Age Of The Endless Star Ocean Chapter 485: Racing Against Time - Surprising Harvest - Novel Cool

Chapter 485: Racing Against Time - Surprising Harvest

Chapter 485: Racing Against Time - Surprising Harvest

The shadow energy swiftly mobilized, following the Heavenly Cycle within Song Hao's body. As it coursed through his right arm, Song Hao consciously infused it into the golden token in his palm.

"Second Brother, you..."

Song Hao didn't try to hide his actions. After this, Song Chi would definitely need to sign a confidentiality agreement with Song Baiyi. Song Baiyi, who witnessed this scene through the communication projection, couldn't help but show a mix of confusion and curiosity in his eyes.

Before he could finish his sentence, the sky above the two battleships in the Mystic Realm began to tremble with intense spatial vibrations.

As Song Baiyi's face turned vigilant, Song Hao calmly explained, "Don't worry, it's Uncle Song Chi!"

As he spoke, the sky in the Mystic Realm was already filled with numerous shadows of violet mist. The violet mist energy gathered slowly, and it took over ten seconds for it to completely condense into a massive projection of violet mist that seemed to blot out the sky.

In the Pantheonic Marketplace, high above, Song Chi's brows furrowed slightly.

"Such a strong repulsive force. If it weren't for the high rank of the Pantheonic Marketplace, it would probably be impossible to project it over here!"

As he finished speaking, he raised his hand and reached out.

At the same time, within the Mystic Realm, a human figure appeared in the sky amidst the blinding violet mist. The violet mist figure raised its hand, forming a seal made from the combination of spatial, light, and violet mist energies. It reached towards the thousand-meter-tall Jade Tree below.

Although the seal generated by the three energies carried an astonishing amount of power, as time passed, both the seal itself and the violet mist projection above gradually weakened, visibly dissipating.

The reason for this was the incredibly strong repulsive force of the Mystic Realm beneath them, which had a higher rank than expected. Additionally, the projection was transmitted from the distant Pantheonic Marketplace, further weakening its effect.

These factors combined to create this situation, which was why Song Chi was in a hurry to take action.

Despite the strong repulsive force of the Mystic Realm, the projection from the Pantheonic Marketplace, empowered by the Sovereign Force, easily uprooted the thousand-meter-tall Jade Tree.

"Alright, you two continue exploring the underground space at full speed. The Morningstar Clan will likely enter in about twenty hours, so make the most of your time!"

As the projection from the Pantheonic Marketplace slowly faded, carrying the thousand-meter-tall Jade Tree, Song Chi's voice simultaneously echoed within the Vastness and the Daybreak.

After the projection completely dissipated, Song Baiyi turned his gaze towards Song Hao.

"Second Brother, was that really Uncle Song Chi? But just now..."

"Baiyi, I'm not entirely clear about this either. Uncle Song Chi will probably seek you out later to explain."

Song Hao, who was also somewhat bewildered, interrupted Song Baiyi's question. The two cruisers then hurried back to the underground space entrance they had visited earlier.

...

In the Pantheonic Marketplace, at the free stall area.

With a gentle sweep of violet mist energy, a six-rank Time Boundary Tree quietly appeared, standing a thousand meters tall.

Seeing the Time Boundary Tree with its roots still vibrant and full of life, a smile spread across Song Chi's face.

He was not only delighted to have obtained a six-rank Time Boundary Tree but also thrilled that the projection from the Pantheonic Marketplace could bring back physical objects from the distant starry sky.

Although he had a vague understanding of this ability when the Market Projection Token first appeared, this was the first time he had actually tested it.

Now that he had confirmed this ability, it meant that the Market Projection Token could play an even greater role in the future, bringing back more valuable items.

Suppressing the joy in his heart, Song Chi first returned to the Heaven Ruin Skydome to use the unique properties of the South Point·Suo Ben to unload the Scale Reduction Device. After returning to the marketplace, he used it to shrink the six-rank Time Boundary Tree by twenty times, then brought both the tree and the device back to the outside world.

In the Cultivation Mystic Realm, with careful handling, the six-rank Time Boundary Tree was successfully planted around the Clearwater Spirit Spring.

With the nourishment of the Clearwater Spirit Spring and the Immortal Domain Soil, the Time Boundary Tree would surely bear fruit much faster than it did in the unknown Mystic Realm.

Unfortunately, the six-rank Time Boundary Fruit on this tree had already been plucked by the Goldsplitter Sky Spider, and it would likely take a very long time for it to produce another six-rank Time Boundary Fruit.

However, with the Mystic Realm Accelerator, this time could be significantly shortened.

...

Time passed, and soon it was the next day.

"Everyone, be alert and enter the dense forest in an orderly manner. Search for the White Jade Spirit Tree. If you encounter the Goldsplitter Sky Spider in the Mystic Realm, kill it without hesitation!"

As Rosetta Morningstar's order was issued, three thousand second and third-rank members of the Morningstar Clan quickly entered the Mystic Realm.

...

In the Mystic Realm, the numerous passageways connecting the underground space to the surface constantly echoed with the loud rumble of cannon fire.

Over the past dozen hours, Song Hao and Song White Robe had reunited with several clan members, and this intense barrage of fire was precisely the result of these clan members actively controlling their ships and attacking to create an opportunity for exploration for the warrior statue that Song Hao had deployed deep underground.

This method had been employed for over ten hours, and under Song Hao's brainwave imprint control, the Shadow Tribe warrior statue once again traversed a considerable distance. Now, the area where the Shadow Tribe warrior statue was located was filled with hand-thick spatial cracks.

"Judging by the time, the Morningstar Clan should have already entered. Faster!" Song White Robe whispered in the communication chat.

Upon hearing this, Song Hao's mind focused, and he seemed to make a firm decision.

"Limit-Breaking State, activate!"

As the limit-breaking state was activated, his eyes abruptly closed, and he concentrated his twelve-fold heart-mind power, directing it entirely into the brainwave imprint image in his mind.

At the same time, deep underground, the Shadow Tribe warrior statue no longer concealed itself but began sprinting full speed down the main corridor.

With Song Hao's twelve-fold heart-mind power assistance, the rapidly running Shadow Tribe warrior statue almost always precisely dodged the spatial cracks that filled the corridor.

Suddenly, at the end of the dimly lit underground corridor, a white light appeared.

Intuition told Song Hao that the white light was most likely the very center of this underground space, and all the answers were undoubtedly there.

Thinking of this, he sped up the Shadow Tribe warrior statue once more, but soon realized something was amiss.

In this final stretch of the corridor, not only were there spatial cracks, but there were also strands of Word Spirit Light that had taken on a substantial form, the original manifestation of the Word Spirit Law.

When he realized this, Song Hao wanted to slow down the Shadow Tribe warrior statue, but it was too late.

The puppet body of the warrior statue had already come into contact with a strand of nearly substantial Word Spirit Light.

"Swastika!"

In the communication chat, Song White Robe, with her keen eyes, caught the fleeting special imprint in Song Hao's gaze.

"It's a Buddhist mantra seal..."

"Second Brother, wake up!!!"

But there was no need for his call, as the moment the Swastika Buddhist mantra echoed in Song Hao's mind, the Soul-Suppressing Stele in the depths of his Flame Ancestral Shrine immediately emitted a scorching red light, dispelling the Swastika mantra.

Deep underground, the Shadow Tribe warrior statue continued to stride forward, and with each step, the end of the corridor came into view.

Finally, at a certain moment, the Shadow Tribe warrior statue completely stepped out of the corridor, and the scene at the end of the corridor appeared before Song Hao's eyes.

"This... this..."

Upon seeing the so-called answer at the end of the corridor, Song Hao froze in place.

It wasn't until Song White Robe's voice came through the communication chat that he snapped back to reality.

Shaking his head, he suppressed the disbelief in his heart and, without hesitation, had the Shadow Tribe warrior statue below activate the Ruins Market Access Token in its hand.

Because, right in the center of this deepest underground space, stood a white jade tree over ten thousand meters tall.

Song Hao was well aware of the value of this ten-thousand-meter white jade tree.

The void shifted, and violet mist gathered.

Compared to the previous time, the speed of the ruins market projection's arrival was much faster.

Ultimately, this was because the space beneath the ground was too weak.

However, Song Chi's attention was not on this point at all, nor was it on the ten-thousand-meter white jade tree standing in the center of the open space ahead, but rather on the ground where the white jade tree was rooted.

Countless flesh and tissue filled the ground of this open, cylindrical space, and in the center of these flesh and tissue, stood a large-eared Buddha skull.

The reason for using the word "stand" is that beneath the giant Buddha's neck were countless fleshy roots, and these densely packed fleshy roots intertwined, stitching the ancient Buddha's skull firmly to the ground. As for the Buddha's golden body, if the guess was correct, it had likely been devoured by the primordial will of this mystic realm.

Seeing this, Song Chi could roughly deduce what had happened in the ancient past.

For unknown reasons, this Sovereign Rank Xianzong Clan member, who had cultivated a Buddha's golden body, had perished in a shocking battle. Due to the terrifying nature of the Buddha's golden body, its corpse shattered the realm's barriers as it fell, plummeting into this unknown mystic realm.

Moreover, the power of the falling Buddha's golden body was so immense that it not only created a cylindrical terror pit on the realm's surface but also caused the underground space to shatter.

Driven by its self-preservation instinct, this mystic realm, which was not low in rank itself, began to devour the vast energy within the Xianzong Clan Buddha's golden body to slowly repair the broken underground space.

After tens of thousands of years, this underground space was most likely restored to a large extent, and it was definitely not just this level of severity in the distant past.

As he pondered this, Song Chi's mind began to wonder about the identities of the two parties involved in that shocking ancient battle. The fact that even a Sovereign-level Xianzong Clan had fallen suggested the extraordinary ferocity of that great war.

His wandering thoughts were quickly reined in, but regardless, that was all in the distant past. The most important thing now was this ten-thousand-meter-tall Time Boundary Tree.

The records left by the Shen family of the North Celestial Dome did not mention a Time Boundary Tree of this height, but Song Chi could guess that it was most likely a seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree.

With this thought, the Violet Mist figure in the Pantheonic Marketplace projection reached out its hand, and the triple-energy hand seal condensed and moved towards the seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree.

As the hand seal, imbued with Sovereign Power, landed on the ten-thousand-meter-tall Time Boundary Tree, Song Chi's expression darkened. This seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree was far more troublesome than he had imagined. Even with the Sovereign Power of the Pantheonic Marketplace projection, it was still unable to move the tree even a tiny bit.

With a seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree right before his eyes, yet unable to take it away, Song Chi was naturally unwilling to give up. He tried twice more, but it was still the same as before; he couldn't pull this ten-thousand-meter-tall Time Boundary Tree out of the ground.

At this moment, the sound of cannon fire echoed through the passage behind him.

"No good, we're running out of time..."

Song Chi knew that it was most likely the Morningstar Clan who had arrived, and there were quite a few of them.

For a moment, he even had the urge to kill them all to silence them, but he eventually dismissed the thought.

The Morningstar Clan, with over seven thousand years of heritage, had extremely deep roots. If they had some kind of trump card, even the Pantheonic Marketplace projection might not be able to guarantee the elimination of all of them. In that case, it would be the Pantheonic Marketplace that would be at risk of exposure.

With this thought, his gaze suddenly shifted away from the trunk of the seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree and towards the seventh-rank Time Boundary Fruit hanging on it.

This seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree, with its terrifying blood-flesh roots spreading out in a large circle underground, was virtually immovable. Perhaps he could try again when he reached the eighth rank, but it was absolutely impossible at the moment.

As he thought this, his mind raced, and in the next second, through the Shadow Tribe War Automaton that still held the second Market Projection Token, he sent over a bronze seal that flickered with silver light from the Pantheonic Marketplace.

This bronze seal was also obtained from the Pursuer Immortal, and while it couldn't be transformed into a ship component, it possessed a special concealment ability.

As Song Chi infused it with a large amount of Sovereign-level Violet Mist energy, the bronze seal glowed with silver light, and finally landed on the seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree in front of him.

When the silver light faded, the ten-thousand-meter-tall seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree in front of him disappeared without a trace, concealed by the bronze seal.

"Anyway, only a third-rank Flame Fleet Captain can enter here, so no one should be able to discover this concealed seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree. This way, when the Pantheonic Marketplace's Sovereign Rank reaches the eighth rank, we can try to transplant it."

Of course, before that, he had already plucked the seventh-rank Time Boundary Fruit from the Time Boundary Tree.

Behind him, the sound of cannon fire grew clearer. Taking the last opportunity, Song Chi manipulated the triple hand seal to grab the two five-hundred-meter-tall Time Boundary Trees on the side.

These were two fifth-rank Time Boundary Trees, not of low value. In fact, directly opposite this underground center, over ten thousand kilometers away, there were also two thousand-meter-tall sixth-rank Time Boundary Trees, far more valuable than these fifth-rank ones, but there was no more time.

Easily pulling out the two fifth-rank Time Boundary Trees, Song Chi distractedly waved a strand of Violet Mist energy to smooth out the pits left by the extracted trees. After confirming that nothing unusual could be seen, he disappeared from this underground space with the seventh-rank Time Boundary Fruit and the two fifth-rank Time Boundary Trees.

Song Hao was also quick. In the instant that Song Chi's projection disappeared, he voluntarily canceled the summoning of the puppet warrior statue.

A few seconds after the two of them disappeared, hundreds of Flame Heritage Ships emerged from the spatial passage behind them. It was the Morningstar Clan, who had just entered the secret realm not long ago.

It was unclear what kind of means they had, but they had found this underground core so easily.

However, behind these Morningstar Clan captains, the Vastness and Daybreak, along with other Song family battleships, also followed closely, ensuring that the Morningstar Clan couldn't pull off any tricks.

In the Pantheonic Marketplace, under the celestial dome.

Looking at the two fifth-rank Time Boundary Trees quietly placed in the free stall area and the crystal-clear seventh-rank Time Boundary Fruit, Song Chi's eyes narrowed.

In his heart, he hoped that the Morningstar Clan wouldn't discover the existence of the seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree.

PS: Thanks to Babylima for the Alliance Leader's reward!!

(End of Chapter)

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