National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 485: Race against time and surprise harvest
The dark energy was quickly mobilized and circulated throughout Song Hao's body. When it flowed through his right arm, Song Hao actively injected it into the golden token in his palm.

"Second brother, you..."

Song Hao did not hide it. Song Chi would definitely sign a confidentiality agreement with Song Baiyi afterwards. Song Baiyi, who saw this scene through the communication projection, had a look of confusion and curiosity in his eyes.

Before he could finish his words, the mysterious sky above the two warships had already begun to emit violent spatial fluctuations and tremors.

Buzz!
Just as Song Baiyi showed his vigilance, Song Hao explained softly:

"Don't worry, it's Uncle Song Chi!"

As he finished speaking, a large number of purple mist shadows had already appeared in the sky above the secret realm. The speed at which the purple mist energy gathered was not fast. It took more than ten seconds to completely condense into a purple mist projection that covered the sky and the sun.

In the Zhutian Market, Song Chi, who was standing high in the sky, frowned slightly:

"What a strong repulsive force! If the status of the Zhutian Market is not high enough, I'm afraid it would not be able to project the projection over!"

After he finished speaking, he had already raised his hand.

At the same time, above the sky within the secret realm, a figure emerged from the purple mist energy that covered the sky and the sun. The purple mist figure raised his hand and stretched it out, transforming into an illusory handprint composed of three energies: space, light and purple mist, and reached straight towards the kilometer-long white jade tree below.

However, although the energy contained in the handprint generated by the triple energy was extremely astonishing, as time passed, the solidity of both the handprint itself and the purple mist projection above the head was weakening at a speed visible to the naked eye.

The reason for this is that the repulsive force of the secret realm under your feet is far beyond your imagination, and its own status is not low. In addition, the secret realm of the Zhutian Market has only just returned to the fifth level, and it is a remote projection across the endless void.

A variety of factors have led to the current situation, which is also the reason why Song Chi is in a hurry to take action.

However, although the secret realm's repulsive force was strong, the projection of the Zhutian Market had the power of domination after all. The thousand-meter-tall white jade tree was nothing in front of it. It was easily uprooted with a touch of its hand.

"Alright, the two of you continue to explore the underground space at full speed. The Morning Star Family will enter in about 20 hours, so hurry up!"

Before the projection of Zhutian Market slowly dissipated with the thousand-meter-long white jade tree, Song Chi's voice was transmitted to both the [Haomiao] and the [Daytime] at the same time.

After the projection completely dissipated, Song Baiyi looked towards Song Hao.

"Brother, is that really Uncle Song Chi? But what just happened..."

"Bai Yi, I'm not very clear about this matter. Uncle Song Chi will probably look for you alone later!"

Song Hao, who was also a little dizzy, interrupted Song Baiyi's questioning, and then the two cruisers rushed to the entrance to the underground space again.

……

Zhutian Market, free stall area.

Along with a burst of purple mist energy blowing by, a thousand-meter-high sixth-order [Time Realm Tree] quietly emerged.

Seeing that the roots of this [Time Realm Tree] still retained strong vitality, Song Chi smiled.

He was not only happy that he had obtained a sixth-order [Time Realm Tree], but also happy that the [Projection of the Market of All Heavens] could bring back other real objects from the distant starry sky at will.

Although he had a vague understanding of it as early as when the [Market Projection Order] appeared, this was the first time he actually tried it.

Now that this has been confirmed, it means that the [Market Projection Order] will be able to play a greater role in the future, and the same benefits can be obtained.

Suppressing the joy in his heart, he first went back to the Tianxu Cangqiong, used the "Sinan Shuoben" feature to uninstall the [Proportional Zoomer], and when he brought it back to the market, he used it to shrink the sixth-order [Time Realm Tree] by another twenty times, and then brought both back to the outside world.

Cultivating the secret realm, after some careful operation, the sixth-level [Time Realm Tree] was successfully planted around the [Green Water Spirit Spring].

With the nourishment of the [Clear Water Spiritual Spring] and the [Fairyland Spiritual Soil], the fruit-bearing speed of this [Time Realm Tree] will surely be much faster than in that unknown secret realm.

It is a pity that the [Time Realm Fruit] on this sixth-level [Time Realm Tree] has been picked by the Golden Sky Spider. It will take a very long time for it to produce a second sixth-level [Time Realm Fruit] in the future.

However, with the "Secret Realm Accelerator" feature, the time should be shortened a lot.

……

Time passed, and soon it was the next day.

"Everyone, please pay attention. Enter the dense forest in an orderly manner and search for the whereabouts of the white jade spirit tree. If you encounter a golden sky spider in the secret realm, kill it immediately!"

As Rosetta Morningstar's order was issued, three thousand second- and third-level members of the Morningstar family quickly entered the secret realm one after another.

……

In the secret realm, fierce rumbling sounds of artillery fire continued to be heard from the multiple entrance corridors connecting the underground space with the surface.

Over the past ten hours, Song Hao and Song Baiyi reunited with several tribesmen. The fierce artillery fire was the result of several tribesmen actively controlling their ships to attack, in order to create an opportunity for exploration for Song Hao's terracotta warrior that was dropped deep underground.

This method has been used for more than ten hours. Under the control of Song Hao's brain wave imprint, the Shadow Clan Terracotta Warriors have once again traveled a long distance. Now, the area where the Shadow Clan Terracotta Warriors are located is covered with void cracks as thick as arms.

"According to the time, the people from the Morning Star Family should have come in already. Hurry up!!"

In the communication group chat, Song Baiyi whispered a reminder.

Hearing this, Song Hao's mind focused, and then he seemed to have made up his mind.

"Break the limit state, open!"

As the limit-breaking state was activated, his eyes suddenly closed, and all his mental strength was concentrated on the brain wave imprint image in his mind.

At the same time, the shadowy terracotta warriors deep in the underground space no longer hid their figures, but began to run at full speed along the main downward corridor.

With the help of Song Hao's focused mental power, the Shadow Clan soldiers running at high speed were able to accurately dodge the space cracks that were throughout the corridor almost every time.

Suddenly, a white light appeared at the end of the dark underground tunnel.

Song Hao's intuition told him that the place where the white light was located was most likely the center of the underground space, and all the answers must be there.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but increase the speed of the Shadow Clan's terracotta warriors again, but he soon found something wrong.

In this last section of the corridor, there are not only space cracks, but also wisps of light that seem to be materialized, which are the original manifestation of the law of word spirit.

When he reacted, Song Hao wanted to slow down the Shadow Clan soldiers, but it was too late.

The puppet body of the terracotta warrior had already come into contact with a ray of almost materialized light of the spirit of words.

"swastika!"

In the group chat, Song Baiyi caught the fleeting special mark in Song Hao's eyes. "It's the mark of the Buddhist mantra..."

"Second brother, wake up!!!"

However, there was no need for him to call out. The moment the Buddhist mantra [卍] resounded in Song Hao's mind, the [Soul-Calming Monument] deep in the ancestral orifice of the fire immediately emitted a bright red light, directly dispelling the [卍] mantra.

In the underground space, the Shadow Clan warriors were still striding forward, and with each step, the end of the corridor in front of them was getting closer and closer.

Finally, at a certain moment, the Shadow Clan Terracotta Warriors completely stepped out of the corridor, and at the same time, the scene at the end of the corridor appeared in Song Hao's eyes.

"This this……"

The moment he saw the so-called answer at the end of the corridor, Song Hao was stunned.

It was not until he heard Song Baiyi's voice in the communication group chat that he turned around.

Shaking his head and suppressing the disbelief in his heart, Song Hao no longer hesitated and directly asked the Shadow Clan Terracotta Warriors under the ground to activate the [Market Projection Order] in their hands.

Because in the middle of the deepest part of the ground, there stands a white jade tree that is over ten thousand meters tall.

Song Hao was very clear about the value of this ten thousand meter white jade tree.

The void changed and purple mist gathered.

Compared to the previous time, the speed at which the market projection descended this time was much faster.

Ultimately, it’s because the space beneath the ground is too weak.

However, what Song Chi was concerned about at the moment was not this point at all, not even the ten-thousand-meter-high white jade tree in the center of the open area in front of him, but the ground where the white jade tree was rooted.

A large amount of flesh and blood tissue filled the ground of this empty cylindrical space. In the middle of these flesh and blood tissues, there stood a big-eared Buddha head.

The word "standing" is used to describe it because there are countless flesh and blood roots connected under the neck of this giant Buddha. The densely packed flesh and blood roots sew the ancient Buddha's head tightly together with the ground. As for the golden body of the Buddha, if my guess is correct, it has already been swallowed up by the original will of the secret realm under his feet.

Seeing this, Song Chi could already roughly guess what happened in ancient times.

Due to unknown reasons, this master-level Buddhist clan who had cultivated the golden body of Buddha died in a shocking battle. Because his golden body of Buddha was too terrifying, his corpse shattered the barriers of the secret realm and fell into this unknown secret realm.

In addition, the power brought by the fall of the golden body of Buddha was too terrifying. It not only created a cylindrical crater on the ground of the secret realm, but also completely shattered the space deep underground.

Driven by the instinct of self-preservation, the secret will of this secret realm, which itself was of a high status, began to devour the vast energy in the golden body of the Buddha of the Shi clan with all its might, and used it to slowly repair the broken space underground.

After hundreds of thousands of years, this underground space has most likely been repaired. It would be impossible for it to be just this level in the beginning of the long time.

After speculating this, Song Chi was wondering in his heart who the two sides of that shocking battle were. To be able to cause the demise of the dominant-level Buddhist clan, one can imagine how tragic that battle was.

He quickly brought his wandering thoughts back, but no matter what, that was all an unknown number of years ago. The most important thing now was this ten-thousand-meter-level [Time Realm Tree].

The data recorded by Beiqiong Shen did not mention a [Time Realm Tree] of this height, but Song Chi could guess that it was most likely a seventh-level [Time Realm Tree].

Thinking of this, the purple mist figure in the projection of the Zhutian Market has already stretched out his hand, and the handprint condensed by the triple energy is heading towards the seventh-level [Time Realm Tree].

The handprint wrapped with the power of domination fell on the ten thousand meter [Time Realm Tree], but what made him look grim was that this seventh-order [Time Realm Tree] was much more difficult to deal with than he had imagined. Even the projection of the Zhutian Market with the power of domination could not shake it at all.

There was a seventh-level [Time Realm Tree] in front of him, but he couldn't take it away. Song Chi was naturally unwilling to give up. He tried twice again, but just like before, he couldn't pull this ten-thousand-meter-long [Time Realm Tree] out of the ground.

At this time, bursts of artillery fire were heard from the corridor at the rear.

"No, there's no time..."

Song Chi knew that it was most likely people from the Morning Star Family who had come, and there were quite a few of them.

At a certain moment, he even had the urge to kill the person to silence him, but he finally gave up the idea.

The Morning Star Family has been passed down for more than 7,000 years and has a very deep foundation. If they bring some kind of trump card this time, even if the projection of the Zhutian Market takes action, it may not be able to ensure that they are all killed. At that time, the Zhutian Market will be in danger of being exposed.

Thinking of this, his gaze suddenly turned, no longer looking at the trunk of the seventh-level [Time Realm Tree], but turned to the seventh-level [Time Realm Fruit] hanging on it.

This seventh-level [Time Realm Tree] is difficult to shake because of the terrifying flesh and blood roots that spread out in a large circle underground. Maybe we can try it when it reaches the eighth level in the future, but it is absolutely impossible now.

As he thought about it, his mind raced, and the next second, a small bronze seal gleaming with silver light was sent over from the Zhutian Market through the Shadow Clan Terracotta Warrior behind him, who was still holding the second [Market Projection Order].

This small bronze seal was also obtained from the Life-Chasing Immortal. It cannot be transformed into a shipborne component, but it itself has a special concealment ability.

As Song Chi injected a large amount of dominant-level purple mist energy into it, the small bronze seal glowed silver and finally landed on the seventh-order [Time Realm Tree] in front.

When the silver light disappeared, the ten-thousand-meter-tall seventh-order [Time Realm Tree] in front of him suddenly disappeared, hidden by a small bronze seal.

"Anyway, only the third-rank Xinhuo Captain can come in, so no one can find this hidden seventh-rank [Time Realm Tree]. In this way, when the market master reaches the eighth-rank, we can try to transplant it again."

Of course, before the competition, he had already picked the seventh-level [Time Realm Fruit] from this Time Realm Tree.

Behind him, the roar of artillery fire became clearer and clearer. Taking advantage of the last chance, Song Chi controlled the triple hand seals to grab the two 500-meter-tall [Time Realm Trees] on the side.

These are two fifth-order [Time Realm Trees], which are of considerable value. But in fact, directly opposite the underground center tens of thousands of kilometers away, there are two thousand-meter-high sixth-order [Time Realm Trees], which are far more valuable than these fifth-order [Time Realm Trees]. However, it is too late now.

After pulling out the two fifth-level [Time Realm Trees] with ease, Song Chi distracted himself and swung out a stream of purple mist energy to smooth out the holes left by the pulled out fifth-level [Time Realm Trees]. After making sure that there was no longer any abnormality, he took the seventh-level [Time Realm Fruit] and the two fifth-level [Time Realm Trees] and disappeared into the underground space.

Song Hao was not slow either. The moment Song Chi's projection disappeared, he took the initiative to cancel the summoning of the puppet soldiers.

A few seconds after the two disappeared, hundreds of Xinhuo warships came out of the space corridor behind them. They were the people of the Morning Star Family who had just entered the secret realm.

I don’t know what means they used to find the underground core so easily.

However, after these Morningstar family captains, Song family warships such as the Haomiao and Bairi also followed closely. In this way, it would be impossible for the Morningstar family to do anything tricky.

The market place of all heavens, above the sky.

Looking at the two fifth-level [Time Realm Trees] that quietly landed in the free stall area, and the crystal clear seventh-level [Time Realm Fruit], Song Chi narrowed his eyes.

In my heart, I hope that the people of the Morning Star Family will not discover the existence of the seventh-level [Time Realm Tree].

PS: Thank you Babylima for the reward!!

(End of this chapter)