National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 855 Thousands of Years of Evolution of the Clan

The roar of the Chaos Demon Ape abruptly ceased, and a blinding chaotic glow suddenly erupted from the wound where the Azure Star Blade had pierced—a sign that the [Chaos Mirror Stone] had revealed itself.

"receive!"

The superdimensional furnace on the chest of the Three Corpse Super-Mecha suddenly reversed, generating a terrifying suction force. The palm-sized chaotic crystal inside the demonic ape trembled violently. However, the mythical power and Buddhist light around the guardian demonic ape surged wildly, forcibly suppressing the [Chaotic Mirror Stone] and preventing it from escaping its control.

Song Chi had no reservations and seized the opportunity to reactivate the [Void Warehouse]. A new and powerful absorption force superimposed itself on this top-grade [Chaos Mirror Stone].

"not good!"

From the depths of the Burial God Abyss came the Buddha's furious roar: "Stop them!"

The half-dragon protector, who was originally restrained by the Xuanhuang Chiyu, suddenly detonated three relics, and the violent Buddhist power shattered the chains of rules.

The swastika symbol on its forehead rotated counterclockwise, indicating that it was about to activate the forbidden technique of the Shi clan, "Destiny Reversal".

"boom!"

The Shenxia Jiuli stood across the center of the battlefield, its majestic hull spewing forth countless fire serpents, forming a 360-degree fire net around the half-dragon protector.

"Jiang Yuan!"

The Buddha's voice no longer held its previous composure; only anger and resentment remained.

"I swear by Brahma, if your Fire Civilization dares to take this [Chaos Mirror Stone] today, the Overlord Shakya Clan will fight you to the death!"

His response was a sudden surge of mythical pressure from the Xuanhuang Chiyu. Ji Heng's figure appeared on the bridge, with thirty-three celestial phenomena appearing behind him. In each celestial realm, a phantom of a human emperor city pressed down.

"Two thousand years..." Ji Heng's voice echoed through the starry sky: "Have you not seized enough resources from Origin Star? What, you are allowed to plunder and loot, but have you never thought that you yourself will become prey?"

After speaking, the two Mythical Immortal Ship clones completely blasted back the half-dragon guardians who wanted to come to their aid. Not long after, the Three Corpse Super Mecha Giants also successfully seized the top-grade [Chaos Mirror Stone].

Throughout the entire ordeal, none of them paid any attention to the threat uttered by the Buddha.

If this were when Jiang Yuan had just been promoted, the Fire Spirit Civilization might have had some reservations. Now that Ji Heng has also become a Mythical Immortal Captain, and the Fire Spirit Civilization has two Mythical combatants, it is no longer in a state of unstable footing. Even among the top ten hegemonic civilizations currently recorded, the Fire Spirit Civilization is enough to rank in the lower middle.

Not to mention they have the Wizard Civilization as a full ally. The Shi Clan Civilization is indeed very strong, even stronger than the Wizard Civilization, but they don't have the ability to launch a full-scale war against the Torch Civilization across trillions of light-years.

"go!"

Without further ado, Song Chi and his companions obtained the top-grade [Chaos Mirror Stone] and simultaneously initiated hyperspace jumps on all five warships. Before long, all five warships disappeared from the Burial God Abyss region.

The instant they vanished, the Buddha's hand that emerged from the depths of the Burial God Abyss suddenly burst into flames, and billions of distorted faces appeared in the golden Buddha fire—if Song Chi were here, he would surely be able to capture that familiar gray mist energy in the pupils of these distorted faces.

Unfortunately, the five warships had already left, and no matter how ferocious and angry the countless gray mist faces were, they could only retreat back into the depths of the Burial God Abyss after a burst of impotent rage.

Only a chilling voice remained in the sky.

"Humanity that carries the torch..."

……

In fact, Song Chi and his group did this kind of thing countless times afterward, trying to seize the top-grade [Chaos Mirror Stone].

Over the past two thousand years, the Fire Civilization has collected an immeasurable amount of information in this Abyss of Burial Gods, but its strength has prevented it from doing so.

Now that Ji Heng has arrived with the [Xuanhuang Chiyu], along with two mythical immortal ship clones and three superdimensional mothership clones capable of combining into a three-corpse super-sized mecha giant, they essentially possess three mythical combat powers. There are very few enemies left who can threaten them now.

Two thousand eight hundred years after the Origin Star fell, a team of five successfully intercepted a seven-colored artifact from two mythical figures of the Rift Mountain Clan.

Four thousand years after the Origin Star fell, a team of five forcibly destroyed a tenth-tier Star Array Diagram Star-Slaying Grass.

Five thousand four hundred years after the Origin Star fell, a five-person team, at the cost of being wiped out by an eleventh-tier native fire-devouring giant, successfully seized a wisp of seven-colored fire seed, a rare artifact.

Six thousand years after the Origin Star fell, a five-person team joined forces with two mythical puppets from the Wizarding Civilization to ambush and kill a mythical dragon protector of the Shakya Clan, and then divided his thousands of years of spoils equally.

……

It can be said that with the arrival of Ji Heng, the strongest exploration team of the Xin Huo civilization completed the last piece of the puzzle. In the following thousands of years, they successively accomplished a series of major events involving mythology.

Of course, while many succeeded, it was more common for them to be completely wiped out or for one or two warship clones to sink. On one occasion, they even encountered the Sand Spirit Clan from more than a dozen transcendent forces. Five Sand Spirit Clan mythical units unleashed the Star Refining Sandstorm Array, which annihilated all of their warship clones in just two minutes.

……

On this day, another accident occurred, but this time only Song Chi's Tianxu Cangqiong mirror warship was involved in the accident.

Taking advantage of the more than one-month cooldown period of [Mirror Image], Song Chi first greeted Jiang Yuan and the others, and then went directly back to the Dragon Spine Continent through the Zhutian Market.

The Corpse Emperor Clan Galaxy Cluster, the Heavenly Corpse Galaxy.

As one of the ninety-two river systems under the Dragon Spine Song Clan, the Heavenly Corpse River System was originally just a river system with barren resources and vast area. However, recently, this river system has become the most watched place in the entire Corpse Emperor Clan river system cluster, and even the three river system clusters under the Firewood Civilization.

The reason is simple: the Dragon Spine Continent, which was brought here by the Star Shifting Merchant Guild, has recently reached the limit of the eighth-level floating continent. Furthermore, the Song Clan of Dragon Spine took the initiative to report to the four ancestral temples of the Fire of the Sea several years ago, announcing that the Dragon Spine Continent was about to break through to the ninth-level floating continent.

Following the announcement of this news, and after negotiations between the four ancestral temples of the Fire of the Gods and the high-ranking officials of the Song Clan of Dragon Spine, millions of Fire of the Gods warships have now gathered on the Dragon Spine Continent, all of them here to bathe in the primordial energy tide of the ninth-level floating continent.

Deep within the core of the Dragon Ridge Continent, the Song Dynasty Plain stands silently.

Above the core of the floating continent's origin light, a miniature version of the [Immovable King] hovered. Song Shiyuan looked back, and upon hearing Song Chi's signal, he unhesitatingly tossed the 60% concentration of the level-nine floating continent's origin core towards the Dragon Spine Continent's origin core.

Buzz!
On the surface of the Dragon Ridge Continent, after a series of tremors, waves of energy swept across the entire continent.

"It's done! The ninth-level energy tide is about to arrive. Get ready!"

"Dragon Spine Continent has successfully advanced to level nine!"

……

Amidst cheers from the hearts of countless captains, the vast tide of primordial energy from the ninth-level floating continent arrived quickly.

Under the baptism of this level nine energy tide, Song Shiyuan's Immovable King successfully advanced, without even needing Song Chi to use the [Time Chessboard], succeeding directly in one go.

"Koike, you did it!"

As the Fudo Myo-o ship finally came to a stop at 1.8 million kilometers, Song Shiyuan's face broke into an uncontrollable smile.

Song Chi was also quite happy.

From then on, the Song family of Dragon Spine had one superdimensional captain, three starship captains, and nearly a hundred star-destroying captains.

Although there is still a considerable gap compared to the other four families, the gap between the two sides is widening compared to other major powers. Moreover, the Song family has more than ninety river systems under its direct control, which is unmatched by other major powers. As time goes by, the gap between the two sides will only widen.

Moreover, this is not the end. With Ji Heng's successful breakthrough, Jiang Yuan, Ji Heng, Ying Yi, Pei Dinan, and Song Chi have agreed that once the Origin Star operation ends, the Torch Civilization will resume its expansion. This time, they will continue south along the Corpse Emperor Clan's river system cluster to once again annex new river system clusters.

In the five people's plan, the Fire Civilization should expand to at least four river system clusters, and if all goes well, five river system clusters would be even better.

In this process, the Song Clan of Dragon Spine will take the lead in establishing the Fifth Empire of the Torch. With the help of this title, the Song Clan's territory will only increase, guaranteed to be no less than three hundred river systems, or even four hundred river systems. And this will only accelerate the accumulation of the Song Clan's foundation.

However, all of this is a story for later. At this moment, after telling Song Shiyuan to go into seclusion as soon as possible, Song Chi's gaze immediately focused on the [Shedding of the Sky Python] in the core of the Dragon Spine Continent's origin.

This colorful and wondrous object had already accumulated over 60% of its energy thousands of years ago. Now, after thousands of years of dedicated nurturing by the Song family, its energy accumulation has reached 98%, leaving only one step before its final second transformation.

Furthermore, Song Chi possesses dozens of storage capsules, all containing exotic energy. As long as he retrieves this exotic energy, the 98% accumulation progress of the [Devouring Python's Molt] can be increased to 100% at any time.

However, Song Chi did not do that; before that, he needed to do something else.

A faint light flickered between his brows, and the [Dimensional Space Stone], already radiating black light, burst forth from the Ancestral Flame Aperture.

Song Chi gently tapped the [Dimensional Space Stone] with his right hand, and the next second, spatial ripples emanated from this strange object.

Swish!
Beside the [Dimensional Space Stone], a brand new crystal suddenly appeared, which was none other than a familiar [Chaos Mirror Stone].

However, this is not a top-grade Chaos Mirror Stone, but a high-grade Chaos Mirror Stone.

Song Chi waved his hand, and the superior-grade [Chaos Mirror Stone] flew towards the [Heaven-Devouring Python's Molt]. Instantly, the entire core space shimmered with multicolored light.

After an unknown amount of time, when the multicolored light dissipated, the [Shedding of the Sky Python] artifact had actually increased from one to two. More importantly, the "Essence Devouring Transformation" attribute of the mirror image of the [Shedding of the Sky Python] showed that its energy absorption progress was also 98%/100%.

"really!"

Seeing that his long-held guess had been correct, Song Chi's lips curled up.

However, things quickly turned around. The dozens of storage capsules in his hand were opened one by one, and a large amount of alien energy began to be frantically injected into the two [Heavenly Python Molts].

Just over ten minutes later, the two [Shedding of the Sky-Devouring Python] trembled simultaneously, as if they had touched a certain boundary. Immediately afterwards, the five-colored light they emitted began to flash wildly, and finally, the five-colored light transformed into seven colors.

Looking at their attributes again, they are quite different from before.

[Rare Item: The Shedding Skin of the Sky-Devouring Python (Mirror Image)]

[Quality: Color/Extreme]

[Convertible to: None]

【Effects: {Mythical Metamorphosis} {Tricolor Spirit Seal} {Ancient Python Spirit} {Devouring Metamorphosis} {Holy Blood Baptism} {Sumeru Python Belly} {Sumeru Extraction} {Companion Python Spirit} {Sumeru Devouring Heaven}】

[Note: The molted skin of an ancient mythical seven-colored, sky-devouring python, after being baptized by strange energy, transformed into a colorful mythical artifact.]

{Mythical Metamorphosis: Actively evolves a designated artifact to a higher quality level. The evolved artifact's rank cannot be higher than or equal to that of the [Heaven-Devouring Python's Metamorphosis]. The cooldown time depends on the quality of the evolved artifact, with a minimum of one thousand years and a maximum of two hundred thousand years.}
{Tricolor Spirit Seal: Imprints the "Devouring Python Spirit Seal" onto a designated creature. The imprinted creature will develop a special connection with the Devouring Python's molted body. Current Spirit Seal slots: (100000/100000).}
{Devouring Metamorphosis: [Shedding of the Sky-Devouring Python] Inherits the devouring talent of the mythical Sky-Devouring Python, capable of devouring various energies to evolve (currently reached its evolution limit, cannot evolve further).}
{Sumeru Extraction: Beings possessing the (Devouring Python Spirit Seal) have the privilege of extracting fifty items from the {Sumeru Python's Belly} every hundred years, regardless of spatial limitations. This privilege cannot be stacked and is recalculated after one hundred years.}
{Companion Python Spirit: Infants possessing the original bloodline factors of the Devouring Python's molt are born with a special python spirit, which will display various extraordinary talents as the infant grows.}
{Sumeru Devours the Heavens: Commands the summoned ancient mythical serpent spirit to gather all its energy and unleash a devastating devour on the designated target, dealing terrifying damage.}
After evolving into a colored extreme level, the attributes of this strange object became even more astonishing, and even with Song Chi's current perspective, he couldn't help but admire it.

However, that was clearly not what he was concerned about at the moment. With a thought, the [Shedding of the Sky-Devouring Python], which was attached to the core of the Dragon Spine Continent's origin, flashed with a faint light, and a beam of colorful light shot out from it, heading straight for the [Dragon Whale Palace], which was also in the core of the origin.

It was Song Chi who actively activated the "Mythical Metamorphosis" attribute of the [Heavenly Python Metamorphosis], and the target of the metamorphosis was the [Dragon Whale Palace], which was of lower color rank.

[The Metamorphosis of the Devouring Python] has already advanced to the highest level of the color category, and can evolve from a three-color wonder to a five-color wonder. [The Dragon Whale Palace], as the clan's treasured wonder of the Dragon Spine Song Clan, may have been enough before, but when the clan joins the ranks of the fifth pillar royal family of the Fire-Burning Humans, a soul-guarding wonder of the lower color category will be somewhat insufficient.

Buzz!
The light shone brightly, and the tricolor light slowly faded away, transforming into a five-colored light.

Song Chi clicked again to check the specific attributes of the [Dragon Whale Palace]. After confirming that it had evolved into a high-quality colored item and that all its attributes had received a qualitative improvement, he turned his attention to the mirror image of the [Heavenly Devouring Python's Molt] in his hand. After the [Dragon Whale Palace], it was naturally time to look at the various parts of the Sky Ruins Sky Ship.

However, Song Chi has not yet determined which component this evolution opportunity will be used on.

(End of this chapter)