Chapter 472: Ruthless Strike on Calamity Star

Without exception, everyone was shaken by Song Chi’s reckless move.

Who could have imagined he’d flatten the Lü Family’s stronghold on Calamity Star Floating-Land? Before today, no one would’ve dared.

But now, it was undeniable—reality was right in front of their eyes.

Compared to the uproar around him, Song Chi himself seemed remarkably calm.

He knew exactly what the fallout from his actions would be, but he didn’t regret a thing.

He understood the younger generation of his family better than anyone. There were a few promising talents, but when compared to those Immortal Houses with six or seven millennia of legacy, they just didn’t measure up. The family might control eighty thousand light-years of territory, but population growth was a slow game. It’d take a century or two at least to catch up.

And everything he was doing now was exactly for that.

Song Chi hoped this ruthless show of force would keep surrounding factions at bay long enough. Only then could his family actually absorb the spoils of this expansion war.

Honestly, he didn’t even need the clan to fully digest everything—just a tenth would do. By then, even if he became restricted by the universal laws, there’d be nothing left to worry about.

Because at that stage, the next generation would be strong enough to stand tall as a quasi-Immortal House.

While he mulled this over, another furious roar shook the air below.

“Song Chi, you deserve to die! The Lü Family will never let you off!”

The voice belonged to the Lü Family’s Zhulu-class Cruiser Captain stationed on Calamity Star Floating-Land.

This person’s ship was no pushover—he’d actually survived the barrage so far.

“Maybe your family won’t let me off, but I guarantee one thing: you’re dying here today!”

As soon as he finished, Song Chi prepared to activate Zen Seal: External Time Stop, making sure the captain couldn’t escape with some evasive trick.

The captain, born from the main bloodline of a sixth-tier family, wasn’t stupid. He’d already activated a device before even opening his mouth.

Yep… a projection module!

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

High above, the sky convulsed, the pressure so immense that Song Chi could feel it from inside the Heavenly Ruin.

In the blink of an eye, a projection of a mythic mech giant over a hundred thousand meters tall appeared over the ruins of Frostveil Fortress.

Inside the Heavenly Ruin, Song Chi’s pupils contracted.

“A Dreadnought projection! The Lü Family’s old ancestor has arrived!”

He felt a chill but wrestled his nerves back under control, pulling out another special sigil.

The shimmering silver sigil was called the Void Sigil: Sub-Sigil, a child piece of the silver projection module Void Sigil. With it, he could summon a projection of Song Wujian’s Calm‑Sea Dragon‑Xiang.

The Void Sigil had been acquired by the family’s two elders after killing a sixth-tier Doomstar during the expansion war.

Originally, the family only had a red projection module, with a range of twenty thousand light-years. But this silver one, once upgraded to level 70, could project across a million light-years—enough to reach the Calm‑Sea Dragon‑Xiang stationed back on Dragon‑Spine Continent.

Still, even after bringing out the sigil, Song Chi didn’t rush to use it. Instead, he watched the Lü ancestor’s battleship projection closely.

According to the rules, any battleship at or above the battleship class—Torch-class ships and up—were forbidden from internal conflict. The Lü ancestor’s Dreadnought projection couldn’t lay a finger on him.

Events soon proved as much.

Staring down at the totally annihilated Frostveil Fortress, the red light in the mythic mech projection’s eyes flashed violently. But all it did was release its sixth-tier pressure. From start to finish, despite being over a hundred thousand meters tall, it never made a single move.

Song Chi finally felt himself relax a little.

But there was a downside: now that the Lü ancestor’s projection had arrived, it was impossible to do anything to the protected Zhulu-class Cruiser Captain below.

Frustrated as he was, Song Chi forced himself to let it go, issuing commands to recall all his enslaved beasts and the Hellfire Mechs.

Just then, a chill swept the field—a cold voice sounded from the colossal sixth-tier mythic mech projection.

“Song brat from the Song Family, you’re very good. Very good!!”

Hearing this, Song Chi narrowed his eyes, a hint of coldness flickering deep inside.

It was all too clear how much malice laced that voice.

“Old Lü, your family started this. Isn’t it a joke to talk like that now?”

After snapping back, Song Chi looked away, losing interest in any further debate.

The Song Family’s rapid rise would only grow the gap between them with time. Really, it was the Lü Family that should feel the pressure.

But even as he tried to ignore them, there were always those determined to seek death.

“Song Chi, just you wait. The Lü Family will avenge this!”

“Heh…”

Song Chi let out a cold laugh, the icy glint in his eyes now laid bare. His gaze, fixed on the Zhulu-class Cruiser floating behind the ancestor’s mech, was as if he was looking at a corpse.

At that moment, the Deathstar Tracking Mark was activated aboard the ship, firing a deathly mark, invisible to the naked eye, toward the Zhulu-class Cruiser.

With a Dreadnought projection watching, killing the captain directly was near impossible. But the projection module’s time was finite—once it faded, Song Chi could hunt down his target anytime, thanks to the Deathstar Tracking Mark.

But that was wishful thinking on his part. The mark was specialized for stealth—difficult to detect.

However, firing it under a veteran Dreadnought’s gaze made it glaringly obvious. In the next instant, it was crushed to dust by sixth-tier energy.

That single move thoroughly lit the fuse—the fuse Song Chi had been trying not to ignite.

Now that the grudge was set in stone, there was no reason to let anyone walk away alive.

Suddenly, Song Chi’s voice echoed cold and clear from within the Heavenly Ruin. It rang out, unimpeded, so everyone at the scene—in Dragon Spine City and even leaders of distant factions monitoring remotely—heard every bone-chilling word.

“I’m sure I said this already—you’re dying here today!”

No one knew Song Chi’s true feelings at that moment, but for all the other Torch Captains witnessing the scene, hearts pounded faster, blood surging even though they weren’t the ones involved.

A Zhulu-class Captain, declaring the certain death of an old bloodline’s direct descendant, right to a Dreadnought’s face.

This wasn’t reckless bravado—it was the loftiness of a judge. Everyone watching wanted to stand and applaud.

No matter how today ended, this kind of courage stood out in any generation.

“Ignorant child! Are you defying the dignity of a Dreadnought Captain?”

Apparently enraged, the Lü ancestor’s mythic mech projection began stepping forward.

Even surpassing the Flamewrath Giant’s mastery of fire, his ice law was blazing out of control. The sky began to freeze, and each step the titan took caused the pressure bearing down on the Heavenly Ruin to spike exponentially.

Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!

On the outside of the Yin-Yang Counter-Phase Annihilation Shield, the holy light barrier generated by the Angel King’s Authority Wings trembled violently. Its radiance dimmed noticeably as time passed.

But no one saw Song Chi, still inside the bridge of the Heavenly Ruin, remain completely calm.

He wouldn’t have spoken if he didn’t have cards up his sleeve.

Ignoring the advancing mythic mech projection, Song Chi’s attention shifted straight to the recently acquired Divine Thunder Cannon.

“Activate ‘Ninefold Violet Heaven World-Ending Calamity Thunder’!”

With the command, the Divine Thunder Cannon at the Heavenly Ruin’s prow morphed from main gun to Star-Annihilator Cannon.

Sizzle! Crackle!

Torrents of thunder energy gathered at the ship’s front, swelling into a storm cloud big enough to blot out the sky.

For a moment, the power of the Ninefold Calamity Thunder dominated half the heavens, even suppressing the sixth-tier pressure radiating from the ancestor’s mythic mech.

“What?!”

The advancing mech projection froze. Even the Lü ancestor felt tremendous danger from the charged thundercloud above.

His mastery of ice law—over 80%—congealed into an enormous ten-thousand-meter ice spike around him.

Rationally, no junior under two hundred years old should pose a threat to him, but caution ingrained over millennia refused to let him gamble. In the Shattered Sea of Stars, strange modules were everywhere. Even Star-Annihilator-class ships had met their end from a surprise—let alone a mere projection.

Right then, his mind stalled for no reason. Even though his ship had high time resistance, that pause lasted an entire second.

“No—!”

The Lü ancestor noticed something was wrong immediately, but it was too late.

Ahead, the Divine Thunder Cannon, temporarily transformed into a Star-Annihilator Cannon, had already finished its charge with the help of Zen Seal · Internal · Time Acceleration.

Boom!

Thunder split the heavens, a monstrous bolt of violet calamity streaking downward.

Before the Lü ancestor could react, the thunderbolt crashed into the hundred-thousand-meter mythic mech projection.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

……

Ninefold Calamity Thunder wasn’t just a name—the Divine Thunder Cannon truly generated nine thunderbolts. Under all nine strikes, the Dreadnought projection was barely holding together.

Then, as everyone thought it was over, a tiny singularity exploded for one last surge, morphing into a miniature black hole that tore apart the last shreds of the ancestor’s mighty power.

It wasn’t just the mythic mech that was annihilated. Even the Lü Family’s Zhulu-class Cruiser—despite activating its red-grade hull protection—was sucked into the collapsing black hole and crushed into a pile of scrap.

The bad news was, every ship module within the wreck was lost to the random torrents of the void.

Song Chi didn’t care much. Things weren’t finished yet. His cold voice rang through the Heavenly Ruin again.

“I, Song Chi, have always stood by my word!”

That declaration was aimed straight at the powers watching by remote, reminding them that obliterating the Lü Family’s outpost on Calamity Star Floating-Land was just his opening act; this was all about sending a message.

“Not two centuries—one will do!”

Glancing over his handiwork, Song Chi was more than satisfied.

With this iron-fisted suppression, he was confident no one else would dare test the Song Family for at least a hundred years.

And what happened after a century? That’d be someone else’s problem.

A hundred years was enough for the family to absorb the recent gains. With that, raising a new generation strong enough to dominate their peers shouldn’t be hard.

If they couldn’t manage that, blame the elders. It’d have little to do with Song Chi by that point.

Still mulling it over, Song Chi opened the hatch again, sending dozens of terracotta warriors flying down toward the ruins of Frostveil Fortress.

Even after being pounded by more than a thousand tier-four and above units, most of the fortress was destroyed, but none of the Starsea Oddities inside could escape.

Radar sweeps with the Eye of Spirit-Seeking showed the most precious item left was only a red-tier Oddity—but a treasure’s a treasure, and he wasn’t picky.

With time to spare, Song Chi even made a quick trip to Whitefrost City nearby, emptying all the shops run by the Lü Family and coming away with plenty of loot.

He left the other shops alone, since they belonged to other powers and he didn’t want to make more enemies.

After sorting everything, Song Chi finally prepared to head back to Dragon Spine City.

But just then, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted a light still blinking on the Destiny Compass.

The marker hadn’t disappeared—it was actually moving at full speed away from Calamity Star Floating-Land.

“So a rat got away?”

If he hadn’t noticed, it wouldn’t matter. But since he had, there was no way he’d just let it slide.

With the Aurora Jump Drive and Roarer Jump Drive working in tandem, the Heavenly Ruin quickly caught up to its target.

It turned out to be another Zhulu-class Cruiser.

The moment this Lü Family ship saw the Heavenly Ruin closing in, it froze in place, not daring to move, afraid Song Chi might blow it out of the sky on a whim.

To be safe, Song Chi used the Bind-God Chains’ Void Bind-God ability, preventing any attempt to escape via teleportation or other tricks.

Even if that failed, with the Destiny Compass in hand, he could chase the cruiser anywhere. Still, better safe than sorry.

At his cold command, the Lü Family’s tier-four Zhulu-class Captain emerged quickly from the ship.

Always thinking of maximizing his gains, Song Chi activated the Master‑Servant Pact. After all, he had two slots left—his earlier trio of cruiser captains were long since disposed of—so this Lü Family Captain would fit right in.

As soon as the pact was formed, the Lü Family Captain’s eyes instantly lost all fear, replaced by utter respect and submission toward Song Chi.