Global Era of Star Trekking

Chapter 1233: Chapter 661: Final Test of the Soul Devouring Altar (Make-up for yesterday’s update)

The excitement just flashed by, and soon this group of Eight-Armed Snake Demons sensed an extreme threat of death from the rapidly shooting Blood Spears.

That was only the Blood Spears, following them were dense purple lightning flashes.

However, the first thing to hit the target was neither the Blood Spear nor the purple lightning, but two subtle golden lights.

The two golden lights were hard to detect with the naked eye. One was bright gold, while the second was significantly dimmer. The first to penetrate the body of the leading Seventh Rank Eight-Armed Snake Demon was the bright golden glow.

As soon as the bright golden light touched the skin of the Snake Demon Dominator, the Seventh Rank Snake Demon noticed it, but it was obviously too late.

Before it could react, it was already caught in a bizarre time stop state.

The time stop effect made its body freeze in place, leaving it completely unable to make any subsequent evasive or defensive actions.

Swish!

The second dim golden light also quickly penetrated its body, but this time it had no negative effect, as if the second golden light was merely an illusion.

With the strong will of the Floating Land Origin of the Demon Snake Floating Land, what should have been a time stop state effective for up to 10 seconds lasted less than 2 seconds on this Seventh Rank Snake Demon.

But just as it broke free from the time stop state, a second identical bright golden light followed closely.

It was another “Zen Seal: External Time Stop” golden light.

No surprise, the Snake Demon Dominator fell into a time stop for the second time.

Before it could break free again, the blood-colored spear and purple thunder carrying boundless might had already swept close.

Boom boom boom!

Intense energy bursts spread out on the surface of the Demon Snake Continent.

The spot where the blood-colored spear hit was naturally the chest of the Seventh Rank Snake Demon, and the rapid explosion blew a massive blood hole in the Seventh Rank Snake Demon, with a large amount of pale silver Dominator blood spurting out from it.

Were it just this, it wouldn’t have endangered the life of the Dominator being endowed with the will of the Ninth Level Floating Land Origin. But the key was that this was only the first wave of attack.

After this, a large amount of black hole energy originally attached to the Blood Spear suddenly erupted. A miniature black hole rapidly formed where the Snake Demon Dominator’s flesh was mangled, and the terrifying devouring and compression almost tore the Snake Demon Dominator apart. Luckily, after breaking free from the time stop effect a second time, it used a black oddity to flash escape from the miniature black hole’s ravaging area in time.

After successfully escaping the black hole energy field, the heavily depressed chest of the Snake Demon Dominator began to churn with surges of blood and the Law of Earth flowing inside, coupled with the external support of the Floating Land Origin will and the Snake Demon Dominator’s own strong recovery capability, its injuries unexpectedly began to gradually improve.

Just when faint hopes were rekindling deep within the snake eyes of the Snake Demon Dominator, another internal shift in its body threw it into utter despair.

The Hunting God’s Weakness Mark that had previously entered its body exploded at this moment.

The attack that nearly killed it not long ago was unfolding for the second time inside its body, causing the injuries that were just starting to stabilize to rapidly worsen once more. This time, even the Floating Land Origin will of the Demon Snake Continent couldn’t save it.

High above, the myriad purple cloud thunder talismans derived from the Myriad Purple Cloud Thunder Prison also exploded at this point, shattering the group of Eight-Armed Snake Demons behind the Snake Demon Dominator into utter shock.

Among them, those Fourth Rank or below Eight-Armed Snake Demons turned to dust under the Purple Cloud Thunder Talismans, while the remaining dozens of Fifth Rank or higher Eight-Armed Snake Demons barely held on, but were essentially at their wits’ end.

Buzz buzz buzz!

Spatial fluctuations swept through, and the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong’s flash escape delivered the final blow to them.

The spot where Song Chi chose to flash escape landed right in the middle of the group of Eight-Armed Snake Demons. At the moment of appearance, without any hesitation, Song Chi activated the “High Energy Particle Storm” feature of the [Neutron Star Core Armor].

This destructive power was no weaker than the high energy particle storm domain of the Myriad Purple Cloud Thunder Prison, completely annihilating the remaining dozens of Eight-Armed Snake Demons as well.

This included the already critically wounded Seventh Rank Snake Demon Dominator.

In the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong Main Control Room, Song Chi actively canceled the high energy particle storm domain which had ravaged for only a few dozen seconds. Meanwhile, several traction beams shot out from the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, heading straight for the quickly falling Snake Demon corpses in the sky.

In less than twenty seconds, Song Chi used the traction beams and warship’s scaling components among other capabilities to successfully collect three Sixth Rank Snake Demon corpses and the one Seventh Rank Snake Demon corpse into the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong. After that, without any hesitation, he activated another flash escape component in the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, causing the warship to quietly disappear above the battlefield.

For the many Snake Demon corpses left behind that he could not take, it would be false to say he didn’t feel a twinge of regret, but Song Chi didn’t regret his decision.

If given another chance, he would make the same decision.

Beneath him lay the Demon Snake Continent, home to trillions of Eight-Armed Snake Demons in number. Despite the mere five days that had passed, according to a piece of information Song Chi had accidentally obtained, over half of the tens of thousands of elite Torch Warships participating in this operation had already been lost.

And all of this was based on the absolute numerical supremacy of the Eight-Armed Snake Demons.

No one knew if an exceptionally strong Eight-Armed Snake Demon existed nearby. Although the {Heavenly Eye} had decent detection abilities, it wasn’t infallible. It found it hard to track those Snake Demons holding high-rank concealment oddities.

Therefore, to ensure his absolute safety, Song Chi could only be as cautious as possible. After all, it was his real body at stake; any mishap and it wouldn’t be a joke.

It wasn’t until he had flown a great distance that Song Chi finally reduced the speed of the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong.

Only then did his gaze shift to the [Soul Devouring Altar] component on one side.

{Soul Devouring·Ascension: …Current Soul Devouring Progress: Fourth Stage 100%, full soul devouring charge completed.}

Seeing the words “full soul devouring charge completed” at the end of the “Soul Devouring·Ascension” feature, Song Chi let out a long breath.

Now he could finally summon the Mirror Image Warship.

With the activation of the [Mirror Image Splitting] component, an energy fluctuation radiated from the side of the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, and soon, a warship nearly identical to the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong gradually emerged.

Despite eagerly anticipating some functions of the Mirror Image Warship, Song Chi first retrieved his flagship. After his main body entered the Mirror Image Warship, the hatch completely closed, and the space inside was entirely isolated from the outside, Song Chi left only an Ethereal Body within the Mirror Image Warship, while he himself directly entered the Zhu Tian Ruins Market.

Of course, days earlier, he had set up a Spatial Anchor Point in a hidden cave. Should the Mirror Image Warship sink later, he could return to the Demon Snake Continent through that Spatial Anchor Point.

In the Zhu Tian Ruins Market, Song Chi closed his eyes, directing all his attention to the Ethereal Body there.

Soul Devouring Altar lv80

Quality: Black

Unique Feature: Soul Devouring·Ascension

Consumption: 3800/s (Spectral Energy Points)

Effect: After installing, the souls of living beings directly killed by the warship will be absorbed by this component.

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{Soul Devouring·Ascension: Consumes ten million Spectral Energy Points, breaking this component to use all devoured souls, allowing the specified component to ascend, quality assured to rise by one rank, current soul devouring progress: Fourth Stage 100% (Note: Currently, this component can elevate a black component to colorful/lower rank.)}

Seeing that the Soul Devouring progress in the Mirror Image Warship’s replicated [Soul Devouring Altar] component was also fully charged, Song Chi inwardly affirmed.

Then, while controlling the Mirror Image Warship to activate various effects of the [Mirage Transformation Pearl], he was meticulously pondering which component to use this ascension opportunity on.

Although it was still uncertain whether the replicated [Soul Devouring Altar] would effectively work on this Mirror Image Warship, he couldn’t be too hasty.

After all, it’s a one-time component, even if the Mirror Image Warship could be summoned again later, it still required cooldown, and time was essential for the current operation on the Demon Snake Continent.

His gaze swept in a circle, yet this was merely a subconscious action, since, in fact, his eyes had long been fixed on specific components.

[Neutron Star Core Armor]

[Black Hole Evolution Layer]

[Purple Cloud Divine Thunder Cannon]

The first two need no elaborate description, both being combat-ready top rank components. Once elevated to colorful mythical quality, they would significantly enhance the combat power of the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong.

As for why a golden main cannon was added in the end, the reason is simple, Song Chi valued precisely the “Nine-layered Purple Cloud Destruction Tribulation Thunder” feature of the [Purple Cloud Divine Thunder Cannon].

The might of this feature had been tested many times in combat before, temporarily transformed into a Star-Annihilating Cannon summoning Nine-layered Tribulation Lightning, it possessed unparalleled power of annihilation.

If it could further evolve to black quality and couple with the silver high-level thunder attribute Law Crystal earlier given to the Ethereal Body, Song Chi found it hard to imagine what stupendous might it might unleash.

This plan had been drafted nearly two hundred years ago, so how could he not have considered this point over such a time?

These three components listed above were the results of his reassessment over multiple times, allowing him to quickly make a decision after just a brief thought.

[Activate the [Soul Devouring Altar] component? This component is a one-time use component, please decide carefully!]

“Confirm!”

With the confirmation reply from the Ethereal Body, a second mechanical prompt sound immediately followed.

[Confirmed activation of [Soul Devouring Altar], please choose the ascension target!]

“[Neutron Star Core Armor]!”

Song Chi’s final choice was precisely the [Neutron Star Core Armor], and as the Ethereal Body’s voice fell, Song Chi’s original body in the Zhu Tian Ruins Market instinctively held his breath.

Whether all previous assumptions could come true depended on this last step, how could he not be nervous!

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