National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 831 [The Great Battle of Transcendence]

The Immortal Qin Dynasty, the Northern Dipper Continent, the ancestral land of the Seven Stars Palace of the Big Dipper.

Deep within the magnificent Starry Sky Palace, several figures were perched high atop the projections of seven mythical Big Dipper stars.

"Greedy Wolf, if what you say is true, then we will naturally support you wholeheartedly..."

After listening to Song Chi's proposal to jointly open up a separate path for advancement, as well as the related plans and suggestions for opening the Fifth Flame Empire in the future, the eyes of the Palace Masters Po Jun, Ju Men, and others showed great interest, and their joy was evident in their eyes.

However, things were clearly not that simple. The Lord of Po Jun Palace, whose words were clearly tinged with excitement, quickly changed his tone:
"However, this matter is of great importance, so we must inform the Star Lord first!"

He phrased it somewhat euphemistically, but what he really meant was that this matter required the approval of the [Lord of the Big Dipper].

Where is the Star Lord now?

"The City of the Human Emperor!"

……

Without leaving any ink traces, Song Chi headed straight for the Imperial City.

They had already left a spatial anchor point in the Human Emperor City, so it didn't take much time.

[Human Emperor City - West City Wall], when the Tianxu Cangqiong arrived, the Yaoguang Tianxing was quietly hovering on the city wall.

Clearly, this former Lord of the Greedy Wolf Palace, now the Lord of the Big Dipper Palace, is currently remotely controlling his warship clone to explore the outside world.

Song Chi did not directly disturb them, but instead controlled the Tianxu Cangqiong to hover nearby and wait quietly.

Generally speaking, unless the difference in strength is too great, a captain of the Fireship should be able to sense the situation outside the warship immediately. Since the [Yaoguang Tianxing] has not given any response, the only explanation is that the exploration of the warship clone outside the [Human Emperor City] has reached a critical moment.

In this situation, it would be very taboo to interfere rashly.

Sure enough, Song Chi didn't have to wait long. Once the situation on the warship clone side had stabilized slightly, a voice quickly came from the Yao Guang Tian Xing superdimensional mothership.

"The Skyfall Dome, the Greedy Wolf?"

"Lord Star, it's like this..."

After confirming each other's identities, Song Chi quickly repeated what he had said to the Po Jun Hall Master and the others.

"really?"

Instantly, the star lord's expression became extremely serious.

After receiving Song Chi's highly affirmative second reply, he fell into a long period of contemplation.

"If the four emperors have truly all agreed to granting the authority to establish the Fifth Kingdom of the Flame, then this matter is indeed feasible, however..."

He paused for a moment, then quickly asked Song Chi another question.

"If we really join forces, how will the territory we gain be divided?"

Song Chi had already considered this point and replied without hesitation:
"Eighty-two, my Song family of Longji occupies eight, and the Big Dipper Seven Stars Palace occupies two!"

The expression on the face of the Big Dipper Star Lord immediately darkened.

"Are you sure you're serious about this ratio?"

Song Chi did not flinch at this superdimensional captain who had just entered the superdimensional realm and was already approaching the ninth-level senior, or even the limit. The two stared directly at each other.

In the end, it was the Lord of the Big Dipper who was the first to look away.

"Seventy-three is better; an eighty-two distribution is too harsh."

"Star Lord, 82 is the final bottom line."

Song Chi's voice remained firm; he knew very well that the distribution ratio he proposed was by no means excessive.

The number 82 means that once the Big Dipper Palace occupies more than 100 river systems, it will be able to control 20 of them.
This is unprecedented for any non-Four Great Empires faction.

In the previous Civilization of the Fire, although there were dozens or even hundreds of immortal giant forces under the four great empires, each of them occupied at most two river systems, and many even only had territory in one river system.

The battle against the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon civilization and the successful annexation of the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Galaxy did allow the various immortal giants to expand their territories considerably. However, the strongest immortal giant now only controls the territory of four galaxies. All of this is meticulously controlled by the four great empires, ensuring that no one will become too powerful.

From this perspective, the value of at least twenty river systems is self-evident.

In other words, even if the Big Dipper Palace disagrees, Song Chi and the Dragon Spine Song family behind him can easily find other powerful forces.

However, Song Chi himself has the deepest connection and the best relationship with the [Big Dipper Palace], so his primary consideration is the [Big Dipper Palace], and he will not openly say those unpleasant things.

The Lord of the Big Dipper remained silent for a long time before finally nodding slowly.

"Alright, 82 it is. However, I have one more condition."

Song Chi's eyes flickered slightly: "Please speak, Star Lord."

"If we can truly establish the Fifth Empire, the Big Dipper Palace should have priority in cooperation. In terms of resources, technology, and talent, the Dragon Spine Song Clan should give priority to cooperating with us."

Upon hearing this, Song Chi's lips curled up slightly.

This condition was not harsh; in fact, it suited his needs perfectly. The Song family's foundation was ultimately too shallow. If they were to establish the Fifth Flame Empire, future cooperation with the outside world would be inevitable.

"That's natural. The Big Dipper Palace is my most trusted ally. In the future, I will need the strong support of the Star Lord and the other Palace Masters for many matters."

Only then did the Lord of the Big Dipper show a satisfied expression, and the star power surrounding him also subsided.

"In that case, it's settled then."

"I will immediately convene the Seven Courts meeting and fully cooperate with your plan."

"Thank you, Star Lord!"

……

Six months later, the ancestral site of the "Big Dipper Hall".

Seven towering figures were each perched atop the projection of the Big Dipper, their vast stellar power weaving a dazzling star map within the hall.

Under the personal guidance of the Lord of the Big Dipper, the seven Palace Masters, more than ten Star Venerables, and dozens of Star Destroyer Captains jointly swore a Star Oath, formally forming an alliance with the Song Clan of Dragon Spine.

The war against the Corpse Emperor Clan's river system, which will soon begin, will see the two forces work together to form the basic framework of the fifth expeditionary fleet.

……

In the Heavenly Ruins Market, Song Chi was inside the Sky Ruins Skyship, which was suspended high in the sky. With a thought, the Sky Ruins Skyship's hatch opened, and a Seven-Star Ancient Demon rushed out.

At the same time, a violent spatial fluctuation suddenly came from the void to the right of the warship, and the next second the mirror warship Tianxu Cangqiong slowly appeared.

Next, the mirror warship trembled slightly, and then a beam of black light shot out from it, accurately entering the body of the Seven Star Ancient Demon.

Having completed all these preparations, Song Chi suddenly waved his hand.

Suddenly, the entire market sky was filled with turbulent winds and clouds, and the boundless power of mythical rules descended abruptly.

"go with!"

Song Chi uttered a soft cry, and the immense power of mythology surged towards the Seven Star Ancient Demons. At the same time, the "spatial anchor point" characteristic of the [All Heavens Market] was also activated.

The Seven Star Ancient Demons vanished from the sky, and when they reappeared, they were already in the white mist area at the entrance of the [City of Transcendence].

This is an additional ability that arises after the market advances to the ninth rank and the power of its status officially breaks through the mythical level.

Now, Song Chi can use the power of mythology to directly teleport creatures to any area with a spatial anchor point without having to teleport them himself and then summon them, which undoubtedly enhances his personal safety.

The City of Transcendence, located in the outer fog zone.

The Seven Star Ancient Demon, having turned back, activated the [Divine Sense Imprint] within its body as instructed by Song Chi. The next second, the mirror warship in the Heavenly Ruins Market seemed to be summoned by something. With Song Chi actively releasing the market's shield, the mirror warship was remotely summoned to the [City of Transcendence].

After gradually learning more about the City of Transcendence, he always felt that the waters behind the City of Transcendence were extremely deep, and he was unwilling to risk going there again until he had completely figured it out.

Even if these so-called adventures only refer to summoning mirror warships in the past, with each stay lasting only a few seconds.

After remotely summoning the mirror warship, the Seven Star Ancient Demon quickly entered the warship. Only then did the Seven Star Ancient Demon activate one of the two tokens in its hand, the [City of Transcendence Entry Token], and the mirror warship quickly sailed into the [City of Transcendence].

【City of Transcendence】, Quest Zone.

When Song Chi returned to the mission area, he was no longer there to select a mission, but to submit one.

*Swoosh*—The doors of the mirror warship opened, and figures emerged from within.

If Song Wujiang and his companions were here, they would surely recognize these figures as the exotic geniuses that the Song family had recruited from the outside world over the years.

"Confirm task submission!"

[Statistics complete. 40 Galaxy-level prodigies, 3 Super Galaxy-level prodigies, and 1 Sub-Civilization prodigy, for a total of 28000 Transcendence Contribution Points. Confirm submission of this task?]

"Sure!"

"Ding!"

A soft notification indicates that the task has been successfully submitted.

After an imperceptible spatial fluctuation, dozens of alien prodigies quietly disappeared, replaced by 28000 Transcendence Contribution Points on the [Transcendence City Entry Token] inside the Mirror Warship.

With these 28000 Transcendent Contribution Points, Song Chi controlled the Mirror Battleship and headed directly to the [Exchange Area].

[City of Transcendence - Exchange Zone]

Inside the trading hall, formed by seventy-two dark gold pillars, the mirror warship slowly docked in front of an exchange platform that shimmered with a ghostly blue light.

Through the perspective of the Seven Star Ancient Demon, Song Chi stared at the giant light screen that stretched across the starry sky in front of him.

As the [Rare Exchange Zone], countless rare items are currently circulating on the light screen, each radiating a heart-pounding aura.

"Search for Tier 10 items." The hoarse voice of the Seven Star Ancient Demon echoed in the exchange area.

The light screen suddenly contracted, and the list of items, which originally contained hundreds, was reduced to only a dozen or so items in an instant.

Song Chi's gaze finally settled on a fruit that was entirely gilded and wrapped with tricolored silk threads—[Tenth-Tier Golden Apple].

[Tenth Tier - Golden Apple]

[Exchange requirement: 30000 Transcendence Contribution Points]

[Description: The fruit nurtured by the starry plant [Golden Apple Mother Tree] contains the power of the primordial starry sky and can specifically enhance the quality of rare items.]

Although he really wanted to exchange directly, Song Chi was still 2000 contribution points short. He could only send the Seven Star Ancient Demon back to the market to retrieve some rare items from the rare item exchange shop. Once he had collected 30000 transcendence contribution points, he did not hesitate to start the exchange.

As 30000 contribution points were instantly deducted, a spatial rift suddenly opened in the center of the exchange platform, and countless golden chains stretched out from the void, slowly emerging with a fist-sized golden apple wrapped around them.

Having obtained the tenth-tier golden apple, Song Chi did not allow the mirror warship to linger.

With his Transcendence Contribution Points nearly depleted and no interest in attempting the Transcendence Challenge a second time, he was more eager to return to the Celestial Market to further strengthen the Celestial Ruins.

As for the [Special Exchange Area], it remained a blur, and it was impossible to see what was inside.

As far as he knows, to view this exchange screen, one must first become an enforcer of the Transcendent City, and the initial application requirement for becoming an enforcer of the Transcendent City is to have 100,000 Transcendent Contribution Points, which is still quite a distance away.

……

After sending the Golden Apple back to the Celestial Market, the Mirror Battleship was not immediately recalled. Instead, as Song Chi requested, it remained in the white mist outside the City of Transcendence.

Song Chi's idea was that the bounty missions for alien prodigies would not be cancelled. As time went on, a steady stream of alien prodigies would still be sent to him. Traveling back and forth to the [City of Transcendence] was inevitable, so it would be better to leave the mirror warship here to avoid trouble.

Before he could fully retract his attention, the mirror warship suddenly trembled violently.

Outside the warship, the white mist energy that had enveloped everything had been dispelled by the overwhelming power of the Great Dao rules. At this moment, the [City of Transcendence] was completely exposed to the chaotic sea outside.

The mirror warship's alarm system suddenly blared, and Song Chi, through the perspective of the Seven Star Ancient Demon, witnessed a scene he would never forget—

Three colossal hands, blotting out the sky, tore through the chaotic sea, each finger entwined with shattered galaxies.

A crimson river of blood flowed from the left palm, with twelve burning vertical pupils opening in its center; the right palm was made up of countless tombstones of civilization; the most terrifying was the central palm, which was as clear as jade, and its palm lines were woven from dense lines of cause and effect.

"A twelfth-tier transcendent!"

"Still three!"

Song Chi's heart trembled violently, but it was clear that the target of those three great transcendent beings was not him.

The defense system of the City of Transcendence was automatically activated, and countless bronze gears extended from inside the city walls, meshing together in the void to form a huge mechanical sundial.

Where the sundial's shadow swept, chaotic energy was forcibly transformed into a defensive barrier.

"You have illegally hunted down the prodigies of the heavens and made enemies of Chaos! You deserve to die!"

The giant hand of the blood river roared, shaking the dimensions, and its twelve vertical pupils simultaneously unleashed annihilating death rays.

The mirrored warship was like a small boat in a storm amidst the sound waves, its outer armor instantly vaporized.

At the critical moment, a bronze pillar of light rose from the center of the City of Transcendence.

A city guard dressed in a star-patterned robe stepped out of the air, a bronze lantern in his hand pulsating with nine-colored flames.

As the lantern swayed slightly, three flaming arrows pierced through the void, pinning the giant hand of the Blood River to the barrier of chaos.

"How dare you act so presumptuously with just a mere projection?" the city guard sneered.

But Song Chi noticed that its hand holding the lantern was trembling slightly, and the lantern flame had dimmed a bit.

The giant hand of the tombstone suddenly disintegrated into billions of fragments of civilization, each fragment evolving into a miniature history of civilization.

These epic civilizations surged like a torrent against the city walls, and bronze gears shattered one after another amidst mournful cries.

The most terrifying thing was the giant hand of cause and effect. It gently moved its palm lines, and suddenly hundreds of places within the City of Transcendence simultaneously experienced a rebellion of the rules.

"Activate the emergency evacuation plan!" The city guard crushed the jade pendant at his waist.

The city of transcendence emitted a dark blue tail flame from the Chaos Engine at its base, and the entire city suddenly twisted into a Möbius strip shape.

However, Song Chi was soon horrified to discover that the mirror warship, which was already located at the edge of the battlefield, was being forcibly "folded" like a Möbius strip.

He wanted to activate and replicate the [Three Realms and Five Elements Certificate], the [Barbarian God's Guardian], and also the [Starlight Flashing Spirit Stone Talisman], [Black Hole Evolution Layer], [Resurrection Medal], etc. However, before any of the components could be activated, the super energy storm generated by the clash between the twelve-tier mythical beings instantly engulfed the entire mirror warship.

The Market of All Heavens.

Song Chi, who was in the main control room of the Sky Ruins, suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, and spiderweb-like golden cracks appeared between his eyebrows.

The moment the mirror ship was destroyed, he felt an unprecedented sense of insignificance—like an ant looking up at a collapsing galaxy, even fear seemed superfluous.

In the final perspective of the Seven Star Ancient Demon, the three giant hands are rewriting the rules of chaos.

The waves stirred up by the Blood River Giant Hand compressed the chaotic storm over a vast area into a two-dimensional plane; the fragments of civilization scattered by the Tombstone Giant Hand were reenacting the Big Bang in reverse; the most terrifying Causal Giant Hand gently clenched its fist, and the entire chaotic sea suddenly "stopped flowing," as if an invisible eraser was erasing this spacetime.

"This is... a twelfth-tier transcendent..."

Before he could think any further, a sharp pain in his mind pulled him back to reality.

It wasn't a physical attack, but merely a conceptual shock transmitted from the destruction of the mirror warship—just as a two-dimensional being cannot bear three-dimensional information, he, at his current ninth-order life level, was also unable to withstand the conceptual aftershocks of a twelfth-order battle.

[Warning! High-dimensional information pollution detected...]

[Warning: Captain's mental pollution level has exceeded 5%...]

Amidst the piercing alarm, Song Chi could feel his entire brain seemingly engulfed in an endless buzzing.

A barrage of negative emotions, such as tyranny, slaughter, and anger, began to surge into his mind. This was a form of spiritual pollution brought about by a twelfth-order mythical being.

His reaction was extremely fast. The [Jade Bright Immortal Talisman Sect - Immovable King Talisman] deep in his mind was the first to be activated, and the five-colored fire in the Ancestral Flame Aperture was burning fiercely. The wind and clouds in the sky of the myriad heavens and markets changed, and the boundless mythical power was mobilized.

"Cut it!"

It is clear that this corrupting power is like a malignant tumor, and without the intervention of twelfth-order power, it is virtually impossible to suppress or completely eradicate it. Only by directly severing the entire soul that has been tainted by this corrupting power can it be completely resolved.

hiss!
The stinging pain of the forcibly severed soul made Song Chi's face turn deathly pale, but fortunately, it was dealt with in time. The area affected by the polluting power was limited. Although it still caused some damage to his mental power, it was negligible after a period of recuperation.

Compared to that, what he couldn't forget at the moment was still the battle between the transcendent beings that had just taken place.

After reviewing the situation repeatedly, he came to a conclusion.

Even amidst the aftermath of the battle between transcendents, he is still as insignificant as dust.

(End of this chapter)