National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 899 [Multi-Crystal Wall Corruption Poisonous Mushroom]

Song Chi was unaware of what was happening in the outside world. Under his control, the [Tianxu Cangqiong] mirror warship, like a silent infiltrator, struggled through the thick and deadly dark green spore mist.

The replica of the absolute purification domain created by the [Alien Bio-Energy Purification Sculpture] resembles a bubble that is constantly being eroded and regenerated, keeping endless viral spores at bay and emitting a continuous, unsettling "hissing" sound.

The deeper you go, the higher the density and the more invasive the spores become, even evolving into all sorts of bizarre and wonderful forms.

Sometimes they coalesce into twisted, ghostly faces and howl as they pounce; sometimes they transform into tough, biological tentacles that attempt to entangle the ship's hull; and sometimes they spray down like a torrential downpour of active acid.

Under this frenzied and high-frequency erosion, the purification field is under immense strain. It is only because the mirror warship is equipped with two colored engines that it could not sustain such consumption.

In addition, there is bad news: the scanning range of the replicated [Eye of Truth] has been compressed to its limit, and it can only barely outline a blurry contour of hundreds of billions of kilometers ahead.

While the numbers may seem large, they are not much different from being blind, especially considering that the Spore Nebula has a diameter measured in light-years.

Fortunately, Song Chi had accurate coordinates to guide him, and the warship was slowly heading towards the core area of ​​the spore nebula where the energy reaction was most intense and chaotic.

After an unknown amount of time, suddenly, a silent roar (or more accurately, a violent energy shock) came through the spore mist, powerful enough to tear apart the souls of ordinary creatures.

Immediately afterwards, an unimaginably large shadow suddenly lunged out from the side and front.

It was an indescribable monster. It could still vaguely make out the outline of some kind of cosmic behemoth, but its body had long been completely assimilated and mutated by dark green viral spores. Its body surface was covered with a thick, constantly wriggling and multiplying spore carpet, forming a disgusting structure resembling tumors and pustules.

Several parts that might have originally been tentacles or limbs have now become twisted, whip-like structures made of solidified spore dust and violent energy.

Its entire body emanated chaotic and violent mythical-level energy fluctuations, but its life form had been completely mutated, leaving only the most primitive instincts of devouring and destruction.

—A mythical behemoth deeply infected by mutant virus spores, undergoing a horrific mutation.

This mutated behemoth clearly saw the suddenly intruding mirror warship as its greatest threat and its most delicious prey, and launched an attack without hesitation.

Its enormous body stirred up the sea of ​​spores, and an "arm" composed of highly concentrated viral spores and destructive energy slammed down.

boom!
The mirror ship's energy shield rippled violently. Although it was not broken, it dimmed for a moment, and the alarm system inside the ship flashed silently.

"It's around the initial stage of the tenth tier, but its attacks are accompanied by extremely strong life-corrosion and energy pollution characteristics..."

Song Chi made a quick judgment through the soul link, but he wasn't too worried. Even though the current environment was unfavorable to him, he still believed that the mirror warship was enough to handle the ordinary mythical combat power of the early stage of the tenth rank.

The warship quickly retaliated, its secondary gun array lighting up. Enhanced energy beams were precisely aimed at the ever-proliferating "tumor" nodes on the surface of the mutated behemoth. At the same time, the warship was fully maneuverable, making amazing evasive maneuvers in the virus-filled fog space, dodging the mythical mutated behemoth's frenzied attacks and the spore spikes that kept bursting from its body.

The battle was extremely fierce. The mutated behemoth had no reason, felt no pain, and attacked in a ferocious and direct manner. Moreover, it could mobilize the endless spore mist around it to replenish its own consumption and even repair its damage.

The attacks from the mirror ship often inflict huge wounds on it, but more spores quickly flood in to fill the gaps, allowing it to recover at a visible rate.

Seeing this, Song Chi, who had only intended to test the waters, did not continue to entangle with them and directly controlled the mirror warship to leave the battlefield.

Although this tenth-tier mythical virus-mutated behemoth's strength is only at an ordinary level among mythical-ranked beings, in this environment, it is by no means something that the Mirror Warship can completely eliminate in a short time. The key right now is to find that mythical artifact, and it is not advisable to waste any more time here.

In fact, Song Chi's initial idea was not like this. It wasn't until he actively activated the "Twelve Lives Chessboard" characteristic of the replica [Time Chessboard] that this colorful characteristic, which was quite effective even against eleventh-tier mythical units, unexpectedly ran into trouble when facing this mythical mutated behemoth.

The effect was still there, but it only weakened the layer of mutant virus spores accumulated on the surface of the mutated behemoth. Before the mirror warship could find an opportunity to attack, countless virus spores had already surged out from the thick fog around it, filling the spore layer on its body that had been mostly wiped out.

It was precisely because replicating the [Time Chessboard] failed to bring out its full potential that Song Chi decisively ordered the mirror warship to leave the battlefield.

After a clever feint, the replica of the mirror warship, the Void Cloud Boat model, was activated. With a spatial fluctuation, the warship disappeared from the battlefield, teleporting several light-years away, intending to bypass the behemoth blocking its path.

However, before Song Chi could relax, the alarm for replicating the [Eye of Truth] blared again—two shadows of different shapes, but both exuding the aura of mythical distortion, suddenly appeared ahead.

"Tsk, it's really troublesome..."

"Able to interfere with so many mythical-level cosmic behemoths, I wonder what the parent organism of these mutant virus spores is?"

Song Chi cursed under his breath, but he remained calm. Wasn't this the greatest significance of bringing the mirror warship?

With no threat to his life, Song Chi controlled the mirror warship, dodging whenever possible and repeatedly dealing with these irrational mythological mutants.

Sometimes it forcibly blasts open the road with absolute firepower, sometimes it uses spatial means to evade, and sometimes it uses the purification field to restrain the virus spores and interfere with the recovery ability of the mutated variant.

Finally, after seven battles with different mythological variants, the warship broke through the densest blockade and arrived at the final coordinates marked by the Eye of Truth—the very core of the Spore Nebula.

The scene here, unlike the chaotic and violent outer layer, presents a strange kind of "order".

The dark green spore mist thinned out considerably, but became more condensed, as if a liquid energy stream was slowly swirling.

At the center of these energy flows, space presents an unnatural distortion and folding, like a piece of cloth forcibly kneaded by an invisible force.

However, Song Chi's purpose this time was precisely this spatial fold region. In the very center of that fold space, a soft and stable tri-colored radiance floated quietly, completely isolated from the viral spores outside. These viral spores had no idea of ​​the existence of this tri-colored artifact. Otherwise, the [Eye of Truth] would probably no longer be able to display its coordinates, since the artifacts corresponding to the "Mythical Coordinates" characteristic can only be unclaimed artifacts.

However, Song Chi was not happy about this; instead, his face became solemn and his heart sank.

Because at the edge of that spatial fold, an even larger and more chilling dark shadow was lurking and lying in wait.

It has no fixed form; it is more like an ever-changing, expanding and contracting ultimate darkness. The occasional glimpses of its structure resemble a collection of countless viral sequences, or the ultimate source of all life distortions.

Its life-giving aura is ancient and obscure, carrying a cold, deathly aura that seems to assimilate all things. The surrounding spore energy flows around it like a docile pet, flowing slowly and being silently absorbed and transformed by it.

Clearly, this thing is the source of all the variant virus spores in this spore nebula, the unknown and terrifying mythical virus mother.

The only good news is that it seems to be in a deep slumber or dormancy at the moment, with most of its consciousness immersed in the endless process of infecting and assimilating this nebula and even the more distant void. Even so, the pressure it unconsciously exudes has caused a slight stagnation in the energy operation of the mirror warship.

Song Chi had no doubt that the virus's parent body was at the peak of the eleventh rank, and might even have touched the threshold of the twelfth rank.

Its level of danger far exceeds that of the eleventh-tier Primordial Mother Queen outside.

"We must get the item quietly and leave immediately!" Song Chi composed himself and made the wisest decision.

He controlled the mirror warship, reducing the power of all components except for the [Three Realms and Five Elements Certificate] and the engine, which was kept to a minimum, to the lowest possible level, in order to minimize energy fluctuations.

Then, I carefully activated the ultimate feature of replicating the [Three Realms and Five Elements Token]—

Beyond the Three Realms, and outside the Five Elements!
hum...

A barely perceptible spatial ripple spread out, and the colors of the entire mirror warship rapidly faded, its form becoming blurred and transparent, eventually merging completely into nothingness, as if it had been completely erased from the current dimension of the universe. Energy signals, the existence of matter, and even causal connections were all temporarily isolated at this moment.

Entering this state of absolute nothingness, the mirror warship instantly became as if it did not exist, silently and slowly "drifting" towards that spatial fold area, carefully avoiding the sleeping virus matrix, and approaching that tricolor artifact.

The process was slow and agonizing. With each step forward, Song Chi could feel the terrifying pressure emanating unconsciously from the virus's mother, as if he were dancing on a knife's edge.

Finally, at a certain moment, the mirror warship arrived next to the tricolor artifact.

An invisible beam of light was emitted, carefully enveloping the tricolor artifact. The artifact trembled slightly, seemingly resisting instinctively, but was quickly pulled along by the warship's beam of light and slowly moved towards the ship.

However, just as the strange object was about to be incorporated into the warship's interior space, a sudden change occurred.

The tricolor artifact seemed to have some extremely subtle connection with this special spatial fold; when it was moved, it caused a ripple in the spatial structure that was almost imperceptible.

This ripple was so faint that it went unnoticed by most people.

However, for the mythical virus mother, which was lurking nearby and almost integrated with this core area, this extremely subtle spatial disturbance was like a faint chime in the dead of night.

In an instant!
The ever-changing ultimate darkness suddenly paused, and then, an indescribably enormous pair of "eyes," composed of pure death and madness, seemed to open abruptly from the endless void, instantly locking onto the area of ​​spatial folds that had just begun to ripple.

Although it could neither see nor sense the mirrored warship in a state of "absolute nothingness," it was 100% certain that something was there.

Something has entered its territory and is threatening its safety.

Oh oh oh!
A series of terrifying howls, not transmitted through the air but acting directly on space, energy, and even the very essence of life, suddenly erupted.

The core area of ​​the entire Spore Nebula instantly boiled over. Endless viral spores, like an enraged swarm of bees, surged wildly, and the dark green energy flow transformed into destructive shockwaves that swept indiscriminately in all directions.

The war is about to break out!
The mirrored warship, in a state of nothingness, was not directly hit by the violent impact, but it was like a small boat in a storm, rocking violently.

In the marketplace of the heavens, Song Chi remained calm and unhurried. In his hand, he held a tricolor artifact, which was none other than a tricolor lower-level target artifact sent back from the mirror warship.
"Perfect, let me see just what you are!!!"

With a thought, the mirrored warship in the core area of ​​the Spore Nebula no longer hid and exited from the void. Immediately afterwards, the hull of the warship below quickly opened, and endless white bones shot out from it. The newly conceived eleventh-order white bone giant quickly condensed into shape.

Apart from that, there were no other movements. Holding a giant white sword made entirely of mythical white bones, the eleventh-tier white bone giant roared as it charged toward the mysterious viral spore origin.

Boom!

A mushroom cloud of eleventh-order mythical energy bloomed in the starry sky, and terrifying energy shockwaves swept in all directions. The core area of ​​this spore nebula was even briefly transformed into a vacuum zone, which shows just how terrifying the power of the two sides in this collision was.

However, Song Chi was not focused on that at the moment. His eyes were wide open, and through the soul link with the mirror warship, he briefly saw the original appearance of the mysterious virus spore mother in another scene in his mind.

It was a multicolored organism, resembling a fungus that exists on many floating lands, but of course, its size was many times larger.

With his mind racing, Song Chi immediately transmitted the images captured by the mirror warship to the [Sky Brain].

Finally, the [Sky Brain] lived up to expectations, and with the support of its massive computing power, it quickly found the most accurate answer in the warship's vast database.

Before the era of the Shattered Star Sea, in the era of the multiverse, there existed a super spore virus prototype—the [Multiverse Crystal Wall Corruption Toxic Mushroom]!
(End of this chapter)