National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 813 [Strange Events in the Heavenly Realm]

In the pitch-black starry sky, two ancient demons of the Seven Stars guarded two figures in the center.

Song Shiyuan's silver-white battle armor moved without wind, and a deep light flashed rapidly between his brows.

The [Immovable King], which had already stepped halfway into the ultimate star destroyer realm, burst out from the Ancestral Flame Aperture. Beside it, Song Mingsong, who had not yet been promoted to senior star destroyer captain, also summoned the miniature form of the [Raging Lion].

After the two Star Destroyers appeared, their hulls quickly began to tremble, and then each Star Destroyer created a replica of a warship.

After the warship clone appeared, it did not linger and rushed out of the asteroid belt, heading straight for the distant Dark Abyss star system.

……

On the outskirts of the Dark Abyss Starfield, energy flowed around the hulls of two star destroyers. Under the absorption power of the seventh rank, the surrounding violent dark energy continued to converge towards the two warships.

However, it is visible to the naked eye that the speed at which this dark energy gathers is not fast, it can even be said to be extremely slow. This means that it was two Star Destroyer clones that took action. If it were a Dreadnought, it would probably not even be able to do the most basic absorption.

Tens of thousands of light-years away, deep in the asteroid belt, Song Shiyuan and Song Mingsong exchanged a glance, then shook their heads one after the other.

"No, while this dark energy is virtually limitless, it's far too violent. Even the Star Destroyer's own efforts to collect it are incredibly inefficient..."

It was Song Mingsong who spoke. Although Song Shiyuan across from him did not speak, one could tell from his facial expression that they held different views.

Although the Song family has developed rapidly and its power has expanded dramatically over the past few thousand years, the number of star destroyer captains in the clan is only a dozen or so. They also need to be dispersed to guard multiple locations, leaving only two or three people available to take charge.

If the collection efficiency is decent, then fine. We can grit our teeth and continue this operation. After all, the value of the [Devouring Python's Molt] is there. As long as it can molt again and evolve into a high-quality colored item, what does it matter if it's a bit troublesome?

The key issue is the extremely low collection efficiency. Even if a few people were freed up to gather enough energy for the [Heavenly Devouring Python's Shedding] to evolve again, it would probably still be insufficient even after collecting for hundreds of thousands of years.

Thinking of this, Song Mingsong seemed to have realized something.

"How about we bring the [Heaven-Devouring Python's Molt] directly?"

His idea was simple: since the collection efficiency was too low, he might as well bring the [Shedding of the Sky-Devouring Python] with him. This rare item was now of high-grade color quality and its status was extremely high. If he let it freely devour the dark energy, the speed couldn't be too slow.

Upon hearing this suggestion, Song Shiyuan almost immediately shook his head.

"No, not to mention that forcibly extracting the [Heaven-Devouring Python's Molt] would greatly damage the core of the Dragon Spine Continent's floating land origin, the inherent danger and uncertainty of the Dark Abyss Starfield itself make it impossible for us to risk the [Heaven-Devouring Python's Molt]. Otherwise, if it is lost, we will surely become sinners to our family!"

"Forget it, let's give up on this Dark Abyss Starfield. After nearly one or two thousand years of effort, the [Devouring Python's Molt] has accumulated another 9% of its energy progress. At worst, we can wait another ten thousand years..."

……

After making their decision, the two naturally did not linger there and quickly returned to the Dragonspine Continent via the [All-Heavens Teleportation Platform].

However, to their surprise, as soon as they returned to the Dragonspine Continent, even bigger news reached their ears.

[The Ancestral Temple of Immortal Qin Urgently Summons]

Sensing the messages transmitted from the Fire Network connected deep within the Seed of Fire, the two exchanged another glance.

The next second, they summoned their flagships almost simultaneously and headed towards Dragonspine Mountain.

When Song Shiyuan and his companion arrived at the Dragon Whale Ancestral Hall on the sacred mountain, the hall was already filled with tens of thousands of Song clan members.

Of course, only about 10% of them were actually present in person; the other 90% were remotely recalled by the {Starry Sky Projection} effect of the [Dragon Whale Palace].

The reason for such a grand display was naturally due to the emergency summons issued by the Immortal Qin Divine Dynasty's Ancestral Court.

Inside the Dragon Whale Ancestral Hall, countless starlight projections intertwined, illuminating the figures of the Song clan members scattered across various star fields.

On the nine-tiered jade platform in the center of the hall, the current patriarch, Song Yiming, stood with a solemn expression, his body enveloped in a faint aura of seventh-order phantom energy. As Song Shiyuan and Song Mingsong entered the ancestral hall, he quickly spoke:

"All the Star Destroyer Ancestors in the clan who had previously registered with the Ancestral Court recently received the Ancestral Court's [Beacon Order]. A major change has occurred in the [Heavenly Realm Battlefield] under the jurisdiction of the Holy Temple Federation, with various pantheon forces engaged in a chaotic war. Several human kingdoms controlled by the [Holy Temple Federation] have been targeted by several evil gods and urgently need the support of the major forces in the Ancestral Domain."

Upon hearing Song Yiming's words, the fourth and fifth-rank clansmen in the hall were greatly surprised, and various discussions arose in the ancestral hall.

As core members of the Song family, those present were at least captains of the Zhulu Ship, and they all knew a lot of secret information. Many of them were also familiar with information related to the [Paradise Realm].

"The Heavenly Realm, isn't that a special star field exclusively controlled by the Holy Federation? It has always been regarded as the exclusive domain of the Heavenly Pillar Royal Family, Aklemon. It seems that something big has indeed happened there this time."

"How did I not hear it being said?"

"It's normal if you haven't heard of it. This matter is a high-level secret. But I'll ask you a question and you'll understand."

"In our Civilization of the Flame, who is the largest supplier of items such as the blood of evil gods, crystallization of faith, and components related to faith worship?"

"The Gods' Guild!"

"That settles it then. The Gods' Merchant Guild is an official merchant guild under the Aklermon family. Why are they able to supply these resources and rare items continuously?"

"The Heavenly Realm?"

……

After a brief discussion, the Song family members in the hall basically knew the essential information.

At this moment, Song Yiming, who was at the head of the table, suddenly waved his hand, drawing a golden rune in the air with his fingertip. Immediately afterward, the projection on the dome of the ancestral hall switched.
The corpses of countless knights and mages fell like rain, seven blood moons hung high in the sky, and twisted tentacles of evil gods were hanging from the surface of the blood moons, constantly extending towards several human city-states on the boundless earth. Wherever they passed, anomalies arose and pollution spread, a truly apocalyptic scene.

And scenes like this are everywhere in this overhead view.

Song Yiming pondered for a moment, then glanced at everyone in the hall.

"This is a video sent by the ancestral court of the divine dynasty. As you have all seen, a great change is indeed taking place in the Heavenly Realm right now. Various temples are fighting each other, and mythological evil gods are all getting involved..."

"The Ancestral Court's intention is that this is not a forced conscription, but rather a voluntary recruitment process. Ten years later, the army will officially set off to support the [Heavenly Realm]."

After saying this, he stopped talking and waited for the response from the core clansmen in the hall.

Even the Star Destroyer Ancestors on the dozen or so Star Thrones remained silent. A considerable amount of time had passed since the [Human Emperor City Defense Battle], and the number of mid-level clan members had increased significantly again. Now, with the [Corpse Emperor Clan Galaxy Cluster]'s offensive plan yet to be implemented, this [Heavenly Realm Support Battle] presented the best opportunity to further plunder resources on a large scale and accelerate the accumulation of the clan's foundation.

The hall remained silent for a long time before a sixth-tier clansman finally spoke up.

"Reporting to the patriarch, I am willing to sign up!"

"Can!"

With a leader in charge, more and more clansmen naturally began to sign up.

In fact, everyone present knew that with the current status and strength of the Song family in Dragonspine, it didn't really matter whether they were fourth- or fifth-tier captains or even sixth-tier dreadnought captains. What the Song family truly lacked now was peak combat power at the level of star destroyers and above.

Only those at the level of Star Destroyer Captain can be considered the pinnacle of the Torch Civilization's combat power, and only those at the seventh level of life, with a lifespan exceeding 100,000 years, can truly be considered to possess the family's heritage.

As for captains of warships, battleships, and even dreadnoughts, their lifespans of two thousand, four thousand, or ten thousand years are nothing more than fleeting moments in the process of accumulating power and resources over thousands of years.

Because they understand this very well, these core race talents all want to fight for it with all their might, and only a place like the [Heavenly Realm] can generate enough resources to help them attack the star destroyer.

……

After all the mid-level clansmen had left, only a dozen or so people remained in the Dragon Whale Palace.

Apart from Song Yiming, Song Shiyuan, and Song Mingsong, more than a dozen other star-studded thrones hung high above the hall.

Just as the chaotic mist enveloped the hall once more, the patriarch Song Yiming first addressed Song Wujiang, who was surrounded by more than a dozen star-studded thrones in the center of the sky, and asked:
"Ancestor, the Heavenly Realm is involved with mythological evil gods. Should we inform Uncle Chi?"

Song Wujiang considered for a moment, then shook his head and said:

"Don't alarm Xiaochi yet. He urgently needs to improve his guidance skills, as this is crucial for his future breakthrough to become a super-dimensional captain."

"As for the Heavenly Realm, Xiaoyan recently broke through and is currently in the final adaptation phase. She will be able to emerge from seclusion soon. At that time, with Xiaoyan leading the team, along with the Truth Mechanical Battle Star and the Megalodon Star Shark left behind by Xiaochi, the lineup will be quite strong!"

With Song Wujiang's approval, the Song family's support plan was quickly finalized.

The first batch of supporters to the [Heavenly Realm] included Star River Captain Song Yan, Star Destroyer Captains Song Wujiang, Song Xingru, Song Xuancang, Song Mingsong, Song Chao, and Song Bei, totaling ten people. As for the mid-level captains (levels 4-6), there were more than two thousand people.

In addition, there are more than 500,000 third-tier clansmen and 3 million second-tier clansmen.

These were for the purpose of facilitating the construction of the Azure Dragon Starry Sky Battle Formation; otherwise, the Song family would not even conscript second-tier clansmen.

Ten years passed quickly.

The Immortal Qin Dynasty, the Immortal Qin Continent.

Summoned by the ancestral court of the divine dynasty, over a hundred million warships have gathered on this ninth-level continent in just ten years.

On this day, as the designated time passed, the many Titan Mechanical Fortresses in the sky above the Immortal Qin Continent transformed into temporary teleportation platforms, and batches of Firewood warships began to be continuously teleported towards the Holy Temple Federation.

After arriving at the [Sanctuary Federation], these fleets will be guided by Sanctuary Federation warships, and after another transfer, they will be teleported to the [Paradise Realm].

……

When the Song family's fleet passed through the last stargate, the scene before them shocked everyone.

【Paradise Realm】is a special star region that is almost completely isolated from the outside world. Its essence is a super floating continent group comparable to an eleventh-order star continent.

This enclosed star system has a very unique structure—it is not a single continent in the traditional sense, but a star system spectacle composed of countless floating islands and broken floating landmasses.

These floating islands of varying sizes drift silently in the void, the smallest being only a hundred miles in circumference, while the largest is comparable to a tenth-order star continent.

They are linked together by chains of dazzling starlight, resembling fragments of stars casually scattered by a god against the dark backdrop of the universe.

Each floating island was shrouded in a faint barrier of holy light, and from a distance, the entire star field looked like a star necklace strung together with countless luminous gems.

What's even more amazing is that these floating islands are not static; they move slowly along some mysterious trajectory, sometimes gathering like star clusters, and sometimes scattering like a galaxy.

In the center of the star field, the five largest main islands are arranged in a sacred seven-pointed star array. Each of these five islands is comparable to a star continent and is also the location of the five most powerful pantheons in this Heavenly Realm. However, at this moment, they are polluted by the blood-red moon wheel, and the originally pure holy light has turned into a distorted dark red halo.

Seven blood moons hang high in the sky, and beneath each blood moon dwells an indescribable evil god. Their tentacles extend to the earth, entangled and devouring human city-states.

As for the territory of the [Sanctuary Federation - Aclemon Family], it is located on one of these five supercontinents.

Looking into the distance, two of the seven blood moons were clearly locked onto the territories under the control of the Holy Federation.

Although the Aklemon family has several deities in the [Map of Gods] that they can summon, the time for summoning is limited, and each time they need to pay a considerable price. In the past two hundred thousand years, although the Aklemon family has used this to forcefully repel the spying of evil gods from the outside world many times, in the eyes of those evil gods, they still cannot shake off the title of "easy target".

Otherwise, the Aklemon family wouldn't have needed to urgently request aid from the other three great empires.

Fortunately, the two evil gods residing above these two blood moons do not require them to deal with them.

This time, it wasn't just the considerable number of members of the Torchfire Fleet who were invited; Shenxia Jianghuang, the only mythical captain of the Torchfire Civilization, also came.

Of course, what Jiang Huang came was not his true form, but an avatar of the [Divine Summer Nine Li] warship. Even so, this mythical immortal ship avatar still managed to hold back the two evil gods on its own.

All the Firefly fleets, including the Song family's, need to do is one thing: annihilate the countless mutants and evil god believers who have stormed into the multiple faith kingdoms under the Aklemon family's jurisdiction.

"【Truth Mechanical Battle Star】, full power!"

As the order was given, the mechanical war star in the center of the Song family fleet slowly unfolded, revealing countless ferocious cannons. Soon, it began to continuously spew fire serpents, transforming into a giant fire net to do everything in its power to block the spread of the evil god's corrupted army.

"【Azure Dragon Starry Sky Battle Formation】, activate!"

Five hundred thousand third-tier clansmen and three million second-tier clansmen simultaneously activated the Flame Warships. Vast psionic energy intertwined in the starry sky, eventually transforming into a phantom of a blue dragon that stretched across the heavens, roaring as it charged toward the battlefield.

(End of this chapter)