National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 832 A Great Explosion of Fundamental Strength

So he decided not to think about it anymore. Now that the mirror warship had sunk, there was no way to make any further arrangements in the short term, so Song Chi simply took out the [Golden Apple] that had just been sent back.

He had considered this matter beforehand, so he wasn't conflicted this time.

Inside the ship's cabin, black light and tri-colored light flashed alternately, eventually transforming completely into tri-colored light.

Ring of Heavenly Authority (Level 90)
Quality: Color/Lower Grade
Features: Beyond visual range, telepathic communication

Feature 2: Size can be adjusted as desired

Feature 3: Double the Mark of Enslavement

Trait 4: Enslavement Mark - Berserk
Trait 5: Increases enslavement authority by one level.

Feature 6: Absolute Slavery

Feature 7: Control of Heavenly Authority

Cost: 100000 Psionic Points per use
Mark of enslavement: 14/22 (11 x 2)

……

{Absolute Enslavement: Consumes 5000000 Psionic Points to apply an Absolute Enslavement Mark, increasing the success rate of this enslavement attempt by 100 times. Cooldown time is constant at 10 years.}
{Heavenly Authority Control: Consumes 5000000 Psionic Points. Temporarily gains absolute control over a designated unit within your field of vision. Duration depends on the target's HP level. The controlled target's HP level must be lower than the component's enhancement level. Cooldown is constant at 100 years.}
Looking at the attributes of the [Ring of Heavenly Authority] after its successful evolution, Song Chi's eyes revealed deep satisfaction.

Since its initial golden color evolved into its current tricolor color, the two additional traits are both excellent.

Leaving aside the "absolute enslavement" that was previously tested on the ninth-tier Dragon Spine Tyrant Whale, the newly emerging "Heavenly Authority Control" characteristic is very likely to play a crucial role in future battles.

With a wave of his hand, he took out ten ninth-tier Sovereign True Spirits, including one Mythical Soul that he had previously exchanged in the City of Transcendence. The [Ring of Heavenly Authority Control] was directly enhanced to level 100.

Based on this enhancement level, the maximum number of enemy units that the "Heavenly Authority Control" trait can temporarily control in future battles will be raised to the ninth level limit. As a result, the gains from switching sides at crucial moments will be astonishing.

……

On the Dragon Spine Continent, at the Dragon Whale Palace, the [Family Council] convened urgently.

The leaders of each branch of the Song family gathered in the ancestral hall, with Song Wujiang sitting in the head seat, and star projections of Song Chi, Song Yan, and others floating beside him.

"From this day forward, the entire clan shall enter a state of first-level mobilization." Song Wujiang lightly tapped the armrest of the Starry Throne with his fingertips, the sound waves causing the air inside the Dragon Whale Ancestral Hall to explode continuously.

That wasn't all, he quickly added:
"In addition, all inherited secret realms will be opened, and the [Time Tower] will be fully utilized to accelerate the cultivation of the new generation of clansmen."

Upon hearing this, a Star Destroyer captain from the Third Lineage suddenly spoke up:
"Ancestor, the other secret realms are fine, but the Dragon Spine Secret Realm is the foundation of our clan's existence. Opening it directly to a large number of low-ranking clansmen... won't that..."

Song Wujiang's response, however, was unequivocal.

"There's no need to discuss this further. All orders should be issued to the grassroots level of the family as soon as possible. If the family performs well enough in this war three hundred years from now, it will never lack even cosmic secret realms, let alone a primordial secret realm."

After saying this, Song Wujiang continued to tap rapidly with his fingers, and a holographic star map slowly unfolded in the center of the hall. On this star map, there were densely packed resource points marked.

When the seven red dots marked as the most prominent appeared, the breathing in the Dragon Whale Palace became heavy and labored.

"these are……"

Even though they already had guesses, some core members of the clan still subconsciously asked.

Song Wujiang raised his hand and lightly swiped, and the star map suddenly enlarged:

"All the large titanium crystal veins discovered so far within the dynasty's territory are the result of exploration over the past thousands of years."

Before all the core clansmen in the hall could rejoice, Song Wujiang added one more sentence.

"These seven large veins have a total titanium crystal reserve of over 2400 million pieces. Although none of them have a vein core, they should be enough to meet the needs for the next three hundred years. So you can all go all out and do your work without worrying about the rest."

……

Once the order was given by the family's top leadership, the Dragon Spine Song family's super machine quickly began to operate at full capacity.

With the full support of the family, the enthusiasm of the lower-level clansmen was the first to be aroused.

After all, everyone knows that this is an opportunity, a huge opportunity. As long as they can seize it, it is not impossible to soar to great heights by following the towering tree of the family.

One day, on the Dragonspine Continent, at the main gate square of the Dragonspine Elite Academy, millions of young people from the Song family lined up in formation.

Above the [Clan Announcement Projection] screen floating in mid-air, the newly revised "Supplementary Regulations to Clan Rules" are displayed:
"Those who successfully awaken will receive a free subsidy of 5000 strands of Tier 0 Floating Land Origin and 100 strands of Tier 1 Floating Land Origin from their family. They will also receive a basic white component set. Their immediate family members can move to the Dragon Spine Continent to live."

"Those who awaken the purple flame are granted one purple component!"

"Over the next three hundred years, all those who advance to the fourth rank will receive an orange-tier advancement fire source reward, as well as ten fifth-tier Moro Escape Mechs."

As the crowd began to stir upon seeing these enticing new reward mechanisms, they started to get restless.

This level of reward would be considered a top-tier benefit in any faction, but for a clan like the Song family, whose lineage is not very long, it is a complete drain on the family's resources.

It's fine in the short term, but if it continues for decades or even centuries, it would be enough to cripple most forces, let alone the Song family, which has planned for three hundred years.

However, this approach also has one advantage: the overall strength of the Song family of Longji will inevitably experience a new surge within the next three hundred years.

Under these circumstances, the entire Song family of Dragon Ridge, and even the entire Dragon Ridge Dynasty, were plunged into tremendous changes over time.

The Song family itself is certainly trying its best to cover it up to the outside world, but the Song family members are almost spread throughout all the core star regions of the two major river systems of the dynasty. No matter how much they try to cover it up, it will be difficult to hide it for long.

Given the Song family's past examples of making crucial preparations in advance, all forces within the Dragonspine Dynasty were naturally mobilized. In a short time, all the forces within the Dragonspine Dynasty's territory began to flock to improve their own strength, including stockpiling war materials.

Fifty years after the Song family of Longji issued their order, under the family's deliberate promotion, the number of direct descendants of the family, which was originally around six billion, directly exceeded ten billion.

On this basis, the number of newly awakened members of the family is constantly increasing by millions.

In the 120th year, the number of direct descendants of the Song family exceeded 15 billion, and the total number of awakened members in the family exceeded 1 billion.

Of these, over 98% are Tier 0 or Tier 1 clan members. Fortunately, the number of Tier 2 clan members has officially surpassed 20 million, Tier 3 cruiser captains exceed one million, and Tier 4 and above absolute core members exceed 30,000. In the second hundred years, the Song family's decision-making body has still not stopped the clan's vigorous birth policy. Now, the number of direct descendants of the entire family has exceeded 30 billion, of which over 2 billion are awakened, nearly 3 million are Tier 3 cruiser captains, and over 50,000 are Tier 4 and above core clan members.

In addition, after Song Chi took out all the sixth-order Time Realm Fruits he had accumulated over the past few thousand years, the number of family star destroyer captains officially reached forty that year.

……

"Xuanfeng, you actually came out of seclusion? That's truly a rare sight!"

Deep in the sky above the Dragonspine Continent, two star destroyers were flying side by side, both heading towards the Dragonspine Divine Mountain.

In the warship's magnetic wave communication group chat, Song Xuanfeng replied with a smile:

"Now that a full-scale war against the Corpse Emperor Clan's river system is imminent, I heard that my family has undergone tremendous changes during my seclusion. I also recently made a breakthrough in the Guiding Technique, so I naturally have to come out of seclusion to take a look."

Upon hearing this, Song Xuancang, who had taken the initiative to ask, smiled and nodded without refuting anything.

He and Song Xuanfeng seemed to be only a few hundred years apart in age, but the time they took to become captains of star destroyers was quite different.

Song Xuanfeng was nearing the age of nine thousand when he successfully upgraded his flagship to a star destroyer. In order to ensure that he could complete the breakthrough in his guidance technique before his time was up, he even went to Song Chi to ask for a [Breaking Aperture True Immortal Pill].

Even so, he had been in seclusion for the past few hundred years, and Song Xuanfeng had not experienced the recent changes in the clan.

As the two chatted idly, the two Star Destroyers quickly arrived at Dragon Ridge Mountain.

Upon entering the Dragon Whale Palace inside the mountain, the two discovered that there were already quite a few people inside.

However, as the number of middle-level clansmen in the family increases, the minimum strength required for clansmen to participate in the highest-level council of the ancestral hall is a sixth-level fearless captain. Even so, the number of people gathered in the hall at this moment has exceeded two hundred.

Several tens of minutes later, when everyone had arrived, Song Yiming, who was at the head of the hall, finally spoke.

"Everyone, I'm sure you all already have a guess about why I've summoned you here."

"With the war against the Corpse Emperor Clan's river system approaching, the clan naturally needs to make detailed strategic plans in advance. Before that, I must give an updated report on the clan's current situation:"

"According to the data compiled by the family's internal affairs hall a month ago, as of three months ago, the number of family members under the family's jurisdiction had exceeded 50 billion, of which more than 3 billion had successfully awakened."

……

"Wow, really? Five hundred billion?"

In an instant, the entire hall was filled with uproar. There were more than two hundred people present, many of whom were like Song Xuanfeng. Having been in complete seclusion for the past few hundred years, they were completely unaware of the recent changes in their families. Now, suddenly hearing Song Yiming utter such an unbelievable number, these people subconsciously doubted its authenticity.

"Three billion Awakened Ones? I remember that before I went into seclusion, my family's total population was only six billion."

"Silence! Let Yiming finish speaking!"

The rebuke emanating from the Great Sun Throne above the main hall silenced the somewhat noisy hall once more. Only then did the patriarch, Song Yiming, speak again:
"Among the current 3 billion awakened race members, the number of zero-level (phantom shuttle) and first-level (phantom airship) is as high as 2.9 billion."

"The number of Tier 2 frigate captains exceeds 90 million, the number of Tier 3 cruiser captains exceeds 8 million, in addition, the number of Tier 4 Deer Chaser captains exceeds 70,000, the number of Tier 5 battleship captains exceeds 5,000, the number of Tier 6 Dreadnought captains is nearly 300, and the number of Star Destroyer captains is as high as 46..."

Once Song Yiming had revealed all the information, the clansmen in the hall could no longer contain themselves, and a chorus of exclamations echoed throughout the hall.

Even those clansmen who had long suspected the current state of their family were still deeply shocked.

In just three hundred years, how could the family's strength have increased so much as doubling?
It can be said that compared to the shallow foundation three hundred years ago, the Song family of Longji now has the foundation to create the Fifth Flame Empire.

Although this was achieved at the cost of nearly depleting the family's millennia-long reserves, everyone present understood that as long as the upcoming war against the Corpse Emperor Clan's river system did not encounter any major problems, all the family's resources consumed over the past three hundred years could be recovered tenfold or even a hundredfold in the future.

Before these people could discuss for long, Song Yiming, who was at the head of the hall, spoke for the third time:
"According to the discussion among the ancestors of the family, the family will send more than 40 billion people to participate in the upcoming Corpse Emperor Clan Galaxy Cluster War. Among them, more than 2 billion are awakened, and the rest of the ordinary people will be responsible for piloting the [Truth Mechanical Battle Star], [Titan II Starry Sky Mechanical Fortress], ... [Truth Mechanical Beast], including the [Moro Sky-Escape Mech] and [Hellfire Mech] to assist in the battle."

"In addition, the [Big Dipper Palace], which is allied with us, will also send hundreds of billions of fleets to form the Fifth Expeditionary Fleet Group with us."

……

Song Yiming's series of words almost completely encompassed all the details of the subsequent war deployment.

The more than two hundred people in the hall naturally had few questions about this.

"Since there are no questions, let's adjourn the meeting. Everyone, please take note: make sure to issue the relevant mobilization orders to the grassroots level of each branch as soon as possible. I don't want any accidents to happen at the fleet's departure ceremony twenty years from now."

Song Yiming's voice echoed in the Dragon Whale Hall, each word like a heavy hammer striking everyone's heart.

The more than two hundred core members of the family inside the hall had solemn expressions, but their eyes burned with a fierce fighting spirit.

The fleet's departure ceremony twenty years later will be the first time the Dragonspine Song family has appeared publicly on the grand stage of the entire human civilization since it was caught in a media storm. This is a matter of honor for the entire Dragonspine Song family.

After all, not only the royal fleets of the four great empires, but also all the major powers under the four great empires will basically send their most elite fleets. The most important thing is whether the Song family can show enough strength at this ceremony to lay the foundation for their future establishment of the Fifth Flame Empire.

After that, Song Yiming didn't waste any more time and directly announced the end of the meeting.

Many clansmen left one after another, but Song Chi's projection did not immediately disappear.

He stood at the corner of the hall, watching his clansmen leave one after another, his eyes gleaming with a deep light.

At this moment, Song Xuanfeng approached:

"Koike, regarding the testing of that new batch of motherships..."

"Follow me." Without saying anything more, Song Chi raised his hand and opened a spatial rift.

Both of them quickly disappeared into the spatial rift.

When they reappeared, they were already inside the Dragonspine Secret Realm.

In the mysterious sky, five giant mechanical motherships hang high.

Explorer-class deep-space carrier

(End of this chapter)