Chapter 497: Chapter 265: Dragon Whale State – Ruins Returning Slash_2

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

After a slight space fluctuation, ten Fire Peony Soldier Figurines plus two from the Void Assassin Clan vanished within the Cangqiong, and almost simultaneously, faint spatial ripples transmitted from three areas above, densely packed with orange and red curios. Right after that, the twelve soldier figurines appeared out of nowhere.

Inside the Cangqiong, in the blink of an eye, Song Chi turned pale as reports of soldier figurine deaths started coming in from two of the soldier figurine tree components.

To Song Chi, this wasn’t unexpected; after all, it was the area with the highest concentration of high-rank oddities, so the attacks and prying he faced here were naturally the strongest.

It was normal for the mere second-rank Fire Peony Soldier Figurines and Pseudo Fourth-Rank Void Assassin Clan Soldier Figurines to not withstand such a scene. The reason for his change of expression was the death of one of the soldier figurines imprinted with his brainwave, meaning the entire group linked to it would lose its chance.

Gathering his spirit, Song Chi could only shift his focus onto the other two groups. At that instant, under the vision provided by his brainwave imagery, he swiftly maneuvered several Fire Peony Soldier Figurines to collect nearby oddities.

After grasping one or two oddities, without any delay, he immediately activated the “Ruins Market Walking Command,” intending to first send the items to the Ruins Market.

Despite such decisiveness, under the all-encompassing bombardment of the laws surrounding them, all soldier figurines lasted less than two seconds before they were nearly completely annihilated by the energy blasts. Only three managed to transport near the Ruins Market, with one just half a puppet body, which lost its signs of life right after entering the market walking room.

With no time to return to the Ruins Market to see what kind of oddities these three Fire Peony Soldier Figurines had secured for him, or how many there were, and also lacking the time to withdraw them from the market for a second attempt, the Cang Mang Wuji had already successfully retrieved Song Ze.

The next second, the space around the Zhulu Warship rapidly contracted until only the last three hundred meters were left, barely encompassing the two escort ships before stopping.

Song Chi didn’t miss this but instead watched the Cang Mang Wuji with an interested look. If he wasn’t mistaken, during the moment when Song Ze’s flagship was being pulled back, he saw two Starry Sea oddities emitting faint red glows within the beam emitted by the Cang Mang Wuji.

This meant that, while Song Xuancang intervened to save him, he also casually snatched back two red epic-quality strange objects, and what’s key is he employed special methods to obscure the luster of the two red oddities, thus evading most of the alien race’s prying eyes.

To this, Song Chi could only silently praise, “The old ginger is still spicier.”

“Don’t resist!”

A slightly heavy voice echoed within the two escort ships; both Song Chi and the other knew that the family head was preparing to teleport them away directly. Although they were only on the outskirts of the chaotic battle zone, leaving safely was anything but simple, relying solely on special space-escaping abilities.

But there were too many alien species around, so many that despite Song Xuancang’s deliberate concealment of the luster of the two red epic treasures, they were inadvertently captured by some alien lifeforms.

Driven by their desire for the two epic treasures, the moment before the Cang Mang Wuji was about to teleport away, two fifth-rank Starry Sea creatures, towering ten thousand meters tall, made their move.

As lifeforms at the fifth-rank level, with their comprehension of laws already reaching extremely high realms, their attack was earth-shattering.

Mysterious ice froze the Starry Sea while rocks and soil spears tore through the void; one ice, one earth, two utterly different law attacks swept in from both sides, carrying might that was vast and fearsome.

Within the Cangqiong, Song Chi’s eyes widened. Compared to the methods controlled by fourth-rank lifeforms, the power of laws wielded by fifth-rank lifeforms was simply too terrifying; such an ability to tear through the fabric of the Starry Sea void was something fourth-rank lifeforms couldn’t achieve, could they?

The looming mysterious ice and giant rocks filled his entire field of view, their broad range of spread causing fear and even leaving him without the thought to dodge; this was what mattered most.

At that moment, he truly realized the gap between the fourth-rank Evil Buddha from the Evil Buddha Continent, boosted to fifth-rank combat power by the Floating Land Origin, and a genuine fifth-rank lifeform.

Yet even so, our family member in the Second Sequence still had a hard time contending head-on with them, which also shows that the gap between Fourth Rank units and Fifth Rank life forms is probably far greater than we had imagined.

As Song Chi’s thoughts were unsettled, the Mysterious Ice Principle that blotted out the sky was already seeping forth, entwined with that ten-thousand-meter-long earthen spear.

However, the Cang Mang Wuji, as a Zhulu Warship, also responded in kind. The several-thousand-meter-long hull suddenly transformed, with the discordant sound of metal grinding persistently echoing, and in an instant, the Cang Mang Wuji had shifted from a Zhulu Warship into a nearly four-thousand-meter-tall Mythical Mecha Giant.

A long halberd, dazzling with blinding silver light, was grasped in the center of the mecha giant’s hand. At the same time, boundless power from the Space Law suffused the interior of the mecha giant, half converging into the silver long halberd in the giant’s palm, and the other half gathering around it, rapidly coalescing into a phantom of a Void Dragon Whale.

Not until then did Song Chi and Song Ze belatedly hear the words emanating from within the mecha giant.

“Secret Technique: Dragon Whale Form!”

Song Chi’s eyes shone, having long heard from his grandfather Song Mingsong about “secret techniques” as a form of inheritance, and this was the first time he’d witnessed a clan member using one.

With that thought in mind, his gaze involuntarily swept towards the Dragon Whale phantom next to the mecha giant that the Cang Mang Wuji had turned into, only to instantly dismiss the idea.

This Dragon Whale phantom, formed from the Space Law, felt strangely familiar to him; on closer reflection, he remembered that when he witnessed the family’s Second Sequence battling the Fourth Rank Evil Buddha from the perspective of a Void Demon on the Evil Buddha Continent, they had also condensed this phantom of a Dragon Whale, although at that time it was formed using the Ice Law, and its size was nowhere near as large as the one condensed by the family head.

In that instant, the size of the Void Dragon Whale phantom had already neared eight thousand meters, enveloping both the mecha giant and the two escort ships, including the Cangqiong, beneath it.

With the protection of this Void Dragon Whale, the previously rippling Immortal Realm Five Elements Celestial Energy Shield due to the pressure of Fifth-Rank Level energy returned to calm, and the depleted shield value began to quickly recover.

And it wasn’t over yet; the Void Dragon Whale phantom was just one of the techniques Song Xuancang was currently employing. After accumulating a massive amount of power from the Space Law, a terrifying gleam of light then converged at the tip of the silver long halberd in the hands of the mecha giant.

“Secret Technique: Return to Ruin Slash!”

The indifferent voice echoed again in the ears of Song Chi and the others, but under the gleaming light of the halberd, they could hardly open their eyes and could only vaguely see the mecha giant swinging its arm to slash, then a several-thousand-meter-long spatial halberd beam swept across.

Boom!

The space-cleaving beam of the halberd collided with the incoming ten-thousand-meter earthen spear, resulting in a terrifying explosion; the energy impact of their clash caused all lifeforms below the Fourth Rank within ten thousand meters without the protection of their elders to burst and die.

And just at the moment the spatial halberd beam clashed with the earthen spear, the expanse of Mysterious Ice had already advanced close to the mecha giant.

Roar!

The Dragon Whale let out a long chant, striving to resist the endless encroachment of the Mysterious Ice Principle. But after all, it was the full-force strike of a Fifth Rank life, and even though Song Xuancang had made no small achievements in the way of the Space Law, he still wasn’t capable enough to contend against the Power of Laws of a Fifth Rank life, even if the Space Law is one of the most potent in the Starry Sea.

The Dragon Whale phantom dimmed quickly and ultimately collapsed after protecting the three for a dozen seconds; once again without obstruction, the Mysterious Ice Principle surged violently, determined to freeze and seal everything.

Within the Cangqiong, Song Chi’s breathing nearly stopped. As the Mysterious Ice Principle was about to touch the Cangqiong, an unexpected sense of weightlessness overtook him first.

When he came to his senses, he found that they had already returned to the transmission drop point of the Heritage Tower pathway controlled by their family.

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