Global Era of Star trekking Chapter 1868 - 907: [Causal Source Tracing]
Previously on Global Era of Star trekking...
A shockwave that struck at the core of the rules, infused with an invincible transcendent intent, halted a million light-years of space in a blink, causing even light to harden into solidity.
From the swirling spatial rift emerged a massive dark claw, unleashing a horrifying force that made the whole Immortal Domain Continent Ruins quake fiercely. As it advanced, space didn't just break but crumbled bit by bit, forming enormous zones of spatial collapse.
The Twelfth Rank Transcender lashed out in fury.
Though it wasn't its full body arriving, just a claw formed from rules across the void, its strength vastly outmatched any earlier legendary gray fog entities.
The pair of Void Demon Grand Dukes, fresh from an intense fight with heavy energy drain and wounds, grew extremely lethargic beneath this transcendent force, like they were stuck in an infinite swamp, their minds nearly stalling.
The chill of death, akin to a frigid cosmic stream, swiftly wrapped around their soul cores.
But right at this pivotal instant—
Buzz! Buzz!
Odd ripples surged separately from the profound souls of the two Void Demon Grand Dukes.
Ancient-looking scrolls brimming with ultimate rule authority activated — [Transcendence Contract (One-Time)]!
The scrolls ignited without a sound, morphing into slim golden-transparent barriers made of myriad tiny rule symbols, fully encasing the two Void Demon Grand Dukes.
This barrier, delicate like insect wings, looked breakable yet radiated a peculiar vibe of "immune to all techniques, beyond cause and effect."
The enormous dark claw crashed down, its devastating energy—enough to pulverize a galaxy—slammed hard against the pale golden barrier.
No massive blast rang out as expected.
The force that could erase rules entirely brushed against the pale golden barrier and veered away, like liquid flowing over stone or a specter passing through the tangible, oddly gliding along its edges without dealing real damage to the shielded Void Demon Grand Dukes underneath.
In that instant, it felt as though the two Void Demon Grand Dukes had been briefly "severed" from the "cause and effect" and "rules" of this cosmic sea.
"City of Transcendence? How..."
An even more enraged surge of transcendent intent echoed from the spatial rift's core, instantly identifying the source of the [Transcendence Contract].
Then, the entity grew wilder with rage; the massive dark claw gripped tight, abandoning straightforward physical or rule destruction for a more profound force — causal reversal.
It aimed to trace the existence links of these two Void Demon Grand Dukes, locate their controller, and execute total origin-level wipeout.
Invisible threads of cause and effect, resembling endless fate serpents, instantly coiled toward the two Void Demons.
Yet, when they met the pale golden barrier, these threads met blockage anew.
Waves stirred on the barrier, the unseen causal threads warped, bounced off, and some outright snapped and vanished.
The [Transcendence Contract]'s might resisted and neutralized this indirect causal reversal.
"Hm! A disposable fake—how often can it fend off this king?"
The transcendent intent gave a cold huff, and the massive dark claw glowed fiercer, unleashing even stronger, more primal causal rule energy that battered the pale golden barrier relentlessly like surging waves.
The barrier started to shimmer wildly, its glow wavering erratically, obviously under immense strain. In truth, it was only a single-use replica; against a genuine transcender's vengeful reversal, its defensive limits weren't utterly unbreakable.
Crack...
A subtle fracture noise sounded, a distinct fissure forming on the pale golden barrier around one of the Void Demon Grand Dukes.
"Now’s the time!"
Song Chi, tracking the clash via soul connection with his nerves stretched to their limit, abruptly narrowed his eyes.
This was the chance he'd anticipated — while the Transcendence Contract held, fending off direct strikes and causal reversal for a short while, it opened the last getaway slot for the two Void Demon Grand Dukes.
Clone [Soul Devouring Altar] · "Soul Devouring Evolution" → [Divine Thought Chapter]
Replicate Clone [Soul Devouring Altar] · "Soul Devouring Evolution" → Replicate [Divine Thought Chapter]
In a flash, the two prior [Divine Thought Chapter]s, upgraded to three-colored grade via the recent Tenth Rank [Golden Apple], swiftly evolved again, ascending to five-colored grade.
Furthermore, thanks to the abrupt quality leap in [Divine Thought Chapter], the retrieval pace for the two Void Demon Grand Dukes accelerated sharply; despite the interference from the aiding Twelfth Rank Transcender, the velocity of their beam forms stayed steady.
Amid the last furious outcry from the spatial rift's depths, the lights of the two transforming Void Demon Grand Dukes vanished quickly into the shadowy Void Sea beyond the Immortal Domain Continent's Floating Land Shield.
…
Silent Extinction Shattered Star Belt, two eerie glows traversed the boundless stars, merging shortly into the huge warship hulls hidden in the emptiness.
Looking at the two Void Demon Grand Dukes, Song Chi had no moment for orders; at his command, the warship hatches flew open, letting the just-returned Void Demons bolt out ahead from the vessels. After they pulled far enough, the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong warship hull abruptly released potent time rule energy.
Not some random part did Song Chi trigger, but exactly the [Time Chess Board] "Time·Retrospect" function. As the part's energy kicked in, the warship interior space—along with the narrow Silent Extinction Shattered Star Belt zone centered on the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong—plunged fully into backward temporal flow.