Chapter 662: 【Soul Devouring Altar】 Final Test (Completing Yesterday's Update)
Chapter 662: 【Soul Devouring Altar】 Final Test (Completing Yesterday's Update)
The surge of excitement was fleeting, and the group of Eight-Armed Serpent Monstrosities quickly sensed an extreme threat of death from the rapidly shooting Blood Spear.
And this was just the Blood Spear; closely following it were dense purple thunderbolts.
However, the first to hit the target was not the Blood Spear or the purple thunderbolts, but two subtle golden lights.
The two golden lights were barely perceptible to the naked eye. One was a bright golden light, and the second was noticeably dimmer. The first to enter the body of the leading Seventh-Rank Eight-Armed Serpent was the brighter golden radiance.
The moment the bright golden light touched the serpent's skin, the Seventh-Rank Serpent realized the danger, but it was already too late.
Before it could react, it fell into a bizarre time-stopping state.
The time-stopping effect instantly stiffened its body, preventing it from making any subsequent evasive or defensive moves.
Whoosh! The second, dimmer golden light followed closely, but this time, it didn't cause any negative effects, as if it were just an illusion.
Due to the powerful Terrestrial Origin Essence will of the Serpent's Life Float, the time-stopping effect, which could have lasted up to 10 seconds, only lasted for less than 2 seconds on the Seventh-Rank Serpent.
Just as the serpent was about to break free from the time-stopping control, the second bright golden light followed closely.
It was the second 'Lotus Meditation Seal: External Time Stop' golden light.
As expected, the serpent fell into the time-stop state for the second time.
Before it could break free again, the blood-colored spear, carrying boundless power, and the purple thunderbolt arrived in front of it.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The intense energy explosion spread across the surface of the Demon Snake Continent.
The point where the Blood Spear landed was naturally the chest of the Seventh-Rank Serpent, creating a massive bloody hole in its body, from which a large amount of pale silver Dominant blood gushed out.
If this were all, it wouldn't have been life-threatening to a Dominant life form with a Ninth-Rank Terrestrial Origin Essence will. But the key was that this was just the first wave of attacks.
After that, the vast amount of black hole energy that was originally attached to the Blood Spear suddenly erupted, and a miniature black hole rapidly condensed in the serpent's bloody chest, causing terrifying devouring and compression that nearly tore the serpent apart. Fortunately, after breaking free from the time-stop effect for the second time, it managed to escape the ravages of the miniature black hole using a black Oddity.
After successfully escaping the black hole energy field, the serpent's sunken chest began to churn with energy, and a large amount of blood essence and the Earthly Law flowed within it. With the support of the Terrestrial Origin Essence will of the Demon Snake Continent and the serpent's powerful recovery ability, its injuries miraculously began to improve.
Just as a glimmer of hope appeared in the serpent's crimson eyes, another disturbance within its body dashed its hopes.
The mark of the Hunting God's weakness, which had entered its body earlier, suddenly erupted.
The attack that had nearly killed it a short while ago was now repeating itself inside its body for the second time, causing extreme damage to its body once more. Its injuries, which had shown signs of recovery, worsened again, and this time, even the Terrestrial Origin Essence will of the Demon Snake Continent couldn't save it.
In the surrounding sky, the Ten Thousand Violet Heaven Thunder Prison, which had derived from the Ten Thousand Violet Heaven Thunder Runes, erupted. The simultaneous explosion of the runes instantly stunned the group of Eight-Armed Serpents behind the serpent.
Among them, the Fourth-Rank and below Eight-Armed Serpents were instantly turned into ashes, while the remaining dozens of Fifth-Rank and above serpents barely managed to withstand the attack, but they were already at their limits.
The space rippled, and the Heaven Ruin Skydome, which had teleported in, delivered the final blow.
The flash-teleportation point chosen by Song Chi was right in the middle of the group of Eight-Armed Serpents. The moment he appeared, without hesitation, Song Chi activated the "High-Energy Particle Tempest" ability of the 【Neutron Star Armor】.
The destructive power of this ability was no less than that of the Ten Thousand Violet Heaven Thunder Prison's high-energy particle tempest domain, completely annihilating the remaining dozens of Eight-Armed Serpents.
This included the Seventh-Rank Serpent, which was already on the brink of death.
In the control room of the Heaven Ruin Skydome, Song Chi voluntarily deactivated the high-energy particle tempest domain, which had raged for only a few dozen seconds. At the same time, multiple traction beams shot out from the ship, targeting the rapidly falling serpent corpses in the sky.
In less than twenty seconds, Song Chi successfully captured three Sixth-Rank serpent corpses and the only Seventh-Rank serpent corpse using traction beams and the warship's scaling components. After that, without any hesitation, another flash-teleportation component of the Heaven Ruin Skydome was activated, and the ship quietly disappeared from the battlefield.
It was a pity to leave behind so many serpent corpses, but Song Chi didn't regret his decision.
If given the chance, he would make the same choice again.
Beneath his feet was the Demon Snake Continent, home to countless Eight-Armed Serpents, numbering in the tens of billions. In just five short days, according to a piece of information Song Chi had obtained, more than half of the tens of thousands of elite Flame Warships involved in this operation had been lost.
And all of this was based on the overwhelming numerical advantage of the Eight-Armed Serpent Monstrosities.
No one knew if there might be a powerful Eight-Armed Serpent Monstrosity lurking nearby, and although Heaven's Eye had decent detection capabilities, it wasn't omnipotent. Even those Serpent Monstrosities holding high-level concealment oddities were difficult for Heaven's Eye to track.
Therefore, to ensure his absolute safety, Song Chi had to be as cautious as possible. After all, this was his true physical body, and if something were to happen, it wouldn't be a joke.
It wasn't until he had flown a great distance that Song Chi finally slowed down the speed of the Heaven Ruin Skydome.
Only then did his gaze shift to the Soul Devouring Altar component on the side.
{Soul Devouring - Transcendence: ... Current Soul Devouring Progress: Stage 4, 100%, all Soul Devouring charging complete.}
Seeing the last few words of the "Soul Devouring - Transcendence" trait, "all Soul Devouring charging complete," Song Chi breathed a sigh of relief.
Now, he could finally summon the Mirror Clone warship.
As the Mirror Clone component was activated, a wave of energy emanated from the side of the Heaven Ruin Skydome, and soon, a warship almost identical to the Heaven Ruin Skydome gradually appeared.
Although he was very much looking forward to certain functions of this Mirror Clone warship, Song Chi first recalled his own flagship. When his physical body entered the Mirror Clone warship's interior, and the warship's cabin door completely closed, sealing off the ship's interior from the outside world, Song Chi left only a spiritual body in the Mirror Clone warship and directly entered the Multiverse Bazaar.
Of course, several days ago, he had already set up a spatial anchor point in a hidden cave, so if the Mirror Clone warship were to sink, he could easily return to the Demon Snake Continent through that spatial anchor point.
In the Multiverse Bazaar, Song Chi closed his eyes, focusing all his attention on the spiritual body.
Soul Devouring Altar Level 80
Quality: Black
Unique Trait: Soul Devouring - Transcendence
Consumption: 3800/s (Ethereal Energy Points)
No mistakes, one shot, one kill, one inner, one container, one six, one nine, one book, one bar, one look!
Effect: After installation, the souls of spiritual beings directly killed by the warship will be absorbed by this component.
...
{Soul Devouring - Transcendence: Consumes 10 million Ethereal Energy Points. As the cost of breaking this component, it consumes all the souls devoured by the component, allowing a designated component to transcend once. Quality can be guaranteed to increase by one rank. Current Soul Devouring Progress: Stage 4, 100% (Note: This component can make black components transcend to colored/lower tier modules.)}
Seeing that the Soul Devouring progress of the Soul Devouring Altar component replicated by the Mirror Clone warship was indeed also fully charged, Song Chi muttered, "As expected."
Then, while controlling the Mirror Clone warship to activate the various effects of the Mirage Dragon Transformation Pearl, he carefully considered which component he should use this transcendence opportunity on.
Although it was still uncertain whether this replicated Soul Devouring Altar could take effect on the Mirror Clone warship, he couldn't be too casual.
After all, it was a one-time component, and even if the Mirror Clone warship could be repeatedly summoned in the future, it would still require a cooldown period. And in this Demon Snake Continent operation, time was of the essence.
He scanned his surroundings, but this was just an unconscious action; in fact, his gaze had already settled on a few specific components.
Neutron Star Core Armor
Black Hole Evolution Layer
Purple Heaven Thunder Cannon
The first two required no further explanation; they were top-notch components with both offensive and defensive capabilities. Once they ascended to the colored mythical quality, they would greatly enhance the combat power of the Heaven Ruin Skydome.
As for the last component, a golden main cannon, the reason was simple. Song Chi valued the "Ninefold Purple Heaven Extinction Tribulation Thunder" trait of the Purple Heaven Thunder Cannon.
The power of this trait had been tested in battle many times before. The ninefold tribulation thunder temporarily transformed into an annihilation cannon possessed incomparable annihilation power.
If it could further evolve to black quality and be combined with the silver high-grade thunder attribute law crystal he had given to the spiritual body earlier, Song Chi could hardly imagine what kind of power it would unleash.
This plan had been formulated nearly two hundred years ago, and during this time, he had certainly considered this point. The above three components were the result of his careful consideration, and it didn't take him long to make a decision.
[Do you want to activate the Soul Devouring Altar component? This component is one-time use, please decide carefully!]
"Confirm!"
Following the spiritual body's confirmation, a second mechanical prompt sounded.
[Confirm activation of Soul Devouring Altar, please select the target for transcendence!]
"Neutron Star Core Armor!"
Song Chi's final choice was the Neutron Star Core Armor, and as the spiritual body's voice fell, Song Chi's physical body in the Multiverse Bazaar instinctively held his breath.
All his previous speculations would be put to the test with this final step, how could he not be nervous!
(End of Chapter)
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