood Core*1]

[Additional Promotion Resources: None]

[Bathed in Alien Race Blood: None]

Unlike the Spectral Airship’s initial 1% success rate for promotion to Escort Ship, the initial success rate for an Escort Ship to be promoted to Cruiser is only 0.1%. This means that if one were to attempt a direct promotion without any preparation, out of 1000 Escort Ships, only 1 might succeed, which is an exceedingly low probability.

Moreover, the special resources required for Cang Qiong’s promotion to Cruiser weren’t as unlucky as before: of the four possible needed resources, only three were needed, and the Heavenly Ridge Crystal was not one of them.

Within Cang Qiong, Song Chi sequentially took out the three types of resources, which were precisely the Ice Origin Stone, the Third-Rank Blood Core, and the Ten Thousand Years Volcanic Magma Iron Essence.

The latter two resources were prepared by Song Chi himself while the Ice Origin Stone was obtained from the family’s sequence subsidy resources.

As these three resources merged into the warship’s hull one after another, the current success rate of promotion suddenly changed.

The original 0.1% success rate instantaneously increased to 10.1%.

After sorting this out, Cang Qiong activated a component that had been temporarily lent to him by the Pulse—it was a blue-quality warship hybridization device.

Being the lowest quality hybridization component, this component could generate only one hybridization light belt, capable of merging a single Torch Warship with Cang Qiong.

As for the warship currently being hybridized, it was neither the “Furious Battle Mad Lion” nor “Mountain,” but a twenty-meter-long Spectral Airship arranged by the Pulse as a transit warship.

This Spectral Airship was designated a transfer warship by the Pulse, and aside from it, there were several Pulse tribespeople inside it, who would all leave Space Beacon marks in the Blood Barbarian Continent. In the future, they would act as transit warships between the Blood Barbarian Continent and the Tenth Direct Vein.

In addition, Song Mingsong and Song Shan, having stowed away their flagships, were also among them.

Cang Qiong required bathing in the blood of an alien race for its promotion to Third Rank, which naturally wasn’t an endeavor that could be completed in a mere 24 hours; the arrangement of subsequent transit warships had to be sorted out.

Along with intense spatial fluctuations, Cang Qiong, equipped with the “Holy Cross Beacon” component, pulled another Spectral Airship and vanished into the skies above Green Moon Lake.

Alien Star Domain, Blood Barbarian Floating Land.

As a Third-Rank life-form Star Sea Floating Land, the Blood Barbarian Continent’s size was only moderate among the various Third-Rank Floating Lands, not considered large.

And precisely because of this, the news of Cang Qiong’s recent annihilation of two large tribes had already spread throughout the entire continent, significantly heightening the vigilance of all the large wolf barbarian tribes on the continent.

Sure enough, no sooner had two warships been deployed just outside the Floating Land and descended into the interior, than they were immediately detected by a nearby large wolf barbarian tribe.

Above the Vault of Heaven, the tribe’s totem spirit beast had long since transformed into its Totem True Body. Bolstered by a vast amount of Power of Belief, an indescribable Fourth-Rank pressure radiated from the space above the tribe and spread outward.

Inside Cang Qiong, Song Chi gazed intently at the golden eagle phantom with thousands of kilometers of wingspan across from him, showing no change in expression.

Compared to Cang Qiong’s “Cold Moon Snow Python,” the eagle totem spirit beast of this tribe was clearly far inferior.

Due to the restrictions of the Floating Land’s rank, it remained forever at the Third Rank Peak. Additionally, because its bloodline power was insufficient, it struggled to reach the threshold of Half-Step Fourth Rank, preventing it from comprehending even a trace of the Power of Laws and possessing only Fourth-Rank energy borne from totemic belief.

This was like a person full of inner strength but lacking the methods to perfectly utilize and release this power, making them pitifully weak compared to true creatures of the same rank.

Moreover, with the assistance of “Furious Battle Mad Lion” and “Mountain,” it didn’t take long for the golden eagle to fall under the “Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon.”

Looking at the success rate of the warship’s upgrade, it had gone from the previous 10.1% to 10.2%. In other words, a Third-Rank Peak alien creature had merely increased Cang Qiong’s upgrade success rate by 0.1%.

Fortunately, in addition to the totem spirit beast, both the Third-Rank and the Second-Rank wolf barbarians within this tribe could also increase the success rate.

The Third-Rank wolf barbarians and the spirit beast eagle alike each contributed 0.1% to the rate; the effect of the Second-Rank wolf barbarians was minimal, with dozens of them together only improving the rate by 0.1%.

After having killed all the Second-Rank and Third-Rank wolf barbarians within this tribe, Cang Qiong’s upgrade success rate barely reached 13%.

Subsequently, the three warships moved on to the second large tribe.

Time quietly slipped away in such routine, and three months passed in a flash.

In those three months, the three warships successively slaughtered over twenty large wolf barbarian tribes, and with the contribution of a multitude of Second-Rank and Third-Rank wolf barbarians, as well as Third-Rank Peak totem spirit beasts, and even a few Half-Step Fourth-Rank totem spirit beasts, Cang Qiong’s upgrade success rate was now not far from 60%.

But this still wasn’t enough; the promotion of a Cruiser was no small matter, and a success rate below 60% was still too low.