National Star Sea Era...

Chapter 508: Vulnerable and Divine Fire Tempering Body
As purple lightning began to gather at the bow of the Tianxu Cangqiong ship, the twelve Tuoba warships around it quickly responded.

The twelve warships fired their guns one after another, trying to proactively stop the Tianxu Cangqiong from accumulating energy.

Although Song Chi's previous series of actions clearly showed contempt for all of them, no one dared to ignore the combat power of the Tianxu Cangqiong despite their anger.

Everyone knew what a ship length of over 14,000 meters meant, so all twelve chose to go all out.

Some of the warships seemed to be equipped with components that reduced the energy storage time. In less than five seconds, the super main guns of two Tuoba battleships exploded one after another.

A particle beam with considerable power fell on the energy shield on the outer layer of the Tianxu Cangqiong ship, but the imagined direct overload of the energy shield did not occur.

"How is it possible? What kind of energy shield is installed on his warship? The attack characteristics of the two super main guns only dimmed the shield by half!"

Seeing that the holy light shield on the surface of the Tianxu Cangqiong ship dimmed only three points, the expressions of all the Tuoba clan members changed.

No one believed that there would be no battleship repair parts on Song Chi’s ship. Taking this into account, they had no possibility of remotely interrupting the energy storage of the Tianxu Cangqiong.

Thinking of this, two of the four battleships suddenly rushed out. The two battleship captains reacted quickly. Since long-range firepower was ineffective, they switched to close combat.

Click, click, click!
The sound of metal friction was heard, and the bows of the two battleships had turned into cold alloy rams.

Under the powerful thrust brought by the active characteristics of the engine, the two warships turned into afterimages and rushed straight towards the Tianxu Cangqiong.

However, they obviously took it for granted. Today's Tianxu Cangqiong is not only powerful in terms of energy shield defense, but also has a good hull.

When the two battleships were about to collide with the Tianxu Cangqiong, Song Chi activated the "Behemoth Domination" feature of the [Behemoth Heart].

The immunity to control granted by the domineering characteristics, coupled with the double solid armor granted by the [Neutron Star Core Armor] and [Black Hole Evolution Layer], the head-on collision between the two battleships did not even cause the hull of the Tianxu Cangqiong to tremble.

Just as the two battleship captains were trembling in their hearts, the energy storage of the [Purple Sky Divine Thunder Cannon] of the Tianxu Cangqiong finally ended.

"Sorry, the game is over!"

Song Chi's still calm voice just rang in the ears of the twelve Tuoba captains, and the next second an astonishing number of purple thunder symbols appeared in the entire blockaded space.

These thunder symbols were scattered in every corner of the blocked space, followed by their collective explosion.

In an instant, the blockaded space was completely shrouded by infinite thunder energy. The twelve Tuoba warships were almost dizzy by the terrifying number of thunder explosions. The energy shields of the eight Zhulu warships only lasted for a few seconds before they were completely overloaded in the raging thunder. In the end, they could only activate the protective properties of the ship's armor.

Even so, the thunder and lightning explosion wave that had been raging for a long time still left their ship's hull in ruins.

In other words, Song Chi did not make a finishing move, otherwise every one of these Zhulu ships would have been sunk.

The results of the four battleships were better. Although the energy shields were also overloaded, the integrity of the hulls was still above 50%.

In the middle of the blocked space, Song Chi activated the Wanfu Zixiao Thunder Prison. He did not take a second move. He just stood in the middle of the Thunder Prison, quietly watching the embarrassed reactions of the twelve warships of the Tuoba clan.

The bombardment of Wanfu Zixiao Thunder Prison lasted for a full ten minutes. When all the thunder power dissipated, Song Chi took the initiative to cancel the blocking effect of [Dingkong Suotian Yin], and then under the gaze of tens of thousands of Tuoba captains, he controlled the Tianxu Cangqiong to slowly fall downwards.

During this process, no one tried to stop it.

There was a captain of the Zhulu ship, whose ship was in relatively good condition, who was about to speak, but was stopped by several battleship captains.

"Okay, let's stop here. Can't you see that the combat power of the other ship is completely not on the same level as ours?"

"If he had really used all his strength just now, all twelve of our warships would have been grounded!"

"I even feel that the first-order member of the previous generation in our clan who was also promoted to battleship captain is no match for him!"

……

This battle did not cause much waves. After all, the entire detailed battle process from beginning to end was only known to the thirteen captains inside the blockaded space. As long as Song Chi did not take the initiative to publicize it, the twelve captains of the Tuoba clan who were almost unilaterally crushed would naturally not tell anyone.

However, for Song Chi, the effect has been achieved. After that, no other members of the Tuoba clan came to harass him, allowing him to practice the guiding technique with peace of mind.

In the all-attribute training room of the market, Song Chi held in his hand a deep-water clam pearl that was even larger than a ping-pong ball.

These are high-aged deep-water clam pearls produced from the [Green Water Spirit Spring] in the secret realm that has been cultivated in recent decades. They are at least 11,000 years old.

After taking out another top-grade body-building potion to neutralize the poison, Song Chi directly put the potion into his mouth at once.

With the help of the powerful effect of this 11000-year-old deep-water clam pearl, he began to practice the guiding technique with all his strength.

A month later, when Song Chi walked out of the training room, his guiding technique had unexpectedly broken through to level 51.

During the previous fifty years of comprehending the laws, he seldom practiced the Guiding Technique, so he was still at level 50. This was the first progress he made after breaking through the fifth level of the Guiding Technique.

"I still have two ten-thousand-year-old deep-water clam pearls in my hand. I hope that I can make my Guiding Technique break through one or two more levels in the future."

Muttering this, he left the market.

Counting the time, the Tuoba royal family’s sacred fire ceremony will be held in these two days.

The next day, early in the morning.

The Silver Plate Floating Land is particularly lively today. A large number of level 4 and above Xinhuo warships have come from outside the floating land, preparing to participate in the Tuoba royal family's once-in-a-century Divine Fire Ceremony.

The Sacred Fire Ceremony, as the name suggests, is a sacrificial ceremony for the special high-level fire controlled by the Tuoba royal family.

The Tuoba royal family is different from other aristocratic families. Their fundamental inheritance does not come from the starry sea gods or starry sky beasts, but from a legendary fire called [Taicang Fire].

This strand of [Taicang Fire] not only contains a variety of fire-attributed [inherited secret techniques], but can also endow the Tuoba clan members with higher fire talents to a certain extent. This is why the Tuoba royal family is famous for their fire in the entire Xinhuo River community.

However, this [Taicang Fire Seed] is not omnipotent. If the Tuoba royal family wants it to continuously endow the clan members with the talent of fire, they also need to continue to offer sacrifices to it. Only in this way can the [Taicang Fire Seed] never go out and even gradually become stronger.

Silver plate floating on land, Taicang sacred mountain.

As the ancestral home of the Tuoba royal family, Taicang Sacred Mountain, like Longji Sacred Mountain, also has a huge square built at its foot.

Today, a large number of invited captains from the outside world gathered here, waiting for the Tuoba royal family to start the century-old sacred fire ceremony. In the crowd, Song Chi followed behind his ancestor, quietly waiting for the ceremony to officially begin.

Soon, an old figure slowly rose into the air, and finally stood out in the air above the White Jade Square. This old figure exuded a life breath that was infinitely close to the seventh level, bringing a strong sense of oppression to all the Xinhuo captains present.

Fortunately, it was just for deterrence and all the pressure was quickly withdrawn.

In the crowd, Song Chi heard some light discussions.

"It's Tuoba Muchong. I heard that he is over nine thousand years old. He entered the ranks of ultimate fearless captains five thousand years ago. His combat power is unfathomable!"

"We don't know when he will attack the Star Destroyer. He doesn't have much time left."

……

"Tuoba Mu Chong..."

Song Chi raised his head and glanced at the old figure above him, then quickly looked away.

Not long after, an old voice came from the sky.

"The time has come. I declare the Divine Fire Ceremony officially open. Please invite the Divine Fire!"

Just as he finished speaking, the shape of a dreadnought suddenly appeared above the square ahead.

If nothing unexpected happens, this dreadnought should be a warship inherited from the Tuoba royal family.

The hatch of the dreadnought opened, and a ray of fire emitting a captivating gray light was drawn out from it.

With the appearance of this spark of fire, Song Chi could feel that the temperature above the entire square had risen a lot.

However, the other captains were already accustomed to this. Not long after, the Tuoba clan sent over an astonishing amount of various resources.

Among them were red, orange, and purple fire treasures, fire-attributed mineral resources, high-quality star-sea wood spiritual plants, etc. Several sixth-level half-dragons continuously invested these resources into the Taicang fire in the sky.

Through his own double pupils, Song Chi could see that every time a batch of resources were thrown into the fire, the Taicang fire would become brighter.

Obviously, all the resources prepared by Tuoba are of great benefit to Taicang Fire.

This was not the end, or rather, it was just the beginning. All the resources prepared by Tuoba clan were thrown into the fire, and then it was the turn of the invited guests in the square.

The guests, captains one by one, stepped forward according to their respective positions, and took out red, orange, purple and other fire-related rare objects, or rare fire resources, and continuously threw them into the Taicang fire in the sky.

Why did the Tuoba royal family hold a grand Divine Fire Festival every hundred years? And why did they allocate some of the limited Divine Fire Body Tempering quotas to others?

This is the reason, to borrow the power of many forces in the entire river system to assist them in maintaining the Taicang fire.

Of course, the people from other forces were not fools either. The fire seeds and rare objects they took out were basically purple, or some decent fire-attribute resources. Only those forces who were interested in competing for the quota for the Divine Fire Body Tempering would take out orange or even red quality fire seeds and rare objects.

Finally, the top 20 forces that produce the most valuable items will each receive a spot for body tempering.

When it was Song Wujiang's turn, what he took out was an orange fire seed that could not be transformed into an upgraded fire source. It was not of high quality, but it could be ranked above average.

Although he had already secured a spot through Tuoba Jun, he couldn't be too stingy, otherwise it would only embarrass Tuoba Jun. It was just right to take out an orange fire seed artifact now.

After all the places were confirmed, it was time for the Divine Fire Body Tempering session that everyone had been waiting for.

This link is the feedback of the Taicang fire seed that has absorbed enough fire resources to the outside world. It will transform a small part of all the energy absorbed into a body-tempering divine fire. The captain who gets the body-tempering quota needs to step into the body-tempering sea of ​​fire in person and use the divine fire to temper his own body.

Just as Song Chi's dark energy was surging in his body and he was about to walk out of the crowd, he heard Song Wujiang's voice in his ears.

"Xiao Chi, this Taicang Divine Fire will be extremely beneficial to Captain Xinhuo. Try to hold on for as long as possible. The longer you temper yourself in it, the greater the benefits!"

"My grandson understands!"

Song Chi nodded, and then, under the influence of the fifth-level psionic energy and the laws of space, he quietly disappeared into the crowd. When he reappeared, he was already standing on the high platform in front of the square.

Seeing him appear out of nowhere, several fourth and fifth-rank captains who had stepped onto the stage earlier showed strange expressions.

The law of space. This law is not something that ordinary captains would touch. It is too difficult to comprehend.

Song Chi ignored the curious gazes beside him and quietly closed his eyes to adjust his state.

According to his estimation, with his current physical strength, the time spent tempering his body in this divine fire could not be too short. However, after the ancestor's reminder, he naturally had to try his best to adjust his own condition in order to persist for a longer period of time.

Song Chi understood very well the importance of physical fitness, which corresponds to the strength of the mind.

For a Xinhuo captain, simply wanting to improve his mental power is not enough, because the stronger the mental power is, the higher the requirement for the captain's own physique. Only a stronger physique can accommodate more mental power.

Although his physique is not weak now, and can still support his focused mind, don't forget that he still has a seventh-level spiritual essence in his hand. Once it is absorbed, his mental strength will inevitably surge. It is hard to say whether his physique can withstand it at that time.

Song Chi's idea was very simple. Since the Taicang Fire could strengthen the physique, he would naturally do everything possible to extend the tempering time.

About two minutes later, when all the people were on stage, the Taicang fire in the sky also dropped the body-tempering fire.

Suddenly, Song Chi felt as if he was thrown into a furnace, and the horrible high temperature was baking everything on his body.

Knowing that this was the flame tempering his body, Song Chi forced himself to calm down and let the dark energy in his body flow rapidly, trying his best to eliminate the discomfort caused by the powerful flame energy.

As time passed, one could hear captains constantly staggering away from the platform because they could not bear the increasingly intense flames.

But Song Chi did not open his eyes, because he felt uncomfortable too.

Gradually, only the fifth-level battleship captains were left on the entire platform, and all the captains of the Zhulu had stepped down.

About half an hour later, some battleship captains began to find it difficult to hold on any longer, starting with one man, and then gradually more battleship captains left the platform.

(End of this chapter)