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Chapter 613: The Eighth Stage Battle
Chapter 613: The Eighth Stage Battle
Upon their return to the Snake Fang Galaxy System, Song Chi immediately summoned the Heaven Ruin Skydome. Shortly after, his attention was drawn to a fleet that was no less numerous than the Sky Plate River System's forces.
After inquiring with his fellow clansmen, he learned the origin of this unfamiliar fleet.
"The combined fleet of the Spirit Surmount River System in the southern region of the Immortal Qin Divine Dynasty..."
Muttering to himself, Song Chi didn't waste any time. He quickly maneuvered his warship towards the nearby Firm Sea Soaring Ship.
Firm Sea Soaring Ship's Encrypted Magnetic Wave Channel
Song Xingru: "Does this mean they'll be joining us in our future endeavors?"
Song Shiyuan: "It seems so for now. But there are benefits to this. At least during the subsequent advancement, more people will share the risks with us."
Song Xingru: "I don't see this as a benefit. A reduction in risk also means a decrease in our potential gains, which will undoubtedly affect our plan to dominate the entire Crimson Disc River System."
As soon as he joined the group chat, Song Chi noticed a debate between the Ancestor and Ru Zu.
Before he could say anything, Song Wujiang spoke up, "Enough. This has always been within our expectations. Although it's a bit earlier than anticipated, it will indeed impact our pursuit of the Crimson Disc River System to some extent. However, the problem shouldn't be too significant. At most, we'll have to negotiate additional compensation with the Luo family later on."
"I called you here to introduce you to them for further communication. The Spirit Surmount River System is an old-timer within the Divine Dynasty, having been developed for over a hundred thousand years. Many immortal aristocratic families have a history of over ten thousand years, and their foundation is far beyond what we can compare to. Communicating with them is not a bad thing."
At this point, Song Wujiang paused, but Song Shiyuan added another point.
"The Glorified Han Kingdom just sent a message. They've agreed to conduct a private trading session with several immortal aristocratic families from the Spirit Surmount River System. Their foundation is extraordinary, and our families have occupied two river systems in the past two hundred years, also accumulating a significant number of valuable items. It's indeed an opportunity to engage in some trading."
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The Spirit Surmount River System is located in the southern region of the Immortal Qin Divine Dynasty and has been under the dynasty's jurisdiction for nearly a hundred thousand years. Over this time, the various resources and life-sustaining floating continents within the river system have been developed to their utmost potential.
Consequently, the Spirit Surmount River System currently houses eight immortal aristocratic families, with the Zhao family, who was personally granted the title of Spirit Surmount King by the Divine Dynasty, being the most prominent among them.
However, the most crucial aspect is not this.
Two hundred thousand years ago, the first Spirit Surmount King officially achieved the rank of Starship Commander. Since then, the Zhao family's royal court has ascended to the status of an immortal giant power.
Although the first Spirit Surmount King has long since answered the Divine Dynasty's call and is not currently part of the fleet, the mere mention of his title as a Starship Commander is enough to give the Zhao family an edge over the other families.
Indeed, after a brief exchange between the two parties, it was a Zhao family Star Annihilator Commander who took the initiative to propose the trade, as if they were the hosts, while the other families, who had been in the Snake Fang Galaxy System for over a century, were merely guests.
However, the leaders of the immortal aristocratic families from the Sky Plate River System showed no objections. They remained calm, and their expressions gave no hint of their inner thoughts.
The younger commanders who followed their respective Star Annihilator Commanders understood the situation clearly.
The reason for the calmness of the Sky Plate River System's families was mainly because the distribution of the Snake Fang Galaxy System had already been decided, and as long as the discussion didn't involve substantial interests, these superficial titles wouldn't lead to an open conflict with a giant power.
Once the joint communication group chat became quiet, the private trading session officially began.
The first to speak was not from the Zhao family, but from the Ruan family, who was related to the Zhao family by marriage and was also one of the eight immortal aristocratic families in the Spirit Surmount River System.
"The Ruan family offers ten items for trade. If any of you are interested, you can directly place your bids in the group chat, and we will choose the most suitable trader."
The speaker was a Dreadnought Commander from the Ruan family. His face was aged, and his eyes were cloudy. The exaggerated length of his warship indicated that he was a limit-breaking Dreadnought Commander.
Song Chi didn't pay attention to these details. His gaze was fixed on the ten items presented by the Ruan family.
A deepwater pearl from over a hundred thousand years ago
A portion of silver-ranked flame source
One fire saint beast spirit fruit
Ten thousand units of eternal stone bricks
...
After scanning through the items, Song Chi quickly glanced over most of them, but when his eyes landed on the fire saint beast spirit fruit, his eyes lit up considerably.
The fire saint beast spirit fruit is an extremely high-ranked spirit fruit, not produced by starry plants but originating from primitive-level or higher secret realms. It is said that only one fruit is produced every hundred thousand years.
However, its function is not targeted at flame-type lives but at starry gene lives with high fire attributes and of the sixth-rank. It can increase the success rate of sixth-rank fire-attributed lives challenging the seventh rank.
Coincidentally, the Heaven Ruin Skydome currently houses such a sixth-rank fire-attributed life, the Flame Wrath Giant.
As a subjugated life that has been enslaved for a long time, Song Chi has a deep connection with the Flame Wrath Giant. On numerous occasions, the giant has answered the call in times of crisis, helping the Heaven Ruin Skydome overcome various threats.
Now, the Flame Wrath Giant has already reached the peak of the sixth rank. If given more time to consolidate its strength and with the addition of a fire saint beast spirit fruit, the chances of successfully challenging the seventh rank in the future are not insignificant.
Song Chi didn't rush to place a bid but instead observed the bidding information in the group chat. Soon, he discovered an issue.
"Are there no factors for seventh-rank and eighth-rank floating continent essences?"
Noticing that the Ruan family's Dreadnought Commander completely ignored the commanders who bid with floating continent essences, Song Chi tentatively offered a bid of two sixth-rank Silver Apples.
As expected, upon seeing Song Chi's message, the Ruan family commander's eyes flashed, but he still didn't speak.
Seeing a potential opportunity, Song Chi placed another bid.
"Three sixth-rank Silver Apples!"
Over the past few hundred years, Song Chi had accumulated a considerable number of sixth-rank Silver Apples, so taking out three now wasn't a problem.
In the end, Song Chi successfully acquired the fire saint beast spirit fruit.
After this, the other immortal aristocratic families from the Spirit Surmount River System also made their offers, each presenting multiple items for trade.
During this time, various members of the Song family engaged in trading to varying degrees. As for Song Chi, after acquiring the fire saint beast spirit fruit, he didn't make any further moves. There was nothing else that caught his interest.
Finally, a Zhao family Dreadnought Commander entered the scene, and his actions immediately made it clear to the other commanders present what a difference in foundation meant. The Zhao family astonishingly presented fifty items at once.
Not only were all the items unique, but none of them were filler items, and each had considerable value.
Among the fifty items, the Song family even spotted the ultra-strategic resource, Primordial Qi. Although there were only three strands, it was still enough to demonstrate the Zhao family's wealth.
It was well known that in ordinary Eternal noble families, such a resource capable of permanently enhancing a Fleet Admiral’s insight, the Primordial Qi, was so scarce that it was not enough for their own use, let alone for trading.
In the end, the Song family secured all three strands of Primordial Qi.
The Song family members were somewhat surprised by this outcome, as there were many Fleet Admirals who wanted these three strands of Primordial Qi, and their bids were not particularly advantageous.
It wasn't until Song Wujiang explained it himself as they were leaving that they finally understood.
It turned out that the two Star Annihilator Fleet Admirals of the Zhao family had already reached a secret agreement with the Ancestor. They had somehow learned that the Song family had a Sixth Rank Time Realm Fruit and wanted to purchase it.
The Ancestor had agreed to sell them one in the future, hence they secured the three strands of Primordial Qi.
Of course, before that, the Glorified Han Kingdom's three families would still be the first to receive the supply.
Over a hundred years had passed, and the Time Realm Mystic Domain had produced a Sixth Rank Time Realm Fruit, which was traded to the Liu family of the Glorified Han Kingdom two decades ago. The Shen and Xiao families still needed one each, and only after that would it be the Zhao family’s turn.
The arrival of the Spirit Surmount River System Combined Fleet was just a minor interlude, and the subsequent fleet departure was not affected by it.
Time passed, and three months later, the fleet officially set out from the northern part of the Snake Fang Galaxy, heading north to another galaxy.
Along the way, they were naturally ambushed again by the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon forces. Fortunately, with the increased number of ships, they suffered minimal losses and repelled the ambush.
Two years later, after continuous travel, the Heavenly Plate River System Combined Fleet and the Spirit Surmount River System Combined Fleet successfully entered a new galaxy under the jurisdiction of the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon River System Cluster.
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Firm Sea Soaring Ship Encrypted Magnetic Wave Group Chat
"Song Yan: I always feel that something is off with the Flame Serpent River System. Even with the significant increase in our fleet's numbers, the resistance from the Eight-Armed Serpent Demons shouldn't be this weak!"
"Song Shiyuan: I have the same feeling. With the means of the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon civilization, it's hard to believe they didn't detect the large target of the Spirit Surmount River System Combined Fleet in advance. If they had, the Eight-Armed Serpent Demons wouldn't be unprepared."
"Song Chi: Over the past two years, although the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon civilization has organized several ambushes, they haven't been on a large scale, which does feel off!"
Listening to the discussions of the core clan members in the group chat, Song Wujiang finally said:
"Since the Spirit Surmount River System families won't listen to our advice, we have to be more careful ourselves. Pass the word down, all clan members maintain Second Level Alert, and no one is to relax their vigilance..."
Before he could finish his sentence, a vast energy fluctuation surged from afar.
Song Wujiang, who reacted the fastest, his face suddenly turned grim.
"It's an Eighth Rank intensity attack, everyone be careful!"
As he spoke, he activated the Dark Star Mystical Turtle Armor component, linking the most elite 50,000 Flame Warships around the Firm Sea Soaring Ship.
Due to the early detection of anomalies, this silver strategic component had been transferred to the Firm Sea Soaring Ship in advance, as it could not fully utilize its effects on other Dreadnoughts.
Afterward, Song Wujiang immediately called out.
"Little Chi, Little Yan..."
Although it was a simple call, Song Chi and Song Yan immediately understood the Ancestor's meaning and did not hesitate.
[Angelic Sovereign's Wings] · "Angel King True Spirit Guardian," activated!
[Flame God Sovereign Skull] · "Flame God Sovereign True Spirit Guardian," activated!
With the simultaneous activation of the group protection traits of the two golden components, two True Spirit Phantoms enveloped the hundreds of thousands of Song family warships, including some Luo family and the affiliated Philip and Bai family Flame Warships.
The very next second, a terrifying black blade of light slashed across.
The dark blade shot out at an astonishing speed. It was only because the core members of the Song family had been highly vigilant that they managed to make a simple defensive response in time. Apart from them, only the Liu family of the Glorified Han Kingdom and the two Eternal noble families of the Spirit Surmount River System made a simple response.
Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!
Half light, half fire, two True Spirit Phantoms with entirely different attributes, along with the additional energy shield value provided by the Dark Star Mystical Turtle Armor, successfully mitigated over 90% of the cutting damage for the Song family fleet, causing minimal damage to the warships within the protective range.
However, the cost was the immediate annihilation of the two newly activated Eighth Rank golden True Spirit Phantoms.
The energy shields of a large number of mid-to-low rank warships also overloaded, causing certain damage to the ship body armor.
This alone was enough to demonstrate the terrifying nature of the dark blade of light.
It should be noted that whether it was the Angel King True Spirit Phantom or the Flame God Sovereign True Spirit Phantom, both were activated by Eighth Rank golden components and could withstand the frontal attacks of Seventh Rank Sovereigns for a considerable duration.
However, this was not the most shocking part. After annihilating the two True Spirit Phantoms and sinking nearly ten million warships, the dark blade of light still retained considerable power. It continued its flight and ultimately struck a Fourth Rank Resource-type Floating Continent nearby.
What was even more astonishing was that this dark blade of light, which had only about half its original power left, directly split the Fourth Rank Resource-type Floating Continent, reaching the Floating Continent Essence Core at its center.
The Fourth Rank Floating Continent Essence Core, already incredibly fragile against an Eighth Rank attack, finally collapsed under the watchful eyes of countless Fleet Admirals.
A single strike to shatter a star, nothing more, nothing less.
At this moment, everyone gained a new understanding of the combat power of Eighth Rank beings.
"Outrageous!"
A sudden angry rebuke echoed through the starry sky, and the Blood Su Yang family's Star River Ship, which had been hiding in the rear, finally took action.
The sudden attack by the Eighth Rank Eight-Armed Serpent Demon was indeed unexpected, and the Star River Ship's Fleet Admiral did not react in time, which thoroughly enraged him.
The loss of millions of warships, strictly speaking, was already considered his negligence.
The bow of the greenish-brown Star River Ship suddenly transformed into a golden cold light ram horn. With just a flash, the massive ship body of the Star River Ship, carrying an unstoppable kinetic energy, rushed to the vicinity of the Eighth Rank Eight-Armed Serpent demon holding a black long blade.
(End of Chapter)
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