Chapter 679: 【Chaos Beast】
Chapter 679: 【Chaos Beast】
Facing a 6th-level blood-colored being, the Tian Xu Skyvault could still barely maintain balance due to its powerful defensive capabilities. However, the 7th-level was different; the existence of the Sovereign-level beings had long since fundamentally distinguished themselves from ordinary beings.
Hiss!
A piercing shriek erupted from the mouths of these 7th-level blood-colored beings, and these high-frequency sound waves were aimed directly at the Tian Xu Skyvault. Not only did they create ripples on the energy shield, but the aftermath also penetrated the energy shield and the ship's body, directly entering the ears of Song Chi, who was inside the Tian Xu Skyvault.
Buzz!
The intense buzzing sound filled Song Chi's mind, and for a moment, he felt his heart and soul were in a daze. It was only when the Dragon Whale Hall in the depths of his mind emitted a tri-colored light that he was able to regain his senses.
Obviously, this shriek was a tactic targeting the heart and mind. Taking advantage of this opportunity, the more than ten 7th-level blood-colored beings nearby, as expected, made the same move.
Their bodies were engulfed in surging blood-red energy, and weak spatial fluctuations appeared on their surfaces. In the next instant, their figures disappeared, and when they reappeared, they were already right next to the Tian Xu Skyvault.
However, what they didn't expect was that although Song Chi himself had fallen into a brief daze, the current controller of the Tian Xu Skyvault was not him. The Qiong Tian Smart Brain had never been affected from the beginning, and at the moment when the more than ten 7th-level blood-colored beings flashed close, the Qiong Tian Smart Brain precisely activated a component that had been prepared long ago.
【Neutron Star Armor】 - "Neutron Star Fission"!
Sizzle, sizzle, sizzle! The momentary extreme high temperature caused a loud sizzling sound around the Tian Xu Skyvault.
This was not something else, but the sound of the surrounding 7th-level beings, including the more numerous 6th-level blood-colored beings, whose bodies were rapidly melting due to the unbearable heat.
If Song Chi were outside, he might even smell the strong aroma of meat at this moment.
However, even though the timing was perfect, the current 【Neutron Star Armor】 was only of black quality and not a colorful mythical component, so the temperature it emitted was far less terrifying than that of the mirror image warship before.
Therefore, although many blood-colored beings fell to the million-degree high temperature, they were all 6th-level units, and the more than ten 7th-level blood-colored beings only suffered some not-too-serious injuries.
However, the Qiong Tian Smart Brain had obviously calculated this. The Tian Xu Skyvault, which had transformed into a miniature neutron star, quickly turned into a phantom and disappeared from its original position.
The Qiong Tian Smart Brain activated the 【Void Pearl】 component and used the flash-dodge technique to create distance from the more than ten 7th-level blood-colored beings.
After that, the Qiong Tian Smart Brain continued to borrow the main cannons and super cannons on the warship to carry out a tug-of-war attack.
Those blood-colored beings were not stupid either. Seeing that the Tian Xu Skyvault was trying to delay time and expand its achievements with this guerrilla tactic, the remaining nearly twenty 7th-level blood-colored beings in the blood mist also emerged one after another.
In the end, the situation faced by the Tian Xu Skyvault was a collective siege by more than thirty 7th-level units and five thousand 6th-level units.
In this situation, the Qiong Tian Smart Brain stubbornly relied on the 【Void Pearl】, 【Starlight Flash Spirit Stone Talisman】, and 【Angel King's Wings】 components to buy some time. During this period, the four main cannons and two super cannons never stopped firing, killing as many as several thousand 6th-level blood-colored beings.
The only pity was that the more than thirty 7th-level blood-colored beings were mixed in with thousands of 6th-level units. While they occasionally dealt significant damage to the Tian Xu Skyvault's body, they would retreat into the crowd of blood-colored beings at the slightest sign of trouble, making it difficult for the Tian Xu Skyvault to completely eliminate a single 7th-level blood-colored being.
At this moment, taking advantage of the regular intervals provided by the main cannons and super cannons, dozens of 7th-level beings once again burst out from the large number of 6th-level units, slashing towards the Tian Xu Skyvault's body with their sharp bat wings.
With the ability of the 【Last Blessing】 and 【Atomic Repair Instrument】 components already activated multiple times, the current state of the Tian Xu Skyvault was obviously unable to withstand another round of full-force attacks.
If it just stayed still and did not respond with any defensive measures, and the miniature neutron star form had already ended, the Tian Xu Skyvault would most likely sink.
Fortunately, the Tian Xu Skyvault now had far more defensive measures. At this moment, the Qiong Tian Smart Brain activated another component.
With the activation of this component, a large amount of energy suddenly appeared around the warship, and these energies quickly condensed into a circular domain space around the Tian Xu Skyvault at an extremely fast speed.
The reason for not summoning the "Angel King's True Spirit Shadow" but using this "Black Hole Domain" was actually very simple.
The summoned entity of the Angelic King's True Spirit Guardian is the shadow of an eighth-tier Angelic King's true spirit. While it provides formidable protection, the true spirit shadow itself possesses formidable power, and it inherently repels the approach of external beings.
In comparison, the Black Hole Domain only has the attribute of "absolute invincibility," and it does not repel the entry of external beings.
The plan formulated by the Qiong Tian Smart Brain required a large number of seventh-tier blood-colored beings to get as close as possible, so the "Angelic King True Spirit Guardian" was naturally excluded.
Under the Black Hole Domain, the Tianxu Skyvault already possessed the attribute of absolute invincibility, and the Qiong Tian Smart Brain did not pay attention to the surrounding seventh-tier blood-colored beings that were flying towards it.
Of course, the "Black Hole Domain" trait of the Black Hole Evolution Layer also has significant limitations. The invincibility it grants lasts between 1 and 10 seconds. Given the current gap between the Tianxu Skyvault and the seventh-tier Sovereigns, the Qiong Tian Smart Brain's average calculated time was 5.4 seconds. Therefore, the subsequent plan still needed to control the timing, and it must be executed within this time frame; otherwise, the Tianxu Skyvault would still face considerable danger.
Time passed.
At one moment, the first seventh-tier being's bat wings sliced through the Tianxu Skyvault's body.
Clang, clang, clang!
Instantly, a sharp metal cutting sound rang out, causing Song Chi's heart to tremble slightly, while the Qiong Tian Smart Brain immediately started the timer.
0.01s
0.5s
At 0.8s, the second seventh-tier blood-colored being also attacked the Tianxu Skyvault.
1.4s, the third one.
1.8s, the fourth one.
...
4.8s, the twenty-fourth one.
【Now!】
At the moment when the twenty-fourth seventh-tier blood-colored being's bat wings sliced through the Tianxu Skyvault's body, the Qiong Tian Smart Brain officially took action.
Under its control, another "High-Energy Particle Storm" trait of the Neutron Star Armor was activated.
Instantly, countless high-energy particles, with the Tianxu Skyvault's body as the center, spread out at an extremely fast speed in all directions.
In the blink of an eye, a high-energy particle storm field with tremendous destructive power formed around the Tianxu Skyvault.
As expected, thousands of sixth-tier units were all enveloped by this high-energy particle storm field. Under the impact of a large number of high-energy particles, many sixth-tier blood-colored beings, who had already suffered injuries from the previous terrifying high temperatures, began to die in large numbers.
The more than thirty seventh-tier blood-colored beings around also experienced the same. Covered by this sudden high-energy particle storm field, the damage they had to endure was proportional to their size. With wingspans exceeding ten thousand kilometers, the impact of the high-energy particles they endured was unimaginable.
However, it must be said that as seventh-tier Sovereign beings, their physiques were far superior to those of fifth and sixth-tier beings. Even under the impact of such a large number and intensity of high-energy particle storms, they did not suffer overly fatal injuries in a short period.
This was evident from the familiar spatial ripples that appeared around them.
The fact that they still had the strength to use spatial abilities in this situation clearly indicated that they were far from being exhausted. However, since all these seventh-tier blood-colored beings were so quick to try to escape using spatial abilities, it also meant that this "High-Energy Particle Storm" was not entirely ineffective against them.
Thinking of this, Song Chi issued an instruction for the first time.
【Time Chessboard】 - "Time Chessboard" trait, activate!
Once activated, this rarely used colorful upper-tier component immediately enveloped the Tianxu Skyvault's body with dense five-colored light.
The next second, within this colorful glow, an extreme power of time emerged, and in a moment, a phantom five-colored chessboard condensed above the Tianxu Skyvault.
This phantom chessboard was formed by one hundred and eight five-colored chess pieces. Once it took shape, the time within the area covered by the chessboard immediately became chaotic.
Visibly, the actions of the surrounding blood-colored beings trying to escape were slowed down by more than a hundred times. The seventh-tier blood-colored beings, which originally only needed 1 second to flash and escape, had their escape time extended to over two minutes under the influence of the five-colored chessboard domain.
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
The piercing sound rang out again, and energy surged on the blood-colored bat wings. Sensing that their state was not right, the seventh-tier blood-colored beings tried to break free from the restrictions of the Time Chessboard domain, but they were clearly unable to do so on their own.
The current enhancement level of the Time Chessboard is lv80, which can theoretically control all eighth-tier units.
Due to the limitations of the Tianxu Skyvault's dreadnought body, its effect on eighth-tier units may not be as strong, but it can still absolutely suppress seventh-tier units. Otherwise, it would truly be a disgrace to the name of a colorful upper-tier component.
The battle raged on as the high-energy particle storm relentlessly inflicted damage upon the 7th Tier units.
At the 45-second mark, the first fallen 7th Tier Blood-colored Being emerged.
The cause of its demise was not solely the high-energy particle storm; while the storm raged, the various cannons aboard the Tianxu Skyvault also remained active, continuously bombarding these 7th Tier Blood-colored Beings under the control of the Qiong Tian Smart Brain System.
The first fallen 7th Tier Blood-colored Being succumbed to a phantom blood-red spear unleashed by the Spear of Blood.
The key factor here was that within the Chessboard Domain, the high-energy particle storm and cannon attacks unleashed by the Tianxu Skyvault itself were unaffected by the slowed time, allowing the ship to maximize its damage output.
With the first example, subsequent casualties became more frequent.
At the 56-second mark, the second 7th Tier Blood-colored Being perished.
At 64 seconds, the third 7th Tier Sovereign Being fell.
70 seconds later, the fourth one followed.
...
By the 120-second mark, fifteen 7th Tier Blood-colored Beings had fallen.
However, this was nearly the entirety of them. After 120 seconds, the spatial abilities previously activated by the 7th Tier Blood-colored Beings had mostly concluded, and even with the "Time-Chessboard" domain, they could no longer hinder their escape.
150 seconds was merely a theoretical number; in reality, these 7th Tier Beings would have varying degrees of resistance, and achieving a 120-fold increase was already impressive.
As for why the Chessboard Domain couldn't restrict their use of spatial abilities, there was no choice. The Time-Chessboard itself was an ultimate time-based component, and the domain it created lacked effects like space sealing, demon suppression, or void lockdown.
'If only I had summoned more chess pieces just now...'
As soon as this thought crossed his mind, Song Chi shook his head, knowing that it wasn't feasible.
It wasn't that he didn't want to; the time chess pieces within the Time-Chessboard were running low.
Decades ago, during a high-tier Eight-Armed Serpent Demon attack, the Time-Chessboard was used once, and it also consumed 108 time chess pieces. In the short span of a few decades, the 360 ordinary time chess pieces had yet to recover to three hundred, and this time, using another 108 pieces, the component's time chess pieces were reduced to just over a hundred.
These hundred-plus pieces were reserved for emergencies, and Song Chi was reluctant to use them unless absolutely necessary.
The escape of nearly twenty 7th Tier Blood-colored Beings left the Time-Chessboard domain feeling empty, but Song Chi's mood grew heavier.
These nearly twenty 7th Tier Blood-colored Beings that had escaped were now watching coldly from a distance, waiting for the Chessboard Domain and high-energy particle storm to end. They would undoubtedly rush back with all their might to retaliate against the Tianxu Skyvault, which had inflicted severe damage upon them.
However, regardless of his thoughts, the duration of both the Chessboard Domain and the high-energy particle storm was limited. After nearly annihilating all the 5th and 6th Tier Blood-colored Beings within their range, the two effects gradually dissipated in the blood-red space.
Almost at the moment the effects ended, the nearly twenty 7th Tier Blood-colored Beings that had escaped previously rushed back with frenzy.
Blood mist filled the sky, blocking out the sun, as if determined to devour the Tianxu Skyvault whole.
At the same time, in a special chaotic space elsewhere, multiple figures gathered, and among them, a special image appeared, showing the very scene the Tianxu Skyvault was currently facing in the blood-red space.
"On the first challenge to the Chaos Nest, 15 7th Tier Chaos Beasts were annihilated by a Wo Wei Ship. This achievement is already commendable. Tanlang, it's time to make your move, and don't forget the mistake from ten thousand years ago..."
"Wait, I have a feeling this little guy has another ace up his sleeve..."
"The Colorful Upper-tier Time-based Component has already been used. Don't push it too far. This is one of our rare promising talents, and we must ensure nothing unexpected happens..."
"By the way, after this Divine Serpent Floating Land operation, the Song Family backing this young man has been exposed to numerous forces. The Fusang Dynasty has sent a message, implying that they want the Song Family to surrender some of the resources they secretly acquired from multiple star systems in the past..."
"Just reject them outright. How greedy! If they want to scavenge, they can go to the Eight-Armed Serpent Demons' territory, which still occupies over half a star system. Let them try it themselves!"
(End of Chapter)
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