In a moment of urgency, Song Chi subconsciously activated the "Void Escape Orb" component. Accompanied by a subtle space fluctuation high above, a nuclear pulse wave shot out from below diagonally and thoroughly pierced through the "Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong" above the vault of heaven.

Immediately after, a figure not over a hundred meters tall darted out from the primeval forest below. Under the exposure of the external light, this figure shimmered with bright silver light, its body entirely constructed from a special alloy—it was none other than the trademark technological product of the Heavenly Star Tribe, "Heavenly Star Kinetic Armor," and it was the most advanced version currently available, operated by a fifth-rank Heavenly Star Tribe member.

Having dealt with the Heavenly Star Tribe for over a millennium, the Song Family was undoubtedly very familiar with this "Heavenly Star Kinetic Armor." The armor came in three models: primary, intermediate, and high. The primary didn't need much explanation, performing similar to some of the better exoskeleton armors, but the focus was on the intermediate and high models.

The intermediate kinetic armor was developed by the Heavenly Star Tribe a millennium ago. It boasted excellent defensive capabilities and powerful close-range and long-range attack abilities. Among its few drawbacks, the most critical was its high energy consumption—even with a specially enhanced micro-controllable nuclear fusion energy supply core from the Heavenly Star Tribe, it still struggled to support long-range combat.

If this was the case with intermediate armor, what more for high rank?

Besides, this device could only be piloted by the Heavenly Star Tribe. Other creatures, if they tried to force their way to pilot or dismantle it, could trigger the armor's own recognition system at any time, thus initiating a self-destruction.

The family database recorded that numerous researchers from their clan had died from such explosions.

The only way to control them was to enslave the Heavenly Star Tribe members driving the kinetic armor using an enslavement component, much like a fourth-rank member of the Moro royal family had done previously. Unfortunately, due to their naturally strong mental capacities, the Heavenly Star Tribe was very difficult to enslave.

This also gave the Heavenly Star Kinetic Armor its reputation as an impractical burden. Otherwise, even with the backing of Chaotic Star Field and the Robber Star Race, the Song Family would have acted much earlier.

It wasn't until the fifth-rank Heavenly Star Tribe member driving the advanced kinetic armor burst through the primeval forest that they discovered the pierced "Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong" above was merely an afterimage; the real Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong had already flashed to a distant location.

Swish, swish!

The warship's two main cannons fired one after another, showcasing the advantage of pre-charging, as the twin cannon shots reached the target almost instantly before the fifth-rank Heavenly Star Tribe could react.

After two explosions, Song Chi in the main control room of the battleship revealed an expected look.

Despite bearing the full brunt of the twin sixth-rank main cannon blasts of the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, the kinetic armor appeared virtually unscathed.

However, it seemed wary of the arrival of other Torch warships, as the thrusters beneath the kinetic armor hurriedly propelled it back towards the dense forest below.

Seeing this, how could Song Chi let it succeed?

The "Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong" had already lost magnetic wave sensing range with the warships of two other clan elders. Moreover, the Red River Star Domain wasn't part of the Torch Human Civilization Territory, and no Torch LAN had been set up. In his urgency, he hadn't managed to notify anyone.

Given the opponent's reservations, if he allowed it to delay a bit longer, the opponent, seeing no reinforcements arriving, would surely realize the situation. By then, what he would face was a fully no-holds-barred, fifth-rank peak combatant bolstered by the High Rank Floating Land's Origin Rule.

Considering this, Song Chi no longer hesitated.

The "Void Escape Orb" component, with one activation left, was once again activated, quickly flashing close to the fifth-rank Heavenly Star Tribe member.

The Heavenly Star Tribe member was quick to react; just as the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong appeared from the void, the entity swiftly spun around while a special ray shot out from the energy core in the chest of the kinetic armor, speeding directly at the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong at a terrifying velocity.

[Warning, the warship has been hit by a special light wave attack, Five Elements Celestial Energy Shield's shield value -8 billion, current shield value remaining 66.7%. Please repair immediately.]

The warning in Song Chi's ears made him shudder—this hit had wiped out a third of the shield value of the "Immortal Realm Five Elements Celestial Energy Shield" reinforced to the sixth rank.

And it wasn't over yet; the modified micro-controllable nuclear fusion energy core in the chest of the advanced kinetic armor was still swiftly gathering light.

Assisted by the "Dome Sky Intelligence System", Song Chi quickly micro-managed the warship. But this time, the opponent didn't fire a single beam but a circular fan-shaped barrage of light energy particles.

Under these circumstances, the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, with its weakened hull maneuvering, had no way to dodge.

The prompt from the Dome Sky Intelligence System quickly sounded again.

[Affected by special rigidifying particles, space around the warship initially bound, warship's movement speed reduced by 30%.]

Despite this, Song Chi wasn't panicked.

The delay had already been long enough, and his purpose in coming to the Heavenly Star Floating Island was to obtain high-rank floating land origins and various rare special resources. Only a quick decisive battle would allow him to head to Holy Star City swiftly.

Thinking thus, he didn't delay any further; the "Heart of Behemoth" component was activated.

Click, click, click!

A sharp metallic friction sound came from the bow of the warship, where the original super main cannon's mouth was replaced by a flashing cold light-bearing black gold ram.

As the super main cannon was replaced, the "Dark Gold Charge" feature was activated, along with the "High Overload Burst" feature from the "Antimatter Energy Evolution Engine."

Source: Webnovel.com, updated by Aunomay Read