Chapter 64: The First-Order Void Market's New Feature: Spatial Anchor

Hoo!

Suppressing the joy and excitement in his heart, Song Chi began to examine the other changes in the Market.

Still focusing on the basic configurations column, after experiencing the brand-new functions of the tavern, Song Chi’s attention shifted to the two sets of configurations: the All-Attribute Cultivation Chamber and the Ultra-Long-Range Space Gate Random Deployment Platform.

Just like the previous Psionic Energy Defensive Array, even though their levels remained unchanged at Lv9, the effects of these two configurations had both seen certain enhancements.

Originally, the Lv9 All-Attribute Cultivation Chamber provided a 580% enhancement to psionic energy cultivation, but at this moment, it had jumped to 700%, far surpassing psionic energy cultivation platforms of the same level.

As for the Ultra-Long-Range Space Gate Random Deployment Platform, its duration and buffer time remained unchanged; only the number of space gates deployed per instance had increased from 19 to 23.

Do not underestimate this mere increase of 4 gates. This was still just a Lv9 deployment platform, and Song Chi intended to further reinforce it next.

The upgrade conditions for both the Lv9 All-Attribute Cultivation Chamber and the Ultra-Long-Range Space Gate Random Deployment Platform were identical. Aside from requiring the Market itself to reach Lv10, they each required 150 wisps of Tier 0 Floating Mainland Origin.

Retrieving 300 wisps of Tier 0 Floating Mainland Origin, Song Chi successively upgraded both to Lv10.

[Name: All-Attribute Cultivation Chamber]
[Level: Lv10]
[Effect: When a Tier 1 lifeform cultivates inside the chamber, cultivation speed is increased by 480%. When the cultivator engages in psionic energy cultivation, cultivation speed is increased by 960%.]
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[Upgrade Requirement: Market Level Lv11, 25 wisps of Floating Mainland Origin (Tier 1)]

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[Name: Ultra-Long-Range Space Gate Random Deployment Platform]
[Level: Lv10]
[Effect: Upon activation, 36 space gates allowing entry and exit to the Market will be randomly deployed across the Shattered Star Sea. The space gates have a duration of 24 hours and a buffer time of 720 hours.]
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[Upgrade Requirement: Market Level Lv11, 25 wisps of Floating Mainland Origin (Tier 1)]

The all-attribute cultivation chamber's enhancement effect on psionic guidance techniques reached a staggering 960%, while the number of space gates deployed by the ultra-long-range space gate random deployment platform increased to 36.

Seeing these two sets of data, Song Chi finally closed the attribute panel before him with satisfaction, his gaze moving downward to linger on the newly emerged "trait."

There was nothing noteworthy about the extra configurations column; it remained empty, save for two newly added slots.

Song Chi had previously tested that these extra configuration slots could accommodate all special components compatible with Fireseed airships, but he currently had no spares on hand.

Additionally, because of the "Disaster Evasion" trait, he hadn't previously considered needing to install anything. Now, following the incident with the Void Demon, special components capable of clearing negative states and concealing the anomalies of the Market were at least added to his list for prompt acquisition.

As his gaze lingered for a prolonged moment, the detailed attributes of this newly emerged "Space Anchor" trait quickly surfaced before Song Chi's eyes.

[Trait {Space Anchor}: Designates a specific coordinate in the real Star Sea as the anchor for the Heavens Market. Subsequently, as long as this anchor is activated, no matter where the Market Master enters the Market from, upon leaving the Market, they will only appear at the anchor's coordinates.]

Song Chi's eyes gleamed once more. The effect of this Space Anchor trait was very simple: it provided the Heavens Market with an accurate teleportation coordinate. Following this, as long as this coordinate was activated, no matter where one entered the Heavens Market from, one could use this teleportation coordinate to leave.

Such a description might still be difficult to understand, so let us take a simple example.

If Song Chi subsequently set this space anchor in his own bedroom, then even if he found himself in a distant alien star system, as long as he entered the Market, he could choose to actively activate this anchor, designating the anchor set in his bedroom as his landing point upon leaving the Market.

In this way, he could easily return home from a distant alien star system without even needing to activate the psionic airship's own return function.

Having fully grasped the characteristics of the space anchor, the first usage method that came to Song Chi's mind had no connection to alien star system deployments; instead, he thought of using this special function to assist his subsequent merchandise sales.

Every haul he obtained from alien star systems far exceeded that of ordinary people. However, out of fear of exposing the Heavens Market, the vast majority of his acquisitions could only be dumped through the black market at 65% of market value, losing nearly half. This had always been a point of extreme annoyance for Song Chi—why should hard-earned resources brought back from an alien star system be freely eaten away by thirty-five percent?

In contrast, if sold through formal shops, as long as the quantity of resources presented was sufficient, pushing the purchase price up to 90% of market value was not a problem, making it far more cost-effective than selling on the black market.

The only catch was that doing so meant running the risk of exposing his identity.

It was precisely because of this restriction that he had previously been forced to helplessly choose the black market channel.

But things were different now. With the new trait of the space anchor, as long as he set the anchor coordinates in his own bedroom, all these problems could basically be solved smoothly.

After concealing his identity and selling the harvest to a formal shop, he could find an uninhabited place to enter the Market using the proceeds from the exchange, and then directly return home through the space anchor. It was just that simple; even if someone really paid attention and trailed him, there would be no way to trace it.

The more Song Chi thought about it, the more feasible the matter seemed. Coincidentally, the recently concluded Market transactions had left him stockpiled with a batch of price-difference resources, which he could completely use to test the waters. If it truly proved viable afterwards, the more than one thousand Void Crystals in his hand could also be quietly liquidated through this method.

Thinking of the Floating Mainland Origin he could acquire after selling over a thousand Void Crystals, Song Chi even pictured the scene of upgrading his "Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator" component all the way to Tier 2. Just thinking about it was exciting.

The Dark Matter Energy Shield Generator component, currently only at Lv15, already possessed such astonishing attributes; once upgraded to Tier 2, it would undoubtedly become even more terrifying.

No sooner said than done, Song Chi quickly scanned the remaining columns at the bottom of the Market attribute panel and lingered for a moment on the upgrade requirements column.

Among the requirements for upgrading the Market from Lv10 to Lv11, the 50 wisps of Tier 1 Floating Mainland Origin were fine—once the Void Crystals were liquidated later, Tier 1 Floating Mainland Origin would be plentiful. The difficult part was the 100,000-wisp trading volume requirement of Tier 0 Floating Mainland Origin.

Because bartering was not counted, the total trading volume of the previous three transactions had not even reached 90,000. To continue raising the Market level, it would have to wait until at least after the next Market transaction.

Song Chi was not in a hurry. His top priority right now was to figure out a way to acquire special components that could clear negative states, as well as to liquidate the price-difference resources and Void Crystals in his hands as soon as possible.

There would be plenty of time in the future to raise the level of the Market itself, but if the "Demon Mark" issue wasn't resolved quickly, whether the Heavens Market would even have a future remained uncertain.