Galaxy of Giant Ships: Starting with Data-Driven Warships

Chen Yao wasn't in a hurry to use these card points.

He already had a plan in mind: to accumulate more card points first, and then use them in conjunction with "Lucky Cards" later.

Having personally experienced the amazing effects of the "Lucky Aura," Chen Yao became even more reluctant to use card points recklessly.

Turning our attention back to the [Miracle Quests] section, both quests have now been refreshed.

"Life Sublimation: Please break through to Guidance Technique lv10 as soon as possible to complete a sublimation of the essence of life. Upon completion, you will be rewarded with a special 'Universal Card'."

"Upgrade your weapon: The Sky Patrol's components are of too low quality. Please replace all standard components on the warship. You will be rewarded with 400 card points upon completion."

Chen Yao shook his head and sighed.

Compared to the tasks refreshed under the previous lucky aura, these two newly refreshed miracle tasks are clearly far inferior.

It's not that the rewards they offer are bad, but rather that the tasks themselves are too troublesome.

The first quest, "Life Ascension," offers a very tempting reward: a "Universal Card." Judging from the name, its effect is likely to be a general-purpose card that can replace or directly convert into a specified card. If so, its value is self-evident.

But how easy is it to achieve a spiritual transformation?

Putting everything else aside, Chen Yao himself estimated that it would take at least a year for his guiding technique to break through level 10.

This includes the bonus from the Psionic Training Room.

Of course, if we can obtain certain special resources later, such as immortal pills or wizard potions suitable for Captain of the Firefly, or rare essence fruits produced by high-level spiritual roots in the Star Sea, this time may be compressed a bit more, but it is impossible to reduce it too much, and it will never be less than half a year.

In that time, you could refresh the [Miracle Card Mother Pool] several times over.

As for the second point, "upgrading from slingshot to cannon", the current Sky Survey still has five standard components, including two psionic secondary cannons, a standard psionic air patrol radar, a standard psionic shield, and a psionic training room.

The two psionic secondary cannons, along with the standard air patrol radar and the psionic shield, are all relatively common components. As long as you are willing to spend Origin Crystals, it is not too difficult to obtain a batch of low-quality similar components in a short period of time.

The key is the [Psionic Cultivation Room]. Cultivation room components are extremely rare. As far as Chen Yao knows, his father only got one three years ago, and the quality barely meets his requirements for blue. It will need to be replaced soon.

Therefore, both tasks require a certain amount of time to accumulate experience.

Chen Yao felt somewhat helpless about this. Having experienced the exhilarating feeling of completing one task after another during the period of good fortune, the huge gap between then and now taking on these tasks that required a considerable amount of time was indeed hard to accept.

But there was nothing he could do. The "Lucky Card," which had its cooldown reduced to one year thanks to the "Refresh Card," wasn't something he could use whenever he wanted; he had to plan carefully beforehand.

……

Tianlan City, Chen Yao's home.

Whoohoo!

As the Sky Patrol slowly descended, it stirred up gusts of wind. Gu Ping stood in the courtyard, her gaze following the Sky Patrol's descent. The howling wind was blocked by her magical power, and a faint smile graced her face.

"mom!"

After Chen Yao stored the Sky Patrol into his ancestral aperture space between his eyebrows, Gu Ping stepped forward to greet him.

"You didn't get much rest during those two days exploring the alien world, did you? Why didn't you sleep in a little longer?"

Noticing the lingering fatigue in her son's eyes, Gu Ping realized that Chen Yao hadn't slept enough, and her eyes were full of concern.

"Isn't this because I miss my mother!"

Although she guessed that Chen Yao was deliberately trying to play innocent and get away with the matter of "blindly starting an exploration of alien regions", Gu Ping's beautiful eyes still curved into crescent moons.

Knowing he couldn't get away with it so easily, Chen Yao quickly made another move.

He took a crystal-clear jade bead from his pocket and quickly handed it to his mother.

"Mom, this is a gift your son brought especially for you."

Gu Ping raised an eyebrow slightly, a hint of surprise flashing in her eyes.

"A second-tier Soul Nourishing Bead?"

Chen Yao nodded.

"We were lucky this time; we found a small piece of Soul-Gathering Stone ore."

Gu Ping smiled, both pleased with her son's achievement and amused by the clumsy "self-rescue" method itself.

She didn't expose Chen Yao and happily accepted the Soul-Nourishing Pearl.

As a Foundation Establishment cultivator at the Great Perfection stage, with the unwavering support of her husband, a cruiser captain, and her father, a Nascent Soul cultivator, over the past few decades, how could she have used few resources to enhance her spiritual consciousness?

She even possesses a rare inherited secret technique for enhancing divine sense, and her divine sense strength has already reached the early stage of the third rank.

In other words, the second-tier Soul Nourishing Pearl was already useless to her.

But is this a question of whether it's useful or not?

This is a gift from a son to his mother, but it has a completely different meaning.

"Okay, now quickly contact your grandfather. He has prepared a gift for you, the kind that is very important to you."

Chen Yao's eyes lit up.

"Mom, what exactly is the gift?"

Gu Ping rolled her eyes.

"Go ask your grandfather yourself."

……

Beep!

After a brief beep, the communication was successfully connected.

As a river system that has been largely occupied by the Chen family, the Longfeng River System has long since built a relatively mature communication network, capable of stable inter-stellar communication.

However, after the communication was connected, it was not the voice of Grandpa Chen Beihe that came through first.

"Brother, you finally decided to reply to my message!"

In the virtual light screen projected by the Tianxun bracelet, a face that looked childish yet pretended to be mature jumped out, its tone carrying three parts complaint and seven parts joy.

"Congratulations on awakening the purple flame—but your talent is still a bit inferior to mine. But don't worry, your little brother here will protect you in the future."

Chen Yao looked at the familiar face on the screen and couldn't help but chuckle.

The boy's name was Chen Yan, and he was sixteen years old. He was his younger brother.

With dual wood and fire spiritual roots, he follows the cultivation system. Crucially, he has also awakened the "advanced flame affinity" in the Chen family's inherited bloodline talent. Although his speed in cultivating fire-attribute techniques is not as fast as that of cultivators with heavenly spiritual roots, it is far superior to that of ordinary dual spiritual roots.

In addition, he was quite talented in both weapon crafting and alchemy, and was sent to his grandfather Chen Beihe's side for careful instruction at a young age.

"Protect me?" Chen Yao raised an eyebrow, deliberately teasing him, "What level of Qi Refining are you?"

Chen Yan's expression stiffened slightly, then he straightened his chest:

"Qi Refining Level 5, what, you disagree? You're just a newbie with zero-level Qi Guidance Technique, how dare you question your genius brother's strength?"

Chen Yao's lips curled up slightly.

"Now that I have the support of the Fire-Bearing Warship, my cultivation speed may not be slower than yours. Be careful not to let me overtake you."

"Tch, wait until you break through to the first tier..."