Chapter 510: The Black Devourer King’s Stand

Before this battle, everyone in the Song Family expected a brutal fight. After all, they were up against a Dominion-level Star Beast renowned for its vitality—and it had the massive advantage of fighting within a black hole.

If not for that, this operation wouldn’t have been postponed again and again, only setting into motion after Song Xingru and Song Shixing were both promoted to Dreadnought captains.

They’d thought they were prepared enough, but reality still landed a stinging slap across everyone’s face.

If Song Chi hadn’t just redeemed the Celestial Authority Ring from the Yaoguang Star Tower and improved the ‘Enslave Seal: Berserk’ feature, there’s no telling what kind of disaster the family would’ve faced.

With the activation of ‘Enslave Seal: Berserk,’ the One-Eyed Troll’s aura exploded beyond its ordinary sixth-tier strength.

Veteran sixth-tier.

Peak sixth-tier.

Half-step into the seventh tier.

In the end, it barely crossed the threshold into the ranks of seventh-tier Dominions.

Of course, this ‘Dominion’ strength was as shaky as it got. There was no way it could truly go toe-to-toe with a real Dominion-class Star Beast—it was bound to get overwhelmed.

Fortunately, Song Chi never expected a miracle upset from the troll. Summoning it at this moment was simply a way to stall the rampaging Black Devourer King Beast and buy his group some breathing room.

Under Song Chi’s command, the frenzied One-Eyed Troll charged out, gripping the Silver Dragon Spear that had been handed to it beforehand.

Two entirely different laws—Devouring and Chaos—clashed, unleashing spiraling storms of energy that swept outward in every direction.

These shocking energy waves shredded the shields of the Song fleet’s five battleships, even from hundreds of thousands of kilometers away.

The good news was that, after being blocked first by the Market Projection and then by the One-Eyed Troll, the Black Devourer King finally came to a halt.

Swish, swish!

The Silver Dragon Spear flashed silver, wielded with reckless force by the troll, raw physical strength amplifying its destructive might and helping make up for its disadvantage against the King Beast.

Seizing the moment, the Voidform Avatar inside the Heavenly Ruin quickly pulled out a second Market Projection Token and wasted no time activating it.

Violet mist gathered—the Omniverse Market’s projection once more stretched across the Sea of Stars.

Facing a Dominion-ranked Black Devourer King, Song Chi never let his guard down. He wouldn’t hesitate to use even a third Market Projection Token if needed.

If things took a wrong turn, he wouldn’t hold back—he’d pour power into every Market Projection Token he owned, no matter how many.

The Market Projection only took a few seconds to fully manifest, but to the One-Eyed Troll, it might as well have been an eternity.

Not even ten seconds passed before the troll’s body was torn up under the assault of the Black Devourer King, who was burning its own life force in a berserk frenzy.

The Song fleet didn’t waste this window. As the troll blocked the way, a torrent of cannon fire smashed into the open wound atop the Black Devourer King’s head. Gradually, the giant began to suffer heavier injuries.

With the Market Projection’s second appearance turning the tide, the balance of power started to tilt in the Song Family’s favor.

Yet Song Chi wasn’t optimistic. A Star Beast’s vitality was far beyond imagination—if the battle dragged on, there was no telling how long it would stalemate.

The longer the fight dragged, the more silver Oddities he’d have to burn, and the harder it would be to predict the outcome.

Song Chi wanted to end it quickly.

As the thought passed through his mind, he shared his plan with the Elders—then immediately activated the ‘Yin-Yang: Synergy’ feature of the Yang·Tongxin Pendant.

The next instant, the Silver Super Main Cannon on the White Snow Qingyou, upgraded to level 69, was temporarily borrowed—and its attack was unleashed through the Blood Spear.

It was only a sixth-tier-level attack, but under these circumstances, every bit of firepower counted—especially a Silver-class Super Main Cannon.

After the shot, the wound atop the Black Devourer King’s head deepened further. Song Chi kept moving, his Voidform Avatar grabbing a storage capsule from behind.

Inside wasn’t just any item—it was Blood Crystal, the very resource needed to upgrade the Blood Spear.

Song Shixing had brought over this stash from the hidden veins. With so many, Song Chi could power the Blood Spear up to level 70.

A flash of gold—the Blood Spear was strengthened to level 70.

Compared to the Myriad-Spirit Annihilation Bow, this golden Super Main Cannon was on another level, and its attack feature hadn’t even been used yet.

Seeing Song Chi’s signal, the Sky-Domain AI activated the ‘Blood Judgment’ feature.

Crimson energy pooled at the bow of the Heavenly Ruin, forming a blood-red spear tens of thousands of meters long.

But that wasn’t all. Determined to maximize this attack, the Sky-Domain AI funneled five million Eno Units from the Antimatter Evolution Engine.

Though various prior activations had dropped the pool to under three million units, the AI still dumped two million into the Black Hole Evolution Layer.

That two million units rapidly transformed into Black Hole Energy—only a few thousand points in the end, but it was enough.

Three thousand points of Black Hole Energy were loaded into the Blood Spear’s battery. As soon as the crimson spear hit the King Beast, a violent collapse effect would be triggered for maximum damage.

Zap!

Song Chi was ready. He maneuvered the Market Projection out of the line of fire—this golden Super Main Cannon packed a serious punch.

The Black Devourer King tried to dodge, but the One-Eyed Troll surged with the last of its power, jamming the Silver Dragon Spear deep between the beast’s scales, pinning it in place and offering no chance to evade.

The Sky-Domain AI had deliberately avoided hitting the troll, so the main target of the judgment spear was the Black Devourer King. But even being out of the blast radius couldn’t stop the aftermath—the resulting energy shockwave was unavoidable.

By this point, the One-Eyed Troll was a battered mess, burning away its own life under the power of the ‘Enslave Seal: Berserk.’ It was finally felled by the raging flood of blood energy.

Roar!

The corrosive force of the blood power made the King Beast’s wound even more gruesome, pain eating through flesh to the bone and sending it into a new level of frenzy.

But Song Chi wasn’t satisfied with just one round of attacks.

“Full Auto Sub-AI Machinery—activate!”

At his command, the Sky-Domain AI unleashed its ‘Full Auto Sub-AI Machinery’ feature. Three thousand subsidiary AIs surged into action, instantly seizing complete control of the three thousand Hellfire Mechs Song Chi had just brought online.

Hiss—

The hatch opened, unleashing a dense horde of Hellfire Mechs pouring out from the Heavenly Ruin.

Once in open space, the mechs all ballooned to a uniform hundred-meter form.

Three thousand nuclear ray cannons locked sights on the distant Black Devourer King. A blazing web of firepower began blanketing the beast from every angle.

A fourth-tier nuclear ray cannon was little more than a scratch to a King Beast, but with thousands hitting at once, and the wound on its head worsening, even the toughest hide would start to give way under the relentless assault.

Dominion Power churned within the King Beast. It tried to pull away—now free of the troll’s interference with the Market Projection moved aside, there seemed to be nothing to stop it from escaping.

But in the next second, the King Beast’s motion stalled.

A golden beam from the Heavenly Ruin immobilized it. Due to their difference in life hierarchy, ‘Zen Seal: External Time Stop’ didn’t last long—barely three seconds and the King Beast broke free.

Without hesitation, the Sky-Domain AI responded—activating ‘Zen Seal: Internal Time Acceleration.’ Instantly, ‘External Time Stop’ entered cooldown.

The moment the King Beast recovered, its body locked up once more, falling into a second time-stopped state.

Five Torch Battleships and all three thousand Hellfire Mechs unleashed their firepower, seizing the opportunity.

“Still not enough!”

Inside the Omniverse Market, Song Chi switched to the Market Projection perspective. With Dominion Power boosting him, his vision was sharp—he could see that although the wound in the King Beast’s head looked brutal, its life force was far from spent.

His mind spun—at that moment, the Market Projection deep in the black hole core took action again.

The hatch of the Heavenly Ruin slid open once more as a streak of black shot out, caught instantly by the projection. It took form—a jet-black spear over twelve thousand kilometers long.

The misty arm of the Market Projection raised high, space laws at the Perfection level gathering at the tip of the Immortal Spear. Without time to channel more, the Immortal Spear was hurled with all the projection’s might.

Rip!

Space, crushed to its limits by black hole gravity, ripped even further as the Immortal Spear streaked out like a black beam.

Just as the second ‘Zen Seal: External Time Stop’ was ending, the spear pierced the tens of thousands of kilometers, stabbing straight through the King Beast’s head wound and nearly skewering its massive body.

Only then did the King Beast shake free of the second time stop, but this time it had no thought of dodging or retaliating—the pain from the Immortal Spear was simply unbearable.

ROAR ROAR ROAR!

Roaring and bleeding, its body oozing, the King Beast went fully berserk. Dominion Power and Devouring Law lashed wildly in every direction, plunging the black hole’s interior into utter chaos.

Seeing this, the Song Family members cracked relieved smiles. This was their ideal outcome. Apart from leaving the three thousand Hellfire Mechs to attack freely, all five Torch Battleships fell back. As long as the King Beast stayed berserk, they could keep whittling away from a safe range.

But before they could retreat far enough, everything changed.

The mad King Beast began drawing in energy from the black hole’s depths, channeling it throughout its entire body, its aura surging higher at a terrifying rate.

“Not good! It’s using its body to absorb massive black hole energy and is going to self-destruct to take us out with it!”

Those words didn’t scare off the Song Family. With full confidence in Song Chi’s emergency measures, they knew escape was just a command away.

What gave them pause now was the choice ahead: flee immediately, or try something else first?

The King Beast was soaking up energy fast. There wasn’t much time to decide—they had to act quickly.

Song Wujian spoke up at once:

“Shiyuan, Shixing, Xingru—you three get into the Dimensional Spatial Stone now! I’ll try something here, but if I fail, we evacuate immediately!”

At Song Wujian’s order, the three didn’t hesitate. They recalled their ships and were soon pulled into the Dimensional Spatial Stone launched by the Sky-Domain AI. Once it was retrieved, the Heavenly Ruin didn’t fall back.

The second Market Projection’s effect had worn off, and Song Chi was back on the battleship. Like Song Wujian, he was ready for one last gamble.

The newly-upgraded seventh-tier Celestial Authority Ring, enhanced further by the ‘Enslave Authority Upgradation,’ gave him a real chance at enslaving the beast.

This was a seventh-tier Dominion Star Beast with top-tier Devouring Laws. Not trying to enslave it would be his life’s regret.

Hum, hum, hum!

Both battleships fired up their teleport modules, but Song Chi’s golden Angel King’s Authority Wings let him close in on the King Beast much faster than the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang.

He arrived first. A golden light shot from his hull—the slave mark from the Celestial Authority Ring.

The slave mark sank into the King Beast’s body like a stone into the sea, vanishing without a trace.

Clearly, this first attempt failed.

Naturally unwilling to give up, Song Chi scanned the Sky-Domain AI’s self-destruction prediction, then tried the Celestial Authority Ring again.

“Based on the average absorption rate of black hole energy and internal saturation, estimated self-destruction in 2.3 seconds. Captain, please evacuate at once!”

A second mark dove into the King Beast’s body but still failed.

Gritting his teeth, Song Chi made a third attempt with the Celestial Authority Ring.

With an ordinary Dominion creature, he wouldn’t have been so stubborn.

But this was no regular beast. A Dominion-level Star Beast of this caliber was an invaluable asset.

If he could enslave it, the Heavenly Ruin would gain a terrifying support combatant. The whole Song Family would rise, Dragon-Spine Continent’s promotion would accelerate, even the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang’s odds for advancement would soar.

Whether for himself or the Song Family, its value was simply too great.

But a Dominion creature’s true soul was far too strong—unless it was beaten to near death, enslaving it was impossible.

Inevitably, Song Chi’s third attempt ended in failure as well.

Honestly, he wanted to try a fourth time—but seeing the Sky-Domain AI’s countdown at just 1.4 seconds, he gave up.

“Old Ancestor, it’s time to go!”

The Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang had already flashed close, but rather than trying enslavement, it began gathering spatial laws at its prow.

1.2s

0.8s

0.5s

……

With the predicted self-destruct just a heartbeat away, the Old Ancestor still showed no sign of leaving.

Song Chi clenched his jaw. Instead of escaping alone, he triggered the ‘True Spirit Guard of the Angel King.’ Even that wasn’t enough—this was a Dominion Star Beast about to self-destruct at point-blank range!

He vanished from the Heavenly Ruin. In an instant, the Angel King’s eighth-tier spirit shield spread out, wrapping both the Heavenly Ruin and the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang. Right after that, the Omniverse Market Projection surfaced for a third time.

Under Song Chi’s direct control, the Projection and the spirit shield overlapped, forming dual defensive barriers around the two ships.

But as the seconds ticked away, the expected explosion didn’t come. Instead, waves of spatial energy rolled out in front of them.

Looking down, Song Chi’s eyes snapped to attention.

“A seal…?”

He watched as the Black Devourer King slowly faded into the void, then looked toward the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang.

A moment later, Song Wujian gave the explanation.

Void Exiler lv75

Grade: Gold

Feature: Void Exile

Trait 2: Spatial Resistance +8700

Trait 3: Increases battleship’s spatial law comprehension by 8%

Trait 4: Void Wanderer

Trait 5: Void Seal

……

The feature he’d used was the ‘Void Seal’ from the Void Exiler module. It could forcibly trap a target deep within the void.

At level 75, the Void Exiler’s maximum seal time was 400 years.

Since the King Beast was so high-tier, the full 400 years was unlikely—it would probably be two or three centuries at most.

But that wasn’t the main point. What mattered most was that the ‘Void Seal’ froze time entirely while sealing.

In other words, the King Beast would be completely frozen throughout the seal—no change, no passage of time. When the seal broke, it’d be in the exact same state.

Realizing this, a flash of delight appeared in Song Chi’s eyes. This way, he could try enslaving it again when the seal ended.

By then, ‘Zen Seal: External Time Stop’ would be fully cooled down, plus ‘Time Acceleration,’ giving him at least five seconds to make his move.