Global Era of Star trekking Chapter 1842 - 896: Undercurrent

In the boundless hush of the cosmos, an immense ancient star tree, soaring almost a trillion kilometers tall with roots stretching across multiple light-years, loomed majestically. Beside its enormous trunk, a warship of comparable grandeur drifted silently. Right then, a beam of spectral light erupted from the vessel, striking right on the central trunk of the ancient star tree.

Inside the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong's control chamber, Song Chi watched the agonizingly sluggish hauling rate and gave his head a subtle shake.

No other option remained, since the War Puppet Mother Tree's scale was utterly massive. Though the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong served as a Tenth Rank warship and the War Puppet Mother Tree cooperated fully, shifting it without trouble stayed a tough endeavor.

Because of that, Song Chi had devoted several years to completing this relocation effort.

He steadily guided the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, bolstering it with his personal Tenth Rank Spectral Energy, while syncing with the War Puppet Mother Tree to withdraw its roots and compress its essence. Only through this could the tree's gigantic form be laboriously drawn into the Chicang’s No. 004 Breeding Secret Realm.

Inside that secret realm, a spacious dedicated zone had been set up long ago for this fresh arrival. As soon as the War Puppet Mother Tree's roots met the nutrient-rich ground enhanced by time acceleration inside the realm, they plunged in eagerly, ravenously drawing in the abundant power. The trunk, scarred from the compelled move, started mending at a noticeable rate, and a soft glow resumed circulating through the limbs, signaling that this "puppet factory" was on the verge of reactivation.

After securing this grandest prize adequately, Song Chi wasted no time, steering the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong to wipe out the remnants from the earlier star domain clash. After verifying that the Silver Goblin Empire held no chance of uncovering clues, he headed back to the Torch Human Civilization Territory using the Zhu Tian Ruins Market.

During the ensuing two centuries, Song Chi's journeys spanned numerous ancient star domains and hazardous forbidden zones, often involving interdimensional hunts via the Zhu Tian Ruins Market, along with posting lavish bounties.

His aim stayed straightforward: to locate a legendary starry sky plant core, aiming to propel the Golden Apple Mother Tree toward its ultimate evolution.

Yet mythical starry sky plants proved exceedingly scarce. Despite Song Chi's remarkable skills and fortunes, various trails ultimately led to dead ends or items already claimed by rivals.

Just as he pondered using a Mixed Elemental Infinite Pill as bait in a bounty, a pressing family alert raced over infinite light-years via the Torch Network of the Original Torch Seed, igniting his interest.

The alert didn't concern the mythical starry sky plant core but instead detailed the family's male Ninth Rank Dragon Spine Dominator Whale, which on the S08 Resource Floating Land, seizing the chance from the land's upgrade, had started striving to reach the Tenth Rank Mythical Realm.

Heavenly Ruins Divine Court, Second Torch River System Community.

The former Eighth Rank Peak Floating Land S08 now faced a world-shaking shift. Overwhelming power burst from the floating land's nucleus, morphing into a thick primordial energy surge that swept over the whole area. Law runes descended like a downpour, ground veins surged upward, the sky dome widened, and the entire floating land thundered forward in evolution toward a grander, steadier state—rising to Ninth Level Floating Land status.

And right in the heart of this ferocious energy surge, buried deep in the earth core domain, a colossal whale, its frame rivaling a basic floating land, ascended into the void, unleashing a prolonged, echoing whale cry that rattled the starry river.

This was none other than the Song Family’s Ninth Rank Dragon Spine Dominator Whale. Its enormous form lingered over the Floating Land Origin Core's luminous cluster, tapping into the immense power from the floating land’s elevation and the drug's potency from the Mixed Elemental Infinite Pill, already granted by Song Chi.

Moreover, after consuming the Nine-Turn Golden Body Pill, it was wrapped in a sheen of deep-golden hue, eternal and unbreakable, with the Nine Revolutions Golden Body traits driven to their limit.

In reality, the breakthrough duration wasn't lengthy, but it left the myriad Song Clan members observing this spot gripped by tension, barely breathing.

After all, this mattered deeply for whether the Dragon Spine Song Family would gain its third mythical entity.

"Roar!"

The Dragon Spine Dominator Whale unleashed a bellow of agony and resistance, its sturdy scale plating ripped apart repeatedly by the savage Rule Power of a mythical rank onslaught, only to mend swiftly thanks to its robust life force and the golden body influence.

At that instant, the heart of the Mythical Dragon Spine Dominator Whale acquired from the Fu Yao Pei Family got gulped down in a single motion, its tremendous bloodline essence igniting wildly inside its frame, fueling the ultimate push against the mythical threshold.

The energy surge from the floating land’s elevation intensified further, as if supplying it with boundless sustenance.

Nevertheless, even with that, it merely drew nearer to the mythical rank; shattering that threshold completely posed a daunting challenge.

As anticipated, only instants afterward, the powerful presence encircling the Dragon Spine Dominator Whale abruptly faded, marking its official defeat in this breakthrough bid.

Seeing this, Song Chi, who had hidden nearby throughout, revealed the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong. Seven-hued time forces whirled around the craft. Before long, a compact zone of earth core space focused on the Dragon Spine Dominator Whale slipped into time reversal, restoring the earlier-consumed Mixed Elemental Infinite Pill and Mythical Dragon Spine Dominator Whale Heart.

Following Song Chi’s cue, the Ninth Rank Dragon Spine Dominator Whale hastily ingested the pair once more. Capitalizing on the persisting primordial energy surge under the floating land, it kicked off a fresh bid to attain mythical rank.

This round, drawing on the lessons from the earlier try, the Dragon Spine Dominator Whale swiftly regained its previous drive. Yet this time, it held back no longer. At the height of its power buildup, it hurled a straight strike at the mythical barrier deep within.

No soul could tell how much time elapsed, but ultimately, as the energy surge neared its close, something within the Dragon Spine Dominator Whale snapped with a sharp crack—that marked the mythical barrier's breach.