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Of course, he hadn't forgotten to improvise himself; the jackalwolf man he had transformed into suddenly had blood-red eyes and an angry stare fixed on that Goblin Luke.

Feeling his eerily accurate gaze, Luke instinctively shrank his neck, but then, remembering the Ruins Market's rules, he immediately put his hands on his hips, stood tall, and his triangular eyes were filled with smugness.

As if he were silently saying:

"Heh, you dare to compete with the great Luke in terms of wealth? You're not up to it, you bloodthirsty and crude jackalwolf man!"

What he didn't notice, however, was the fleeting smile in the depths of the "jackalwolf man's" eyes.

Forty strands of Fourth-Rank Floating Land Origin, if these were to be exchanged using the Song family's merit points, they would be worth at least 80 Golden Merit Points, and this was just the extra gain he had reaped from his impromptu performance; how could Song Chi not be happy?

As the Ruins Market Guest Token fell into Goblin Luke's hands, the power of laws from the Ruins Market Secret Realm also wrapped around the three bundles of Floating Land Origin in his hands and disappeared from the sight of all the alien species.

What followed was the evaluation phase for the specific number of uses of the Ruins Market Guest Token.

Song Chi didn't dwell on this for too long because the Floating Land Origin that Goblin Luke had brought out was comparable to an orange oddity, and with Zhou Ping and a peak First Rank centaur present, the number he offered was the standard ten opportunities.

Being unfairly partial wouldn't be in accordance with the inherent operating style of the Ruins Market itself.

After the auction ended, dozens of minutes passed, and it was time for this session of transactions at the Ruins Market to come to a close.

Under the reluctant gazes of the various alien species, a formidable force of rejection acted upon the bodies of all creatures present.

A second later, the interior of the Zhu Tian Ruins Market suddenly fell silent, leaving only Song Chi alone.

However, at that moment, a cold light flashed in Song Chi's eyes; just now, an alien creature had surreptitiously planted a mark while departing.

This mark was subtle and elusive, nearly imperceptible unless one was the Ruins Market Lord of this Zhu Tian Ruins Market, and certainly not something a common First Rank creature could produce.

If things were as expected, beyond the spatial gate that the First Rank alien creature had entered, there would likely be at least one Fourth Rank Level stellar sea creature guarding it.

About this, Song Chi was momentarily startled, but then a cold smirk appeared on his face. With a thought, he quickly erased the tracking mark.

At the same time, sharpness flickered in his eyes as the power of laws frenziedly converged around him, ultimately manifesting into a twenty-meter-tall law phantom above his body.

He reached out his hand toward one of the forty-seven collapsing void gates outside the Ruins Market's main entrance.

In the sky above, the towering law phantom mirrored his movements, slapping towards that void gate.

Atop a high mountain outside the Cangqiong Floating Land, the Black Moon Clan's residence.

The Black Moon Clan's elder, Hei Yuetu, stood at the mountain's peak; in front of it, there was a fading void portal.

Just then, the space in the portal fluctuated, and the figure of a First Rank Black Moon clansman emerged, about to step through the void portal.

But at that moment, Hei Yuetu's eyes shone with a fierce black light as it sensed a violent spatial fluctuation emanating from within the portal in front.

Such a terrifying spatial fluctuation was too much for the First Rank Black Moon clansman still not fully stepped through, not to mention a Third Rank Black Moon individual.

Hei Yuetu's heart was slightly alarmed.

"Have we been discovered? Indeed, the entity behind that so-called Zhu Tian Ruins Market is no easy target!"

Muttering to itself, dark energy diffused around its body, and then its stature, originally less than three meters tall, suddenly swelled, revealing the mythical creature form characteristic of a Fourth Rank creature.

Ten meters;

A hundred meters;

...

Until it surpassed two thousand meters, that's when the swelling slowly ceased.

Stretching out its hand, a torrent of Fourth Rank energy converged towards the space gate below. Hei Yuetu sought to stabilize the spatial fluctuations within the gateway using its Fourth Rank power; in just one second, the First Rank clansman within could safely emerge.

But it had thought too simply. Under the promotion of the Ruins Market Master Song Chi, aided by the power of the Ruins Market Law, the rate of spatial fluctuations spreading within the spatial gate was far faster than the normal speed.

Before the Fourth Rank power could stabilize the spatial channel inside the spatial gate, that First Rank member of the Black Moon Clan was reduced to a pile of mush by the force of the spatial fluctuations.

Outside the spatial gate, Hei Yuetu's expression turned gloomy in an instant. It did not care about the life or death of a First Rank clan member; it cared about its own dignity.

Its body's black light grew increasingly terrifying, madly surging into the interior of the spatial gate. However, the next second the spatial gate dimmed completely and dissipated, preventing it from continuing its emotional outburst.

Within the Zhu Tian Ruins Market, Song Chi's expression changed dramatically as a massive burst of energy surged into the market entrance, heading straight for him as the Ruins Market Master.

With the reinforcement of the Ruins Market Law, he used the Power of Laws to do his utmost in counteracting this overwhelming and domineering energy, while his own body was tightly enveloped under the cover of a phantom shaped by the Law.

He even hastily summoned the Cang Qiong, taking refuge inside it.

The moment he had just taken cover inside the Cang Qiong, the hull of the Cang Qiong shook violently.

Fortunately, the terror-inducing energy that had surged in was not substantial and, coupled with the erosion of the Power of Laws, it quickly dissipated entirely.

Inside the Cang Qiong, Song Chi's face displayed an abnormal flush as his blood roiled intensely within his body.

Although he wasn't injured, at that moment he deeply sensed the terror of those formidable beings from the Starry Sea.

Even across endless void gaps, even with the enhancement of Law, and even though only a thread of Fourth Rank energy had surged in, it still left him in a state of panic. Facing such a dread presence directly, he dared not even imagine it.

The previous time at the Blood Blade Star Thieves' lair, he had entered the Moruo Secret Realm ahead of the arrival of the Moruo Space-Escape Mech and the Fifth Rank Mech Armor Projection. He had only witnessed part of the battle through the Fire Peony Soldier Figurine left outside and had not personally felt the pressure of Fourth or Fifth Rank energy.

Thinking this, Song Chi soon turned his thoughts around. The gap was a fact, but not an insurmountable one.

His current level of Spectral Energy Guidance Technique was only lv15, merely a First Rank creature of the Starry Sea and three Great Ranks away from a Fourth Rank existence. Therefore, even with the enhancement of the Ruins Market Law, he had no way to contend. However, if he could advance to the Second Rank later on, the situation would likely improve significantly.

Thinking this, Song Chi felt extremely fortunate. He was grateful that he had always been vigilant in every Ruins Market transaction, ensuring that he, the Ruins Market Master, was never absent from the market. Otherwise, faced with a situation like today's, he didn't know what might have followed.

Additionally, his eyes flickered as he made a silent vow in his heart. In every future Ruins Market transaction, he must not relax his guard. For those who entered the market to trade, he needed to maintain a sufficient distance and conceal his own identity.

Who knows whether there might be another situation like today where a seemingly harmless alien could be harboring concealed methods from a Fourth Rank being?

Without hurrying to recall the Cang Qiong, Song Chi began to tally his gains within the Cang Qiong.

Soon, the tally was complete.

Orange [Silver III Generation Ultra-Wave Magic Energy Detection Radar]

40 strands of Fourth-Rank Floating Land Origin

100 strands of Third-Rank Floating Land Origin

1120 strands of Second-Rank Floating Land Origin

50 Titanium Crystals

2400 strands of First Rank Floating Land Origin

100 portions of Body Tempering Paste

125000 strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin

5 Deep Space Magic Energy Bombing Drones

...

Once the tally was complete, the smile on his face could hardly be concealed. Thanks to the Goblin Luke, this Ruins Market transaction had far exceeded the usual gains, rivaling even that first visit from Zhou Ping.

Looking at the more than a thousand strands of Second-Rank Floating Land Origin in his hands, and the more than 80 Titanium Crystals combined, Song Chi's gaze shifted, beginning to move over the orange radar in his hands and various ship-borne components aboard the Cang Qiong.

With such substantial gains, it was natural to carry out a new round of enhancement on the Cang Qiong. As for the Zhu Tian Ruins Market, due to Goblin Luke's significant patronage, the transaction amount this time had increased quite a bit, but it would still take one or two more transactions to meet the conditions for upgrading.