National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 840 [Origin Star]

The Yin Sha River System, the Dead Di Star Domain, and the floating land of withered bones.

The seemingly endless Level 3 life-bearing floating continents drifted in the dark starry sky. On the surface of the floating continents, hundreds of thousands of fire-bringer warships and ordinary starships of various levels rose and fell, just like a swarm of bees building a nest, cooperating and working together while also full of beautiful expectations for the future.

In the northern part of the floating continent, above a plain with a relatively dense aura of corpses, the fleet that had just circled the entire plain returned. Once back at their temporary base, a voice quickly came from the lead escort ship in the fleet.

"Seventh Brother, no, the concentration of corpse energy on the Northern Cold Plains is still a bit too high. I need to lead the team on another trip. Please help me replenish the neutralizing agent as soon as possible."

"Okay, now!"

Ten minutes later, everything was replenished, and a line of more than twenty warships roared to life and began to slowly take off.

"Third Brother, be careful. Although the main fleet of the civilization has already cleared out this floating continent, there may still be some that have escaped."

"Don't worry, I understand. We are deeply grateful to the royal family of Menglongji for granting us a level-three life-bearing floating continent and several resource-bearing floating continents as our family territory. This is the greatest opportunity for the Huang family in the past three hundred years. I, your brother, still want to keep my life to continue to contribute to the family."

After saying that, the fleet soared into the sky and quickly disappeared into the distant horizon.

Hearing the lingering words, the man known as the seventh brother grinned.

Who can argue with that? This is indeed a once-in-a-century opportunity for the Huang family.

The clan has been established for three hundred years. Although this statement may sound plausible, it is actually nothing but a joke to outsiders.

In this great interstellar era, three hundred years is but a blink of an eye, and a second-tier escort captain can reach that lifespan.

Speaking of which, the Huang family was founded by their father, an ordinary junior captain who fought alongside the Fire-Bearing Army. They are now only in their second generation.

In other words, their father, who had died of old age, had many sons, seven of whom successfully awakened the Seed of the Flame. Over the past two hundred years, the number of unawakened brothers and descendants has increased, and thus a family gradually took shape.

Originally, families like theirs were just ordinary beings in the Fire-Burning Human Civilization, and most likely wouldn't last more than five generations. But the Huang family was different. They encountered a good era, an era in which the Fire-Burning Civilization was developing and growing rapidly. In addition, there was the Dragon Spine Royal Family—the Song family, a newly emerging super clan in the Fire-Burning Civilization. This gave them, who originally belonged to the Dragon Spine Kingdom, far more opportunities than they could ever have.

As his thoughts raced, the man suddenly muttered to himself:
"However, Third Brother is wrong about one thing. We can no longer call them the Dragon Spine Royal Family. Instead, we should call them the Heavenly Pillar Song Clan."

This almost inaudible muttering aroused great interest in a young man behind him.

"Song clan of Tianzhu, Seventh Uncle, you think so too?"

The sudden interruption startled the man, but he breathed a sigh of relief when he turned around and saw that it was his sixth brother's son.

"Seventh Uncle, Brother Lie and the others often talk about these things, including the rumors outside. They all say that the Dragon Spine Song Clan will soon establish the Fifth Fire Empire, and the four great empires have all tacitly agreed. The Dragon Spine Song Clan will soon become the Heavenly Pillar Song Clan."

"This matter is still unresolved, so we must not spread rumors!"

The man shouted a stern rebuke, which made the young man behind him shrink back in fright.

Although he did share the same thought, it was a fact that the Dragon Spine Song Clan now directly controlled more than a hundred river systems, and the four great empires had never interfered. This was something that had never happened before in the more than 300,000 years of development of the Fire Civilization.

But no matter what speculations they may have, as long as the Song Clan of Dragon Spine has not publicly established the Firewood Empire, these are all just rumors. If they were to publicize it, and the four great empires were to change their stance in the future, all of this would turn into a weapon of slaughter.

……

The Corpse Demon Continent, the Song family's temporary residence.

"Yiming, how is the immigration development progressing under your jurisdiction?"

"Uncle Chi, after nearly a hundred years of continuous efforts by the family, and with the assistance of two [Space Wormhole Generators], the ninety river systems of the Corpse Emperor Clan that are now completely under the command of my Song family have seen a large number of citizens move in. The largest number has exceeded 10 billion, and the slowest progress is still over 3 billion."

Upon hearing this, although he knew that the progress was already quite good, Song Chi was still not very satisfied.

Whether it's tens of billions or three billion, compared to a vast river system, these are far too few.

An ordinary river system would normally need to accommodate at least hundreds of billions of Fire Citizens, and in many resource-rich river systems, the number of Fire Citizens could be counted in the trillions.

It is important to know that the larger the base of the Fire Citizens in the river system, the more Fire Captains can be born in that river system. The number of Fire Captains determines the speed at which a river system can generate "Fire Luck". Therefore, how could Song Chi not be anxious?
These are all key factors for his future attempt to reach the Mythical Immortal Ship.

To this end, the family has even deployed its only five Explorer-class deep space carriers, including two newly built in the last thousand years, to fully support the "Interstellar Great Migration" operation.

It's not just the Song family; the four great empires, hundreds of kingdoms, and various forces are all busy migrating populations to the Corpse Emperor Clan's river system. This is the foundation for developing the terrifying value of a vast river system.

In the 536th year after the war ended, a major event occurred in the Song Clan of Dragon Ridge. Taking advantage of the advancement of one of the eight-level extreme floating continents in one of the ninety river systems under its command, the flagship of the ancestor Song Wujiang officially launched the attack on the Star River Ship.

The process was not smooth. With a basic success rate of nearly 60%, the [Dinghai Longxiang] failed to advance twice in a row after consuming a seventh-tier Time Boundary Fruit. In the end, Song Chi finally succeeded in advancing on the third attempt with the "Time Rewind" property.

Although the process was arduous, the final result was undoubtedly excellent for the Song family.

The family's legacy has been too short. Even with Song Chi, a prodigy with almost superhuman abilities, in charge, it is still difficult to completely conceal the family's lack of foundation. Now, just before the creation of the Fifth Empire of the Flame, the family has produced a second Starship Captain, which is undoubtedly an excellent omen.

This also tells the outside world that the Song family of Longji, besides Song Chi, also has enough potential.

Another point is that Song Shiyuan's [Immovable King] has already entered the ultimate star destroyer stage and has taken over the replica [Blood Holy Grail]. Following the [Dinghai Longxiang], it has also begun to prepare for the future challenge of becoming a starship.

According to the consensus reached within the family's core circle, the [Immovable King] will not attempt to attack a starship for at least a thousand years. After all, the cooldown time for the "Time Rewind" ability is a full thousand years, making this the safest option. ...

In contrast to the jubilation on the side of the Civilization of Fire, at the same time, the Chaotic Divine Continent was experiencing a period of turmoil.

Chaotic Divine Continent, Human Emperor City.

As usual, the [Xuanhuang Chiyu] remained suspended deep within the Human Emperor's Palace, while Ji Heng, as she had for a thousand years, remained in seclusion on the psionic cultivation platform within the [Xuanhuang Chiyu], which had been enhanced to level 100.

At a certain moment, Ji Heng, who had been keeping her eyes closed, suddenly opened them. Her deep eyes looked across the warship and the Emperor's Palace towards the distant chaotic sky, and even the mythical immortal ship [Xuanhuang Chiyu] was covered with wisps of Dao rules.

Above the Human Emperor City, a large amount of chaotic energy silently gathered, forming a phantom chaotic eye above the Human Emperor Palace. Following this chaotic eye, Ji Heng's gaze pierced through the endless chaotic storm in the sky, looking towards the Chaotic Divine Continent beyond the heavens.

At the end of the boundless chaotic sea, vast stars, radiating the power of tangible primordial rules, hung high. They were like supreme gods standing at the pinnacle of all the heavens and myriad worlds. Even though endless void winds and chaotic storms surrounded them, they could not have the slightest effect on them.

If the tenth-order beings in all the heavens and myriad realms are eternal and indestructible gods, then these mythical stars high above the Chaos Divine Continent are the true supreme gods.

They have almost transcended the myriad realms, and each star has existed for far more than several epochs. Mythical beings in the myriad realms may perish for various reasons, but these mythical stars are truly eternal and indestructible.

The sky above the Chaotic Divine Continent is never silent—billions of chaotic currents coil like giant dragons, seven-colored aurora flows between dimensional rifts, and occasionally, shattered world remnants streak across the sky, burning with their last glory.

However, all these magnificent sights pale in comparison to these mythical stars.

All mythical stars are not celestial bodies in the ordinary sense. Their diameters are usually comparable to a galaxy cluster. The patterns on the surface of the stars sometimes resemble pulsating blood vessels and sometimes flowing text. Anyone who looks directly at them for even a moment will have an indelible mark etched on their retina.

Distance has lost its meaning for them as well—some feel they are within reach, while others feel they are forever out of reach.

On the surface of that star, which is composed entirely of solidified "primordial laws and primordial rules", one can see golden streams of time meandering between diamond-like mountains, black spatial rifts opening and closing like living things, and occasionally silver-white chains of cause and effect breaking through the ground, whipping out annihilating lightning in the void that is enough to annihilate ordinary tenth-order beings.

However, the focus at this moment is not on these things, but on that special star among all the mythical stars that is emitting an uncertain light.

In the Chaos God Continent and all the myriad realms, this star is known as the [Origin].

【Origin Star】falls into the sky once every million years. During the fall, it will leave the Chaos Sea and enter the Chaos God Continent. For the next ten thousand years, all beings below the eleventh rank can enter its interior through the Chaos God Continent.

As an ancient star that spans multiple eras, the Origin Star is filled with treasures: mythical artifacts, mythical souls, star plants, fragments of rules, tenth-order source blood, and even a Chaos artifact once appeared there.

It is no exaggeration to say that every fall of the Origin Star is a celebration for all the worlds.

As long as they can survive and leave the Origin Star, they will at least become a ninth-tier ruler in the future.

The alternating brightness and darkness of the light emitted by this mythical star at this moment is a sign that the [Origin Star] is about to fall. In the next hundred years, this ancient star will surely enter the Chaos Divine Continent.

Not only Ji Heng, but at the same moment, countless great beings across the Chaos God Continent and all the myriad realms looked up, their gazes piercing through layers of dimensions, focusing on the flickering light of the [Origin Star].

"Origin Star is going to crash ahead of schedule!"

In the desolate star realm of the Chaotic Divine Continent, a hideous face formed by countless grains of sand emitted a muffled roar. The entire wasteland suddenly collapsed into a funnel shape, revealing an ancient battlefield buried beneath, a battlefield that had endured for countless years.

"This time it's two thousand years earlier than expected!"

In the far north of the Chaos God Continent, a permafrost glacier suddenly shattered, and a black shadow soared into the sky, its maniacal laughter echoing in all directions:

"A million years of planning has finally come to an end. The Origin Star will be my final boost in my attempt to reach the eleventh rank!"

Beneath the Heavenly Abyss Star Realm, the ancient Dragon Emperor, who had been asleep for a long time, opened his vertical pupils, which were as large as a star field.
In the Southern Fire Domain Star Realm, magma surged and transformed into human form, becoming a fire deity.

Not only on the Chaos God Continent, but also in all the myriad realms, in the deepest part of the bottomless abyss, a pair of eyes larger than galaxies slowly opened, their pupils reflecting the falling stars, revealing extreme greed and desire...

At this moment, the heavens trembled and all realms shook.

Those ancient beings hidden in the dimensional rifts revealed themselves one by one, and all living beings realized that this fall of the Origin Star would inevitably trigger a struggle and slaughter far greater than ever before.

Deep within the Emperor's Palace in the City of the Human Emperor.

The chaotic eye above the city slowly dissipated, and Ji Heng had already withdrawn her gaze.

Even with over 300,000 years of experience, his eyes were now filled with barely concealed excitement.

As a member of the torchbearer of human civilization, although he had not participated in the exploration of the Origin Star, he had heard countless stories about it over the years. He knew very well what kind of opportunities the Origin Star held, and even now, as a half-step mythical immortal captain, he still could not resist its allure.

Not only are there tenth-order and eleventh-order myths, but the Origin Star also possesses super resources that can assist those who break through to the twelfth-order transcendent.

Almost subconsciously, Ji Heng looked at the [Market Walk Token] beside him, preparing to log into the Heavenly Market and send the message back to the Ancestral Domain of the Flame. However, he quickly thought of Jiang Yuan's existence. As a true mythical immortal captain, Jiang Yuan must have also noticed the anomaly of the [Origin Star].

Realizing this, he quickly suppressed his turbulent emotions, forced himself to calm down, and continued practicing the guiding technique.

[Origin Star] To fully enter the Chaos God Continent, it will take at least several decades. In addition, it can only allow up to tenth-order beings to enter. Only by breaking through the tenth-order guidance technique before that will it be most advantageous for him.

(End of this chapter)