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Chapter 442: Sweeping Across 300,000 Light-Years
Chapter 442: Sweeping Across 300,000 Light-Years
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As the airtight hatch of the battleship opened, a ten-meter-tall Advanced Celestial Star Battle Armor propelled itself out of the hatch with the powerful thrust provided by its jet propulsion system.
Inside the cockpit of the battle armor, Song Chi was tightly bound with the Fifth-Rank Celestial Star Clan member with whom he had signed a master-servant contract. The cockpit was designed to perfectly fit the Celestial Star Clan member, and Song Chi's forced entry naturally occupied unnecessary space.
If this were on a battlefield, it would undoubtedly significantly impact the combat effectiveness of the Celestial Star Battle Armor. However, Song Chi didn't mind; his sole purpose this time was to have this Fifth-Rank Advanced Celestial Star Battle Armor add an extra layer of defense for himself, and he didn't need it to engage in external combat.
Additionally, taking advantage of the gap as the battle armor rapidly rushed out of the ship, the already-held Ru Market Client Token was activated, and Song Chi's aura suddenly surged, temporarily reaching the level of a Fifth-Rank Life under the effect of the "Ru Market Law Blessing."
All of this was the preparation Song Chi made for himself, and there was one final step, which was also the core of his attempt.
Black Hole Domain!
Just before the Advanced Celestial Star Battle Armor was about to rush out of the battleship's hatch, the "Black Hole Domain" characteristic of the black component, the Black Hole Evolution Layer, was activated.
Buzz!
It was as if a pebble had been thrown into a calm lake, and a special energy derived from the black hole, with the Heaven Ruin Skydome at its center, created a ripple in the surrounding infinite shrinking Void Sea space, spreading outwards like a wave.
The diffusion of this special black hole energy didn't have much momentum, and it was also possible that the space-shrinking power triggered by the perfect Spatial Law was too strong. Relatively speaking, Song Chi believed that the current Black Hole Evolution Layer component's low enhancement level was the reason, after all, it had just entered the Fifth Rank.
In any case, the diameter of the Black Hole Domain's coverage was only ten thousand meters, which was very limited compared to the surrounding space-shrinking range, which was more than ten times or even a hundred times larger.
However, this seemingly insignificant small area had completely isolated the space-collapse zone from the outside, and the domain's interior had not been affected in the slightest.
Feeling this change, Song Chi, who had just rushed out of the battleship with the Celestial Star Battle Armor, breathed a sigh of relief.
"That's more like it! How could the 'Absolute Invincible' characteristic of the Black Supreme Component be a fake!"
As he muttered, his mind remained alert. Although the "Black Hole Domain" provided an absolute invincible state that withstood the space-shrinking force, Song Chi constantly reminded himself that outside was a Supreme Void Demon, and as long as he hadn't returned to the Ru Market, it wasn't absolutely safe.
Behind him, the Heaven Ruin Skydome rapidly shrank and finally transformed into a mini-form, rushing straight into the half-open control cabin at the back of the Celestial Star Battle Armor.
At the same time, Shadow Energy surged in the Flame Ancestor Nexus, and he quickly activated the Star Sea Marketplace Token for the second time.
Although the Black Hole Domain ensured the short-term safety of the Heaven Ruin Skydome and its captain, Song Chi, he could clearly see that under the continuous erosion of the space-shrinking force, the already small domain was rapidly compressing.
Song Chi estimated that the Black Hole Domain could only last for a maximum of a little over one second.
Thinking of this, even if he was reluctant, he had to make the tough decision to give up the Advanced Celestial Star Battle Armor.
According to his original plan, if the Black Hole Domain couldn't take effect, he would try to use the Fifth-Rank Celestial Star Battle Armor as a buffer, delaying the retrieval of the Heaven Ruin Skydome and his entry into the Ru Market as much as possible.
And if the Black Hole Domain did take effect, he would try to retrieve the Celestial Star Battle Armor before the absolute invincible state ended and then enter the Ru Market afterward.
Obviously, this plan was now unfeasible; although the Black Hole Domain took effect, its duration was too short to support the retrieval of this Advanced Celestial Star Battle Armor.
Song Chi didn't hesitate; the Fifth-Rank Advanced Celestial Star Battle Armor was invaluable, but compared to his life, it wasn't worth much. Without a moment's hesitation, when the Star Sea Marketplace Token was activated, and he felt the pull of the Ru Market, he didn't resist, allowing this force to bring him back to the Multiverse Ruins Market.
Ru Market, Free Stall Area.
Song Chi appeared out of thin air, his face showing a hint of lingering fear. At the moment he disappeared from the Celestial Star Battle Armor, the battle armor instantly endured a terrifying attack.
Through the Lingling body left in the control room of the battle armor, Song Chi witnessed the last shocking scene; the battle armor, which had a strong Fifth-Rank defensive level, was torn apart into a pile of debris without any warning.
In other words, in the face of the space-collapse force, a Fifth-Rank entity had absolutely no resistance.
Song Chi silently thought that if he had been just a little slower, he might have lost his life at that moment.
After a moment of silence, he shook his head and said,
"After several decades, I ventured deep into the Void Sea again, and even changed hunting locations multiple times, but I ended up encountering a Supreme Void Demon. What luck!"
With a sigh, Song Chi also controlled the power of the Supreme Void Demon to monitor the surroundings of the Ru Market, preventing the Supreme Void Demon from finding him. At the same time, he began to recall the previous events.
The Supreme Void Demon, also known as the Void Sovereign, is the highest ruler in the Void Sea, and most of them ascend to the Supreme position through the Spatial Law. Each Supreme Void Demon can almost fight two ordinary Supreme-ranked opponents.
The situation was urgent before, and there was no time to think about these things, but now, he understood why the opponent had completely disregarded the Ru Market projection.
The Ru Market projection itself could only be considered as barely reaching the threshold of Supreme combat power, and its strength was among the weakest. How could a Supreme Void Demon treat it with respect?
Song Chi's attention then turned to the Heaven Ruin Skydome.
This encounter exposed a significant flaw in the battleship; although it could allow him to freely travel between the Ru Market and the battleship using the Spatial Anchor characteristic, retrieving the battleship in an emergency was still a challenge.
If he didn't want to give up the battleship, he had to recall it to the Flame Ancestor Nexus. However, after the battleship was recalled to the Flame Ancestor Nexus, he would inevitably be exposed to the outside, creating an unavoidable conflict.
For this issue, Song Chi could only think of one solution.
Recalling the battleship from across the Star Sea with long-range retrieval
If the Ru Market itself could be equipped with a long-range retrieval device for the battleship, it would obviously perfectly solve this problem.
However, the problem was that although such artifacts were not uncommon, the Soul Summoning Puppet on the Heaven Ruin Skydome could be considered one, but the key was that to achieve long-range retrieval across the boundless Star Sea, the quality requirements for the components would be extremely strict.
Forget about the Red-quality Summoning Puppet, Song Chi guessed that even a Silver Legendary Quality recall component might not be enough. At the very least, it would require a Golden Sacred Domain Quality component to meet this requirement.
As this thought crossed his mind, he instantly lost the motivation to continue. He could send out high-priced acquisition messages to the family, Radiant Star Tower, Shen Youran, and the Ru Market, but acquiring such artifacts in a short time was out of the question.
Shaking off his thoughts, Song Chi waved his hand and took out a storage capsule. Inside the capsule were countless Void Crystals.
There were over six figures of third-rank and below Void Crystals, 380 fourth-rank Void Crystals, and 25 fifth-rank Void Crystals.
"25 pieces, still a bit short, but it seems that the Pulse and Wang Zhen have received a few over the past few months, which should be enough. If not..."
Song Chi muttered, his gaze shifting to the cabin behind him.
Among the many servitors, two new figures stood out—the two fifth-rank Void Demons he had newly enslaved over the past four months.
The previous fourth-rank Void Demon had been killed by a fifth-rank Void Demon during the hunt, and Song Chi hadn't had time to save it, so he had to re-enslave two fifth-rank Void Demons.
The Void Demons, with their exceptional mastery of spatial laws, could be extremely useful in certain situations.
However, if the fifth-rank Void Crystals were indeed insufficient, he would have to make do with these two for now.
Fortunately, it didn't come to that. Wang Zhen, the Pulse elders, and several of the family's elders had each provided him with a few fifth-rank Void Crystals, just enough to enhance the Chuzang's 004 Incubation Realm to the sixth rank.
With all the fifth-rank Void Crystals in hand, Song Chi immediately began the enhancement process.
After several enhancements, the silver component, Chuzang's 004 Incubation Realm, successfully reached level 60.
The improvement in the component's attributes was secondary; the primary benefit was the significant expansion of the cultivation realm itself. Not only did it resolve the hostility between the Silver Apple Mother Tree and the Cloudweaver Vine, but it also elicited a strong reaction from the Silver Apple Mother Tree.
Song Chi understood that the Silver Apple Mother Tree was expressing its desire to devour a starfruit plant kernel of the same rank, hoping to break through to the sixth rank as soon as possible.
However, Song Chi didn't have one on hand, so he could only carefully soothe the tree until it calmed down before leaving the cultivation realm.
He then stayed in the Ru Market for two more days, ensuring that the Void Demon Sovereign hadn't discovered the existence of the Multiverse Ruins Market.
...
Cataclysm Wind Floating Land, Flame Network.
A private channel joined by the elders of the united fleet.
"Hadi Stark: The Eastern Fleet Command has issued new orders, instructing us to complete the cleanup of the Galewind Star Domain within the next month and continue our northward journey. What are your thoughts?"
"Angele Chenxin: The Cataclysm Wind Floating Land has been mostly cleared, so it's indeed time to move forward. But do we know the movements of the kingdom's other fleets? If they're all advancing together, there's no issue, but if the Eastern Fleet is acting alone, I think it's better to wait."
"Lu Beili: It's better to wait for two months. Let's depart two months later, so the command won't have any complaints!"
"Hadi Stark: Then it's settled!"
...
Time flew by, and two months passed in the blink of an eye. As the elders had decided, when the two months were up, the entire united fleet of over ten million ships, except for a garrison fleet left behind in the Cataclysm Wind Floating Land, set off northward with the aid of a mid-range stargate.
The concerns of the higher-ups from the various families didn't materialize. The three fleets of the Radiant Han Kingdom continued to advance together, without any signs of independent action.
This most reasonable method of advancement persisted for the next thirty years.
During these thirty years, the kingdom's three fleets kept pushing north. With the continuous arrival of resource supplies and support fleets, they advanced nearly three hundred thousand light-years to the north, adding to the initial one hundred thousand light-years. They had almost occupied half of the Jaksun Clan's territory.
Under these circumstances, all members of the three fleets acquired a vast amount of resources.
There were also a few accidents along the way, the most critical of which occurred seventeen years ago. At that time, the Jaksun Clan had gathered most of its elite forces and launched a blitzkrieg against the kingdom's central fleet, led by the Liu royal family.
Two seventh-rank Jaksun Clan members, wielding three Golden Artifacts, led over one hundred sixth-rank Jaksun Clan members. They used a Golden-quality group teleportation module to bypass the temporary no-fly zone set up by the Liu royal family and teleported directly to the fleet's core base.
This sudden blitz caused significant chaos within the Liu royal family's headquarters. It was only with the timely reinforcement of two Star Destroyer commanders from the eastern and western lines, using targeted teleportation modules, that they managed to repel the enemy.
Even so, the Liu royal family's fleet suffered significant losses. According to confidential information, five sixth-rank Intrepid Ships were sunk, most of them by the two Overlord-level Jaksun Clan members using Death Star Force. There were even more fifth-rank and lower ships lost.
Of course, the reason this incident was considered a minor setback was that the scale of these losses was not enough to alter the overall course of the war. The attitude of the three Star Destroyer commanders of the Radiant Han Kingdom remained unwavering, and they even accelerated the pace of advancement afterward.
According to the statistics released by the Radiant Han Kingdom, over the past thirty years, the kingdom's fleets had occupied more than three thousand fourth-rank and above Star Sea Floating Lands, including over four hundred fifth-rank floating lands and at least one hundred sixth-rank floating lands.
As for the Stark and Chenxin Principality's joint fleet, they had also followed the Eastern Fleet's advancement path over the past thirty years, clearing six star domains. Among them, they had acquired one sixth-rank life-type floating land, three sixth-rank resource-type floating lands, six fifth-rank life-type floating lands, fourteen fifth-rank resource-type floating lands, and numerous fourth-rank floating lands.
Even without considering the mining of mineral resources on these floating lands, the gains from this campaign were unimaginable.
Song Chi didn't know about the other families, but not long ago, his family's elders had clearly stated that the profits from this campaign had doubled the family's foundation.
It's important to note that the family's foundation referred to all the wealth accumulated by the Song family over nearly three thousand years. Doubling that amount was indeed an impressive feat.
If there was one thing lacking, it was the absence of an item or oddity that could serve as the family's trump card.
(End of Chapter)
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