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Chapter 768: Mythical Beings
Chapter 768: Mythical Beings
Chapter 768: Mythical Beings
Bang! Bang! Bang!
As the projection of the Market of All Heavens' purple mist rapidly converged, the sounds of impact from within the Crimson Coffin grew increasingly urgent.
Until a certain point, the Crimson Coffin, made of extraordinary materials, began to tremble, and the intensity of the shaking only increased over time.
Boom!
At one moment, the Crimson Coffin suddenly exploded, the once-intact blood-red immortal gold shattering into pieces, scattering across the entire mountainous space.
Song Chi's gaze never lingered on the shattered coffin. While this material might have held great value for the ancient Immortal Domain Civilization and countless other civilizations in the vast Star Sea, to an Ember Captain, it was merely another type of ore.
After the Crimson Coffin exploded, his eyes remained fixed on the figure lying inside, more precisely, on the human form.
It was a man whose flesh still resembled that of an ordinary human from the Star Sea. His eyes were tightly closed, and he wore a white jade crown. His Dao robe was deep blue, embroidered with white cloud patterns, and the hems shimmered with golden threads. Even in his stillness, he exuded an aura of solemnity and authority.
If Song Chi had not known that the Immortal Domain Civilization had been extinct for hundreds of thousands of years, he might have thought this body had died no more than a thousand years ago.
However, Song Chi was not deceived by the corpse's attire and demeanor. He immediately noticed the inconsistency in this body of the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King buried deep within the Immortal Tomb.
The Heavenly Mandate Sect was once a major power in the Immortal Domain Civilization, and anyone who could bear the title of "Heavenly Mandate" was certainly no ordinary being.
From Song Chi's perspective, this Heavenly Mandate Immortal King must have once possessed peak strength at least at the Golden Immortal level, equivalent to an Eighth Stage Overlord in the Shattered Star Sea, and there was a significant possibility that he was even a Great Law Golden Immortal (Ninth Stage).
Yet, since the Crimson Coffin exploded, he had not sensed any oppressive aura from this corpse.
Logically, the body of an Eighth or Ninth Stage being, if preserved, should remain in excellent condition even after hundreds of thousands of years due to their high life force.
Even if most of their energy had dissipated over time, it should not have been to the extent seen here.
He recalled the Pursuit Immortal, who was merely a Seventh Stage True Immortal. Despite the passage of hundreds of thousands of years, his body still retained most of its energy.
If not for the tombstone clearly marking this as the Celestial Fate Sovereign Immortal Tomb of the Northern Star, Song Chi would have suspected that this was just an ordinary Fifth or Sixth Stage cultivator.
...
As doubts arose, the Spirit Projection's gaze continuously scanned the waist of the corpse, which emitted no energy fluctuations.
There, a delicate golden pouch hung.
As expected, it was likely the storage bag of the Beichen Heavenly Mandate Immortal King, containing the other part of the Heavenly Mandate Compass he sought.
While his thoughts raced, the corpse of the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King, which had previously shown no energy fluctuations, suddenly sat up.
This sudden movement made Song Chi's eyes twitch.
However, the strange impacts from the Crimson Coffin had already put him on guard, and the purple mist projection of the Market of All Heavens had fully condensed above the Mirror Warship. This allowed Song Chi to quickly regain his composure.
Regardless of the situation with the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King's corpse, a purple mist handprint extended from the Market of All Heavens projection, aiming directly at the interior of the Immortal Tomb.
The growing sense of unease in his heart was undeniable. Song Chi's goal was simple: retrieve the storage bag from the corpse and leave the Immortal Tomb mountain range as quickly as possible.
The purple mist handprint descended rapidly, the gray mist energy between its fingers still eroding fiercely. Fortunately, the current Market of All Heavens projection possessed true Ninth Stage power. No matter how bizarre or corrosive the gray mist was, it could not significantly affect the purple mist handprint in the short term.
As the purple mist handprint approached, the gray mist continued to be pushed aside. Just as it reached the head of the half-upright Heavenly Mandate Immortal King's corpse, the corpse seemed to sense the threat from the Market of All Heavens projection and reacted.
His eyes, which had been closed, suddenly opened, and a powerful energy surge erupted from his previously lifeless body.
First Stage
Third Stage
Fifth Stage
...
In an instant, the aura emanating from the corpse escalated to the terrifying Ninth Stage.
It was clear that significant changes had occurred within the seemingly motionless body of the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King, though the exact cause was not visible from the outside.
However, Song Chi was certain that this corpse was not the Beichen Heavenly Mandate Immortal King who had died hundreds of thousands of years ago. It was likely that his body had been taken over by some unknown entity after his death.
Perhaps it was not just the Beichen Heavenly Mandate Immortal King. The entire Immortal Tomb mountain range, spanning hundreds of light-years, might contain similar beings.
What was Song Chi's evidence?
The familiar gray energy in the eyes of the Beichen Heavenly Mandate Immortal King's corpse.
Without a doubt, this energy was the source of the gray mist that enveloped the Immortal Tomb mountain range.
Of course, the corpse alone could not generate such a vast amount of gray mist. This reinforced Song Chi's earlier hypothesis.
At that moment, a chill ran down Song Chi's spine, and his entire body shuddered.
Over the past few hundred years, the Mirror Warship and the Eighth Stage void demon had encountered many survivors from the Immortal Domain. At the time, he had not paid much attention, but now he realized that these survivors all carried traces of this unknown gray mist energy.
All of this led to a disturbing hypothesis.
Perhaps the great powers of the Immortal Domain, who sacrificed their lives to sink the Immortal Domain Continent into the dark side of the void, had not completely severed the unknown invasion. Some invaders had already infiltrated the Immortal Domain Continent before it was submerged, and they had sunk with it into the dark side of the void.
Over hundreds of thousands of years, these invaders had thoroughly corrupted the Immortal Realm Continent Ruins. However, they could not escape the void storms on the dark side, so they remained within the ruins.
The Immortal Tomb mountain range might be the work of these unknown invaders, and their purpose was unclear. Song Chi did not want to delve into it.
His heart turned cold as he realized that his hypothesis made perfect sense, even aligning with the growing sense of unease in his heart.
If the Immortal Tomb mountain range was indeed the creation of these unknown invaders, it must be filled with great dangers.
Consider this: the Immortal Domain Civilization was once the most powerful among all Sovereign Civilizations. If such a civilization could be destroyed, the unknown invaders must have been far more powerful than the Immortal Domain Civilization itself.
Thus, it was not surprising that they might have left behind mythical-level means of suppression deep within the Immortal Tomb mountain range.
As Song Chi's thoughts raced, an ancient murmur echoed from the depths of the distant mountains.
"Yao Yin Ling!"
The characters in this murmur were not part of any language Song Chi knew, but the penetrating power of the sound was terrifying.
Despite the lessons from the past, Song Chi did not dare to open the Mirror Warship's hatch. Nevertheless, the murmur still seeped through the energy shield and the ship's armor, reaching inside the Mirror Warship.
Though no one was present in the Mirror Warship, and the replicated skybrain was not affected by the murmur, the sound tried to influence Song Chi through the thread of his Spirit Projection in the Pantheon Market.
In the Pantheon Market, Song Chi's eyes flashed with cold light.
"Suppress it!"
With the mobilization of his Spiritual Energy, the Dragon Whale Hall imprint in his brow ignited. A phantom projection of the Dragon Whale Hall formed in the sky of the Pantheon Market.
Under the protection of the Dragon Whale Hall, the nascent sense of savagery in his heart was quickly quelled.
At the same time, Song Chi sent new instructions to the Mirror Warship.
Replicating the [Antimatter Evolution Engine] · "Hyperspeed Burst"
Replicating the [Flame Roar Engine] · "Overload"
Replicating the [Primordial Copper Ram] · "Primordial Impact"
...
With multiple acceleration features activated, the Mirror Warship instantly transformed into a blur, charging fiercely toward the seemingly reanimated corpse of the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King below.
Alongside the Mirror Warship, the projection of the Market of All Heavens enveloped the ship, forming a spectral purple mist dragon whale that roared and charged down together.
This was not just any attack. It was Song Chi himself, using the secret technique [Dragon Whale Fury Sea] from the Pantheon Market, maximizing the ninth-tier combat power of the Market of All Heavens projection.
Boom!
The spectral purple mist dragon whale collided violently with the ninth-tier protective energy around the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King’s corpse, causing a terrifying explosion that completely collapsed the already fractured space of the Immortal Tomb.
After this strike, Song Chi was certain that the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King had been a Great Law Golden Immortal in life.
Even after hundreds of thousands of years, the ninth-tier power radiating from the corpse could still match the Market of All Heavens projection.
As the two forces were locked in a stalemate, the Mirror Warship, under Song Chi’s command, activated two critical components.
Replicating the [Mythic Pulse Energy Shield] · "Mythic Pulse Wave"
Replicating the [Realm Confrontation Device] · "Confrontation Field"
Under the cover of the purple mist energy, the sudden release of two special energies caught the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King’s corpse off guard.
The first to hit was the "Mythic Pulse Wave." This energy wave, once absorbed by the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King’s body, caused the ninth-tier energy within to fall into chaos, weakening the protective energy field around it.
With this, the previously balanced situation tipped in favor of the spectral purple mist dragon whale, but it was not enough.
Next, a Confrontation Field condensed around the Mirror Warship, engaging the energy field around the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King’s body. The two fields clashed violently.
With these two assists, the spectral purple mist dragon whale finally broke through the energy field.
Seeing this, Song Chi had no time to rejoice. The Immortal Tomb mountain range below suddenly trembled violently, accompanied by a deafening boom.
Unlike the sound of an explosion, this boom was heavier and more muffled, resembling the footsteps of a colossal creature rather than an explosion.
In a mountain range measured in light-years, if this was truly a footprint, Song Chi could hardly imagine the size of the creature.
Even a million-kilometer Galactic Ship, or a billion-kilometer Transdimensional Flagship, would be insignificant in comparison.
Instinctively, Song Chi looked up at the source of the boom. Through the dense gray mist, a massive shadow loomed.
This shadow was truly vast, blocking out the sky and the sun, towering higher than the light-year-long mountains around it.
Witnessing this, the unease in Song Chi’s heart reached its peak.
Before he could think further, the gray mist above was torn apart, and a colossal claw, indescribable in size, tore through the void, leaving a trail of collapsing space as it struck down.
Song Chi tried to maneuver the Mirror Warship to evade, but the surrounding void seemed to have solidified. No matter what commands he issued, the Mirror Warship remained immobile.
Even the "Starlight Flash Spirit Evasion", which had proven invaluable in the past, seemed to have lost its effect. Its ability to ignore spatial locks, ship restraints, antimagic fields, and time stops was rendered useless against the several-tier spatial suppression of the colossal claw.
In the last moment, Song Chi issued one final command.
Activate the [Market Projection Token]!
Fortunately, while the owner of the colossal claw was beyond imagination, it still fell short of the Pantheon Market’s power.
Before the claw could shatter the Mirror Warship, the golden [Market Projection Token] activated, pulling the Spirit Projection into the corresponding [Market of All Heavens Projection Room] within the Pantheon Market.
Along with it, the golden storage bag that Song Chi had forcibly retrieved from the Heavenly Mandate Immortal King’s energy field using the [Void Warehouse] was also brought aboard.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The colossal claw descended, and both the Market of All Heavens projection and the Mirror Warship, whether at the ninth or seventh tier, were instantly obliterated.
In the Pantheon Market, Song Chi, who had witnessed this through the Market of All Heavens projection, caught his breath. If he had any doubts before, he was now certain that the creature behind the colossal claw was a Mythic being.
Realizing he had been active in the territory of such a terrifying existence for so long, he was filled with fear.
Even though he had remained in the Pantheon Market, the thought of a Mythic being with unimaginable powers made him uneasy.
A Mythic being, with their eternal life and the ability to reshape the world, could easily cause harm even through the Pantheon Market, which was only at the eighth tier.
Taking a deep breath, Song Chi calmed himself and returned to the Celestial Domain Continent, but not to the Immortal Tomb mountain range. Instead, he returned to the main body of the Skygale of Tianxu, recalling it and immediately heading back to the Market of All Heavens, unwilling to spend another second in the Immortal Realm Continent Ruins.
The eighth-tier void demon was sent back through the [Market Projection Token].
‘I will not set foot in the Celestial Domain Continent again until I am confident I can face a Mythic being.’
Back in the Market of All Heavens, Song Chi made his decision.
Even though the Skygale of Tianxu was now an Ascension Galactic Ship, he would not risk another trip to the Celestial Domain Continent.
If he had known about the Mythic being in the Immortal Realm Continent Ruins from the start, he would never have ventured there.
Mythic beings were the true apex of the Shattered Star Sea’s food chain, with eternal life and the ability to reshape the world. Some could even traverse the tides of time, making time itself their plaything.
Once such an existence set their sights on you, your life was no longer in your hands.
Faced with such a being, Song Chi would rather keep his distance than foolishly confront it.
Fortunately, it was not too late. He had never revealed himself, and with the Pantheon Market’s power, even a Mythic being would find it difficult to lock onto him.
With this thought, his mind turned to the Immortal Realm Continent Ruins and the Immortal Tomb mountain range.
Deep within the mountains, a clear imprint of a colossal hand was visible from above.
However, just then, the Mirror Warship, which had been reduced to fragments, reappeared.
The [Chronal Chessboard]’s "Nine Lives Reversal Chess" feature, which had not been fully depleted, allowed the Mirror Warship to fully regenerate.
This change drew the attention of the colossal figure deep within the mountains. However, before it could act, the Mirror Warship disappeared into the mountains.
It was not escaping, but Song Chi, in the Pantheon Market, had proactively deactivated the Mirror Warship.
If he had been quick enough, he could have taken advantage of the brief moment when the mysterious claw’s owner had withdrawn its gaze, using the [Bodhimanda Samadhi Seal]’s time-speed characteristic in conjunction with the [Spatial Jumper] or [Crimson Sky Warp Device] to escape the Immortal Tomb mountain range.
However, Song Chi did not hesitate and immediately rejected this option.
His reasoning was simple: Even if he managed to escape, who could guarantee that the Mythic being had not deliberately allowed the Mirror Warship to leave, waiting for him to recall it?
Eliminating any chance of being targeted was the safest course of action.
Even if deactivating the Mirror Warship meant he could no longer replicate the [Chronal Chessboard] with its full potential, he did not regret it.
(End of Chapter)
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