National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 853 Escape intact
"Go! Don't rush into the jump, let's break out of the poisonous fog first before trying!"

Jiang Yuan's voice boomed in the communication channel. The Jiuli ram of the Shenxia Jiuli had collided head-on with the fangs of the Twin-Headed Poisonous Dragon King, bursting out dazzling energy sparks.

Song Chi's fingers flew across the control panel, and the engines of the Sky Ruins Sky roared deafeningly.

"It's feasible! Although this poisonous fog is highly corrosive, it will take some time to break through the outer energy shield and hull armor of the mirror warship. At our speed, it's enough to sustain us in breaking out of this area!"

"Alright, I'll lead the way. Greedy Wolf, you guys stick close to me!"

Ying Yi's Immortal Qin Ancestral Dragon suddenly turned, and millions of secondary cannons fired simultaneously, blasting out pure areas in the void.

As the rulers of the four great empires of the Fire of the Sea, none of them were indecisive. In this emergency, they decisively accepted the proposal, which was clearly the best solution.

After all, those present were just clones of the warship. Even if the Shenxia Jiuli, which was covering the rear, really encountered an accident, it would not be as serious as a life-or-death separation.

Of course, even so, the price to pay is still considerable.

At the very least, it can't be like Song Chi's [Mirror Image], where a single sinking only requires a painless cooling-off period of a little over a month.

Not every ship has the [Time Chessboard], a Gundam-like color extreme position, a time-type component with up to 90% universal cooldown reduction, and the [Bodhisattva Meditation Seal] component with the "Zen Meditation Seal - Inner Speed" characteristic.

In addition, the [Mirror Image] has an advantage that other high-level warship clone parts do not possess. The [Mirror Image] was originally only of gold quality, and it has evolved through various means such as the [Golden Apple] and [Origin Refinement] to reach its current high-quality color.

In comparison, the high-quality and even extreme-quality colored warship clone parts in the hands of Jiang Yuan and his group were already of such low initial quality. The higher the quality of the parts, the longer their cooldown time. Compared to the ten-year cooldown period of the [Mirror Image], the cooldown time of these warship clone parts is mostly as long as hundreds or even thousands of years.

As a result, even if the few emperors had general-purpose cooling reduction components of slightly lower quality, they would usually have to wait a hundred or even several hundred years before they could summon the warship clones again.

Unless absolutely necessary, they would never easily give up their own warship clones.

Following the vacuum area created by the Immortal Qin Ancestral Dragon, the three warships sped along. Although the Three Corpse Super-Temperature Mech had disintegrated, the three super-dimensional motherships' coordinated combat capabilities were still astonishing.

Holy runes lit up the surface of the Heavenly Light, and a pure white beam of light pierced through the poisonous fog, guiding everyone in the right direction.

"It's too late!" Ferdinand suddenly shouted.

On the radar screen, the Bone Clan warship, shaped like a spine, had approached to within visual range.

Its surface of writhing flesh suddenly burst open, and tens of thousands of bone spurs shot out like a torrential rain.

"boom!"

The shield of the Shenxia Jiuli ship flickered violently, managing to block the attack.

Jiang Yuan's voice was frighteningly calm:
"Song Chi, take the deuterium stone and go first. Ying Yi and Pei Dinan, cover him."

Facing the dual-headed Poisonous Flood Dragon King head-on, and distracted by blocking this wave of attacks, the Shenxia Jiuli was already somewhat overwhelmed and could no longer spare the effort to restrain the Demon Bone Clan warship.

Rather than being completely destroyed by this mythical-class demon bone warship, it's better to ensure the safety of one of the warships.

At this moment, Song Chi suddenly retorted.

"No, Your Majesty, you two should leave. I will stay."

Ying Yi and the other person wanted to say something more, but were stopped by Song Chi's voice.

"My mirror warship has a cooldown period of just over a month, so even if it sinks, it won't have much of an impact."

Actually, Song Chi had another reason he didn't mention: the Immortal Qin Ancestral Dragon and the Heavenly Holy Light alone might not be able to stop the Demon Bone Warship. The Heavenly Ruins Azure Sky mirror warship was different; with the "Twelve Life and Death Chess Pieces," it could always hold out for a considerable period of time.

"it is good!"

Upon hearing that Song Chi's warship clone components had a cooldown period of just over a month, Ying Hao and the other two did not say anything more. The deuterium ore had already been sent back to the Zhutian Market. Who stayed and who left was based on maximizing profits.

Seeing the two trails of flame left behind by the Immortal Qin Ancestral Dragon and the other ship, Song Chi's mind raced. The array of tens of millions of secondary guns around the mirror warship turned simultaneously, waiting to lock onto the demon bone warship that resembled a spine.

An endless torrent of cannon fire poured out, transforming into countless fire serpents that lunged at the oncoming demonic bone warship.

At the same time, the replica of the [Vajrasattva Meditation Seal] component was also activated, and the time domain transformed by the "Vajrasattva Time Realm" unfolded. With the mirrored warship hull as the boundary, the flow of time in the outside world suddenly slowed down, and the previous one second was stretched into ten seconds in Song Chi's perception.

Only the interior of the mirror warship is unaffected by this time domain.

However, this was still not enough. The Demon Bone Warship was a Tier 10 warship unit, and its current speed was even more astonishing. Song Chi was not sure if he could hold off the opponent with just the "Shaking Time Realm".

Buzz!
Ripples of space emanated from the void above, and dozens of colorful chess pieces formed a virtual colorful chessboard in the low sky.

With the superposition of the two time domains, the pursuing Demon Bone Warship was visibly affected. He could see the writhing flesh and blood on the surface of the Demon Bone Warship reflected in his eyes, and every detail was clearly visible.

"boom!"

When the second and third waves of bone spike rain came, these ferocious bone spikes, which shot at speeds exceeding a hundred times the speed of light, were slowed down by a thousand times. Although their speed was still not slow, it was enough to allow the mirror warship to respond accordingly.

The Skyfall Sky repeatedly adjusted its hull, its side armor continuously deployed, and countless main and secondary guns spewed fire to intercept these incredibly destructive bone spikes.

At the same time, replicas of colorful ship cannons such as [Light of Judgment], [Blood Erosion Annihilation Cannon], and [High-Dimensional Particle Collapse Cannon] also broke out one after another.

Multiple beams of destructive light shot straight at the Demon Bone Warship, distorting and swallowing even the light in their path.

The Demon Bone Warship clearly hadn't anticipated such a swift counterattack.

The flesh and blood tissue on the surface writhed wildly, forming a bone shield at the bow of the ship.

"boom--"

A terrifying explosion resounded through the void. The bone shield on the bow of the Demon Bone Warship lasted only a few breaths before its hull was engulfed by a terrifying energy storm.

But Song Chi showed no joy. He knew very well that this round of attacks was not enough to cause fatal damage to the mythical unit.

Based on the data displayed by the Eye of Truth, the Demon Bone Battleship was indeed severely damaged in the explosion, but as time goes by, its damaged parts are regenerating at an astonishing rate.

With a shift of his gaze, he stared at the battlefield where the Divine Xia Jiuli was located not far away. For some reason, the two-headed Poisonous Flood Dragon King seemed to be attracted by the battle here. One of its heads suddenly turned, and beams of emerald green light shot out from its three pairs of compound eyes.

These beams of light intertwined in the void, forming a net that swept towards them from all directions. However, the Shenxia Jiuli warship reacted quickly. Above the warship, thousands of martial artists in the Martial Dynasty's Great Realm practiced their martial arts simultaneously. The light of martial arts emanated from the Great Realm and then came into contact with the emerald green poison net, producing a series of corrosive sounds.

Taking this opportunity, Song Chi, who was inside the main body of the Shenxia Jiuli ship, took the initiative to say to Jiang Yuan:

"Emperor Jiang, is it possible to briefly tear apart the poisonous elemental rules surrounding the Two-Headed Poisonous Flood Dragon Emperor?"

Jiang Yuan didn't know what Song Chi was going to do, but he still nodded solemnly.

"it is good!"

Song Chi concentrated intently, focusing all his attention, except for a portion on the Heavenly Market, on the mirror warship.

Or rather, it was transferred to the replica of the [Warship Switch] on the mirrored warship.

This component had just evolved to gold quality through the extraction of energy from the source, but now, with the blessing of the cloned [Soul Devouring Altar], it has been temporarily enhanced to black quality.

He needs to use this component to switch places with the [Shennxia Jiuli] warship clone, in order to buy himself a chance to escape unscathed.

Compared to the Tianxu Cangqiong mirror warship, the Shenxia Jiuli warship clone is far more important. As the only mythical unit of the Xinhuo civilization exploring this Origin Star, every minute of exploration time for the Shenxia Jiuli is extremely precious, because it is the only Xinhuo warship that can legally explore the surface of the Origin Star.

In comparison, the mirror warships, which can be summoned again in just over a month, are much less vulnerable to sinking once or twice.

At low altitude above the surface of Origin Star, a series of sharp, clanging friction sounds suddenly emanated from the Shenxia Jiuli, which was in the form of a warship. In a short time, the Shenxia Jiuli transformed from its warship form back into its mythical mecha form.

"Nine Li - Breaking Boundaries!"

The Seven-Colored Nine Li Heavy Halberd swept across the void once again, leaving a crimson trail hundreds of billions of kilometers long. Where the halberd's blade passed, phantom images of ancient star battlefields, mountains of corpses, and seas of blood appeared. Countless ancient runes appeared on the halberd's blade, slashing towards the emerald green light curtain surrounding the Poisonous Flood Dragon Emperor with the momentum of destroying all laws.

"Click——"

A crisp cracking sound echoed through the void as the Poison Dragon King's realm of rules was cleaved open by this halberd, creating a crack tens of millions of meters long, causing a brief disruption to the poisonous mist laws flowing within.

"Now!" A sharp glint flashed in Song Chi's eyes.

Inside the mirror warship Tianxu Cangqiong, the gold-quality [Warship Switching Device] suddenly shone with a dazzling light. With the blessing of the replicated [Soul Devouring Altar], the component instantly broke through to the critical point of black quality.

"Transposition procedure initiated!"

Song Chi's commands and Jiang Yuan's coordination were perfectly synchronized. When the Shenxia Jiuli deliberately withdrew all its defensive force fields, two spatial anchoring beams accurately hit the two warships.

hum-

Amidst the tremors of the void, the replacement process suddenly malfunctioned. The shattered rule realm of the Poisonous Flood Dragon King began to repair itself, and the violent spatial turbulence interfered with the replacement process.

[Warning! The spatial channel is unstable!] The AI's alarm blared loudly.

Song Chi broke out in a cold sweat. He hadn't expected the Poison Dragon King's recovery ability to be so terrifying. However, without him having to make a move, Jiang Yuan took the initiative.

Suddenly, the Martial Dao Dynasty Great Realm above the Shenxia Jiuli warship's clone exploded. The explosion at the rule level caused the Twin-Headed Poison Dragon Emperor's repair efforts to abruptly halt. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the two warships successfully switched positions at the last moment.

The process actually took only a moment, but Song Chi and Jiang Yuan had communicated beforehand. Jiang Yuan was also aware that the cooldown time of his own warship clone was too long, so when Song Chi made this suggestion, he did not refuse. With the cooperation of the two, not a single moment was wasted.

"boom!"

Almost the instant the warships were repositioned, the venomous torrent spewed by the Poisonous Dragon King engulfed the area where the Sky Ruins Sky was located.

The Mirror Battleship's once-proud Mythical Pulse Energy Shield instantly dropped below the warning line, and its armor surface began to corrode at a visible rate.

Even though Song Chi activated the [Last Blessing] and [Medal of Resurrection] in time, he still couldn't change the fact that the Mirror Battleship was eventually completely engulfed by the boundless poisonous flames.

In the blink of an eye, the "Twelve Lives Chessboard" feature on the mirror warship, which replicates the Time Chessboard, was forced to activate passively.

Even the resurrected mirror warship could only be sunk again and again by the Twin-Headed Poisonous Dragon King, each time for no more than ten seconds.

The current mirror warship is not weak, but it is still incomparable to the Twin-Headed Poisonous Dragon King, whose combat power is approaching the eleventh rank.

Originating beyond the stars, in the main cabin of the Shenxia Jiuli ship.

As the mirrored warship sank again and again, a faint smile appeared in Song Chi's eyes.

Just now, the Shenxia Jiuli warship clone, which had switched positions to the Demon Bone Warship, successfully escaped the Demon Bone Clan's mythical warship and rushed out of the poisonous fog domain. It has now successfully jumped hundreds of thousands of light-years away and is completely out of danger.

Thus, the mission of the Tianxu Cangqiong mirror warship has been successfully completed.

Seeing this, he had no intention of continuing to use the "Twelve Life and Death Chess" to entangle with the two-headed poisonous dragon king, and took the initiative to withdraw the mirror warship.

In the final perspective of the vanishing mirror warship, he even saw the enraged Twin-Headed Poisonous Dragon King, having lost its target, directly shift its focus to the Demon Bone Warship.

Not far away, several other mythical beings arrived one after another. One can imagine that a spectacular battle is about to take place here, but these are irrelevant to their Torchfire Civilization.

In the marketplace of all heavens, on the third floor of the inn, there is a market-walking room.

"Greedy Wolf, this is yours!"

The deuterium ore, which had been divided into four pieces, was given to Song Chi by Jiang Yuan and the other two.

Song Chi did not refuse, after all, he was the one who would cover the rear.

Weighing the raw deuterium ore in his hand, Song Chi estimated that once the refining process was complete, this deuterium ore should be enough to meet the special resource requirements of several superdimensional motherships.

After Jiang Yuan and the other two left, Song Chi was not very happy. The performance of the mirror warship under the two-headed poisonous dragon king made him realize one thing: the tri-colored [Mythical Pulse Energy Shield] and [Neutron Star Nuclear Armor] that he used to be proud of have now become the shortcomings of the Tianxu Cangqiong.

The neutron star nuclear armor is doing well. After years of efforts from the family, the market, and the Big Dipper Palace to acquire neutron star debris, we are almost ready to further evolve this tricolor component. I believe it won't be long before we can collect it all.

On the contrary, the [Mythical Pulse Energy Shield] component has no growth potential and has now become a major weakness on the Sky Ruins. We must find a way to replace it with a higher-quality energy shield component.

However, Song Chi was not in a hurry. In the various token rooms in the market, he had already seen several suitable parts. Although none of them were of the highest quality, they were all high-quality energy shield parts. He just needed to wait for the temporary owners of these token rooms to settle the accounts, and soon he could replace the energy shield of the Sky Ruins with a brand new one.

(End of this chapter)