Chapter 450: Battle for the Calamity Star Floater

Roooaaar!

In the bridges of over two hundred dreadnoughts following three Star‑Annihilator warships, every captain’s ears rang with a thunderous dragon cry.

Looking up, they saw a silver‑scaled true dragon, every bit as long as a Star‑Annihilator, materialize above the central ship, the Fenglang Juxu.

Eyes went wide across the dreadnought fleet and among the tens of millions of Torch captains farther back—shock was all they felt.

This wasn’t an illusion wrought by laws but a genuine sovereign‑level Star‑Sea dragon.

On the Heavenly Ruin’s bridge, Song Chi’s heart was just as restless.

Before he could think, the Family’s senior‑staff channel lit up with chatter.

“The Yaohan Liu Family let their Silver‑scaled Chi Dragon out this fast?”

“That dragon only broke into the sovereign tier a few millennia ago. Legend says our Liu Progenitor found its egg beside an eighth‑tier Chi Dragon inheritance.”

At the words “Silver‑scaled Chi Dragon,” information surfaced unbidden in Song Chi’s mind.

Among eastern Star‑Sea dragons, the Silver‑scaled Chi ranks high. Gifted in space and ice, it is one of the Broken Star Sea’s apex life‑forms.

While he mulled it over, his thoughts suddenly froze and his gaze locked forward.

Once the dragon revealed its full form, space laws gathered at its maw and compressed into a pitch‑black sphere hundreds of kilometers wide.

Sovereign power swirled around its jaws. With a violent exhale, the sphere howled forward, trailing a ribbon of collapsing space.

The sphere shot ahead and slammed head‑on into two oncoming miniature Doom Disaster Stars.

Many low‑tier Torch ships had already activated hull defenses. A sovereign clash could kill even those far from the front line.

Yet, to everyone’s surprise, no energy shock, rift or collapse followed.

When the view finally cleared, Song Chi’s pupils shrank.

The two Disaster Stars did explode, but every bit of the blast, starlight and spatial ruin was sealed inside a visible pocket dimension.

That pocket was formed by the dragon’s sphere of spatial law.

“Is this… the Chi Dragon’s hallmark art—Chi Dragon Extradimension!”

Song Chi muttered, eyes gleaming.

He’d read about the Liu Family’s secret art, but seeing it in person was eye‑opening.

Sadly, his own Family lacked such techniques. Their best spatial art was the incomplete Sky Shaman Grand Hand Seal, which he hadn’t yet studied.

Suddenly the subspace shuddered. Even a Chi Dragon Extradimension couldn’t bear two Disaster Stars’ full self‑destruct.

After a few seconds the pocket dimension collapsed entirely.

Buzzz!

Freed from confinement, lingering star‑light and collapse surged toward the three Star‑Annihilators.

Weakened though it was, the blast finally dispersed against the ships’ three overlapping domain spaces.

Inside the Floating-land shield, two Doomstar sovereigns prepared a third strike, but the kingdom’s ships gave them no chance.

Each Star‑Annihilator triggered high‑grade skip‑space modules and blinked to within a million meters of the shield.

Before the sovereigns could react, all three ships fired their annihilator cannons.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

Three colossal beams tore out, converging on a single point as if prearranged.

Buzzz!

Extreme heat and annihilation intertwined. The Dongli Xiao Family’s golden cannon added potent shield‑breaking force, making the Floating-land shield quake violently.

Ripples swept across most of the barrier, yet the kingdom’s three leaders still looked grim.

Even under full fire, the shield only dimmed; it showed no cracks.

That result differed completely from earlier probes.

“Impossible! Why is the shield this strong? Our readings never showed this!”

From the Beiqiong Shen Family ship, First King Shen Wei’s voice rang out, followed instantly by one from the Fenglang Juxu.

“If we can’t tear the shield, every follow‑up plan is ruined!”

The Dongli Xiao Family commander added from the right flank,

“Could the Eight‑Armed Serpent Demon be—”

He never finished. A vast power welled up overhead.

Looking up, even the Star‑Annihilator commanders’ pupils contracted.

Above the silver dragon, endless gold light ripped space apart, turning the dark void into a golden sea.

A humanoid silhouette of pure radiance emerged from the yawning rift.

The golden figure strode out and slammed its palm. Gold, light and space laws gathered into a titanic handprint that pressed down hard enough to shatter the starfield.

Spatial rifts meant nothing before it. In Song Chi’s dual‑pupil vision, everything beneath that hand fell into silent nothingness.

Within the shield, the two Doomstar sovereigns’ eyes—mirroring eternal calamity—now brimmed with fear.

Sovereign power surged around them, forging two starlight hands to meet the blow.

They shattered on contact—like insects before a chariot.

Boom!

The golden hand struck the shield. Even a seventh‑grade Floating-land shield looked fragile; after violent flashes it was about to break apart.

A furious roar echoed from the distant northern starsea.

“Ying Chang, how dare you interfere!”

The golden avatar turned its gaze north.

“You struck first!”

A weathered voice drifted from the rift, and the avatar withdrew its power.

The handprint faded and the golden figure vanished as the rift healed.

Only then did the sky return to normal, though no one present could calm their pounding hearts.

“That was just…”

On the Heavenly Ruin’s bridge, Song Chi opened the Family channel, uncertain what to ask.

At last, two‑thousand‑year‑old Song Dingbang broke the silence.

“If I’m not mistaken, that was the Ying Family’s core technique—the Twelve Golden Emperor Avatars.”

“The Twelve Golden Emperor Avatars…”

Song Chi echoed, as another elder asked quickly,

“Patriarch, who cast it?”

Song Dingbang paused. He’d heard many tales of the Qin Empire but knew few Ying ancestors by name. Judging by that northern voice he said,

“Ying Chang—an eighth‑tier ancestor, high‑ranked even within the royal line.”

While they spoke, a cold order cut in.

“All captains, enter the Calamity Star Floating-land in sequence. Maintain order!”

Looking ahead, Song Chi spotted a handprint‑shaped gap in the Floating-land shield.

The golden strike, though withdrawn, had still left a breach.

With it open, the fleets could move freely.

Only the Fenglang Juxu, now in myth‑mech giant form, stayed outside to hold the gap. The other two Star‑Annihilators, the silver dragon and two hundred dreadnoughts had already gone in, fighting the sovereign and sixth‑tier Doomstars.

Seizing the chance, fleets poured through in tidy lines. Once inside, they dived toward the surface—lingering in the sky was suicide.

Their lone mission: kill as many mid‑ and low‑tier Doomstars as possible.

The Song Family’s Stark–Morningstar joint fleet entered several hours later.

Past the shield, they fell toward an untouched sector and battle erupted fast.

Some savvy captains were disgruntled; early entrants earned points first and gained an edge for the top‑thirty ranks.

Song Chi didn’t mind.

A few hours meant nothing.

He reckoned the campaign would last half a year at minimum, maybe years. A Floating-land ten thousand light‑years across was no joke.

And two Doomstar sovereigns were never easy kills.

Their fleet chose the eastern side, labeled East‑07 on kingdom maps.

Not the densest but still upper‑tier, with plenty of room to divide.

Mindful of the leaderboard, the high‑ups wasted no time. After carving out zones, the fleet split into seven columns.

Only the Eagle Family still seemed dazed.

Battleship captains Song Dingbang, Song Tianhao and Song Xingru, plus Song Chi’s Heavenly Ruin, split the Family forces into four and started cleansing their areas.

Song Chi led nearly a hundred thousand Torch warships, including fifteen Zhulu‑class cruisers, Heavenly Ruin at the fore, toward the nearest Doomstar city.

The other fourteen cruisers paired off and sped toward smaller cities.

Before splitting, Song Chi handed each of the seven groups a sub‑disk of the Long‑Range Communication Disk so he could warp in if trouble arose.

…

Heavenly Ruin’s first target was a mid‑large Doomstar city of over a hundred million. Borrowing the Snow Drift’s airborne radar via the Yang·Tongxin Pendant, he learned it hid one fifth‑tier and eight fourth‑tier Doomstars.

That lineup could wipe out a normal mid‑grade civilization.

To Heavenly Ruin, it was nothing.

Fiery Titan, One‑Eyed Giant, Flame‑breathing Dragon and two fifth‑tier Void Demons were released. They butchered the fourth‑tier and above Doomstars with ease; Heavenly Ruin barely lifted a finger.

Cleanup of third‑tier and below would be handled by the trailing warship column.

That column had no Zhulu cruisers and fewer than a hundred third‑tier ships—far weaker than the city’s hundreds of third‑tier Doomstars, especially under grade‑seven Floating-land rules.

But the Song Family was different. Many cruisers and escorts carried Hellfire Mechs; with those fourth‑tier suits, the fleet could finish the job.

The time saved let the Song Family rack up points faster than anyone else.