National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 848 [Mythical War]

The two ninth-tier rulers had already engaged in a fierce battle, and the collision of energy from the ninth tier turned the entire magma space upside down. However, precisely because the Chaos Demon Ape and the Sand Spirit Clan were of similar strength, neither could defeat the other, and the wisp of three-colored fire above the magma sea was never taken away.

Above the Burial Fire Canyon, in the depths of the void where nothing could be detected by the naked eye, the long-hidden mirror image of the Sky Ruins finally stirred.

Seeing that the time was ripe, Song Chi remotely issued the order to the warships to take action.

Strangely, the mirror warship did not actively descend into the lava space below. Instead, it tilted its hull upwards and, propelled by its engines, soared straight toward the distant horizon.

Only when the mirror warship reached a certain extreme distance did Song Chi activate the replica of the [Void Warehouse] component.

With its superior quality and lv110 enhancement level, this brand-new [Void Warehouse] is already far superior in attributes to its predecessors.

The three-colored fire-like object floating above the sea of ​​magma vanished without a sound. Even the two ninth-level rulers of transcendent forces, who were not far away, only noticed it two seconds after the three-colored fire-like object disappeared.

Ironically, neither of the two ninth-tier rulers had any other suspicions and blamed the other for the instigation, which made the battle in the lava sea even more intense.

Song Chi was naturally unaware of what happened next. After successfully completing the acquisition, he controlled the mirror warship to escape without looking back. However, he did manage to replicate the [Eye of Truth] and detect an even stronger energy fluctuation behind him.

Based on this, he could roughly guess how things would develop.

'The highest-ranking colored [Three Realms and Five Elements Certificate] + the highest-ranking colored [Void Warehouse], truly the most perfect combination, but alas…'

With a sigh in his heart, Song Chi couldn't help but sigh again.

The Golden Dynasty's refining mothership truly lived up to its reputation as a creation from the multiverse era. Its refining ability alone was enough to be called heaven-defying. It's a pity that it could not be refined a second time in the future.

'This [refining] ability most likely originates from a unique ability of a star-sea artifact mounted on the [refining mothership]. The only question is the quality of that artifact… It's definitely a colored extreme level artifact, perhaps even the only colored extreme level artifact with this unique characteristic, and there's even a possibility it's a chaotic artifact.'

Just as he was thinking about it, he quickly shook his head, rejecting the last guess.

If it were truly a Chaos Artifact, this refining mothership shouldn't have been trapped on this Origin Star. Song Chi knew very well just how powerful the Chaos Artifact carried by the tenth-tier warship could be.

Of course, he didn't dwell on the matter. After testing the powerful effects of the two new quality combination components for the first time, he only wanted to make good use of their abilities to seize as many treasures as possible on this Origin Star over the next ten thousand years.

As for the three-colored fire seed that was just sent to the market, Song Chi had already examined it personally. Although it was a rare, low-grade colored fire seed, it could not be converted into an upgraded fire source.

Even so, its value is extremely high, at least it was not sent to the rare item exchange shop.

High-level fire-generating artifacts have always been coveted by the Heavenly Ruins and Azure Sky. Although the [Creation Eight Trigrams Furnace] has not yet been fully repaired, it is certain that this time will not be too long.

The main body and mirror image of the Sky Ruins Skyship, the "Enslavement Seal - Berserk" of the [Ring of Heavenly Authority], the skeletal giant being conceived in the [Skeletal Tomb], and the [Great Dao Origin Totem Pole] of the Heavenly Ruins Market.

The above-listed items are all conventional mythological weapons or trump cards that Song Chi currently possesses, capable of countering mythological units. Once the Origin Star operation concludes, exploring the Immortal Realm continent will be inevitable. At that time, searching for the missing Six Ding Divine Fire of the [Creation Eight Trigrams Furnace] will become the top priority in Song Chi's plan.

Once the [Creation Eight Trigrams Furnace] is fully completed, according to the established pattern, colored quality fire seeds will become a necessity.

……

The Time Rift is a famous ancient battlefield on Origin Star. According to information collected by the Torchfire Civilization over the past hundreds of thousands of years, this rift is located at the deepest part of the crustal crack beneath the Tiancang Trench on Origin Star.

Rumor has it that this was a product of the interdimensional invasion era before the multiverse era. That battle was the most frenzied battle between the super power of this dimension and the interdimensional civilization inside the Origin Star. Both sides tore off all their restraints and revealed countless trump cards. In the end, they almost broke through the crust of the entire Origin Star.

The Time Rift was formed millions of years after that battle. Legend has it that the Time Rift hides the transcendent inheritance of the era of interdimensional invasion. Some powerful clans also say that a [Chaotic Artifact] related to time was left behind in the Time Rift. However, for hundreds of millions of years, no explorer has ever uncovered its ultimate secret.

This is the 715th year since the formation of the Origin Star Space Vortex Channel. In these hundreds of years, the Heavenly Ruins Sky has wandered through the open areas of transcendent forces time and time again. Although it has gained a lot, after hundreds of years, even if the effect of the [Three Realms and Five Elements Certificate] is heaven-defying, it still made those transcendent beings realize that something was wrong.

Now, with all the transcendent forces deliberately increasing their vigilance, the operational efficiency of the mirror warships has been reduced again and again. Therefore, after much consideration, Song Chi began to explore the surface areas of the Origin Star outside the open zone decades ago.

For this reason, the number of dangers encountered by the Mirror Battleship Group in the past few decades has exceeded that in the past few hundred years. Even the "Twelve Lives of Life and Death" game that replicates the Time Chessboard only has 7 chances left. However, Song Chi does not regret it. The diameter of the Origin Star is comparable to a galaxy cluster in the Shattered Star Sea. The small open area for beings under the mythology to explore is not worth mentioning in it.

Simply put, the truly valuable areas are those that have never been opened to the public, and they contain a wealth of wonderful things.

This time, Song Chi chose to explore the area of ​​the time-marked fissure.

The mirrored warship slid along the cracks in the earth's crust into the "Abyss of Time," while Song Chi, through the replicated [Eye of Truth], constantly observed the breathtaking spectacle around them—

The entire canyon is composed of countless broken spacetime mirrors, each reflecting the images of exploration teams from different eras of the origin star. When the warship passed through the seventh spacetime fold, it suddenly detected three mythical energy fluctuations.

In the main control room of the Sky Ruins Sky Dome in the Sky Ruins Market, Song Chi's eyes suddenly sharpened.

Deep within the darkest part of the trench, amidst cracks in the laws of time, in a dimensional space that seems to belong to a different dimension than this origin star, a crystal platform floats out of thin air. Three imposing figures stand in different corners of the crystal platform, silently confronting each other.

On the left is a mechanical life form composed entirely of dark purple crystals and alloys, with quantum-state runes flowing across its surface. Each step it takes leaves a brief "data afterimage" in spacetime.

This is a mythical mechanical entity from the "Genesis Mechanical Civilization"—[Destroyer of Heaven], whose intelligent brain chip is equipped with the Destroyer of Heaven Logic Virus, which is capable of rewriting the rules of reality.

On the right side is a spacetime worm with nine heads, each head corresponding to a different flow of time. The head in the very center is even translucent and "void," as if it might disappear from the current timeline at any moment.

This is the tenth-tier mythical unit of the special life form "Time-Space Worm" [Mother of Time Eclipse], a terrifying being that feeds on the laws and rules of time.

What concerned Song Chi the most was the third figure floating outside the two.

It was a humanoid creature draped in a gray robe, its face shrouded in a hazy mist of time, with only its right hand gripping a rusty bronze palace door.

The surface of the temple gate was engraved with densely packed dimensional coordinates, and every slight tremor would trigger a chain reaction of collapses in the surrounding spacetime mirrors. "【The Shattered Gate of the Temple of Time】..." Song Chi's pupils contracted slightly.

By replicating the Eye of Truth, he instantly grasped the essence of this bronze palace gate—a broken portal that could trace back to the ruins of the Temple of Time.

The reason Song Chi was able to recognize the bronze palace door so quickly was not primarily due to the replication of the [Eye of Truth] and the eighth-tier double pupils, but mainly because he possessed another item related to the [Temple of Time]—the [Key to the Inheritance of the Temple of Time].

Back then, in the deepest part of that shattered river of time, he successfully obtained the Key to the Time Temple's Legacy. Thousands of years have passed, yet he has never found the location of the Time Temple. Now, if he can obtain this bronze temple door, he will greatly increase the chances of finding the Time Temple in the future.

In addition, at the center of the three-way standoff, there floats an irregularly shaped, multifaceted crystal.

This crystal contains a drop of silvery-white liquid. Whenever external energy fluctuations touch the surface of the crystal, the liquid will conjure up phantom images of civilizations from different eras.

"Time Source Liquid!" Song Chi's breath hitched.

It is a special resource of the same type as Time Source Crystal, both of which have the effect of actively reducing the cooling time of the Star Sea Wonders. However, compared to solid Time Source Crystal, this Time Source Liquid is a product of the Source Crystal being melted and liquefied through special reasons. According to Song Chi's estimate, based on the volume of the Time Source Liquid in this multifaceted body, it would probably take at least one ton of Time Source Crystal to melt it.

One ton of [Time Source Crystal] can shorten the cooling time by 100 million years, and its value is beyond doubt. At this moment, all three parties are obviously here for it.

Just as the runic tendrils on the surface of the [Divine Machine - Annihilation] suddenly stretched towards the polyhedral crystal, the gray-robed figure on the side suddenly lifted the bronze palace door.

An invisible ripple of time spread out, and the movements of the Destroyer God of the Creation Mechanical Civilization suddenly froze, even the quantum runes on its surface came to a standstill.

"Time stands still..." A sense of alarm went through Song Chi's mind.

Even though the mirror warship hidden deep in the void was far away from the crystal platform, he could still sense the strange sluggishness inside the mirror warship's cabin through the mental link!
Although the lag is almost negligible thanks to the replica of the [Time Chessboard], don't forget that the [Void Warehouse]'s ability to absorb data remotely requires directly affecting the void where the target is located. He is unsure whether he will be affected by that time freeze.

"We can't just take it by force."

Song Chi decisively changed his strategy. Both the [Shattered Gate of the Temple of Time] and the [Time Source Liquid] were extremely important to him, and he could not and was unwilling to gamble on them.

He quietly retreated the mirror warship to the shadows of the spacetime folds, while simultaneously controlling the replica [Void Warehouse] to begin accumulating energy.

At the same time, the [Market Projection Token] in the hands of the ethereal body in the mirror warship was also taken out, and it could be activated at any time.

After doing all this, Song Chi began to wait, only to see the three mythical beings on the crystallization platform start fighting.

These three mythical beings come from different factions, and they can never achieve a fair distribution, so a mythical war is inevitable.

As expected, it wasn't long before the clash between the three mythical beings in the arena began.

The nine heads of the mythical spacetime worm simultaneously emitted sharp hisses, and the spacetime breath that was originally attacking the gray-robed figure suddenly changed direction, slamming hard into the quantum barrier on the surface of the [Destroyer of Heaven Machine] machine.

The runes on the surface of the Destroyer God's body flickered violently, forcing it to stop absorbing the Time Essence.

At the same time, the gray-robed figure also made a move. The power of time in the bronze palace gate in its hand surged even more, and the surrounding time was almost completely frozen. Taking this opportunity, a gray mist energy arm suddenly emerged from under its gray robe and swiftly grabbed at the polyhedral crystal.

Just as the gray-robed figure was about to touch the Time Source Liquid, a cold glint flashed in Song Chi's eyes!

"It's now!"

The replica of the mirror warship, [Void Warehouse], was activated with a roar, and the colorful, superior spatial laws tore open an invisible rift above the crystallization platform.

However, just as the power of absorption was about to engulf the Time Source Liquid, the gray-robed figure suddenly looked up—

"who!"

The bronze palace doors erupted with blinding light, as if the entire spacetime fold had been paused. The mirror warship's engines suddenly froze, and even the Void Warehouse's absorption beam showed a visible lag.

Song Chi was deeply shaken.

This gray-robed man's control over the power of time far exceeded expectations; he could even forcibly delay the spatial laws of the higher color realm!

Of course, this is definitely related to the fact that the Tianxu Cangqiong is currently only a ninth-tier fire-bringing warship, but Song Chi can't care about that at the moment.

In a flash, he activated the [Market Projection Order] without hesitation.

hum-

Wisps of purple mist energy surged from above the mirror warship, and the purple mist projection of the Heavenly Ruins briefly materialized above the Time Rift.

Although the projection took far longer to condense than usual, the true power of the mythical projection still caused the gray-robed man to momentarily lose focus, even after Song Chi activated the [Great Dao Origin Totem Pole] ahead of time.

"boom!"

Taking advantage of this gap, the replica of the [Ring of Heavenly Authority] burst forth with tricolor light.

"Absolute Slavery" transformed into a blood-red chain, piercing straight into the leftmost head of the [Mother of Time Eclipse].

The mythical worm immediately let out a painful roar. The enslavement light, which temporarily increased the success rate by a hundredfold, caused a moment of confusion in the mind of this special mythical creature. Its nine heads immediately spewed out acid that distorted time, indiscriminately bombarding the gray-robed figures and the God of Annihilation around it.

(End of this chapter)