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Chapter 571: The Aftermath
Chapter 571: The Aftermath
The Peak Level Six Floating Land, with a diameter of nearly a thousand light-years, had been inhabited by the Insect Nest for over a century, and with its exaggerated breeding capabilities, the number of insects on this Floating Land had long reached an extremely exaggerated level.
In just a few minutes, more than a hundred thousand insects had gathered in the high-altitude battlefield.
Roar!
In the sky, the Law Whale Phantom let out a long cry towards the heavens.
The Law Whale, condensed from the perfect level of Spatial Law, was far superior in both size and power compared to its previous form.
Within the Law Whale Phantom, Song Jia's several Unyielding Ships and the Starlight Dragon Shark supported each other, taking advantage of the protection of the Law Whale Phantom to unleash their ship cannons and slaughter the increasing number of insects in the sky.
On the surface of the Floating Land, numerous low- and mid-tier insects were also attempting to attack the Heaven Ruin Skydome, including a Dominator Sovereign, but they were blocked by the Angel King True Spirit Phantom activated by Song Chi.
As time passed and the number of insects grew, the Angel King True Spirit Phantom gradually dissipated under the devouring of tens of thousands of ferocious mandibles.
Seeing this, Song Chi was about to activate the "High-Energy Particle Storm" ability of the Neutron Star Core Armor to eliminate a large number of insects with its wide-area damage effect.
However, he was afraid that the high-energy particle storm might accidentally annihilate the Ancient Matriarch, who was already on the brink of death.
Therefore, he could only activate the "Frost Heaven Phoenix Spirit Guardian" ability of the Heaven Frost Crown component.
Compared to the Angel King True Spirit Phantom, this Eighth Rank Frost Heaven Phoenix Spirit Guardian was much weaker, and at this rate, it could only last for a dozen or so seconds.
Song Chi knew that this was because he had not comprehended the Ice Law, while the previous Angel King True Spirit Phantom had the support of his Grand Light Law. The Frost Heaven Phoenix Spirit Guardian did not have such treatment.
Ignoring this, he continued to rapidly activate the Celestial Balance Control Ring component.
Song Chi himself wasn't sure how many times he had cast the Enslavement Seal.
At one moment, the heavenly melody-like prompt from the Heavenward Mind System suddenly reached his ears.
"Enslavement successful. The life force of this Ancient Matriarch is extremely weak. It is recommended to transfer it to the Life-based Medical Restoration Pod as soon as possible."
Not long after the prompt sounded, Song Chi suddenly felt a new telepathic sensation in his heart, coming from the newly enslaved Ancient Matriarch below.
He was delighted but remained calm.
He immediately activated the "Size at Will" ability of the Celestial Balance Control Ring, and when the Ancient Matriarch's body shrank to its mini form, Song Chi controlled the Heaven Ruin Skydome to shoot out a powerful traction beam.
The traction beam was just one part of the plan, as the warship's cabin door also opened, and a Shadow-Killing Clan Puppet Warrior rushed out.
As soon as it reached the Ancient Matriarch, the "Spirit Summoning Seal" in the Shadow-Killing Clan Puppet Warrior's hand was sent directly into the Ancient Matriarch's body.
In the main control room of the warship, Song Chi activated the Spirit Summoning Puppet component and successfully recalled the mini-form Ancient Matriarch.
At that moment, the Frost Heaven Phoenix Spirit Guardian above the warship also shattered, and the Dominator Sovereign and tens of thousands of low- and mid-tier insects that had been blocked rushed towards the Heaven Ruin Skydome.
Buzz!
Just as the overwhelming swarm of insects was about to engulf the Heaven Ruin Skydome, the Sky Escape Orb was activated.
After a subtle spatial fluctuation, the Heaven Ruin Skydome flashed and vanished into the sky, reappearing within the family's battle fleet.
"The enslavement was successful, but the Ancient Matriarch is heavily injured and in a deep coma. I've sent her to the medical pod, but it will take some time before we can control these insects!"
"Never mind that, let's retreat immediately!"
Led by the Sea Tamer Dragon Soaring, and with the protection of the perfect level Law Whale, including the smaller Law Whale contributed by Song Chi, Song Jia's several warships and the Starlight Dragon Shark successfully broke through the swarm of millions of insects.
To completely escape these extremely agitated insects, the six warships and the dragon shark spent half a month continuously traversing the starry sky.
Hundreds of light-years away from the Peak Level Six Floating Land, in an asteroid belt, the six warships hid.
Although they had escaped the insects, the group did not rush back to the Dragon Spine Continent.
The primary purpose of this hunting trip to the Insect Nest was to harvest Sovereign True Spirits, and the secondary goal was to attempt to enslave the Ancient Matriarch.
Now that the enslavement of the Ancient Matriarch was successful, they had achieved their primary goal, but it was not ideal to have only one commander.
The reason for enslaving the Ancient Matriarch was her infinite soldier-producing ability, and with so many ready-made insects in front of them, they couldn't afford to give up.
Inside the Heaven Ruin Skydome, Song Chi had already installed the borrowed Silver Medical Pod component, and with its powerful healing effect, the Ancient Matriarch would recover from her injuries in just two or three months. At that time, she could control the millions of insects, which would be extremely beneficial.
If they could control them all, the value of the insect meat they could produce would far exceed imagination.
...
The next day, Song Wujiang's voice sounded in the communication group chat.
"The corpses of the two Dominator Sovereigns have been dissected, resulting in over 10 tons of Seventh Rank Insect Meat. Combined with the two insect corpses from the Flame God Clan's Holster Bracelet, we now have a total of 35 tons of Seventh Rank Insect Meat."
In this battle, they had killed two Dominator Sovereigns, including the Black Scorpion Bug killed by Song Chi and the one severely injured by Song Shiyuan.
Upon hearing this, everyone became interested.
Seventh Rank Insect Meat greatly enhanced the guidance techniques of Fifth and Sixth Rank Battleship Captains and Unyielding Ship Captains, saving them a lot of time.
"In that case, let's distribute 5 tons to each person. Since Xiao Chi contributed the most, he will receive an additional 2 tons. The remaining 8 tons will be deposited in the Merit Tower, as this has limited assistance for Seventh Rank Guidance Techniques. I won't participate in the distribution!"
This distribution was very reasonable, and no one objected. However, the Seventh Rank Insect Meat was not the key. Soon, Song Wujiang continued, "Additionally, a top-tier attribute-less Energy Crystal was found in one of the Kingbugs!"
Upon hearing the words "top-tier Energy Crystal," the group's breathing in the communication chat became noticeably heavier.
Energy Crystals, these were one of the special promotion resources for starships, and top-tier energy crystals could even increase the success rate of promoting a Dreadnought to a Star Annihilator, with a success rate of around 10%.
Precisely because of this effect, for the Dread Fleet Admiral, this was undoubtedly even more attractive than a golden component.
"Doesn't that mean we already have two top-tier energy crystals in our hands?"
The speaker was Song Xingru, and the meaning behind these words was simple. Previously, the two Dominator Insect Corpses in the eighth-rank peak Flame God Clan's storage bracelet also gave a top-tier energy crystal.
Saying this, the group in the chat looked at each other.
In the end, Song Wujiang spoke up:
"How about this, for now, these two top-tier energy crystals will be given to Song Chi and Song Yan..."
As he spoke, Song Wujiang paused slightly, but soon explained:
"Song Chi's contributions to the family over the years are there for all to see. As for Song Yan, he actively offered the Flame God Clan's civilization ruins, from which the family not only obtained two golden ascension fire sources, but also two black ultimate components, several golden holy domain components, and a large number of ascension fire sources. It's only right for them to each take one!"
...
Time passed, and two months had flown by in the blink of an eye.
Through the full treatment of the Silver Medical Pod, the Ancient Matriarch's injuries finally received some relief.
Seeing this, the Song Clan members felt that the timing was right. They didn't hesitate and headed straight for the Sixth Rank Floating Continent from before.
The central region of the floating continent was filled with a strong, sour odor and corrosive fumes. On the ground, there were limbs and severed arms scattered everywhere, and countless insect corpses with half their bodies devoured lay strewn about.
In the very center of the floating continent, where the insect nest's core region used to be, there were still numerous insectoids frantically fighting each other.
It was very similar to those special insect-breeding methods, where hundreds and thousands of insectoids died, but in the end, only one extremely strong and aggressive elite insectoid was born.
"Without the control of the mother, these insectoids are so crazy!"
In the sky above, the Song Clan members watched this scene quietly, their brows furrowed. In just over two months, the insect swarm, which used to number in the millions, had shrunk tenfold, which couldn't help but make them sigh.
These were the cannon fodder they had designated for the future civilizational war, but now only tens of thousands remained.
The only consolation for them was that with the Ancient Matriarch's roar, the frenzied insectoids below finally calmed down from their bloodthirsty state and then gathered obediently beneath them.
And despite the fact that these insectoids had only sixty thousand left, their quality had improved significantly. Among the sixty thousand insectoids, over fifty thousand were mid-tier and above, and even the sixth-tier insectoids, which had developed to the extreme, numbered over a hundred.
There were still three Dominator-level King Bugs, but one of them was obviously newly promoted in the previous cannibalistic battle.
This also meant that one of the three King Bugs that were left was actually missing.
Through communication with the Ancient Matriarch, the Song Clan members finally found a half-devoured insect corpse in a gorge tens of thousands of kilometers away.
Suppressing his heartache, Song Wujiang absorbed this insect corpse into the Sea Tamer Dragon Soaring.
The insect corpse was already half-eaten, so extracting Dominator Source Blood was out of the question, but if they were lucky, the seventh-rank insect meat might still be preserved, and they could also refine a small amount of Dominator True Spirit from it.
This Dominator King Bug had been severely injured by the Starlight Dragon Shark before, and it was finally killed by one of the other King Bugs.
After collecting this Dominator Insect Corpse, the Song Clan's six warships began to release a large number of puppet warriors and enslaved creatures, thoroughly cleaning up the countless insect corpses on the ground below.
Among the millions of insect corpses, although most of them had been devoured, there were still some that retained half or even their entire bodies.
What the Song Clan members were doing was thoroughly processing these insect corpses, cutting off the preserved insect meat from their bodies, and occasionally discovering a few energy crystals of various ranks, all of which were of great use to the Flame Keeper Captain.
Later, they would put these into the family's Merit Tower, which would not only increase consumption among the lower-ranked clan members but also accelerate the family's strength. Why not? It took them a full ten days to clean up all the insect corpses, after which they investigated the Sixth Rank Apex Floating Continent beneath their feet to see if there was still a chance to save it.
But the result was helpless; the origin core of this floating continent had already been devoured by the Ancient Matriarch by eighty percent, and with the previous devastating blow from the Sea Tamer Dragon Soaring, the floating continent had irreversibly headed towards destruction, beyond the power of humans to stop.
In the end, they decided to make the most of the situation and let Song Shiyuan stay behind to extract the remaining twenty percent of the floating continent's origin core using the Origin Core Extraction Device.
After all, it wouldn't be long before it completely collapsed, so they might as well keep the origin core for themselves. It was still a Sixth Rank Apex Floating Continent, and even if only twenty percent remained, it was far superior to those just entering the Sixth Rank.
The family was still cultivating the Dragon Spine Continent, so they might as well take it.
As for why they were still cultivating the Dragon Spine Continent?
It was simple. The Sixth Rank Floating Continents currently under the family's control did not include any of the Apex level, and starting from scratch would take too much time.
Besides this, the main reason was still the future mythical artifact, the Dragon Whale Hall.
(End of Chapter)
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