High Martial Arts: Slay enemies to become stronger, forge invincibility from billions of corpses.

Upon closer inspection, Song Chen realized that each of those "small dots" was the entrance or exit of a biological warship.

Countless warships, like worms crawling out of the nest's skin, kept coming in and out.

The surface of the mother nest is covered with a dark red bony shell, which is covered with huge folds and pits like mountains, with a ghostly green light shining from the deepest pits.

The entire surrounding airspace was shrouded in a thin layer of red psionic mist, which was the hatchery released by the mother hive itself.

Any enemy that enters that red mist will have their psionic energy and life force continuously eroded.

"How are the Blood Erosion Civilization fighting now?" Song Chen asked again.

The Blue Spirit replied respectfully, "We've stopped launching large-scale attacks and switched to a war of attrition."

"The Blood-Eroded Mother Nest is currently located directly north of Tian Shu, releasing a large number of low-level units every day, like waves crashing against Tian Shu, which then attacks in waves."

"The fighting has lasted for half a year, with countless casualties on both sides."

"But the Blood-Corroded Mother Nest has regenerative capabilities; those low-level units die and are reborn, and are reborn and die again, endlessly."

"They are not in a hurry to break through Tian Shu, but rely on the Mother Nest to wear us down. As long as Tian Shu does not destroy the Mother Nest, our manpower will be worn down day by day."

"But there are several level 10 experts guarding the mother nest, and we are not confident that we can force our way in, so it is a pure war of attrition right now."

Song Chen stared at the enormous red life form in the image for a long time without saying a word.

Looking at this number, Song Chen realized that the difference between the eighth and ninth ranks was also a hundredfold. One needed to reach 10,000 points of Star Source Power to condense a True Star Core and become a ninth-rank True Star Realm cultivator.

The core of a true star is equivalent to condensing a completely real planet within the body.

Although Song Chen's star core is complete now, it still has a trace of illusory state. Only when it reaches 10,000 points of star source power will it be a star in the true sense.

He calculated that, at a normal pace, even with sufficient spiritual energy and resources, it would take a hundred years for a newly promoted eighth-tier cultivator to condense a hundred points of star source power.

Without a lucky break, it would take tens of thousands of years to accumulate 10,000 points.

But he didn't intend to calculate at the normal speed; he had a system and kill points.

What he needs to do now is to familiarize himself with the combat style of the eighth rank as soon as possible, and then return to Tian Shu to turn the entire battlefield into his training ground.

Song Chen gripped the meteorite knife.

For the first time, he did not use his qi and blood or spiritual power to drive the sword technique, but instead channeled the star source power within his body into the sword.

The power of stellar energy is completely different from qi and blood. When it flows, the meridians are like being injected with miniature galaxies, gentle yet profound.

Song Chen raised his hand and drew his knife.

The first strike of the Star-Splitting Slash.

The blade flashed past him, leaving a terrifying silver trail in the vacuum.

The blade flashed straight ahead, moving at more than twice the speed of before, covering tens of thousands of kilometers in the instant it was drawn.

Song Chen could feel the power contained within the blade's light. That power no longer came simply from brute force, but was propelled by the Star Source Power, carrying a cutting force with a real sense of presence.

Where the blade flashed, a very thin, transparent crack appeared in the space.

Song Chen sheathed the knife, examined the blade, and was very satisfied.

"good."

Then he fixed his gaze on a rocky asteroid in the distance.

The asteroid was tens of thousands of kilometers away, and it was an irregularly elongated shape, thick at both ends and thin in the middle, with a diameter of about two to three thousand kilometers.

Song Chen didn't know its name, nor did she care.

With a swift movement of his feet, he was transported directly there via a void teleportation device.

Now that he is at the eighth level, with the support of the star source power, he has traveled even further on the sixth level of the void traversal.

He stood atop the asteroid, looking down at the cratered, gray-black surface below. He slowly raised his knife, gripped the hilt with both hands, and focused all his attention on the blade.

As the stellar energy circulated within his body, it ignited as it passed through the stellar corona surrounding the star core, bursting forth with an extremely bright light.

"cut!"

Song Chen muttered something under his breath, and the blade flashed.

A golden beam of light shot out from the Meteor Blade, like a real galaxy pouring out from the blade.

The blade's edge was incredibly long, seemingly without end.

It flew out of Song Chen's hand and slashed straight into the center of the asteroid.

There was no explosion; Song Chen only saw an extremely thin line appear on the surface of the asteroid, stretching from the North Pole to the South Pole.

Then the asteroid emitted a dull thud; instead of shattering into pieces, it split in two.

The two massive rock formations slowly separated, the break being remarkably smooth, like a watermelon sliced ​​open by a knife that spans the heavens and the earth.

Song Chen stood above one half of the cut, staring blankly at the terrifyingly clean cut. Was this what it felt like to destroy a star with a single strike?

With a single stroke, it cleaved a rocky asteroid, two to three thousand kilometers in diameter, as easily as cutting tofu.