National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 872 Nine Heavens Breath Soil
Inside the Ruins of the Heavens.

Song Chi's gaze was fixed on the cold jade box floating in front of him.

On the surface of the box, layers of sealing talismans shimmered with a faint light, desperately suppressing the surging spiritual energy of the three pills inside.

Even through the extremely strong seal, the exotic fragrance that seemed to originate from the source of the Great Dao still seeped out in wisps, causing his soul to continuously feel comfortable throbbing. Even though he was currently distracted by controlling the mirror warship, he still felt that his mind was clearer than when he was at his peak.

"The Elixir of Transcending Calamity and Breaking Through to Sainthood..."

He muttered something under his breath, while simultaneously reaching out with his fingertips to lightly touch the cold jade box, feeling the terrifying energy contained within, enough to stir up towering waves in the shattered star sea.

The value of the supreme eleventh-tier saintly pill, which assists in the breakthrough to the eleventh-tier saintly position, cannot be measured by ordinary mythical souls or tri-colored or five-colored mythical artifacts.

This is a treasure powerful enough to drive even ancient mythical beings, dormant for countless eons, mad and willing to ignite a war of civilizations.

For him right now, this is a huge guarantee for his future efforts to break through to the top.

However, what he is considering now is whether it would be a waste to use this pill, which is of such a high grade, to break through from the ninth to the tenth grade.
However, they didn't dwell on it for too long.

His eyes darted around rapidly, and the next second Song Chi casually waved his hand.

Oh oh oh!
The power of the Heavenly Ruins and the Mythical Rules of the Celestial Dome surged forth, quickly condensing into a special sphere of light in the sky. However, guided by Song Chi, this sphere of light slowly descended and finally poured into the main control room of the Celestial Ruins and the Sky Dome through the ship's hatch.

At the control panel, Song Chi raised his hand and took out one of the three [Crossing Calamity Primordial Breaking Saint Pills] from the sealed box. After resealing the box, he slowly threw out the [Crossing Calamity Primordial Breaking Saint Pill] from his palm, and then a surprising scene appeared.

The [Crossing Calamity Primordial Breaking Saint Pill] that was thrown out seemed to be inexplicably attracted, and slowly drifted towards the quietly floating orb of rules above the main control panel.

Finally, the [Transcending Calamity Primordial Saint-Breaking Pill] completely disappeared into the sphere of rules, and only when it reached the very center of the sphere did this eleventh-level super eleventh-grade elixir finally stop moving.

After that, the dense power of the Great Dao rules inside the sphere of rules began to swirl around the [Crossing Calamity Primordial Breaking Saint Pill], and the two seemed to be undergoing some kind of peculiar chemical reaction.

Song Chi had anticipated this. After completing this step, he withdrew his gaze and stopped paying attention to the rule orb and the Crossing Calamity Primordial Breaking Saint Pill. Instead, his gaze shifted downwards and landed on the bronze pill furnace covered with verdigris.

The orb of light was formed by him deliberately controlling the power of mythical figures in the myriad heavens and markets, with the aim of fully analyzing the pharmacology and efficacy of the [Crossing Calamity Primordial Breaking Saint Pill].

Although the tattered jade slip vaguely described the effects of the [Crossing Calamity Primordial Breaking Saint Pill], how could he completely believe such a one-sided account?
It's always better to test it yourself than to be wrong, isn't it?
The key is that with the support of the mythical status of the Heavenly Ruins, he is fully capable of doing this; it will just take him a little more time.

As the saying goes, "better safe than sorry," and at this final juncture before he was about to break through to the mythical realm and enter true eternity, he absolutely could not allow himself to fail at the last moment.

In addition, he also wanted to use this analysis to see if the [Crossing Calamity Primordial Breaking Saint Pill] could be used on the Firewood Warship.

If it could be used as an additional upgrade resource for the superdimensional mothership to challenge the mythical immortal ship, or even for the mythical immortal ship to challenge the mythical origin ship, its value would undoubtedly be even higher.

A dark light flickered in his eyes, and the shadow of the ninth-level double pupils appeared in his eyes.

During his previous trip to the Myth Origin Star, he not only obtained the corpse of the Ice Winged Dragon God, but also secretly acquired three more mythical corpses during the battle on the far south plate.

Thanks to the abundant supply of mythical flesh and blood, not only the Asura Emperor benefited, but also the Chongming Divine Bird "Chongyu" and the Ninth-Order Dragon Spine Tyrant Whale, among others, received significant upgrades.

With the power of the ninth-order double pupils and the blessing of the mythical status of the market, Song Chi's eyes' ability to capture and analyze reached almost its limit. Even though the bronze furnace was covered with patina, it could not hide its restrained charm.

It can withstand the power of an eleventh-tier immortal pill for countless years; this alone makes it far from ordinary.

Unfortunately, after a brief examination, Song Chi was able to determine that the bronze alchemy furnace was not a rare artifact from the Star Sea.

Before he could investigate further, another scene deep in his mind suddenly went black. Through the faint connection that still existed, he understood that the mirror warship on the Immortal Realm Continent had sunk.

……

Deep within the Immortal Realm Continent lies the site of the ancient Immortal Sect, a former civilization of the Immortal Realm.

Deep in the sky, the mirror warship, which had been fleeing all the way, finally failed to shake off its pursuers. Three, no, four gray mist energy bodies, each with a different shape but as large as mountains and with an aura ten times more terrifying than the previous pursuers, emerged from the boiling gray mist sea like world-destroying demons awakening from an ancient slumber, revealing their ferocious outlines.

Their forms defy description; they may be indescribable entities formed from countless twisted limbs, or enormous eyes seemingly compressed from billions of wailing souls, or dark singularities that constantly collapse and expand, radiating absolute stillness...

They were merely suspended in the void, and the surrounding space was constantly being violently distorted and torn apart.

The laws and rules seemed to be wailing, light was being swallowed up, and time became chaotic.

The chaotic, violent energy emanating from them, filled with endless destructive desires, wove together into a giant net covering the heavens and the earth. On one hand, it tightly sealed the wreckage of the sunken mirror warship, and on the other hand, it spread downwards, fixing the slowly shrinking and extremely unstable vortex of the secret realm space, preventing it from disappearing into the void again.

"Roar--!!!"

The silent roar transformed into a tangible energy surge, like billions of thunderbolts exploding simultaneously. The entire continent of Immortal Gate ruins trembled violently, and many more mountains were reduced to dust in the roar.

They seemed to have sensed it, sensed that the most valuable thing in the secret realm below had been taken by the mirror warship, something equally important to them!

One of the gray mist energy entities, resembling a rotting giant tree with branches made of wriggling tentacles, suddenly pulled out a huge tentacle spanning tens of thousands of meters. Instead of striking the spatial vortex, it slammed into the mirror warship that had been revived through the "Twelve Lives of Life and Death Chess".

Boom!

The mirror warship, which had just been revived, was torn apart again, the eerie light surrounding its hull dissipated once more, and it sank once more.

This time, Song Chi, far away in the Zhutianxu City, suddenly narrowed his eyes, and this time he felt it very clearly.

"Eleventh rank!"

Indeed, that gray mist energy body, resembling a rotting giant tree but with branches made of wriggling tentacles, was an eleventh-order mythical being.

This also explains why the mirror warship, which could withstand a tenth-tier mythical attack, sank again after just one hit.

Although he had already guessed that there might be an eleventh-level gray mist energy body on the ruins of the Immortal Realm Continent, Song Chi's heart was still racing wildly when it actually appeared before his eyes.

Having realized this, he no longer hesitated. "[Mirror Image], cancel the mirror warship!"

Even when facing four tenth-tier mythical units, he still held onto the possibility of the mirror warship escaping unscathed. But eleventh-tier mythical units were different; they were the strongest beings below the transcendent beings, and were on a completely different level from tenth-tier mythical units.

As the command was issued, the other scene deep in Song Chi's mind suddenly went black, completely severing his connection with the Immortal Realm ruins.

"Eleventh-order gray mist energy bodies... It seems that the real culprit that caused the sudden destruction of the Immortal Realm civilization was undoubtedly these special gray mist energy bodies."

As he muttered to himself, Song Chi's brows furrowed. The image of the eleventh-tier gray mist twisted giant tree making its move flashed through his mind. Previously, he was more shocked and bewildered by the boundless power of the eleventh-tier mythical tree. Now, as he looked back, he sensed something amiss.

"I have a feeling that their methods are strangely familiar..."

In his mind, the image of the eleventh-tier gray mist giant tree energy body attacking him kept repeating in his mind.

No matter how he looked at it, he felt a strange sense of familiarity with the other party's moves, but when asked to pinpoint exactly what made them familiar, he didn't know where to begin.

Just then, [Mirror Image] was on cooldown, so there was no need to focus on controlling the mirror warship. Song Chi did not give up, but instead used all his brainpower to get to the bottom of it.

With his brain working at high speed, Song Chi lost track of time and how much time had passed before his eyes suddenly lit up.

"Yes, the power of chaos. The attack unleashed by that eleventh-tier twisted giant tree energy body just now contained wisps of chaotic power..."

Thinking of this, Song Chi made up his mind instantly.

Although the wisps of chaotic power were extremely weak, they still couldn't escape Song Chi's powerful ability to detect them.

"The power of chaos... could it be related to the abyss?"

Upon hearing the words "Power of Chaos," Song Chi instinctively thought of the Bottomless Abyss. As everyone knows, whether in the myriad realms or the Chaos Divine Continent, there are very few beings who follow the path of chaos and rules. On the contrary, the Bottomless Abyss is the source of chaos in the myriad star seas, and ninety-nine percent of all abyss demons follow the path of chaos.

Having deduced this, Song Chi's heart gradually sank.

If this is true, then the once-mighty Immortal Realm civilization was indeed destroyed by the bottomless abyss, and the implications must be immense.

However, on the other hand, the myriad realms have quite a bit of knowledge about the bottomless abyss.

As a chaotic origin of many eras, it has been explored countless times by various mythological civilizations from all over the world, including the peak races of the Chaos God Continent. Even the deepest layers of the bottomless abyss have been explored, and most of them have already been investigated.

That is why, no one has ever heard of a demonic race resembling this gray mist energy body appearing in the Bottomless Abyss.

"The possibility is not high!"

For a time, Song Chi's mind was filled with countless thoughts. It wasn't until several months later, when the [Mirror Image] component had cooled down again, that he was able to gather all his wandering thoughts and summon the Mirror Warship once more to begin a new exploration of the Immortal Realm continent ruins.

Although the existence of an eleventh-order gray mist energy body at the Immortal Realm ruins was quite dangerous, Song Chi's determination to continue exploring was not greatly affected. Besides the inherent low margin for error of the mirror warship, there was another important reason.

The Six Ding Divine Fire remains missing.

The purpose of restarting the exploration of the Immortal Realm continent ruins is not primarily to search for special resources to assist in the cultivation of advanced guiding techniques, but rather to obtain the [Six Ding Divine Fire] and repair the damaged [Creation Eight Trigrams Furnace].

Now that the [Six Ding Divine Fire] is still nowhere to be found, he is naturally unwilling to give up easily.

……

In the low skies above the Eternal Dark Immortal Realm, mirror warships moved like ghosts across the desolate continent.

With his mind highly focused, Song Chi carefully examined the ruins passing below using the various scanning components of the warship.

While using the [Heavenly Mandate Compass] to search for clues about the [Six Ding Divine Fire], he was also keeping an eye out for any possible remnants that had not been completely eroded by the gray fog.

The Immortal Realm civilization was once extremely glorious, with more than one eleventh-order saint. As the ancestral continent of civilization, he believed that the cultural treasures left on the ruins of the Immortal Realm were far more than imagined.

On this day, as the warship glided over a large mountain range, the replica [Ultrasonic Geomagnetic Detector] transmitted abnormal feedback.

The feedback source is located deep in a canyon in the heart of this mountain range. The energy signal there is completely different from the deathly filth of other areas. It exudes a faint yet exceptionally pure life force and aquatic spiritual energy, and there is also an extremely subtle high-energy reaction, as if some powerful energy source is being sealed and nurtured layer by layer.

"Something's there!" Song Chi's mind sharpened, and he immediately manipulated the mirror warship to descend, carefully diving into the canyon.

The canyon is extremely deep, with the cliffs on both sides covered with terrifying claw marks and corrosive marks left by battle. The deeper you go, the more obvious the pure life force becomes, even dispelling some of the lingering gray mist and forming a small, fragile sanctuary.

Finally, in a recessed area cleverly concealed by natural rock walls at the bottom of the valley, Song Chi discovered the source of the anomaly.

It was a small spiritual field, about an acre in size. The soil was not an ordinary color, but a deep, moist, and mysterious black. Strands of pure innate spiritual energy breathed in and out of the soil like breathing—it was the highest level of the Immortal Realm civilization, the [Nine Heavens Breath Soil], as recorded in the ancient texts.

In the center of the spiritual field, a miraculous fruit tree took root.

Its trunk is gnarled and twisted like a dragon, and its bark is cracked, yet it flows with a shimmering watery light. Its branches and leaves are not emerald green, but a moist cyan that contains endless vitality. When the leaves sway, it is as if the sound of flowing water can be heard, which can cleanse the mind and soul.

Dozens of fruits hang scattered on the branches of the fruit tree. Each fruit is about the size of a large bowl, flat and round in shape, with a white skin that is tinged with red. However, on that red blush, mysterious purple patterns have naturally formed, like the maxims of the Great Dao, emitting a strange fragrance and a powerful energy that makes people's souls tremble.

The roots of the fruit trees were soaking in a clear spring, no more than ten feet in diameter. The spring was bubbling and overflowing with not ordinary spring water, but a spiritual liquid that shimmered with a faint glow. Its purity far surpassed any spiritual spring Song Chi had ever seen before.

“This is…” Song Chi’s breath hitched slightly, and his eyes flashed with a brilliant light.

He vaguely recognized the miraculous fruit tree; although he wasn't entirely sure, the resemblance was striking.

If it truly is the super innate spiritual root he remembers, its value would be unimaginable!

(End of this chapter)