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Chapter 545: The Full-Scale War Against the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Civilization
Chapter 545: The Full-Scale War Against the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Civilization
This was, of course, the most crucial point, and Song Chi had never believed that his identity could remain hidden forever.
However, it was only up to the sixth-rank Time Boundary Tree. As for the seventh-rank Time Boundary Tree? This was something he would never reveal, no matter what.
The strategic-level resources were not enough to help the Planet Destroyer warship reach the eighth rank and grant it a second life. Once exposed, the immortal giants of the eighth rank, and even the four pillar kings of the Flame Torch clan, would covet it.
Aside from this, considering the current situation of the Song family, the sixth-rank Time Boundary Fruit was a rare resource. Not only was it unavailable at present, but even in the future, for hundreds of years, no other warship besides the Sea Tamer Dragon Soaring could utilize it, and Grandmaster Song Wujiang already had one.
Instead of keeping it to himself, it was better to trade it with the Star Tower members for rare resources or high-rank components.
Finally, after nearly a hundred years of continuous acceleration, the sixth-rank Time Boundary Tree in the cultivation secret realm had not only produced one round of fruits but was also about to bear fruit for the second round. Soon, he would obtain another sixth-rank Time Boundary Fruit.
In summary, when it was the turn of the Heaven Ruin Skydome to challenge the Planet Destroyer, there would be no shortage of sixth-rank Time Boundary Fruits.
Not counting his side, the Time Boundary Tree Secret Realm, with the continuous investment of Void Crystals from both families, was also nearing its harvest day.
...
After saying this, Song Chi didn't elaborate further, and the people beside him didn't ask any more questions. However, only they knew how much they believed and what thoughts they had.
Song Chi could guess some of it, but he didn't mind. Wasn't this part of his plan?
Only then would the Star Tower members come to him privately with their truly valuable items for trade.
After ten minutes, Shigou logged in again.
"Thunder Awaken, here are 68 pieces of Time Fragments. This is all I could get for now. Take them."
He handed a storage box to Song Chi and continued, "This is definitely not enough to trade for your sixth-rank Time Boundary Fruit. How about this: after Uncle successfully advances, I can help you trade three times without compensation. Even if I don't succeed, I'll continue to help you collect Time Fragments in the future."
Song Chi, of course, didn't refuse.
Three free trade opportunities with the Planet Destroyer captain were already beyond his expectations.
Although the relationship among the Star Tower members was good, not every favor was without compensation. For example, when Song Chi helped Cui Yulong, he did so in exchange for black hole dense stones and space anchor stones.
After finishing the conversation with Shigou, Song Chi turned to Tianlong and Yulong, who were beside him, and without any hesitation, he directly asked if they had the resource 'Time Fragments.'
Time Fragments, as a special type of time-related resource, were similar to Space Fragments in that they were produced in fixed star domains with extremely dense time energy. Additionally, a very small portion of them were produced in secret realms with the existence of time laws.
Apart from these two stable production methods, the collapse of secret realms with time laws would also generate Time Fragments.
However, regardless of which of the above three methods, the difficulty was immense. Song Chi had previously asked the Grandmaster, and although the family treasury had a certain reserve of Time Fragments, they were all discovered unintentionally during star domain explorations by the family's subordinates over three thousand years. Currently, the family did not possess a means to produce Time Fragments stably.
After saying this, Song Chi took out resources such as Silver Apples, Law Fruits, and Ten Thousand-Year Dragon Blood Fruits. With the assistance of these resources, which were still valuable, he successfully traded with the Star Tower members and obtained a considerable number of Time Fragments.
Finally, he spent a significant amount of mall points to exchange for some Time Fragments in the Star Tower Mall, adding to the family treasury's reserves. It was barely enough to enhance the Time Chessboard components to the seventh rank.
In the Multiverse Ruins Market, Song Chi, with Time Fragments obtained from various channels, began to enhance the Time Chessboard components.
[Do you want to spend 200 strands of zero-rank Floating Land Primordial + 20,000 Shadow Energy Points + 5 Time Fragments to enhance the Time Chessboard from lv0 to lv1?]
"Confirm!"
With the consumption of Floating Land Primordial, Time Fragments, and Titanium resources like water, Song Chi successfully enhanced the Time Chessboard to lv70.
"Phew, just in time!"
Looking at the three remaining Time Fragments in his hand, Song Chi felt lucky.
Although future enhancements would be challenging, at least for now, he had reached the upper limit of the warship's enhancement level.
The attributes of the Seventh Rank Time Chessboard component underwent a dramatic transformation.
The universal cooldown reduction increased from 35% to 70%.
Time resistance soared from 1600 to 21,000.
Time Law comprehension enhancement rose from 230% to 440%.
Additionally, the duration and time acceleration of the "Time Chessboard" trait saw significant improvements. Even with the minimum of 36 Time Chessmen, the acceleration increased from 10 times to 45 times, and with 72 chessmen, it reached 90 times. Consequently, the duration extended from the initial 10 minutes to 45 minutes, and the cooldown period decreased to 240 hours.
The "Time Chess" trait's cooldown time reduced from 100 years to 65 years, and its duration increased to three hours.
Interestingly, the "Time Prison" and "Nine Lives Death Chess" traits remained unchanged, suggesting they are fixed traits.
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Star Tower Hall.
"Thank you!"
Song Chi expressed his gratitude as he returned the black Ultimate-grade Time-type component, the Time Platform, to White Eyebrow.
A black Time-type component, how could one not be grateful? If he were to be honest with himself, Song Chi knew that it would have been difficult for him to lend out the Black Hole Evolution Layer component before this.
It wasn't a matter of being stingy or not; components of this rank were so valuable that they were hard to quantify. Even aboard the Heaven Ruin Skydome, there were only three black components at present. Lending one out so casually would have been a difficult decision.
However, after this experience, his mindset might undergo some changes.
The two continued their conversation for a while, and then Song Chi strode towards the Star Tower task window.
But soon, Song Chi realized that White Eyebrow hadn't left; instead, he accompanied him to the task window.
"White Eyebrow, are you also here for a task?"
"Hmm!"
The response from behind was as concise and calm as ever.
Unfazed, Song Chi continued, "The Secret Realm Exploration task?"
It was a coincidence that not long after, Song Chi and White Eyebrow both accepted the Secret Realm Exploration task that had been posted for decades.
Over such a long period, the task's information had been updated multiple times.
Twenty years ago, the discovered cosmic secret realm was named the Blood Battle Abyss, the lowest-level cosmic secret realm. Within this realm, there existed indigenous Blood Battle Tribe members of up to the Eighth Rank, with nearly ten Seventh Rank Blood Battle Dominators, indicating the realm's high level of danger.
The reason this secret realm task remained on the Star Tower was that while the Blood Battle Abyss was dangerous, it was also extremely valuable.
After extensive exploration, it was confirmed that the most valuable resource produced in this realm was a unique artifact known as the Blood Battle Monument, which could be transformed into a ship component and was a rare control-immune type.
Its function was similar to the Behemoth Heart aboard the Heaven Ruin Skydome, providing immunity to control. However, unlike the Behemoth Heart's "Behemoth Dominance," the Blood Battle Monument's control immunity was a permanent effect, requiring no activation to remain effective.
But the most crucial aspect was that according to the information provided by previous explorers, the Blood Battle Abyss nurtured Silver-grade and even Golden-grade Blood Battle Monument artifacts.
Song Chi was naturally very interested in the Blood Battle Monument.
He had been eager to obtain the Time Chessboard, so he hadn't accepted the task until now. With the Time Chessboard in hand, he chose to accept the task at the first opportunity.
The quality of the Behemoth Heart component was still too low, and Song Chi had long wanted to acquire another high-quality control-immune component. This was the perfect opportunity.
After both accepted the task, the Star Tower's intelligent prompt sounded.
[Task accepted. Please wait patiently. The main hall's escort warship will arrive exactly half a year later!]
"See you in half a year."
"Hmm."
...
Buzz! In the Multiverse Ruins Market, at the market entrance, hundreds of vortex channels slowly coalesced amidst intense spatial fluctuations.
A new round of market trading in the Multiverse Ruins Market began.
After advancing to the Sixth Rank, Song Chi made some adjustments for this trading session.
Time passed, and within a few short minutes, a spatial gateway was activated.
Soon after, a creature emerged from one of the spatial gateways, holding a large wolf-tooth club, its eyes filled with vigilance.
This creature had the head of a dog and the body of a human, and the life force it exuded was not particularly strong.
"Dog-headed people?"
With a casual glance, Song Chi immediately lost interest.
Dog-headed people are one of the lowest races in the Star Sea, and although their numbers are intimidating, their potential is severely limited.
A second-rank dog-headed person cautiously made its way to the Void Market's main entrance, its tiny eyes instinctively drawn to the rule-inscribed holographic screen beside the gate.
When it read the most prominent rule, etched with the power of the laws, its minuscule eyes widened to the extreme.
"E-Eighth rank... Golden Sacred Domain Artifact!"
As if hearing its stammering mutter, the dwarf Luke, who was strolling inside the market, rushed out at top speed.
"Where... where's the eighth rank? Where's the Golden Sacred Domain Artifact?"
Following the dog-headed person's gaze, which was only slightly taller than him, Luke, with two sharp fangs in his mouth, saw the topmost rule on the holographic screen.
Today, the exchange price of the Bazaar Projection Token has been comprehensively adjusted. In the future, six silver artifacts will be required to exchange for one Bazaar Projection Token, and the usage period of the exchanged Bazaar Projection Token will be increased to one hundred years.
Additionally, if exchanged with a Golden Sacred Domain Artifact, only one artifact is needed to obtain a Bazaar Projection Token with a five-hundred-year usage period, and the exchanger will have five opportunities to summon the Bazaar Projection within these five hundred years.
Note: The Bazaar Projection possesses near-eighth-rank power.
After reading this new information, Luke's good mood, which had been elevated by his successful transformation into a vampire and the resulting extended lifespan, instantly vanished.
Eighth rank, Golden Star Sea Artifact—compared to these, what did his two-thousand-year lifespan matter? As he thought this, a faint aura of fourth-rank magic appeared around his short legs, propelling his diminutive body towards the direction of the inn.
For centuries, the Duke Thor's estate behind him had been dedicated to exploring the starry skies beyond the Silver Continent, and with the aid of advanced machinery, their exploration range had far exceeded expectations. During this time, they had discovered a fifth-rank Starry Sky plant, the Ocean Concealing Flower, and naturally, many other treasures.
Among these treasures was a Golden Sacred Domain-ranked Star Sea Artifact.
Since obtaining this Golden Sacred Domain Artifact, the elders of Duke Thor's estate had been striving to unlock its potential, but after a century, they had made no progress.
Finally, the estate's elders unanimously concluded that this Golden Sacred Domain Artifact was a special material, useless to them.
However, the implications of a Golden Artifact were too significant, so much so that the estate's elders had never agreed to Luke's suggestion of bringing it to the market for trade.
"This time, I must convince the elders!"
As he flew, Luke secretly vowed in his heart, and his excitement was so intense that a faint trace of blood could be seen swirling in his eyes.
Luke's reaction was not unique; many regular customers of the market reacted similarly later on.
Through the omniscient perspective, Song Chi observed these scenes with satisfaction.
Initially, it seemed that his adjustments were effective.
As for the reason behind these changes?
The Bazaar Projection's power had increased from seventh rank to near-eighth rank, a qualitative transformation. It was only natural that the exchange price would be adjusted accordingly.
After careful consideration, Song Chi decided to change the exchange price for the Bazaar Projection Token.
This would further filter out a large number of alien races, which Song Chi was well aware of, as providing two silver artifacts and six silver artifacts at once were entirely different concepts.
However, Song Chi had no regrets. For him, the allure of Golden Sacred Domain Artifacts was even greater.
He believed that the offer of five hundred years with five opportunities to summon the Bazaar Projection would undoubtedly attract the attention of certain alien races.
For example, the Dark Elves, the Half-Ratmen, and the Wizard Civilization.
This change was just a prelude to future developments, and by the time the trading ended, no alien race had inquired about it.
Unsurprisingly, Song Chi was confident that alien races would eventually give in.
Time passed, and half a year went by in the blink of an eye.
On this day, Song Chi and Bai Mei reunited at the Shining Star Tower, standing on the Civilization Great Wall outside the tower, waiting for the flagship from the main hall to arrive. Their gazes were drawn to the pitch-black starry sky across from them.
At that moment, Bai Mei whispered, "Rumor has it that the four great empires are preparing to launch an all-out war against the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Civilization!"
PS: This is the only chapter for today.
(End of Chapter)
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