Galaxy of Giant Ships: Starting with Data-Driven Warships

As far as Chen Yao knew, his father was now an elite member of the family, but had not yet entered the core ranks. Even so, his father, Chen Tianhua, still had one opportunity every hundred years to request the family's fourth-tier combat power to take action.

Although this might not be of much use to a cruiser captain whose father is a Nascent Soul Peak Thunder Cultivator, the value of this authority itself cannot be denied.

The Chen clan has countless members, but no more than one-tenth of them possess such a background. For ordinary clan members, the value of this privilege far exceeds their imagination.

These are just the elite clansmen. Core clansmen like Grandpa Chen Beihe can even get the clan's seventh-level ancestor to intervene.

Of course, this is only a possibility; more likely, it will be a sixth-tier clan elder who will take action.

This clearly demonstrates the prestige and importance of the rank of family members.

To upgrade the rank of one's family members, merit points are required.

For an ordinary clansman to become an elite clansman, they need to accumulate 1000 clan merits. For an elite clansman to become a core clansman, they need an astonishing 100000 clan merits. The requirements for subsequent core direct descendants are even more outrageous.

There are many ways to obtain family merit points.

The most direct way to earn merit points is to kill other races in the clan's external wars. Secondly, you can also earn merit points by handing over or exchanging certain special materials to the clan.

Of course, the materials mentioned above are not ordinary mineral resources; they must be extremely rare and have special value.

After a moment's thought, Chen Yao suddenly realized.

Although the Soul Nourishing Pearl is only a second-tier item, its effect of nourishing the soul is basically only effective for zero-tier and first-tier individuals, and its effect on second-tier extraordinary individuals is very limited, but that is enough.

Whether used to lay the foundation for the souls of those with outstanding cultivation talents in the family, or to enhance the control of family members who decide to follow the art cultivation system such as alchemist, array master, talisman master, or alchemist, it is excellent.

Chen Yao's guess was indeed correct. Items that could amplify the divine soul were almost always in short supply in any major power. So much so that shortly after completing all the statistics, the deliveryman solemnly asked again:

"Student Chen Yao, if you have any remaining Soul Nourishing Pearls, your family is willing to buy them all back with merit points. May I ask...?"

Before he could finish speaking, Chen Yao shook his head.

The two Soul Nourishing Beads he took out were the result of his careful consideration. Although the Soul Nourishing Stone ore had yielded 11 Soul Nourishing Beads, after deducting the one he carried and the ones he gave away, he only had 4 left.

He has just given two coins to his family, leaving him with only two coins left.

He planned to use these two Soul Nourishing Beads for external trading to see if he could exchange them for some rare items; at least for now, he wasn't in a hurry to exchange them for his family.

After receiving his reply, the deliveryman didn't press the matter further and quickly turned and left.

……

Fifteen days later, in the underground cultivation room at home.

With its dark red hull armor, streamlined and beautiful design, and a length just over four meters, the Xuntian quietly docked.

Inside the warship, the psionic training room, whose level had been upgraded to lv9 along with the hull of the Firewood, was currently flashing with faint light.

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Just then, the door to the psionic cultivation room opened from the inside, and Chen Yao, covered in sticky sweat, stepped out again.

After a quick rinse, he arrived at the warship's main control room with a smile on his face.

During the past two weeks, he consumed an entire bottle of "Spiritual Fiend Body Tempering Pills." With the help of the pills and the enhancement of the Nether Energy Cultivation Room, his newly mastered Guiding Technique made significant progress once again.

Although he hadn't reached the level to directly challenge level 9, Chen Yao estimated that he should be able to reach the peak of level 8 in another month or so, at which time he could try to break through to level 9 of the Guiding Technique.

This speed was more than half the time he had previously expected.

Thinking about this, he felt a stirring in his heart.

Although the family's "Spiritual Fiend Tempering Pill" is in limited supply, it can still be purchased with merit points.

However, he quickly shook his head and dismissed the idea.

While the various pills adapted to the Fire System have amazing effects, they are different from the chaotic primordial energy of the external void absorbed by planetary primordial crystals and ship-borne engines. They contain more or less pill toxins. Taking a small amount each year is acceptable, but it is absolutely forbidden to use too much in a short period of time. Otherwise, the accumulation of pill toxins will affect the future cultivation speed and the success rate of major breakthroughs.

"Ding ding ding!"

Just as Chen Yao was pondering this, the doorbell rang.

"The gifts Grandpa and Wenying sent have finally arrived..."

……

"Hello Chen Yao, your Longfeng Express package has been successfully delivered. Please sign for it!"

Outside the gate, Chen Yao successfully signed for the package using the encrypted verification code he had already received. Before he could rush into the house, another hovercar landed overhead.

"Chen Yao, the items you purchased on the family's Tianlan e-commerce website have arrived."

Upon hearing this, Chen Yao paused, and then completed the second signature.

Unlike the first gift that Grandpa Chen Beihe sent from Longding Star, this second package contained several white components that he had recently purchased from the family's internal online marketplace.

He had previously redeemed over a thousand family universal points, and naturally used them immediately. Although he couldn't fully fulfill the "upgrading" task of the [Miracle Card Mother Pool], it was enough to replace a few standard parts outside the [Psionic Training Room]. This would effectively improve the Sky Patrol's basic combat power, so it was better to do it sooner rather than later.

In the underground training room, Chen Yao returned to the Sky Patrol Ship, clutching two storage boxes, one on each side.

Without much hesitation, he opened the storage box containing the gifts for his grandfather and Du Wenying.

Having held back for half a month, Chen Yao now only wanted to know the specific attributes of that orange artifact as soon as possible.

Click!

The moment the storage box was opened, a blinding orange light suddenly filled the entire control room.

After getting used to it a little, Chen Yao finally caught a glimpse of the orange object in front of him.

"A spark?"

Looking at the faintly flickering flame inside the crystal ball in the center of the storage box, his pupils suddenly trembled as if he had thought of something.

[Strange Object: Comet Source Flame]

[Quality: Orange]

[Can be converted into: {Seed of Fire upgraded to Fire Source}]

[Note: A spark of fire, born atop a comet in the boundless sea of ​​stars, transformed by a fortuitous chance into a wondrous artifact called "The Spark."]

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The Seed of Fire is upgraded to the Fire Source (Comet Flame).

Effect: When combined with Seeds of Purple quality or lower, it can assist in the quality upgrade of Seeds of Purple quality.

Note: When a Seed of Fire attempts to advance for the first time, it can directly complete the quality advancement. For the second or subsequent advancements, it will require more Seeds of the same quality to take effect.