National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 810 [The Ninth-Tier Golden Apple Mother Tree] and the [Eternal Race]

Inside the Sky Ruins, Song Chi stood before the component of [Chi Cang's 004 Cultivation Secret Realm], and as spatial fluctuations swept by, his figure suddenly disappeared.

After completing the advancement of the Seed of Fire, he immediately turned his attention to the three pieces of ninth-tier starry sky plant heartwood in his hand. The [Golden Apple Mother Tree] in the cultivation secret realm had already absorbed the ninth-tier starry sky plant heartwood, but had failed to break through to the ninth tier. He was really looking forward to these three pieces of ninth-tier heartwood.

Inside the cultivation secret realm, beneath the eighth-tier [Golden Apple Mother Tree], Song Chi looked at this towering ancient tree and slowly raised his hand.

As he released his psionic energy, it carried the first ninth-tier starry sky plant heart in his palm and slowly floated towards the trunk of the [Golden Apple Mother Tree].

Whistle rustle!
The moment the first ninth-tier starry sky plant heart touched the [Golden Apple Mother Tree], this starry sky plant, which had stood in the cultivation secret realm for thousands of years, began to shake violently, and the rustling sound produced by the collision of its branches and leaves echoed throughout the entire secret realm.

Within the secret realm, cheers echoed from afar from a tribe with the Botian bloodline that Song Chi had also placed there.

Because time is accelerated tens of thousands of times within the secret realm year-round, the number of this Bo Tian bloodline has long exceeded expectations, and the number of high-level Bo Tian clan members is also considerable.

After all, the cultivation secret realm had been upgraded to a cosmic secret realm a long time ago, and the laws of the secret realm itself had long been completed, so it would not affect the potential of these Heaven-bound bloodlines.

However, even the seventh and eighth tiers of the Botian bloodline are not too exaggerated. No matter how strong the potential of the Botian bloodline is, it is not possible for every one of them to break through to the fifth or sixth tier, let alone the seventh or eighth tier.

The time acceleration factor of the secret realm itself is extremely astonishing. Over the past three thousand years, countless hours have passed inside. Even many of the seventh and eighth-order Heaven-Breaking Bloodlines have perished along the way.

As for why he didn't actively take these Botian bloodlines that had broken through to the seventh and eighth tiers away from the secret realm, it's simple: Song Chi needs the ninth-tier Botian bloodline. He doesn't need to rely on the cultivation secret realm for the seventh and eighth-tier Botian bloodlines at all.

For this reason, over thousands of years, he has consumed a massive amount of various levels of floating continent essence and spiritual resources in this cultivation secret realm, all to fulfill the requirements set by the [Will of Heaven].

Currently, as the Golden Apple Mother Tree gradually flourishes, it greatly enhances the purification of energy within the entire cultivation realm, including the realm's efficiency in drawing energy from the depths of the starry void.

Furthermore, if the Golden Apple Mother Tree can advance to the ninth rank, it will increase the success rate of attacking the eighth-rank Heaven-Piercing Blood Pulse of the secret realm against the ninth-rank.

Ignoring the cheers of the Botian Bloodline Tribe in the distance, after the first ninth-tier starry sky plant heart was fused, seeing that the [Golden Apple Mother Tree] still showed no signs of advancement, he unhesitatingly threw out the second ninth-tier starry sky plant heart.

It has been proven that it is extremely difficult for an eighth-tier starry sky plant to advance to the ninth tier.

This second ninth-tier tree heart still didn't elicit much of a reaction from the Golden Apple Mother Tree.

"Well, if I really can't get promoted, there's nothing I can do. I can just find a few more jobs in the future..."

As he spoke, he threw out the last piece of ninth-tier starry sky plant heart from his hand. This time, the branches and leaves of the [Golden Apple Mother Tree] shook even more violently.

As the core of the ninth-tier [Starry Sea Giant Camphor Tree] continued to fuse with it, Song Chi noticed that the bark on the trunk of the eighth-tier [Golden Apple Mother Tree] was starting to peel off.

Seeing this, Song Chi knew that this was the first sign of the plant undergoing a transformation, and his mind raced.

The next second, he moved quickly, and a storage capsule appeared out of thin air. Then, the few drops of [Fountain of Life] stored in the capsule were taken out.

With a flick of his finger, Song Chi sent a few drops of the Fountain of Life shooting rapidly toward the trunk of the Golden Apple Mother Tree.

As these drops of the Fountain of Life seeped into its roots, it became clear that the bark on the trunk of the Golden Apple Mother Tree was loosening and peeling off even more, but this was obviously not enough.

This [Fountain of Life] was obtained from a previous market transaction. Although it is not a rare item, it is the top-grade spiritual spring water, far superior in quality to the spiritual spring water he currently possesses, such as the Azure Water. It contains a vast amount of life energy and has the effect of prolonging life.

However, the quantity was ultimately too small, just a few drops, which was hardly enough to have a significant effect on an eighth-tier starry sky plant.

Song Chi was not surprised. After a few drops of the Fountain of Life, he waved his hand again, and a large amount of water from the two spiritual springs in the center of the secret realm was quickly drawn in and poured into the roots of the Golden Apple Mother Tree.

That wasn't enough. Song Chi took out another item from the storage capsule in his hand. It was a drop of golden blood the size of a fist, a drop of source blood from an eighth-order spirit-devouring insect.

This drop of eighth-order source blood also came from a market transaction, and it contains the pure life energy transformed from countless resources devoured by an eighth-order spirit-devouring worm throughout its life.

With the injection of this drop of golden blood, it seemed as if a certain boundary had finally been broken. The trunk of the eighth-order [Golden Apple Mother Tree] began to crack layer by layer, and large chunks of bluish-gray bark began to peel off continuously.

At a certain moment, the bottleneck that had been tightly restricting the Golden Apple Mother Tree was completely broken through, and the already towering Golden Apple Mother Tree began to grow rapidly once again.

Three million kilometers;
Five million kilometers;
……

By the time this starry plant completely stopped growing, its main trunk had reached a staggering height of 150 million kilometers, officially advancing from the eighth tier to the ninth tier.

In addition, with this leap in life, the seven eighth-tier [Golden Apples] that had just formed among its branches and leaves and were far from ripe also matured rapidly.

Carefully storing the seven eighth-tier [Golden Apples], Song Chi gazed at the increasingly towering ancient tree, thinking to himself that after today, only ninth-tier [Golden Apples] would be produced, and these seven eighth-tier [Golden Apples] were the last batch.

Fortunately, there have been multiple rounds of production over the past three thousand years, and he currently has quite a few eighth-tier [Golden Apples] in his possession.

……

Several months later, Song Chi, who had returned to the Dragonspine Continent midway, embarked on another interstellar journey.

This time, his destination was even more distant, the Dark Abyss Starfield, more than trillions of light-years away from the civilization of the Burning Flame.

If the Sky Ruins Skyship were to travel such a long distance by itself using jumps, the time required would be an extremely long process, far exceeding even the entire two thousand years or so between the subsequent impact of the Divine Summer Continent on the Star Continent.

However, this was no challenge for Song Chi.

Based on the star map compiled from the databases of the four great empires, which roughly centers on the territory of the Torch Human Civilization and has a radius of ten trillion light-years, the Dark Abyss Star Region, a highly renowned forbidden area in the star sea, was naturally marked on the star map.

In addition, Song Chi used certain coordinates left behind during his explorations of other star systems over the past 300,000 years, which were located between the territory of the Fire-Burning Civilization and the Dark Abyss Star Region, as a springboard. With the help of the [Space Wormhole Generator] component in his clan, he successfully crossed trillions of light-years and arrived at the outer area of ​​the Dark Abyss Star Region through three consecutive wormhole jumps.

The Dark Abyss Starfield is a vast region stretching over a hundred billion light-years. It is not only filled with a large amount of violent dark energy, but also riddled with countless spatial rifts, spatial collapses, and spatial gales. Naturally, it is not possible to directly teleport into its interior. Song Chi needs to control the mirror warship to slowly glide in on its own.

……

On the outer edge of the Dark Abyss Starfield lies a zone of slight spatial fragmentation, where space is riddled with cracks like a shattered mirror.

The Tianxu Cangqiong mirror warship slowly emerged from the jump portal, its surface shimmering with the dark luster unique to neutron star nuclear armor.

Song Chi stood in the main control room, where the holographic projection of the [Eye of Truth] radar clearly marked the space within a radius of several light-years.

[Dark energy storm fluctuation detected, intensity level 8.2.]

The mechanical voice of the Sky Brain echoed in the cabin, but Song Chi paid no attention to it. With the isolation of the Mythical Pulse Energy Shield, the dark energy storm of level 8.2 could not threaten the Mirror Warship.

He tapped his finger lightly, squinting at the churning dark purple nebula ahead—that was the "Soul Rift Corridor" marked by the star, a death zone that even ninth-tier creatures dared not easily tread.

"Activate the replica of the [Demon Buddha's Relic] - 'Buddha's Light Illuminates All' property." Song Chi ordered, and the dazzling Buddha's light immediately covered the surface of the ship, greatly increasing the strength of the energy shield on the outer layer of the warship.

He planned to force his way through this "Soul Rift Corridor," which covered a vast area. Spatial jumps were not easy to make within this spatial rift, and taking a detour would waste a lot of time.

Just as the warship was about to pass through this nebula, the Eye of Truth suddenly sounded a piercing alarm.

Song Chi's pupils contracted sharply—radar showed that twelve spatial nodes suddenly appeared around the warship, quickly forming a complete encirclement.

Although the mirror warship possesses the [Three Realms and Five Elements Certificate], in this extremely unstable spatial rift zone, the warship's hull is constantly being cut by spatial rifts, making it impossible to maintain its concealment effect.

Otherwise, the mirror ship would never have been so easily detected.

“Void Shadow Assassins!” Song Chi recognized the other party’s identity immediately, and after learning that it was the Void Shadow Assassins, he quickly issued the corresponding orders.

"Maintain the current speed while releasing the Binding Tow Rope to prepare for interception!"

Almost at the same second, twelve dark figures leaped out from the spatial rift.

They resembled twisted humanoid shadows, with only their eyes burning with scarlet flames.

The claws of the first three Void Shadow Assassins had already touched the shield, and the spatial blades stirred up violent ripples on the Mythical Pulse Shield.

"Boundless Immortal-Trapping Quantum Star Destroyer Charge! High-Dimensional Particle Cannon Locks onto Target on the Right!"

Song Chi's voice was frighteningly calm.

Dangerous lights shone from the main gun muzzles on both sides of the warship. With two deafening roars, the four Shadow Assassins on the right were instantly pierced by the quantum decomposition beam, while the three on the left were completely crushed by the miniature black hole generated by the "black hole singularity" carried by the high-dimensional particle cannon.

But the remaining five had already advanced to a dangerous distance.

One of the peak eighth-tier Void Shadow Assassins suddenly transformed into a phantom, his spatial blade conjuring a void rift that slammed into the Mythical Pulse Energy Shield. He actually managed to tear a short gash in the shield with a single-point breakthrough, and then slipped into the inner layer of the shield through the quickly repaired crack. "Moon Wheel Frost Shadow Cannon Close Combat Mode!" Song Chi in the Heavenly Ruins Market quickly commanded.

The secondary gun array on the top of the warship immediately rotated and opened fire, with countless crescent-shaped energy blades continuously bombarding the eighth-tier peak Void Shadow Killer.

Even with its unparalleled spatial abilities, the power of the warship's secondary guns is extremely limited, but their sheer number is astonishing.

Soon, the five elemental secondary cannon arrays, including the Sharp Gold Flowing Light and the Green Wood Flowing Light, were also activated.

With the five elements gathered, the combined characteristic of these five secondary cannons, "Five Elements Calamity," quickly erupted, directly causing the eighth-tier peak Void Shadow Killer Clan to lose a small portion of their combat power.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, a golden beam of light shot out from the mirror warship, freezing Him in place before he could dodge it. Finally, the Asura King cleaved Him in two with a single sword strike.

At the same time, the Immortal Binding Rope, like a serpent, entangled two Void Shadow Assassins outside, while the Dragon Blood Demon-Locking Chains trapped the last two.

The Asura King strikes again.

Crimson sword light burst forth from the side of the warship, and the bound Void Shadow Assassins were reduced to ashes under the law of death.

The entire battle lasted no more than seven seconds, yet Song Chi's heart was filled with ripples.

These Void Shadow Assassins are incredibly agile, and their extreme single-target attacks give them a very small chance of briefly tearing through mythical-level shields.

"Keep moving forward, keep the Eye of Truth scanning at full power."

Suppressing his turbulent emotions, he glanced at the energy shield attribute panel. The brief exchange had directly depleted 18% of his energy shield value. If the number of Void Shadow Assassins were several times greater, the danger would be considerable.

Fortunately, the Mythical Pulse Energy Shield itself, including the replica of the Neutron Star Nuclear Armor, has a repair effect, so these losses can be recovered quickly.

Three days later, when the Skyfall Spaceship was traversing a broken asteroid belt, its radar suddenly detected violent energy fluctuations.

Song Chi pulled up a distant image, and his pupils suddenly contracted—more than thirty purplish-black demons with bat wings on their backs were besieging a silver shuttle-shaped super warship.

The Silver Shuttle warship's shields were riddled with holes, but the most eye-catching thing was the figure hovering above the ship.

It was no more than three meters tall, with silver-blue skin covered in luminous patterns, and a diamond-shaped crystal on its forehead emitting a dazzling light.

He wielded a seven-colored spear, each strike capable of tearing through space, and single-handedly confronted five ninth-tier void demons.

But he was clearly losing his strength. A penetrating wound in his right abdomen was oozing fluorescent blood, his entire left shoulder had been almost sliced ​​off, and there was even a deep hole in the back of his head.

Even so, His body continued to emit a fluorescent glow, which was continuously repairing His terrible injuries. On any other creature, such injuries would have been ground to death by five ninth-tier void demons long ago, but this person was exceptionally resilient.

While focusing on healing his own injuries, he can also launch a powerful counterattack against the surrounding ninth-tier void demons.

"Eternal Body!"

"It's an eighth-tier Eternal Race!"

Song Chi had some guesses about the other party's identity, and at the same time, he also made a judgment about the situation on the distant battlefield.

After a moment's hesitation, he made his decision.

"Prepare to engage in battle!"

[Warning: Too many enemies. Avoidance is advised.]

However, the Sky Brain gave the opposite suggestion.

Song Chi raised the corners of his mouth slightly, ignoring him, and his command remained firm.

"Activate the replica of the Overlord Ivory Ram, the Primordial Bronze Mother Ram, preheat all main cannon systems, and release the Megalodon Star Shark!"

The Sky Ruins suddenly released its recently entered stealth state and shot towards the battlefield at lightning speed like a silver-gray sword.

The Dominator Ivory Horn and the Primordial Bronze Mother Horn, like two sharp spears, pierced directly through the two eighth-tier demons.

Immediately afterwards, all the gun barrels on the ship lit up—

Countless crimson beams intertwined to form a net, covering the most densely populated area of ​​the demon horde.

Roars, screams, and explosions filled the battlefield.

Above the Silver Shuttle warship, the eighth-order Eternal Clan member suddenly turned his head. When he saw the unfamiliar Heavenly Ruins Sky Mirror Warship, a strong joy flashed in his eyes.

He quickly transmitted mental fluctuations through the eternal tendrils on his forehead.

“Friend, I am the current Eternal Son of the Eternal Race. Thank you for your help. If you can help me escape this predicament, I swear in the name of the Eternal Race that you will gain the friendship of the Eternal Race!”

After a quick response, Song Chi continued to direct the unleashing of firepower.

The antimatter annihilation cannon exploded with pure, destructive white light amidst the demon horde, while the Purple Heaven Divine Thunder Cannon summoned thunderous runes that traversed the void, and the terrifying Purple Heaven Thunder Prison enveloped the battlefield.

The secondary artillery array was fully activated, with five colors of light—metal, wood, water, fire, and earth—intertwining to form a web of death.

The demon horde was thrown into chaos, with over 100,000 low-level demons being annihilated in the first volley.

Those ninth-tier Void Lords roared in fury, suddenly abandoning the eighth-tier Eternal Race and turning to charge straight at the Mirror Warship.

"Perfect timing!" Song Chi sneered.
"King of Asuras, prepare the Asura Time Slash!"

The crimson sword light collided with the demon lord's dark energy claws, tearing cracks in space itself.

At the same time, the released Megalodon Star Shark displayed the terrifying form of a cosmic behemoth, chewing up more than ten eighth-tier demons in one gulp.

Seeing this, the eighth-tier Eternal Race member, despite his injuries, joined the battle.

His energy spear suddenly split into hundreds of light blades, forming a strangulation storm that swept through the demon horde. With the cooperation of the three parties, the number of demons was reduced by more than half.

But at this moment, a sudden change occurred.

Suddenly, a third eye appeared on the forehead of the ninth-tier demon lord, shooting out a beam of pitch-black light.

The eighth-tier Eternal Clan member was unable to dodge in time and was directly hit in the chest, causing silver-blue blood to gush out.

"Lord Luojia!"

Exclamations erupted from inside the Silver Shuttle-type Eternal Race warship.

The eighth-order Eternal Race member was already severely injured, and now, after suffering another blow, his blood was flowing uncontrollably, and his combat power was reduced to only 20-30%.

Song Chi's eyes sharpened; he knew he couldn't delay any longer.

Reissue of [Barbarian God's Protection] - "Blessing of the Barbarian Gods"

The illusory image of the mythical barbarian god was summoned, and both the mirror warship and the silver shuttle warship were enveloped by the illusory image, while the void demons outside were completely isolated.

At the same time, the mirror warship's hatch opened, and several [Life Creation Pills] were thrown out, landing precisely in the hands of the eighth-tier Eternal Clan member.

In addition, the replica of the [Resurrection Medal] was also activated, and a temporary healing aura was released, landing on the silver shuttle warship.

Under the influence of this healing aura, the Eternal Race's silver shuttle warship was being continuously repaired.

As for the eighth-order Eternal Race itself, it did not hesitate much and swallowed several [Life Creation Pills] in one go.

In the current situation, the worst outcome is death, and He can't care whether these pills are problematic or not.

The result was obviously excellent. With the consumption of several Life Creation Pills, coupled with the Eternal Race's bug-like self-healing ability, the terrifying injuries on his body were repairing at an extremely fast speed. The Life Creation Pills were a perfect match for him.

(End of this chapter)