Having left Merit Tower, Song Chi immediately hurried back to Green Moon Lake, his actions and words betraying an unmistakable urgency.
Although this trip to the Evil Buddha Continent had gone much more smoothly than expected, taking only ten days for a successful return, it did not change the fact that the promotion period for the Furious Lion was nearly a year away.
"If calculated carefully, the Furious Lion's promotion mission has been open for nearly eleven months, leaving only the last month..."
Space shifted, and the Cang Qiong returned to the sky above Green Moon Lake. Without waiting to descend, several cruisers already approached swiftly from below.
"These are neither the Furious Lion nor the Mountain; why have so many unfamiliar cruisers suddenly appeared within the pulse?"
First puzzled, Song Chi's eyes then brightened in an instant, as if he had thought of something.
"Could it be from grandfather's side..."
The Cang Qiong descended rapidly, and as Song Chi drew closer to Green Moon Island, he quickly saw more and more Torch Warships. There were over thirty cruisers of Third Rank Level alone, and an even more frightening number of warships of Second Rank and below.
Besides that, he also saw as many as six Zhulu Warships of 3,000 kilometers class.
Song Chi became increasingly certain of his thoughts.
Because all these warships were basically docked around Green Moon Lake, and on Green Moon Island itself, there was only one warship.
And it was also a 3,000 kilometers class Zhulu Warship.
Looking at this familiar warship docked in Green Moon Island's exclusive warship docking area, Song Chi's eyes sparkled brilliantly.
If he was not mistaken, this extremely familiar Zhulu Warship was indeed his grandfather Song Mingsong's Furious Lion, and even though the ship's body had expanded many times over, he could still recognize it.
"The Furious Lion has indeed successfully advanced..."
As he murmured this, Song Chi's mind quickly shifted.
"No, that's not right—it should no longer be called Furious Lion, but [Furious Battle Mad Lion]!"
After a cruiser advances to a Zhulu Warship, the name of the warship changes from three characters to five. This distinction serves not only to show the gap between Fourth Rank and those before it but also to highlight the prestige of the Zhulu Warship, given it is the combat unit that can elevate a civilization from Low Rank to Intermediate all by itself. It definitely cannot continue to be lumped together with Low Rank combat units.
As for the origin of [Furious Battle Mad Lion].
Grandfather Mingsong had mentioned several times before that if the Furious Lion were to advance successfully, its name would be [Furious Battle Mad Lion], something known to the core members of the Tenth Direct Vein.
Green Moon Manor, the Welcoming Courtyard.
By the time Song Chi arrived, this not-very-large courtyard was already full of people, each radiating at least a Second Rank Level of life force, all Torch Ship Captains who had advanced their Guidance Technique to lv20 or higher.
There were also more than a dozen Third Rank Torch Captains, and even six of Fourth Rank Level. Without a doubt, these six were members of the clan elder level.
The first three main pulses, the two direct veins, and that most mysterious and powerful Ancestral Vein each sent one representative.
Grandfather Song Mingsong sat in the seat of honor, his face radiant with smiles, appearing nonchalant, but a closer look would reveal that the almost imperceptible aura around him was still far less than that of the other six.
The successful advancement of the Furious Lion to a Zhulu Warship did not mean that Song Mingsong, as its captain, had also advanced. His level in the Guidance Technique was still stuck at lv38. Wanting to use the [Furious Battle Mad Lion], which had also advanced to lv40, to elevate his Guidance Technique to lv40 using the Ghost Energy Cultivation Platform would still take a considerable amount of time.
This also means that Song Mingsong is not yet capable of bringing the combat power of the [Furious Battle Mad Lion] to its fullest, as he does not yet possess the Divine Thought State of spiritual mind.
While the warship itself now has a certain level of vitality, the power of the spiritual force is not sufficient to allow the warship itself to freely transform into the Mythical Mecha Form.
Of course, Song Mingsong is just over 200 years old now, with plenty of time in the future to pull his Guidance Technique up to lv40, and it is certain that he will become a true Fourth Rank Torch Captain in the full sense of the term.
This is one of the reasons why the various veins of the Song family are taking this matter so seriously; otherwise, a Pseudo Fourth Rank Torch Captain with no possibility of further advancement would not warrant the family's six veins each sending a Fourth Rank Clan Elder to congratulate him.
However, Song Chi further speculated on something else.
"The family's plans in the Evil Buddha Continent must have made substantial progress, and all within these dozen days..."
You have to know, until now, the family's high-ranking forces were very tight, even when the sequence struggle officially started, only the family head Song Xuancang himself had come back once and soon after left again.
Now that these six are here in person, aside from some substantial progress in the affairs of the Evil Buddha Continent, Song Chi could think of no other reason.
At the head of the table, seeing Song Chi enter, Song Mingsong's smile became even richer, but this time he noticeably suppressed his normally deep and rough voice, speaking softly:
"Now that you're back, why haven't you come over to greet the clan elders?"
As Song Chi approached briskly, Song Mingsong timely introduced him.
"This is Daijiang, the Clan Elder of the Ancestral Vein."
The first introduction was of Daijiang of the Ancestral Vein, sitting at the head of the guests. As Song Mingsong's voice fell, Song Chi immediately bowed:
"I've seen Elder Daijiang!"
"This is Chang Ping, the Clan Elder of the Heavenly Vein..."
After greeting each elder, they all smiled and spoke up, revealing some secrets of the Evil Buddha Continent, making Song Chi even more certain of his previous guess.
"A candidate for the final three in the third phase of the sequence battle, Mingsong, your Tenth Direct Vein has really produced a remarkable genius."