Global Era of Star trekking Chapter 1871 - 908: [Chaos—Slaying Immortal Sword Formation] (Part 2)

"Yet this consumption of Spectral Energy..."

The endless line of zeros detailing the two assault capabilities made Song Chi furrow his brow once more without fail.

Earlier on, he had verified that the power source aboard the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, powered by its pair of Colorful Engines, remained sufficient to keep things balanced. However, following the recent upgrade of the Eye of Truth to Seven-Colored Quality, plus the addition of the fresh Seven-Colored Part known as Blessing of the Time God King, the vessel's energy reserves were already pushed to their limits. Now, the emergence of the Exterminating Immortal Sword Array had shattered that delicate equilibrium entirely.

Beyond that, the staggering drain of fifty billion and one hundred billion Spectral Energy Points from those two assault features far surpassed what the warship's Spectral Energy Pool could currently handle.

"Looks like the final piece, the Soul Devouring Altar, must go toward enhancing the warship's engine after all."

As he whispered to himself, Song Chi's attention shifted straight to the Five-Colored Soul Devouring Altar right next to him.

A mirror image of this very component had been employed earlier to advance the Eye of Truth. Right now, only its primary form lingered as the last available option. At first, Song Chi had wavered between choices like the Mirror Image Splitting, the Heavenly Authority Control Ring, and the Corpse Evil Heart Core Engine, yet the decision had become crystal clear.

Still, prior to proceeding, he intended to run one final experiment.

He began by triggering the "Power of Time Order·Zero" ability within the Blessing of the Time God King component. In the instant that followed, the "Time·Retrospect" function of the Time Chess Board component, which had been locked in cooldown, abruptly reset itself.

Once that was done, he settled in calmly for almost two full months.

Then, one day after those two months elapsed, Song Chi directed his full mental concentration toward the Soul Devouring Altar.

Guided by his thoughts, the Soul Devouring Altar component sprang to life.

Soul Devouring Altar · "Soul Devouring Evolution" → Mirror Image Splitting

In a flash, vibrant hues illuminated every corner of the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, and within mere seconds, the Mirror Image Splitting component ascended triumphantly from Five-Colored to Seven-Colored Quality.

Yet the process didn't stop there. Song Chi wasted no time, promptly engaging the freshly cooled-down Mirror Image Splitting component.

Buzzzz!

With a resonant hum echoing through the void, a duplicate Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong materialized swiftly in the Ruin Market Firmament. As the Mirror Image Warship came into being, Song Chi channeled his spiritual energy across the Soul Link, surging it toward the mirrored vessel.

But the very next moment, the light in his vision faded to utter darkness.

"Just as I suspected, it fails..."

With that realization, he hurriedly invoked the "Time·Retrospect" ability of the Time Chess Board on the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong's core form.

At once, within the limited zone surrounding the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, the flow of time reversed dramatically.

The Soul Devouring Altar, expended on the Mirror Image Splitting component and rendered useless, reverted to its pristine, unused condition from before—and naturally, the Mirror Image Splitting component dropped back down to Five-Colored Quality as well.

The aim behind these latest maneuvers was to verify whether the Mirror Image Splitting component, elevated to Seven-Colored Quality, might also duplicate the Exterminating Immortal Sword Array.

After all, the Mirror Image Splitting component boasted the ability to "boost the quality of the replicated component by one level," and in the minds of all beings, the tier beyond Seven-Colored Strange Object was Chaos Wonders—so he had to attempt this trial. Regrettably, the results dashed his hopes, revealing his assumptions to be overly optimistic.

Despite the Seven-Colored quality of the Mirror Image Splitting, it remained incapable of mimicking the exclusive traits of a Chaos Wonder.

While the result left him somewhat crestfallen, Song Chi had half-anticipated it deep down. If exploiting Chaos Wonders proved this straightforward, they wouldn't hold their legendary status as Chaos Wonders.

Fully accepting the failure, he fired up the Soul Devouring Altar component anew, directing it this time toward the Corpse Evil Heart Core Engine component.

It wasn't long before the Corpse Evil Heart Core Engine leaped from Five-Colored to Seven-Colored Quality, restoring the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong's energy output to abundance and even swelling the warship's Spectral Energy Pool to a robust 26 billion.

At this point, both of his Five-Colored Soul Devouring Altars had been expended. Naturally, the Miracle Cloning Chamber retained its duplicate blueprint, though for the foreseeable future, it would serve solely for Mirror Image Warships.

That said, Song Chi remained far from content with a mere 26 billion in the Spectral Energy Pool.

Over the preceding three millennia, he had steadily accepted commissions to craft Mixed Elemental Infinite Pills, amassing a substantial stock of Time Source Crystals. With scant delay, he expended several dozen kilograms of those crystals to reset the cooldown on the Mirror Image Heaven-Swallowing Python Shedding in his possession, then upgraded yet another Three-Colored Antimatter Energy Evolution Engine component to Five-Colored Quality.

On top of that, by leveraging the "Spectral Energy Pool Storage Capacity Triple Increase" function pre-swapped via the Miracle Cloning Chamber, the warship's Spectral Energy Pool capacity ballooned to an astonishing 40 billion.

Armed with a Spectral Energy Pool of this magnitude, the vessel could now unleash several high-drain abilities at once—like the High-dimensional Chaos Annihilation Strike and the High-dimensional Exterminating Immortal Sword Formation—without ever risking the pool's exhaustion.

...

"Phew... alright, every essential setup is in place. Now comes the phase of relentlessly collecting all sorts of resources and supplies for the War Puppet Mother Tree across the Ruins Market, so it can spawn additional puppets before the Heaven-Fighting Ruins crumbles away."

As he murmured, Song Chi's spirit, taut for thousands of years without true respite, at last unwound completely. He updated the resource-gathering quests on the Ruins Market's task panel, boosting the incentives and payouts.

In addition, he made a personal visit to Split Mountain Ancestor City, stationing an Eighth Rank Star Sea Giant Ape there to alert him instantly should danger threaten the settlement.

Furthermore, he sent out two Ninth Rank Void Demon Enslavements to scour different regions of the Shattered Starry Sea for signs of Mythical Creatures. Backed by the duplicates of Song of Divine Favor and the Five-Colored Heavenly Authority Control Ring, he aimed to seize this final stretch of calm to subjugate as many Mythical Creatures as feasible, thereby amplifying his Mythical Power.

It truly wasn't an overstatement: each point of Mythical Power would serve as vital support in the turbulent times ahead, and nobody could ever claim to possess an excess.

Having settled these final arrangements, Song Chi withdrew once more into the All-Attributes Cultivation Room for isolated training.

Although the current safeguards seemed solid enough, the devastating blow from an enigmatic transcendent entity against the Immortal Domain Continent Ruins had convinced him that immense powers—or perhaps several—lurked in the shadows, pulling strings across the Shattered Starry Sea and even the vast All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds.

Their true aims eluded him entirely—be it chasing personal transcendence, a unified dimensional leap, or toppling the supreme reign of Chaos Divine Land. Whatever their endgame, when it all erupted, the whole of All Heavens and Myriads of Worlds would plunge into unrelenting strife and disorder. To endure amid the impending carnage, it was evident that Torch Human Civilization's present strength and readiness fell woefully short.

True transcendence demanded wielding Transcendent Battle Power to even qualify as a contender in the looming grand upheaval.

And even that was only a slim chance; transcendence merely granted the basic access.

...

Moments slipped away like fleeting shadows; centuries whisked by in an instant.

This particular day marked Song Chi's emergence from profound isolation, with Mythical Dark Energy churning wildly around him, on the verge of solidifying into something almost physical.

"The Guidance Technique has finally advanced to Level 102, though pushing for Level 103 without at least a thousand years of buildup seems impossible..."

He whispered to himself, his gaze betraying scant elation.

At the Mythical tier, each tiny step forward turned into a grueling ordeal. Despite the boosts from the All-Attributes Cultivation Room and aids like the Purple-striped Peach plus other aids, it had demanded millennia to climb from Level 100 to 102.

As the Heaven-Fighting Ruins teetered on the brink of downfall, achieving an Eleventh Rank Guidance Technique was out of reach—not to mention hitting Level 105, which would prove a monumental struggle.

Naturally, his exit from seclusion stemmed not from the Heaven-Fighting Ruins' arrival, but from a Void Demon's report uncovering hints of a Mythical Alien Race.