Global Era of Star trekking Chapter 1885 - 915: Despairing Truth_2

Yet, thanks to the "White Hole Overclocking Shield" feature's influence, the unique "White Hole Halo Heaven-Supporting Shield"—which works against spiritual strikes, physical blows, curses, and more—lost all its protective power upon touching this gray mist glow, offering zero resistance. This gray mist shadow rushed forward rapidly and finally burst right into Song Chi's form inside the battleship's command center.

In a flash, Song Chi sensed a colossal spiritual tempest wildly flooding into his consciousness, racing toward the Ancestral Torch Aperture at his brow. Beneath this horrifying Divine Soul assault, the Torch Seed buried deep within the Ancestral Aperture—now transformed into vibrant seven-colored shades—seemed utterly vulnerable.

Despite support from the enormous Torch Network System, built on the trillion Torch Seeds of the whole Torch Civilization, it started to waver faintly under the assault of this mighty gray mist Divine Soul.

Twelfth Rank Transcendent Divine Soul!

Nearly at once, Song Chi grasped the true nature of this supreme Divine Soul.

But right then, he couldn't afford distraction or fear, as the Divine Soul energy breaching the Ancestral Aperture unleashed an even more dreadful wail.

Within that wail, Song Chi faintly discerned its intent.

Heart Stealing Slave Seal!

All of a sudden, the gray mist Divine Soul hurtled toward the Torch Seed in the Ancestral Aperture's core with far greater ferocity and velocity.

Song Chi's face twisted once more, but luckily, his Ancestral Torch Aperture held more than just the Seven-Colored Torch Seed. It was protected by the illusory Dragon Whale Hall of Five-Colored Quality, born from the ancient mirror image of the Heaven-Swallowing Python Shedding over millennia, and also by the "Jade Bright Immortal Talisman Sect—Immovable Ming King Talisman" he had purposely acquired before, now hovering over the Torch Seed.

Having reached five-colored quality via the mirror image Heaven-Swallowing Python Shedding from ages past, it was radiating boundless five-colored radiance right now. Paired with the Dragon Whale Hall's phantom enveloping the Seven-Colored Torch Seed's surface, they completely blocked the gray mist Divine Soul energy's corrosion and advance.

This disturbance rippling through the entire Torch Network System quickly reached Jiang Yuan and the other three via the Original Torch Seed.

Their faces shifted in alarm, as they steadied their combat zones and diverted portions of their Divine Thought. Using the top-level access of the Original Torch Seed, they unleashed the immense Torch Network at full strength. With the Torch Network's total empowerment kicking in, Song Chi's Torch Seed gained a major surge of power temporarily.

Inside the Ancestral Torch Aperture, the Dragon Whale Hall and Immovable Ming King Talisman blazed with brilliant five-colored glow under Song Chi's utmost effort. United with the Seven-Colored Fire Seed, their combined might prompted Song Chi to bellow icily.

"Break for me!"

Through the trio's united power, that gray mist phantom—now twisted into a seal-like form—was at last scarcely destroyed.

And in that instant, Song Chi fully realized. The Brahma Sound Embryo Hidden Wheel Bright King, or indeed the whole Shi Clan Civilization, had long since lost its independence, instead becoming enslaved and manipulated by the enigmatic gray mist faction lurking in the shadows. The Shi Clan's vast growth agenda was surely tied to those gray mist entities.

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Across the starry expanse, the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong drifted silently; the White Hole Energy Shield coating the ship's exterior stayed firm, as though untouched by any breach. Yet within the command center, Song Chi's complexion was a touch ashen, tiny sweat drops dotting his brow, while his gaze flared with deep chill and sudden insight.

The Heart Stealing Slave Seal, though wiped out by merging the full might of the civilization's network with his personal reserves, had left behind scattered bits of data. And that pristine but eerie gray mist Divine Soul core had now exposed the hidden reality.

"Shi Clan...has already become a puppet!"

Enormous shock waves crashed through Song Chi's mind: "That explains its frenzied, reckless expansion; the gray mist clan pulls the strings from the dark!"

He thought back to the shattered starry sea's thousand-year spree of brutal conquests, to the Abyss Demon God's bizarre, coordinated strike on Human Emperor City... An unseen gray hand seemed to be the force behind it all, whipping up chaos.

The Shi Clan served as just one obvious piece on the board.

As for their abrupt drive to expand, he pieced together clues from those memory shards.

"Floating Land Origin Core!"

Over this thousand years, in every River System Community seized by the Shi Clan, over ninety percent of the Starry Sea Floating Land Origin Cores were brutally harvested. But their endpoint wasn't the Spirit Mountain Continent in the Shi Clan's Ancestral Domain—instead, they were shipped to the Abyss.

Straight away, a chill gripped Song Chi from head to toe.

The mysterious force scheming from the shadows turned out to be the Bottomless Abyss itself.

On the gray mist energy forms, he dug up precise details from the memory remnants.

The ruling Demon Clan from the Bottomless Abyss's profound depths—the Heart Stealing Demons.

Be it the ancient Heaven-Fighting Clan or the Immortal Domain Civilization from eons back, or the current Shi Clan, they were the ones orchestrating from afar.

As massive tremors of astonishment rocked Song Chi's soul, Ji Heng's pressing alert arrived via the Torch Network.

"Song Chi, was it just now...?"

"It was the Heart Stealing Slave Seal from the gray mist beings..."

"No, it should be the Bottomless Abyss—Twelfth Rank Heart Stealing Demon Sub Soul's Heart Stealing Slave Seal."

Song Chi summed it up briefly, calming the minor ripples in his Divine Soul, his icy stare fixing once more on the Stellar Battlefield.

"The Shi Clan has been enslaved; behind this battle, the Bottomless Abyss is pushing. Their ultimate goal is to advance the entire Bottomless Abyss Dimension Upgrade."

The alert spread instantly across the Torch Network to Jiang Yuan, Ferdinand, and Ying Yi. All four reeled in shock, followed by an intensified wave of dread rising in their cores.