Chapter 495: Chapter 264: Earth-Shattering Melee – The Death of Song Gang (Part 2)

“What about you?”

Seeing Song Chi act like this, Song Ze and the other person also smiled and hid their thoughts, eventually all three tacitly chose silence.

In a corner out of the other two’s sight, Song Chi shook his head.

About two minutes of silence passed before Song Ze finally took the initiative to break it.

“Have you seen it, a Golden Sanctuary Wondrous Item? Among our batch of challengers, there’s actually a creature that obtained a Golden Oddity.”

“Golden Sanctuary, this is actually the first time I’ve heard of a quality above Silver Legend.”

A look of surprise flashed in Song Chi’s eyes, as this was not quite what he had expected. As a great-grandson of a Fourth Rank Clan Elder in his family, Song Ze should have been privy to many secrets, and if it were said that an old Fourth Rank Torch Ship Captain from the Song Family was unaware of the specific breakdown of Oddities above Silver Legendary items, he would have outright disbelieved it.

The thought did not linger long in his mind, and upon reflection, it was actually quite easy to explain.

Song Ze is currently only a Second Rank Torch Ship Captain, and his great-grandfather probably didn’t want him to aim too high.

As time went by, Song Chi’s gaze occasionally swept over the giant projection screen floating in the space ahead.

[Star Domain-level Talent·Orange Oddities Reward: 5012→5013]

[Stellar System-level Talent·Red Curio Reward: 25→26]

[Galactic-level Talent·Silver Miraculous Item Reward: 5→6]

[Super Galactic-level Talent·Golden Oddity Reward: 0→1]

As he glanced over again, a strong force of repulsion suddenly struck, and before the creatures in the ancient palace could react, more than seven thousand beings from various Alien Races were simultaneously teleported out of the “Pusuo Heritage Tower”.

Clearly, the second round of challenges and the final assessments were all complete.

Outside the “Pusuo Heritage Tower”, under the gaze of tens of thousands from the Starry Sea Alien Race, Song Chi and thousands of other Alien Races appeared one after another, followed by the Tower presenting the specific results of this second round of challenges.

Inside the Cang Qiong, the very moment the challenge results appeared, Song Chi sensed something was amiss. Those six words of the [Golden Oddity Reward] in the fourth row seemed to have boundless magic, rendering the entire atmosphere around the “Pusuo Heritage Tower” extremely eerie.

The originally noisy void of space fell into an eerie silence at that moment.

Reacting most quickly, a group of challengers immediately streaked downwards, returning to the side of their respective elders. The Cang Qiong was among them as well.

Song Xuancang had emphasized multiple times before that the Star Domain surrounding the “Pusuo Heritage Tower” was able to maintain a certain order simply because all Alien Races had tacitly agreed to it, not because of any order established by the Tower itself.

Since the order was decided by all the Alien Races themselves, it could never be very solid—a small spark could ignite the whole thing at the right moment.

This “Golden Sanctuary Wondrous Item” apparently had all it took to be that so-called spark.

Because he reacted very swiftly, there weren’t many complications. The Cang Qiong easily returned to the vicinity of the “Cang Mang Wuji”, but not all beings had such sharp crisis awareness. After Song Chi and the first batch of Challengers who reacted reached the side of their elders, almost immediately, a terrifying battle broke out around the “Pusuo Heritage Tower”.

Countless attacks imbued with the Power of Laws surged toward those thousands of second-round challenger creatures in the sky. Although some of the creatures’ elders tried to block the attacks, it was to no avail.

In the blink of an eye, more than one-third of the nearly seven thousand challenger creatures in the sky were killed, the chaos of flying flesh mingling with numerous high-quality Starry Sea Oddities, including many Orange and Red ones.

As for the Song Family, aside from Song Chi, both Song Gang and Song Ze were a step too slow. Their two Escort Ships were almost immediately engulfed in an onslaught of Law attacks. It was only because the Energy Shields and Warship Armor of both ships were enhanced to Fourth Rank Level that they did not instantly vanish under this terrible onslaught.

However, they couldn’t last long either. At this moment, there were far more than tens of thousands of Fourth Rank and above Alien Races attacking. It wasn’t just Fourth Rank Level Energy Shields and Warship Armor at stake—even Fifth-Rank Levels would likely not withstand it.

Less than two seconds, and the energy shields on the surface of the two escort ships had completely dimmed, having been depleted down to an overload state. Even the warship armor was now pitted with all sorts of craters, clearly unable to hold out much longer.

Below, Song Xuancang’s reaction was certainly not slow, actually even a bit faster than Song Chi. Upon seeing the six characters of “Golden Sanctuary Wondrous Item,” he immediately activated a certain component on the Cang Mang Wuji.

Two beams of light shot out from the Cang Mang Wuji Zhulu Warship towards the two escort ships in the sky above.

Song Ze’s flagship was okay, since the location it teleported to was already not far from the Cang Mang Wuji. Now enveloped by this beam of light, it rapidly descended towards the ground.

But the Night Port was not so lucky. It was quite a distance away from the Cang Mang Wuji. Although it was also within the range of the beam, its might had been greatly worn down by the infinite laws high above during the shooting process. Now, the protection the beam provided to the Night Port was limited, and furthermore, the brilliance of the beam itself was rapidly fading. It looked like it wouldn’t hold out much longer.

Inside the Night Port, Song Gang’s face turned extremely grim, his eyes filled with panic.

He was inwardly roaring. As a genius emerging from the Ancestral Vein with a grandfather who was a Fourth Rank Clan Elder, he had always been the focus of all clan members wherever he went. He was just over thirty; there was so much life left to enjoy. He had not yet stepped into the Fourth Rank to become one of the leading figures in the family. How could he die here in such frustration?

After venting his fury inside, Song Gang turned his gaze towards a special component aboard the Night Port.

Short-Range Positioning Device!

Gazing at the purple quality special component, his peripheral vision also caught a glimpse of the Cang Qiong next to the distant Cang Mang Wuji. If there was a safest location at the moment, aside from inside the body of the Cang Mang Wuji Zhulu Warship, it would be the Cang Qiong closest to it.

With this thought, a cold light flashed in Song Gang’s eyes, and he subconsciously remembered the scene on the Evil Buddha Continent when Song Chi chose not to help him. It immediately made him resolute.

Accompanied by a burst of purple light, the Short-Range Positioning Device component was activated.

At the same time, on the Cang Qiong above the side of the Cang Mang Wuji, hearing the prompt from the semi-automatic shipboard AI, Song Chi’s gaze suddenly sharpened.

[Attention, the warship is locked by an unknown power. Please evade!]

If Song Chi still had some doubts at the moment, the next second’s message from the Abnormal Status Purifier component turned his gaze instantly cold.

[Positioning Mark!]

This was a special mark detected by the Abnormal Status Purifier component on the Cang Qiong.

With this result, Song Chi’s icy gaze suddenly swept towards the distant Night Port in the sky above.

By the direction conveyed through the gradually intensifying positional force and considering who would benefit the most from swapping positions with him, it was not difficult to guess that the one causing trouble was none other than Song Gang.

When he withdrew his gaze, Song Chi suddenly scoffed coldly.

“Swap positions? You have to be quick enough for that.”

Aboard the Cang Qiong, the Purification Aura derived from the Abnormal Status Purifier was working at full force to drive away this positioning mark. Although the component that had emitted the mark might have been enhanced to the Fourth Rank, making the Abnormal Status Purifier unable to purify it immediately, it nonetheless greatly weakened the effect of the mark.

Inside the Night Port, Song Gang’s expression went from a sneer the previous moment to one of terror.

Though the positional ability was still gradually taking effect, compared to previous times, it was far too slow, and by now, the layer of the beam outside the Night Port had completely dissipated. He didn’t have the time to wait.

“Damn it, why, why is it so slow!!!”

With words filled with bitterness, the hull of Night Port finally could not withstand it anymore and completely sank under the bombardment of dense laws from the outside world.

And the moment the flagship sank, since the captain himself had not left the warship, Song Gang also died along with it.

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