Chapter 1373: Chapter 718: Colorful Upper [Eye of Truth] (Part 2)

Naturally, when the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong reappeared above the Truth Holy City, the figure of the {@Father of Truth} was nowhere to be seen.

In the following period, Song Chi spent some time collaborating with a few family members to completely resolve the remaining crazed eighth rank Truth Mechanical Giant Beasts.

But when the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong directly annihilated the first eighth rank Truth Mechanical Giant Beast, Song Chi was stunned for quite a while.

[The warship successfully killed an eighth rank mechanical dominator, and the {@Blood Holy Grail} successfully collected a strand of eighth rank holy blood!]

This was the message he received after a strike from the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong.

In an instant, he was taken aback, eyes wide open, stunned for several seconds before regaining his composure.

’No way, can killing the Mechanical Race also gather corresponding holy blood?’

’Where does the Mechanical Race have blood? Is this a joke?’

After a bout of criticism in his heart, Song Chi suddenly realized.

’Does it mean that the {@Blood Holy Grail} collects something not genuinely related to Starry Sea Species blood, but rather a certain trait each Starry Sea Alien Race possesses?’

’If that’s the case, then when the Torch Warship advances with so-called bathing in alien blood, is it actually plundering this trait?’

’What could it be... the origin of life? Or the origin of Floating Land’s will? No...’

After pondering for a long time, Song Chi’s gaze finally fell on the ancestor Song Wujiang.

He did not disappoint him, as Song Wujiang finally uttered two words.

"Fate..."

According to what Song Wujiang said, or rather the information he received when he went to the Xian Qin {@Torch Ancestral Court}, bathing in alien blood is just a simple, understandable popular term. Among the Torch Humanity’s high levels, this step is called plundering fate, civilization fortune.

Upon learning this, Song Chi’s eyes lit up with a look of realization, and then he no longer cared about the few remaining eighth rank Truth Mechanical Giant Beasts but immediately returned to the Zhu Tian Ruins Market.

In the Ruins Market Free Stall Area, a large quantity of gigantic mechanical debris piled up like mountains. With a light beam drawn from the sky-suspended Cang Qiong, these mechanical debris began to be continuously drawn into the warship’s interior.

With the help of the {@Super Body Shrink Card}, regardless of how large the debris was, it was easily absorbed into the ship’s hold.

During this time, Song Chi extracted several oddities from these mechanical debris.

Among them were a silver quality Flash Escape Artifact, a gold quality ship cannon type oddity, and a black quality blade type oddity.

Of these oddities, the silver Flash Escape Artifact was named the {@Sky-splitting Badge}, with fairly decent attributes. However, the {@Void Escape Orb} had already evolved to silver quality, and the {@Starlight Flash Spirit Stone Talisman} was even superior.

Song Chi considered giving it to Shen Youran or Song Hanyu later on.

The golden ship cannon was a super main cannon, but Song Chi wasn’t too taken with it.

As for that blade-type oddity, it couldn’t be converted into a ship component, and since he already had the {@Fallen Immortal Spear}, Song Chi decided to place it into the {@Oddity Exchange Shop}.

These were just minor diversions, as his gaze remained fixed on the main pile of debris under constant drawing and absorption.

This piece of debris contained the Father of Truth’s previous head and upper body, definitely encompassing its intelligent brain, including the region most likely housing the {@Eye of Truth}.

As time passed and the other debris was all cleared away, no unforeseen incidents occurred.

However, it was clear that Song Chi’s eyes were still filled with vigilance, not relaxing one bit.

Since it was now known that killing these Mechanical Race entities would also produce that holy blood/fate, yet the cloned {@Blood Holy Grail} didn’t show an additional strand of ninth rank holy blood/fate, there were only two possibilities.

First, during the last killing of the {@Father of Truth}, the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong was coincidentally in a revival stage, causing the two to miss each other.

Second, the {@Father of Truth} had not truly died.

As for these conclusions, Song Chi currently had no definite answer, but being cautious seemed foolproof, didn’t it?

A silver light flashed out, and the scaling mark of the {@Super Body Shrink Card} quickly took effect. The final piece of giant debris began to rapidly shrink in size until it was small enough for the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong to store. The warship then released that familiar drawing light once more.

Watching as this final piece of debris gradually got drawn nearer to the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, Song Chi’s eyes narrowed tightly.

With a shift of his mind, the ninth rank power of the Ruins Market gathered around him, forming a circle of protective energy, while the outward blazing black torch flames deep within his ancestral aperture wrapped around the {@Dragon Whale Hall} shining even more brightly.

If it truly was the second possibility, what was about to happen next could be anticipated.

Finally, this giant debris was entirely drawn into the warship’s hold.

Song Chi concentrated.

Yet no anomalies occurred.

’Could it really have been a coincidental miss?’

Just as the thought formed, a hint of disappointment flickered through Song Chi’s eyes.

Having expended a precious "Nine-Life Life and Death Chess" effect to arduously bring down a ninth rank dominator, missing out on the ninth rank fate would be a significant loss if it were truly missed.

As his thoughts spun, a sudden anomaly emerged.

[Beep Beep Beep!]

[Warning, warning...]

[A massive data stream has been detected inside the warship, please be aware, Captain!]

...

Song Chi’s breath suddenly hitched; the unexpected intelligent brain alert instantly made him think of that {@Truth Intelligent Brain}.

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