Hearing Song Chi's question, Song Mingsong's gaze shifted, looking beyond the projection screen toward the secret realm's Floating Land Fragment.
His eyes suddenly deepened, as if he was recalling the past.
After a long while, he finally began to explain in detail.
"You're right in your thinking, the family's 'Immortal Puppet Tower' and this batch of 'Immortal Domain Spirit Soil' are indeed connected, they both come from the same Floating Land Fragment!"
"Floating Land Fragment?" Song Chi asked again, puzzled.
However, this was not a slip of the tongue on Song Mingsong's part.
"That's right, a Floating Land Fragment, a fragment even larger than an ordinary Third Rank Life Floating Land!"
He said with conviction, and then continued:
"The reason it's called a Fragment is that many Torch Ship Captains who have entered this Floating Land have personally witnessed the edge where a colossal cut spans millions of kilometers, extremely smooth."
Hearing this, Song Chi's eyes widened, and his gaze involuntarily drifted downward.
The Floating Land in the Dragon Blood Mystic Realm was also a collapsed Fragment, and according to what his grandfather had said earlier, such damage could only have been caused by the aftermath of a fight between Fifth Rank Life Forms of the Starry Sea; yet even so, the diameter of the destruction below was merely tens of thousands of kilometers.
Song Chi's mind buzzed, unable even to imagine the size of the creatures capable of causing such terrifying might.
Keep in mind, a Fifth Rank unit of the Starry Sea is only ten thousand meters.
Millions of kilometers, what kind of concept is that?
Before he could think further, Song Mingsong continued:
"It is hypothesized that the Fragment most likely originates from the Ancient Immortal Domain civilization, a shattered corner of a continent from that ancient time, and both the family's Immortal Puppet Tower and the Immortal Domain Spirit Soil in grandfather's hands came from that Fragment."
Song Chi was still trying to wrap his head around this when he collected himself and asked another question.
"A mere shattered fragment with a diameter of millions of kilometers, how big must the original Floating Land of the Starry Sea be that it belonged to? Fourth Rank? Or Fifth Rank?"
Song Mingsong shook his head.
"The original Source's rejection Rule Power of that Fragment is terrifying. Forget Fourth or Fifth Rank Life Forms, even when Chenxing Grand Duke himself took action, he couldn't inflict the slightest damage to the remaining Shield of the Fragment. Based on the Clan Elders' conjecture, the original body of the Floating Land is at least a Sixth Rank Life Floating Land!"
Song Chi didn't realize how many times he had gasped in such a short period, but he couldn't help it; his grandfather's words were simply too astonishing.
A Sixth Rank Starry Sea Floating Land, what kind of existence was that? Just the Fifth Rank Dragon Spine Continent already spans more than ten light-years in diameter...
Shaking his head, not delving further into the answer to this question, Song Chi deftly changed the subject to another key point his grandfather had mentioned.
"Since even Chenxing Grand Duke couldn't tear through the remaining Shield of the Fragment, how did you all manage to get inside?
Where exactly is this Fragment? Why have I never heard a whisper about it on the family's public channels?"
Song Mingsong smiled.
"This mysterious Floating Land Fragment is located in the southern Dusk Star Domain of the Principality; it's been enveloped in a Fragment Shield filled with Rule Power all year round, waning only once every hundred to two hundred years.
And taking advantage of this opportunity, the Level 5 and Level 6 entities of the principality will act together to open a temporary passage for the Torch Ship Captains to enter and explore.
As for the news of this Fragment, it is mostly circulated among the higher echelons of the Principality. Your grandfather only happened to obtain a chance to enter, which is how I came to know all this."
Suddenly enlightened, Song Chi now had a clear understanding of the basic situation regarding that Floating Land Fragment.
"The Dusk Star Domain, huh..."
His gaze shifted; the Dusk Star Domain was the southernmost Star Domain of Chenxing Principality. Although its development wasn't as long-established as Dinghai Star Domain, it was close to two thousand years old. If given the chance, he definitely wanted to check it out.
Details about the ancient Immortal Domain civilization were of great interest to him.
"Just when was the last time the Fragment opened?"
Just as this thought surfaced, his grandfather's voice came through once more.
"Your grandfather entered it 130 years ago, back then desperate for resources to push towards the Third Rank, so I took a gamble and tried. Calculating the time, the next weakening phase should not be far off."
"Work hard to enhance the combat power of your flagship; if all goes well, you might have a chance to seek fortune within it. In over a thousand years, that Fragment has yielded multiple Red Epic Quality Strange Objects, and it's even rumored to have produced a Starry Sea Oddity beyond the Red Epic Quality once."
Hearing the words 'beyond Red Curios', Song Chi's heart stirred.
"Grandfather, what Quality is beyond Red Epic?"
Information on high-level Starry Sea Oddities and ship components was tightly locked down, and to date, he had not heard of any Starry Sea Oddities or ship components beyond Red Epic Quality, hence his keen curiosity.
In the communication projection, Song Mingsong glanced at his grandson.
Originally planning to rebuke him slightly, but then realizing that his grandson's flagship probably already possessed an Orange Glory Quality component, it didn't seem too far-fetched for him to aspire higher; he still decided to utter two words strongly.
He etched these two words deep into his heart; Song Chi narrowed his eyes just as his grandfather began to speak again.