National Star Sea Era...

The tremors of the bottomless abyss grew more and more violent. The distortion of rules and energy tides brought about by the forced leap to a higher dimension made the entire abyss extremely unstable.

The once clear spacetime structure began to blur, and the repulsive and suppressive force from the will of the abyss, like a rising tide, began to act on all beings that were not of the abyss faction.

"withdraw!"

The God-King of Rending Heaven made a decisive decision, and his resounding voice echoed in the hearts of all the surviving allied forces.

Staying here would have disastrous consequences if the Abyss were to complete its leap and fight on the enemy's home turf.

The remaining allied forces immediately retreated rapidly in the direction they had come from, which was the direction leading to the Star Sea, like the receding tide.

The Titans carried their wounded comrades, the Eternals erected the last starlight shield, the mechanical units of the Mighty Might reassembled into high-speed evacuation ships, and the survivors of the Origin Temple guided the starlight to open a relatively safe path.

However, would the Abyss Demons be willing to let these "resources" and future enemies leave so easily?

"Stop them! Leave as many as you can!" The demon god holding the [Dimensional Anchor] spoke coldly. Although the dimensional ascension plan had been thwarted, severely damaging or even preserving some of the allied forces' essence at this moment, especially Song Chi, the lord of the Heavenly Market who had repeatedly thwarted their plans, would be crucial for the future foundation of the Abyss.

In an instant, countless demons surged out of the shadows from all directions like mad dogs, launching a final and most frenzied attack.

The five Abyss Transcendent beings even personally took action, attempting to cut off the allied forces' retreat.

Among them, the one bearing the greatest pressure was Song Chi and the expeditionary fleet of the Torch Civilization he was protecting.

His previous performance was too dazzling—instantly killing Transcendent beings, summoning skeletal giants, destroying dimensional cores—making him a thorn in the side of the Abyss Demons.

At this moment, more than twenty mythical-level demons, led by two transcendent demons, rushed straight towards the Sky Ruins and the Firefly Fleet like sharks smelling blood.

"Protect the Emperor!"

"Form ranks, defend!"

Jiang Yuan, Ying Yi, and other human emperor clones roared, and the remaining Firefly fleet quickly contracted its formation, desperately building a defensive line. However, faced with such a terrifying disparity in troop strength, the defensive line was instantly on the verge of collapse.

At this critical moment, a cold glint flashed in Song Chi's eyes.

Instead of retreating with the fleet, he steered the Sky Ruins Azure Sky ship around sharply to face the surging demonic tide head-on.

"You go first, I'll stop you later!"

Before the words were finished, the battered skeletal giant that had been guarding him let out a silent roar. Its massive skeletal body unleashed its final brilliance and charged fiercely towards the transcendent demon at the forefront.

【White Bone Burial Sky Slash】!
The pale bone blade, carrying an endless aura of death, slashed fiercely at the ancient demon, forcibly intercepting it and engaging it in a fierce battle.

At the same time, Song Chi's mind raced, and the [Ring of Heavenly Authority Control] on the Sky Ruins suddenly lit up with a faint light.

"Enslavement Seal - Berserk, activate!"

A savage, violent power, willing to overdraw its own source, was instantly injected into the Time-Space Netherworld Dragon, which was closely connected to the Heavenly Ruins Sky. This powerful enslaved beast, which had already reached the eleventh rank, let out a dragon roar that shattered the void. Its aura surged wildly like a volcanic eruption, and the time-space scales on its body shimmered with unstable light. Its combat power temporarily surged to the limit level of the eleventh rank.

Unfortunately, the 12th-tier [Golden Apple] that he had painstakingly acquired was used on the [Mirror Image] component. The [Ring of Heavenly Authority] is currently only of five-colored quality and cannot truly make the Time-Space Netherworld Dragon temporarily go berserk to the 12th tier. Otherwise, Song Chi would not have needed to stay here and could have left everything to the Bone Giant and the Time-Space Netherworld Dragon.

However, that won't work right now. The eleventh-tier limit Time-Space Nether Dragon alone is not enough to stop a transcendent demon. We need the main body of the Heavenly Ruins Sky and the mirror warship to assist us.

"Roar!"

The Time-Space Netherworld Dragon's eyes were crimson, carrying a hint of pain from being burst by power and endless savagery. Its massive dragon body tore through space and directly confronted the second transcendent demon. The power of time and space clashed wildly with the rules of shadow, instantly engaging in a fierce battle.

Faced with the more than twenty mythical demons surging in like a tide, Song Chi activated the full potential of the [Battle Puppet Mother Tree] without hesitation.

hum!
The phantom of the mother tree took root in the void, burning its stored energy at any cost, and tenth and eleventh-tier battle puppets were frantically conceived and released like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

They had no intelligence, only the instinct to fight. Like the most loyal suicide soldiers, they formed lines of flesh and blood (metal/wood) to bravely confront the mythical demons, using self-destruction and their own bodies to block their path.

Boom boom boom——!
The rearguard battlefield instantly transformed into a more brutal meat grinder than the main battlefield, with skeletal giants clashing with transcendent mind-stealers, time-space Nether Dragons fighting to the death with transcendent demons, and countless war puppets perishing together with mythical demons.

Taking advantage of this precious gap gained at a great cost, the expeditionary fleet of the Torchfire Civilization, led by the avatars of Emperor Jiang Yuan and others, faced no further obstacles. They transformed into streaks of light, broke through the layers of demonic energy blockade, and sped towards the outside of Guixu Abyss and the direction of the Star Sea without looking back, following the passage opened up by the main force of the allied forces.

Song Chi stood atop the bridge of the Tianxu Cangqiong, coldly gazing at the horrific battlefield before him, and at the bottomless abyss that was rapidly undergoing a half-dimensional leap, its oppressive power growing ever more terrifying.

He could feel that the repulsive force of the abyss had become so strong that the seven-colored engine of the Sky Ruins had begun to hum due to overload.

it's time.

With a thought, the skeletal giant, which was entangled with the Transcendent Mind-Stealing Demon, suddenly erupted, temporarily forcing its opponent back, and then transformed into a stream of light and disappeared into the hull of the Sky Ruins Azure Sky.

On the other side, the Time-Space Netherworld Dragon was also recalled by the Divine Sense Mark the instant the effect of [Enslavement Mark - Berserk] ended and its aura plummeted. It was at the moment when it was forced back by the destructive beam attack generated by the Sky Ruins and the Mirror Battleship.

The next moment, all the engines of the Sky Ruins Azure Sky were running at full power. The chaotic light flowing around the ship tore through the increasingly viscous abyssal rules, transforming into a streak of light that surpassed all limits. It instantly disappeared in the direction in which the Torch Fleet had retreated.

The transcendent mind-stealer and the transcendent demon wanted to give chase, but found it was too late and could only let out a resentful roar.

When the bottomless abyss completed its final half-step leap, completely transforming into a semi-high-dimensional realm and radiating complete high-dimensional pressure, the last elite of the All-Star Alliance, including Song Chi and his flagship, had successfully escaped the abyss's range and returned to that familiar star sea.

Looking back, the enormous entrance to the abyss that had once devoured everything now seemed veiled by a veil of higher dimensions, becoming blurred and distant, an invisible barrier already formed. The bloody battle in the abyss had finally come to an end.

However, what attracted attention at this moment was not this. All the beings in the celestial seas who had escaped the bottomless abyss turned around at the same time, their eyes filled with endless sorrow and anger, watching the struggles and wails coming from behind them.

The semi-dimensional ascension process of the Abyss was faster than expected. Only a minority of the allied forces evacuated in advance. Most of the survivors failed to return to the Star Sea immediately. As a result, they were firmly isolated by the semi-high-dimensional barrier that the Abyss had initially formed, making it difficult for them to evacuate in the short term.

……

At the boundary between the starry sea and the abyss, the surviving allied warriors had just escaped the suffocating demonic energy field and had not yet felt the comfort of the starry sea's origin when the scene behind them gripped their hearts tightly.

Looking back, the once clearly visible entrance to the abyss was now shrouded in a constantly twisting and reinforcing semi-high-dimensional barrier. The barrier shimmered with iridescent light, yet exuded an aura of despairing isolation.

Behind that barrier, looming figures of countless allied warships, Titans, Eternal Starships, mechanical units, and powerful warriors from various races who failed to break through in time.

Like insects trapped in amber, they desperately attacked and crashed against the rapidly forming barrier.

Energy beams bombarded the barrier, only creating ripples; a massive warhammer crashed down as if striking ancient divine iron, the recoil causing the user to cough up blood; a powerful being skilled in space travel attempted to tear apart dimensions, only to find that the surrounding spacetime structure had been completely solidified and was indestructible.

"No! Let us go!"

"Your Majesty, Rift Heaven, save us!"

"The Eternal Progenitor—!"

Desperate cries, unwilling roars, dying moans... faintly echoed through the not-yet-completely-isolated barrier, like countless sharp knives, viciously scraping at the souls of every successful evacuee.

Most of them were units that had been severely damaged in the previous bloody battle in the Infernal Abyss and whose movements were slowed down, or were warriors who voluntarily stayed behind to cover the retreat of their comrades.

Among them were the backbone of the Titan Legion, elite mages of the Eternals, experienced Star Speakers from the Origin Star Temple, and a large number of the last seeds of medium to large-scale civilizations...

The God-King of Rending Heaven clenched his enormous fist, the light on his axe blade flashing intensely with extreme rage. He watched helplessly as a Titan commander who had followed him in battle for many years frantically pounded the barrier behind the fortress, only to be overwhelmed by the swarming monsters, letting out a final, unwilling roar.

The Eternal Ancestor was surrounded by fragments of time in disarray. He attempted to use the power of time to rewind a moment, but the semi-high-dimensional barrier had already begun to possess the ability to interfere with time, rendering his efforts futile. He could only watch as one by one, the Eternal Race members turned into eternal dust in the demonic flames.

The mechanical core of the Mother of All Machines emitted a piercing alarm, calculating countless rescue plans, but without exception, the result was failure.

Forcibly attacking the barrier will only accelerate its solidification and may even trigger a dimensional storm, completely annihilating the people inside.

The already severely injured body of the Origin Star God Lord trembled slightly, and the starlight dimmed, making it unbearable to look at.

A silent sorrow and overwhelming rage permeated the allied forces who had successfully withdrawn. They had won, preventing the abyss's perfect dimensional ascension and restoring life to the starry sea, but at such a terrible price, watching helplessly as countless comrades and brothers-in-arms were forever left in that infernal land that was about to become the enemy's territory.

Song Chi stood on the bridge of the Tianxu Cangqiong, his face as cold as iron. He saw several captains in the Xinhuo Fleet who had stayed behind to cover the main force but ultimately failed to break through. Their life signals abruptly stopped in the Xinhuo communication network before the barrier was completely closed.

He knew that the fate of these trapped allied forces was already sealed. They would not be able to hold out for long against the demons who had completed their initial leap and received the full support of the will of the abyss.

What awaits them is only death in battle, or... turning into nourishment for the abyss in endless torment.

"abyss……"

Song Chi murmured these two words, imprinting them deeply in his heart. The blood debt of today will be repaid a hundredfold in the future.

That semi-high-dimensional barrier finally solidified completely, like a huge, cold tombstone, separating the two worlds. The sounds and light behind the barrier completely disappeared, leaving only deathly silence and the abyssal pressure that faintly emanated from that space, making one's heart tremble.

The surviving allied forces, in a deathly silence, began to regroup, taking stock of their near-total casualties. With endless sorrow and deep-seated hatred, they embarked on their journeys home, heading towards their respective civilizations.

The bloody battle in the abyss came to an end in such a tragic and heroic way.

However, all living beings know that this is by no means the end. With this upheaval in the abyss, countless civilizations and forces have been destroyed in the starry sky, leaving a large number of resource-rich territories empty. These will inevitably become the focus of contention among the surviving civilizations in the future.

It is conceivable that in the near future, the celestial galaxies will once again descend into a bloody era of chaos, and this chaos will not easily end until a new overlord, mythical civilization, or power is determined.

……

Shattered star sea, ancestral land of the torch.

Not long after Song Chi, Jiang Yuan, and the remaining members of the Torch Expeditionary Force returned to their ancestral domain, the Torch Civilization convened another Supreme Civilization Conference. The topic of discussion was naturally the Torch Civilization's response to the impending new era of chaos.

The outcome of this issue was not too surprising. All forces advocated external expansion. Now that Song Chi, a transcendent warrior, was suppressing the situation, the Fire Spirit Civilization was already recognized as one of the transcendent forces in the vast starry sea. Under such circumstances, the Fire Spirit Civilization naturally had to take this opportunity to expand with all its might in order to make up for the lack of foundation caused by its short history of inheritance.

Finally, the meeting reached its final resolution.

Each of the five great empires of the Fire of the Gods led an expeditionary fleet, expanding in five different directions, while a host of mythical warriors resided in the Void City of the Heavens to provide support.

During this process, Song Chi received messages from the Eternals and the Titans, which essentially sought to reach a consensus: the three transcendent forces would each occupy their own territory and not interfere with each other's affairs.

Song Chi agreed without much hesitation.

The Shattered Star Sea is vast enough to accommodate not only three transcendent forces, but even ten or dozens. Moreover, it is only in its early stages now; hundreds of millions or even billions of years from now, the Shattered Star Sea will continue to expand. (End of Chapter)