Chapter 282: Chapter 168: Soul Seal, Divine Soul Sting, Blackwater Xuan Snake, Chimera

After the blockade by that strange creature failed, Song Chi and the other hundred or so people didn’t receive any other attacks. Following the distribution plan they had already prepared, they split into three teams and descended towards the ground.

This Soul Spirit Floating Land is roughly divided into five regions, referred to by the Song Family as the Eastern, Southern, Western, Northern, and Central Regions.

The Eastern Region is a vast primeval forest spanning millions of kilometers, currently under the absolute control of the Soul Spirit Clan and also their main base.

The Western Region, after nearly thirty years of operation by the Song family’s First Direct Lineage and the recent large-scale settlement of Song family members over the past few months, was completely under the family’s control a month ago.

Therefore, the current battlefield is mainly set within the Southern, Northern, and Central Regions.

Among these three regions, the Central Region is the largest, occupying almost half the size of the entire Soul Spirit Floating Land, and it’s where the battlefield is most intensively contested.

The Southern Region has many hills with quite a few divine soul-type mineral resources.

The Northern Region is characterized by its marshland and is where one of the two great war beasts of the Soul Spirit Floating Land, the “Blackwater Xuan Snake,” gathers.

Speaking of war beasts, this is the own term used by the Soul Spirit Clan, which actually refers to enslaved beasts.

The Soul Spirit Clan have powerful divine souls and possess many divine soul powers. One of them allows them to use soul seals to enslave other creatures.

As for the Blackwater Xuan Snake, this snake species is not unique to the Soul Spirit Floating Land; their presence can also be seen on many other watery Floating Lands in the Shattered Starry Sea.

As a snake species that makes it into the mid-range category, its rating in the Song family’s Genetic Bloodline Register is quite good, categorized as Third Tier, similar to the rating of the Komoyin Behemoth.

Apart from the Blackwater Xuan Snake, the Soul Spirit Clan has another more popular enslaved beast, which is the previously mentioned bipedal creature with a snake tail — the Chimera.

Like the Blackwater Xuan Snake, the Chimera is not a species exclusive to the Soul Spirit Floating Land. It can occasionally be seen on other Starry Sea Floating Lands, but comparatively, they are rarer and possess a stronger bloodline.

In the Song family’s Genetic Bloodline Register, the Chimera has a high bloodline rating of 72, which places it in the Fourth Tier, ranking it alongside the Thorned Flying Dragon.

Of course, the Thorned Flying Dragon has a bloodline rating of 80, being at the pinnacle of the Fourth Tier, making it much stronger than the Chimera.

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Song Chi and his group were heading to the Southern Region.

The intensity of the battlefield in the Central Region was too high. Song Mingsong was not afraid, but he also had Song Chi and Song You with him.

Although Song Chi’s flagship had recently been upgraded to an Escort Ship, it had just been promoted, and Song Mingsong didn’t know its exact combat power yet, so he naturally chose the safer option.

As for the Northern Region, most of it was submerged in marshland, and without the relevant ship-mounted components, it was not suitable to go there.

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Torch Bureau local network around the Soul Spirit Floating Land, Southern Region chat group.

“If that’s the case, then you’ll be responsible for the area south of the Melting Soul Mountain Range. A team from the Third Direct Lineage had pushed the battlefront outward by several hundred kilometers before. Now there are quite a lot of Soul Spirit Clan members in that area trying to push our battlefront back!”

In the Southern Region of the Soul Spirit Floating Land, after contacting the Southern Region’s battle command center through the Torch Bureau’s local network, Song Mingsong quickly received their next assignment for the five of them.

To help stabilize the extended front on the south side of the Melting Soul Mountain Range and hunt as many members of the Soul Spirit Clan as possible.

Although the size of the Southern Region is not large, being only a million kilometers in length and width, the war situation changes rapidly, and naturally, they can’t rely on the tribal, city-state, and feudal meeting methods from the Floating Land civilization era. Instead, they coordinate via real-time discussions and contact through the Torch network.

Although the Star Domain where the Soul Spirit Floating Land is located is far from the territory of Torch Human Civilization, making it difficult to establish a stable Torch network, there are at least several thousand Torch Ship Captains on the Soul Spirit Floating Land. With so many captains and their Seeds of Torch serving as a medium, linking up a temporary Torch local network is not difficult.

The Melting Soul Mountain Range is one of the larger mountain ranges in the Southern Region. Unlike those smaller hills, it stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers and conceals many members of the Soul Spirit Clan.

To the south of the Melting Soul Mountain Range, five Torch Warships began patrolling separately upon arrival. Song Mingsong alone formed one group, Grandmother Bai Xiuqin and Song You formed another, and Song Chi joined his second uncle Song Hai in another team.

The patrol routes for the three groups were all pre-planned, encompassing the entire area of several hundred kilometers.

Hundreds of meters above the ground, two Torch Warships flew at low altitude.

Inside the Cang Qiong.

While remaining vigilant, Song Chi felt somewhat helpless inside; they were on their return journey, and along the way they hadn’t encountered any Soul Spirit Clan members, not even any slightly larger indigenous creatures.

As expected, the two Torch Warships didn’t discover any enemy traces and quickly returned to the temporary rendezvous point.

For the next few days, they repeated the same routine.

On the third day, Song Chi and Song Hai went out for their usual patrol.

The two Torch Warships flew slowly at low altitude, and below in the dense forest, ten Second Rank Fire Peony Soldier Figurines and ten Third Rank Fierce Flame Soldier Figurines were lined up in a row, methodically advancing forward.

The reason for such patrols is very simple: the space radars on the Torch Warships had difficulty performing efficiently.

Firstly, members of the Soul Spirit Clan were small in size, much more so than humans of the same rank.

Secondly, the Soul Spirit Clan possessed a special ability called the Soul Wave Force Field, which could use soul waves to conceal their physical forms.