Global Era of Star trekking

Fortunately, star charts are quite common, considering that every day many Torch Ship Captains are traveling between the surrounding Floating Lands. The star charts are basically updated in real-time.

However, this only applies to the surrounding hundred light-years or so. If one wants to acquire a broader range of star charts, additional money needs to be spent.

From a hot post on the Torch network, Song Chi downloaded the most upvoted real-time star chart.

This star chart covered an area of about 80 light-years and was said to have been updated recently, with a very high accuracy rate.

Inside the Cang Qiong, having exited the Torch network, Song Chi studied the projected star chart in front of him while quickly planning his next move in his mind.

The four Starry Sea Floating Lands recorded on this star chart included the White Tower Floating Land and the other three were the Chaotic Stars Floating Island, Guangyuan Floating Land, and Golden Shark 023 Floating Land, respectively.

Among them, the Chaotic Stars Floating Island, situated on the edge of the Chaotic Star Field, was notorious for its disorder with frequent occurrences of murder, arson, and alien civilization creatures committing robbery and murder. Song Chi immediately ruled out this Floating Land.

Both Guangyuan and Golden Shark 023 were like the White Tower Floating Land, belonging to the Starry Sea Floating Lands under the jurisdiction of the Chenxing Principality's Golden Shark Starfield, and were both Level 1 Floating Lands.

Guangyuan Floating Land was a life-type Floating Land, its population even exceeding that of the White Tower Floating Land, close to two hundred million. Golden Shark 023, on the other hand, was a resource-type Floating Land; however, after nearly a thousand years of exploitation, the resources on this Floating Land were nearly depleted.

Based on this situation, Song Chi ultimately set his sights on Guangyuan Floating Land. With a population close to two hundred million, it was imaginable that there would only be more Torch Ship Captains congregating there, naturally increasing the chances of encountering various rare resources and Starry Sea oddities.

Having made up his mind, he once again scanned the information about Guangyuan Floating Land.

This Floating Land was approximately sixty light-years away from White Tower Floating Land. With the current capabilities of the Purple River Translocation Device, it would take until tomorrow to arrive. A Level 20 Purple River Translocation Device could only jump forty light-years at most, and two jumps would be needed with a twelve-hour buffering period in between.

Humming!

The roar of the airship's rear engine sounded again, signifying that the Purple River Translocation Device had been charging for a while and had just completed its jump charge.

At the very moment the charge was completed, a violent spatial fluctuation suddenly emanated from right in front of the Cang Qiong. Looking up, a spatial vortex about several tens of meters in diameter silently appeared before them.

The next second, the Cang Qiong plunged directly into the vortex, and the sensation of disorientation during the jump was much fainter compared to the long-distance Starry Sea deployment, as it was just tens of light-years as opposed to the typical millions of light-years for the latter, the two being incomparable.

Furthermore, Song Chi had just advanced to Level 8 in Guidance Technique, so this spatial jump had little impact on him.

Unaware of how much time had passed, when the Cang Qiong emerged from the state of spatial jump, Song Chi found that the airship had appeared in an unfamiliar star domain. Looking at the star chart before him, sure enough, the Cang Qiong had precisely emerged at their predetermined jump point, now only twenty light-years from Guangyuan Floating Land.

While waiting for the twelve-hour buffering period of the Purple River Translocation Device, Song Chi naturally wouldn't just sit idly on the Cang Qiong. He stored the airship into the Ancestral Torch and then entered the Zhu Tian Ruins Market.

Unfortunately, after enhancing the Brainwave Remote Control System component to Level 20, he tested it several times and realized that upon entering the Zhu Tian Ruins Market, he could still not sense the Fire Peony Soldier Figurine that was left in the outside world and marked with his Brainwave Beacon.

Otherwise, he wouldn't have needed to retrieve Cang Qiong. When leaving the Ruins Market later, he wouldn't have needed to summon the Cang Qiong a second time, unnecessarily exposing himself to space and increasing the risk, even if just for an instant.