National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 834 The War of the Corpse Emperor Clan

The quantum vortex of the Eye of the Stars rotated smoothly, and the mechanical structure with a diameter of ten light-years emitted a cold blue light. This super-distance stargate, jointly built and maintained by the four great empires, has never experienced any errors or malfunctions in countless years.

"Transmission sequence confirmed. Fifth Combat Group is ready."

As Song Chi's fingertip traced the Heavenly Authority Control Ring, the Qiongtian AI clearly projected the entire fleet's status.

The five Explorer-class deep-space carriers are like generals and kings on a chessboard, guarded at the core by hundreds of billions of combat units.

Just then, the voice of the Lord of the Big Dipper came through the encrypted channel:

"We have just received confirmed information that traces of the Rakshasa Clan fleet have been discovered on the southwestern border of the Corpse Emperor Clan's river system."

Along with it came a holographic star map with seven scarlet dots. These seven scarlet dots formed a standard Rakshasa hunting formation. Although it was suspected, it was actually confirmed that the Rakshasa had made their move.

Song Chi's gaze narrowed slightly. This was clearly not good news. Although the Rakshasa Clan, like the Three-Eyed Clan, was at the bottom of the Ten Hegemonic Civilizations, they were still behemoths with a history of over a million years. If they really chose to intervene with all their might, the final outcome was hard to predict.

"Are the four great empires aware of this situation?"

"This news came from the Divine Xia Dynasty." The projection of the Big Dipper Star Lord pointed to the edge of the star map. "But the other four lines did not take any action and continued to proceed as planned."

At this point, the Lord of the Big Dipper looked at Song Chi, wanting to ascertain Song Chi's thoughts.

After a long silence, Song Chi finally spoke:
"Ignore it, just focus on monitoring the Rakshasa fleet's subsequent movements. The fleet will continue to advance according to plan!"

"it is good!"

Although the Lord of the Big Dipper had doubts, he did not ask any further questions.

Having managed to secure the authority to establish the Fifth Flame Empire from the four Great Emperors, Song Chi was definitely not some naive fool.

Once the communication with the Beidou Star Lord was cut off, Song Wujiang's voice quickly came from the Song family's absolutely core encrypted group chat, which had been connected all along.

"Koike, what exactly are you thinking?"

Song Chi shook his head.

"Although the Corpse Emperor Clan has a strong foundation, I don't believe they hold enough leverage to trigger a full-scale conflict between the two dominant civilizations!"

"Xiao Chi, do you mean the Rakshasa tribe is just putting on a show?"

Song Chi shook his head again.

"Whether they are just putting on a show or not, as long as the [Divine Summer Nine Li] has not been lost in the Chaos Divine Continent, the Rakshasa Clan will never truly start a full-scale war with us."

"The battle at the Human Emperor City was a deterrent to more than just the four Chaos Demon Ape clans!"

Upon hearing this, Song Wujiang and the others nodded in understanding, their worries vanishing.

……

The endless fleets connected in the dark starry sky, forming a long, dark sky. It had been eight years since the army of the Torchfire Civilization entered the Corpse Emperor Clan's river system.

Over eight years, the fifth battlefront, led by the Dragon Spine Song Clan and the Big Dipper Seven Star Palace, traversed the endless star sea void zone between the two major river system clusters, officially entering the first river system of the Corpse Emperor Clan in the true sense, the Skeleton River System.

In the dark starry sky, the mighty fifth front advance fleet slowly came to a stop. Directly in front of them, at the edge of the Bone River Galaxy, the Corpse Emperor Clan, who had been prepared, had constructed the first super defense line.

A death barrier constructed from a swarm of rotting corpses in the starry sky.

This star field is filled with hundreds of millions of giant corpses, which are linked together by the Corpse King Clan using secret methods to form a "corpse chain" spanning tens of thousands of light-years.

Any fleet attempting to cross will suffer from the corrosive effects of the "corpse poison mist," and the armor of low-tier warships will be completely corroded away within a few days.

"High concentration of corpse poison detected; conventional shields cannot completely block it!"

On the Fifth Fleet's command channel, a ship captain gave an urgent report.

Song Chi's gaze turned cold and stern as he turned to the Lord of the Big Dipper.

Seeing this, the Lord of the Big Dipper nodded slightly. The next second, seven starships under the jurisdiction of the Big Dipper Palace swept out, and seven-colored light overflowed from the hulls of the starships, quickly condensing into the [Projection of the Big Dipper Palace] in the starry sky.

【The Hall of the Big Dipper】· "The Big Dipper Purifies Starlight"

The dazzling starlight illuminated the entire starry sky, and wherever the colorful starlight reached, the putrid fog of the corpse poison continued to dissipate, as if it had encountered its natural enemy.

As neighbors of the Corpse Emperor Clan's river system for hundreds of thousands of years, how could the Fire Civilization not be aware of these methods of the Corpse Emperor Clan?

The reason why Song Chi immediately thought of the [Big Dipper Palace] was not only because of his relationship with the [Big Dipper Palace], but also because of its color-level extreme purification method for starlight.

The endless stench of corpse poison was gradually dispelled, creating a huge gap. The Fifth Fleet could move freely through this gap. However, the real threat had only just begun.

"Alert! Approaching ship-dead legion detected!"

In the starry sky, countless "corrupted ship corpses" made up of warship wreckage and the remains of powerful beings crawled out from the chains of corpses. They had no life, only pure killing instinct. Each one was comparable to a mid-level combatant, and many of them were even at the level of a ruler!
"Combat Groups 1 through 5, engage the enemy!"

On the fleet's command channel, Song Yiming issued a stern order.

In an instant, tens of millions of Song's warships and the Big Dipper Palace warships opened fire simultaneously, unleashing a deluge of destructive beams.

However, there were simply too many zombie royal warships and cannon fodder zombies rushing out from the shipwrecks. They charged forward frantically despite the gunfire, and many even broke through the fire net and crashed directly into the fleet formation.

"boom--!"

A Song clan ordinary Skyraider-class starship was torn apart by the corrosive claws of the ship's corpse, and thousands of ordinary clansmen inside were instantly corrupted by the corpse poison, turning into walking corpses.

"We can't keep wasting time like this!"

Deep within the void, the voice of the Lord of the Big Dipper emanated from the [Yaoguang Tianxing Ship].

Song Chi was well aware of this as well, and a cold glint flashed in his eyes:
"Then let's just blow up this chain of corpses!"

After he finished speaking, he sent out a command through his mind.

The next second, white light suddenly and rapidly condensed at the front of the [Truth Mechanical Battle Star] in the outside battlefield, and the [Truth Space-Based Cannon] of the mechanical battle star had started charging.

The surface of the mecha warship's star shell cracked open with countless cannon barrels, and a large amount of artillery fire converged into fiery snakes, frantically sweeping across the surging enemy in front of it.

A powerful member of the Corpse Emperor Clan sensed the threat posed by the Truth Mechanical Battle Star, and a ninth-tier Overlord Corpse Puppet charged forward, attempting to interrupt the charging of the [Truth Celestial Cannon].

Unfortunately, the Song Clan of Dragon Spine had already arranged for giant star sharks to guard the vicinity, making it impossible for the ninth-tier corpse puppet to get close.

A destructive beam of light, powerful enough to pierce through a star, suddenly erupted, piercing directly through the entire Corpse Star Chain!
"Boom--!"

A chain of explosions swept across the entire star field, and the Corpse Star Chain disintegrated amidst endless flames.

After the collapse of the Corpse Star Chain, the Corpse Emperor's army did not linger and quickly chose to retreat.

Song Chi and the Lord of the Big Dipper were determined to give chase, and the two superdimensional motherships quickly disappeared into the depths of the void.

"Stay!"

In their perception, the Corpse Emperor Clan army only had one newly advanced ninth-tier Corpse Emperor, along with the ninth-tier corpse puppet it controlled, so Song Chi and his companion were not afraid at all. However, just as the two superdimensional motherships were about to leave the void and officially launch their attack on the newly advanced Corpse Emperor, a sudden change occurred.

In the warship's magnetic wave communication group chat, Song Chi and Beidou Star Lord suddenly looked at each other, and at the same time, their respective ships stopped and chose to remain in the depths of the void.

"You feel it too?"

"Ok!"

"Can you specify exactly what it is?"

The Lord of the Big Dipper shook his head.

"I don't know, but it's at least the pressure of the ninth-order limit. If it's not a trump card of the Corpse Emperor Clan, then it can only be the Rakshasa Clan."

Hearing this, Song Chi didn't say anything more, and he was more inclined to believe the latter.

According to the information they had, although the Corpse Emperor Clan had a long history, thousands of years ago, they only had three ninth-tier Corpse Emperors.

Even if they have greatly accelerated their pace of annexing the entire river system in the last few thousand years, allowing their own foundation to have a small burst, and the number of ninth-tier ultimate combat forces has also increased to a certain extent, they should still be focused on the other four battlefronts where the pressure is greatest.

Despite his suspicions, Song Chi had no intention of changing his mind. Although he abandoned his plan to behead the ninth-tier corpse emperor and returned to his own fleet, the fleet's advance did not stop at all.

The Lord of the Big Dipper seemed hesitant to speak, but ultimately remained silent.

Fifty-two years after the Fire-Burning Army invaded the Corpse Emperor Clan's river system, at the southernmost tip of the Skeleton River System.

This is the outermost star field of the Skeleton Galaxy, and also the last stronghold of the entire Corpse Emperor Clan in this Skeleton Galaxy.

After more than forty years of development, the Fifth Advance Fleet has almost occupied the entire Skeleton River System.

On this day, the main force of the Fifth Front Fleet arrived at the southernmost tip of the Skeleton River System, which was the only way for them to continue their southward advance into the second river system.

Stretching across the end of the starry sky is a war fortress built from the remains of a ninth-order starry sky behemoth. It is also one of the few ninth-order ship corpses under the entire Corpse Emperor Clan. At its core floats a huge skeletal throne.

Seated on the throne was the newly promoted ninth-tier Corpse Emperor of the Corpse Emperor Clan—the "Bone Monarch"!
"Humans of the Flame, you should not have set foot here." The voice of the Skeleton King echoed throughout the starry sky like the wails of ten thousand ghosts.

Song Chi sneered:

"A rotting corpse, does it even deserve to be called an emperor?"

"presumptuous!"

Enraged, the Skeleton King raised his hand and sent countless skeletal warships rising from around the throne, surging towards the Fire-Burning Army like a tidal wave.

"All troops, prepare for battle!" Song Yiming roared.

Amidst the thunderous roar of artillery fire, the flames nearly illuminated a dark star field stretching for hundreds of light-years.

Song Chi stood in the command room of the Tianxu Cangqiong, where the scarlet dots representing the enemy forces on the holographic star map were approaching at an alarming speed.

He tapped his fingertip and brought up detailed scan data of the ninth-tier skeletal ship corpse.

【Name: Skeleton Ship Corpse (Azure Sea Thunder Dragon)】

[Rank: Ninth Rank]

Current Status: Perfect

[Shipwreck HP: 100%/100%]

[Innate Abilities: Azure Sea Dragon Corpse, Thunder Ship Core, Thunder Dragon Corpse Roar Bomb, Corpse Qi Amplification, Corpse Reincarnation]

[Favorability: -100]

[Biological Weakness: The ship's core is the very essence of the ship's corpse; if the core is destroyed, the ship's corpse dies.]

This data was scanned by the [Eye of Truth]. Although the last [Biological Weakness] column is somewhat redundant, since it is common knowledge that the ship's core is the absolute weakness of the ship's corpse.

However, the information revealed in the "Talent Ability" section is quite substantial, allowing subordinate fleets to take precautions in advance.

……

Song Chi stared at the data in the holographic projection while sending the information to the Lord of the Big Dipper.

"Do you have any group defense components that can counter lightning-attribute attacks? Domain-type components that can suppress lightning-attribute energy are also acceptable!"

The Big Dipper Palace is, after all, a super power with a history of over 200,000 years, with a foundation far exceeding that of Song Chi and the Song family of Dragon Spine. Soon, the Big Dipper Star Lord sent a screenshot of a colored, lower-level [Thunder Sealer] component.

It has a very special "lightning resistance mode" that can effectively resist lightning-attribute attacks.

As this component was activated, blue-purple ripples appeared on the surfaces of hundreds of millions of warships in the fleet. This was the exclusive defensive aura granted by the "Lightning Resistance Mode".

With this exclusive defensive aura, the Fifth Battlefront fleet had no more scruples, and a chaotic battle on an even larger scale than before began once again.

"Roar--!"

The Azure Sea Thunder Dragon ship corpse beneath the Skeleton Emperor suddenly raised its head and roared, its enormous body, transformed from the remains of a star beast, bursting forth with dazzling lightning.

Countless bolts of lightning intertwined in the void, transforming into a thunderstorm domain covering several light-years.

"They're here!" the Lord of the Big Dipper warned sternly.

In an instant, billions of thunder dragon corpse roar bullets shot out from the thunderstorm, each containing terrifying power capable of piercing a planet.

Even with the lightning resistance granted by the "Lightning Resistance Mode," the thousands of Song-class corvettes at the forefront were still instantly engulfed by lightning due to the absolute difference in energy levels, leaving no wreckage behind.

"The first defensive array has suffered a 27% loss!"

Hearing the report, Song Chi's expression remained unchanged: "Activate the [Four Symbols Revolving Wheel Seal] and the [Azure Dragon Starry Sky Array Diagram]."

The combined power of the three starships, namely the Yaoguang Tianxing, the Lieyan Zhuhai, the Po Jun Hall Master and the Jumen Hall Master of the Big Dipper Seven Stars Hall, and a superdimensional mothership, unleashed the Four Symbols Revolving Wheel Seal. The four warships did not join the ordinary battlefield but charged straight at the "Skeleton Emperor".

As for the main force of the fifth battlefront, the Azure Dragon Fleet, formed by the Azure Dragon Starry Sky Array Diagram, served as the vanguard, forcefully withstanding the boundless thunderous power unleashed by the [Skeleton Ship Corpse].

Meanwhile, the Truth Mechanical War Star, the Megalodon Star Shark, and the Asura Emperor are also poised to launch a fierce attack on the [Skeleton Ship Corpse] at any moment.

Compared to the fierce battles that were about to erupt on the battlefield, the Sky Ruins remained quietly hovering in the depths of the void.

Song Chi was waiting, or rather, confronting the powerful Rakshasa clan member who might be behind him. Both sides had their last trump card on the battlefield, and it was a matter of who would give in first.

"boom!"

The mechanical warship, with a diameter comparable to a giant star, slowly rotated, its engine emitting a deep hum.

The Truth Space-Based Cannon, having completed its energy recharge, erupted with a deafening roar. Its purest beam pierced through the thunderstorm, heading straight for the ship's core deep within the wrecked Azure Sea Thunder Dragon.

(End of this chapter)