Global Era of Star trekking Chapter 1886 - 915: Despairing Truth_3
Previously on Global Era of Star trekking...
This drawn-out seeming clash of minds and feelings had, in reality, unfolded in the span of a single breath.
Right then, the abrupt wounding of the Brahma Sound Embryo Hidden Wheel Bright King and the swift dart of the gray mist shadow caused the Spirit Mountain Tathagata Great Sun Victory Buddha to pause momentarily. Its solemn visage twisted into a rare look of utter shock as it fixed its gaze on the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong. Next, it turned toward the Brahma Sound Embryo Hidden Wheel Bright King, whose golden form lay broken and whose power had plummeted to the Tenth Rank, the lotus platform beneath it now fractured with deep fissures. A shadow of profound fear glinted in its eyes.
"Om Mani Padme Hum!"
The mighty Six-character Mantra boomed across the starry void once more, stripped of its pure and holy Brahma tone, now twisted with a wild, deranged edge.
Buddha Light flared around the Spirit Mountain Tathagata Great Sun Victory Buddha, yet lurking in the heart of that glow was a subtle thread of sinister shadow.
Paying no heed to its badly hurt ally, it ignited the Great Sun Lotus Platform underfoot, enveloped in searing Buddha Fire hot enough to burn away stars and cosmos alike, morphing into a fiery comet streaking through the Starry Sea, barreling headlong toward the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong. The force behind it raged fiercer than ever, laced with a reckless, all-or-nothing madness.
It was plain to see: this marked the final desperate lunge from the Heart Stealing Demons, who gripped the field and now knew their cover was blown.
Witnessing this, Song Chi's gaze sharpened with resolve, pushing down the ache in his Divine Soul. Inside the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong's hold, a swirl of rainbow-hued radiance ignited.
[Time Chess Board] · "Time · Chess Game"!
In a flash, the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong and the Spirit Mountain Tathagata Great Sun Victory Buddha alike got yanked into a sealed pocket of higher-dimensional realm.
Swoosh—
The bay doors slid open, and out strode the Eleventh Rank White Bone Giant, poised and ready within the vessel. Flames of Soul Fire roared in its eye hollows as it hefted the massive sword forged from myriad bones. Threads of the Death Rule coiled along the blade, and with a mighty arc, a vast gray Death Sword Gang ripped through the void, severing the Buddha Fire and slicing straight for the golden head of the Spirit Mountain Tathagata Great Sun Victory Buddha.
From the helm, Song Chi piloted the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, unleashing a barrage from every gunport in a frenzied storm, pummeling the Spirit Mountain Tathagata Great Sun Victory Buddha, whose strength had already sunk to the brink of Eleventh Rank.
On top of that, he directed the outer Dragon Spine Tyrant Whale to ram right into the Brahma Sound Embryo Hidden Wheel Bright King, who was struggling to reform its fading golden form amid a crumbling aura.
With the Heart Stealing Demon's scheme laid bare and its role revealed, the foes were bound to battle to the death. Why hold back for some future strike when he could just excise the Shi Clan's hidden threat right here and now?
Boom!
The Mythical Dragon Spine Dominator Whale smashed hard against the Thousand-leaf Treasure Lotus Platform, unleashing a torrent of raw power that wrecked huge swaths of the nearby starry expanse. The Dragon Spine Dominator Whale bellowed in agony, its armored scales splintered and blood gushing freely, yet the facing Thousand-leaf Treasure Lotus fared far worse.
Already cracked beyond repair, the Treasure Lotus howled in torment as its leaves crumbled petal by petal, the Buddha Light fading swiftly into obscurity.
Beneath it all, the Brahma Sound Embryo Hidden Wheel Bright King's fragile reforming golden shadow quaked anew, its presence growing ever weaker.
"Roar!"
Seizing the upper hand without mercy, the Dragon Spine Dominator Whale lashed out with its enormous tail, ripping open the fabric of space, bared its enormous jaws that could swallow whole Floating Lands, radiating a savage hunger, and pounced on the scattered golden glow.
The Brahma Sound Embryo Hidden Wheel Bright King tried to dodge, but its movements lagged from the grievous wounds, ending up fully ripped asunder by the Dragon Spine Dominator Whale's crimson teeth.
Down fell the Eleventh Rank Shi Clan Ancestor Buddha.
While the outer clash wrapped up with such ease, things fared no differently in the Time Chessboard Space. The Spirit Mountain Tathagata Great Sun Victory Buddha, drained to half-step Eleventh Rank, stood no chance against the White Bone Giant and the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong.
That said, Song Chi wasn't hunkered in the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong's command center at that point—he'd slipped into the Zhu Tian Ruins Market ages ago,
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Shattered Starry Sea, Titan Giant Ancestral Domain.
Within the dwelling of a Ninth Rank Titan Giant from the Overlord Tribe, Tai Long gazed in astonishment at the Ruins Market Token clutched in his grip, its surface pulsing with eerie Ghost Light. Moments later, a thunderous voice boomed straight into the core of his thoughts.
[Young one, the Torch Civilization Mythical Ship Captain Song Chi has tasked me with passing on this word: the root of chaos in the All Heavens Star Sea stems from the Heart Stealing Demon out of the Bottomless Abyss's lowest depths. The Heaven-Fighting Clan, Immortal Realm Civilization, Shi Clan Civilization, and Abyssal Devil Civilization have all been wiped out or seized by it, all to push forward the dimensional ascent of the Bottomless Abyss. Spread word of this at once.]
Struck by this bombshell revelation, Tai Long jolted in alarm but soon steadied his nerves.
"Thank you, Lord Ruins Market Lord. I'll notify our clan's Divine King without delay!"
Song Chi had acted fast, borrowing the Ruins Market Lord's guise to relay the intel to the Titan Giant Clan. With the Titan Giant Clan and Eternal Clan both eyeing the Chaos Divine Land, the moment the Sky-splitting God King got the dispatch, the Eternal Clan would catch wind too.
As one of the Shattered Starry Sea's pair of supreme entities, should the Sky-splitting God King and Eternal Ancestor swing back to guard the Starry Sea, they'd likely throw up a solid wall against the Bottomless Abyss—the one real shot at keeping the Torch Civilization alive for now.
Still, Song Chi's mind hung heavy, nowhere near at ease, the weight only deepening.
What lay in the Bottomless Abyss?
A power beyond the Shattered Starry Sea's reach, grinding away through endless eras just for this grand dimensional leap—could a simple meddle from the likes of us really grind it to a halt?