CHAPTER 1300: CHAPTER 698: SONG CHI’S [ROYAL TITLE]

After asking this question, Song Shixing’s gaze completely turned to Song Chi’s face, with a hint of expectation in his eyes.

As the most talented genius in the Song Family’s history, who advanced to Annihilation Starship Captain just over a millennium old, he certainly hopes Song Chi can have a sufficiently recognizable title of honor.

After all, barring any accidents, in the endless future, this "title of honor" will very likely spread quickly throughout the entire Torch Humanity Civilization, and even beyond the Torch Humanity Galaxy Cluster into the vast starry sky. It needs distinctive characteristics to be effective.

Regarding this "King’s Name of Honor," Song Chi had clearly already given it thought. Before retreating for cultivation, he had discussed it thoroughly with Shen Youran, so he did not hesitate and spoke directly:

"’King of the Qiong Yu,’ this is a title I’ve long considered, what does Great Ancestor think?"

"Haha, good!"

Song Shixing’s laughter echoed throughout the Dragon Whale Hall, and he soon continued:

"Qiong Yu, Qiong Yu, king of the vast endless starry skies, very good, not only with enough recognition but also maintaining the formidable spirit of our Torch men. I believe this title will not be obscure in the future, and together with our Dragon Spine Song Family, will be spread throughout the Endless Star Sea because of Little Chi!"

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Red Plate River System, Cangqing Floating Land.

As the Floating Land officially surpassed the seventh level, the energy tides generated on the continent rolled in waves. Amidst these waves of energy tides, tens of thousands of Torch Warships dispersed in every corner of the Floating Land began their advancement.

Even with the gentle energy assistance of the Seventh Rank level, along with the support of a large amount of high-quality resources plundered by the Song Family from the Eight-Armed Snake Demon Civilization Territory, many of the warships starting advancement still ultimately failed.

Fortunately, only a small portion ended in failure; the vast majority successfully advanced, needing only to further break through their Guidance Technique to completely achieve a breakthrough of a Great Rank.

The advancement of Torch Warships is inherently difficult, but with the Song Family’s substantially increased foundation in recent years, they can offer a better advancement environment for their members. Other forces would have a success rate far below the failure rate.

Indeed, they do not have the highly optimized unloading system for warship advancements like the Song Family does.

Not only relying on the "Tri-Eye Solidifying Ring" component, but after more than 700 years of civilization warfare and Song Chi’s continuous trade harvests from the Zhu Tian Ruins Market, the warship unloading components owned by the Song Family have now approached four figures. Even though the highest quality component remains the "Tri-Eye Solidifying Ring," it is sufficient to meet the temporary advancement unloading requirements of numerous low-middle rank family members.

This aspect spares the Song Family’s low-middle rank members from the greatest cost of advancement failure, ensuring the swift progress of the Song Family’s foundation in a short time.

In fact, when other Torch Captains outside are hesitant to attempt an advancement, the members of the same rank in the Song Family have already been able to attempt advancement two or even three times. Some succeed in the first attempt, those less fortunate succeed in the second, and even if they are extremely unfortunate, or the success rate is exceptionally low, they still basically succeed by the third attempt.

Under this premise, the Song Family members’ advancement speed is enviably rapid.

According to the Internal Affairs Hall’s rough statistics, until fifty years ago, the number of family members at the Fourth Rank and above had exceeded four figures, the number of Cruiser Captains had surpassed fifty thousand, and the Second Rank Guardian Ship Captains had exceeded a million.

As for Spectral Shuttles and Spectral Airships, these numbers are already in the billions.

This strength, according to Shen Youran, is similar to that of the Northern Sphere Shen Family, whose legacy exceeds ten thousand years. Even if they are slightly stronger, the difference is not substantial.

Because of the efforts of Song Chi and a group of upper-level members, combined with the obedience of the lower ranks, through the civilization warfare that has just lasted less than a thousand years, the Song Family has strenuously raised its foundation of almost four thousand years to the level of an Immortal Clan with a history of ten thousand years.

This point is undeniably a miracle.

However, this miracle is entirely based on the plunder of other Starry Sea Civilizations, whether it’s the previous Robber Star Race or the current Eight-Armed Snake Demon Clan, it’s the same.

For this, the Song Family members have no sentimentality, as it’s the norm of the Endless Broken Star Sea. The Starry Sea is ruthless; in civilization conflicts, it’s either you perish or I die. If you don’t plunder or strengthen yourself as much as possible, the ones to be oppressed, exploited, and annihilated in the future will be yourself.

Of course, Song Chi and the Song Family won’t be complacent because in the current civilization war, the Song Family is not the only beneficiary. Perhaps other Torch Civilization forces have lesser gains than the Song Family, but they certainly are not idle.

Take the Northern Sphere Shen Family of the Yaohan Kingdom, for example, the situation described by Shen Youran was only the state of the Shen Family before the civilization war. The Song Family presently only catches up with the Shen Family’s foundation before the warfare commenced, but only the Shen Family themselves know the actual current state.

But Song Chi can affirm one thing, that is now the strength of the Shen Family is certainly beyond what it was before.

For nearly two hundred years, although the Shen Family has not participated in frontline warfare and has been resting and recuperating, the harvests during the early centuries of warfare are substantial enough. With the massive resources acquired, they can greatly strengthen the Shen Family’s foundation.