Chapter 593: Conquest of the Death Calamity Secret Realm

One critical point: the cave where the enemy showed themselves wasn’t actually where the secret realm entrance was hidden.

All the caves inside were interconnected, twisting in every direction. If the two of them had rushed in recklessly, they’d have only alerted the enemy and gained nothing.

So, after figuring out the exact route, neither of them hesitated any longer.

Inside the Mirror Warship, the Voidlock Skyseal Sigil component was activated.

After charging for a while, a spatial barrier wide enough to seal almost the entire mountain range appeared out of thin air, enclosing a huge swath of the area.

At the same time, the hatch of the Mirror Warship opened and Song Yan darted out.

Without delay, he summoned the Scorching Sea Blazer and activated a space-sealing component on that battleship as well. Before long, a second layer of spatial blockade shimmered into existence.

Double-layered spatial seals like this could prevent exposure down the line. Both components were only silver grade, but after being upgraded to the seventh tier, even seventh-tier beings couldn’t break through them easily.

Besides, there weren’t any seventh-tier Dominion beasts on this Serpentlight Floating-Land anyway.

Encrypted chat between two Dreadnoughts.

With preparations complete, Song Chi focused his senses on Song Yan’s side, then quickly sent a voice transmission:

“Go!”

The engines of both dreadnoughts roared, driving them toward that distant cave.

The engines thundered as both ships surged down the mountain, heading straight for the cave.

The mountain range stretched for hundreds of light-years, rising so high it defied imagination. The cave mouth was massive—so much so that even two dreadnoughts, each over ten thousand meters long, slid in without bumping the sides.

Following the route given by that captured fifth-tier Doomstar, Song Chi and Song Yan soon found the secret realm entrance buried deep in the mountain.

Heavenly Ruin in front and Scorching Sea Blazer behind, both ships dove into the swirling spatial vortex at the entrance.

After a wild blur of warped space, the pair found themselves high above, suspended beneath a dazzling vault of heaven.

But before they could get their bearings, a barrage of cannon fire thundered up from below.

Clearly, the Doomstar Race guarding this secret realm had noticed the two invading dreadnoughts immediately.

Not that it mattered—attacks at this level couldn’t even scratch these dreadnoughts.

“Looks like the Doomstar Race really is down to just a few stragglers. My patrol radar shows only four sixth-tier beings around and not many at the fifth tier either. As for this secret realm…”

Song Chi’s remotely controlled spirit nodded in agreement with Song Yan’s assessment.

“Yeah, the Doomstars here are no threat. As for the realm itself, looks like an original secret realm. If we move the entrance back to Dragon-Spine Continent, it’ll deepen our family’s foundations yet again.”

As they spoke, both became resolute.

“Just in case, let’s wipe out every last Doomstar in this secret realm right now.”

With that, the two dreadnoughts split up to act. Before they did, Song Yan left the Tiger Carapace King Bug at the entrance, posted as a guard to prevent any Doomstars from escaping.

Within minutes, cannon fire echoed again and again through the wilds of this primeval secret realm.

The barrage went on for hours. When the two ships regrouped, it meant they’d completely cleansed the place of Doomstar resistance.

Dreadnoughts’ comm channel.

“Song Yan: This realm is called the Death Calamity Secret Realm. For an original secret realm, its grade is incredibly high—looks like it’s the Doomstar’s main secret base!”

“Song Chi: That’s right. Death Calamity Secret Realm produces a special resource called the Death Calamity Core. It boosts Law of Light comprehension up to the perfect stage.”

As Song Yan prepared to tally all the loot they’d taken, Song Chi interrupted him.

“Hold on. Let’s move the secret realm back to Dragon-Spine before anything else.”

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Chipan Galaxy, southwest Star Domain, joint fleet of the Song and Luo Clans.

Calm-Sea Dragon‑Xiang Encrypted Chat Group.

“Song Chi: The last Doomstars have been dealt with.”

“Song Xingru: So? How did it go? Did you get anything good?”

“Song Chi: Haven’t done inventory yet, but we found an original secret realm the Doomstars left behind. I’ll need to return to Dragon-Spine Continent and bring it back!”

“Song Wujian: Another original secret realm? After the Yaohan Kingdom’s war, the Three Houses found at least three of those—there’s still one more? No wonder civilizations with over a hundred thousand years of history have so much to their name.”

After briefing the clan elders, Song Chi headed to the Tenth Direct Line fleet. Aboard his grandfather’s Furious Lion of War, he borrowed the Secret Realm Binder component.

Secret Realm Binder, LV40.

Grade: Purple.

Trait: Secret Realm Gate Creator.

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Song Chi had gotten this component back on White Tower Floating-land. It could freely create a secret realm entrance.

But since it was only purple grade, it probably wouldn’t work on an original secret realm. So, Song Chi took out a fifth and a sixth-tier Silver Apple and directly evolved it to red grade.

Right after, a faint spatial ripple swept through Heavenly Ruin’s main control room and Song Chi disappeared from the ship.

Omniverse Market—Song Chi appeared for only an instant before vanishing again, not even pausing to look around.

Serpentlight Floating-Land, inside the Mirror Warship, Song Chi’s figure quietly emerged.

Even before the operation started, he’d set up a Spatial Anchor on this ship in case of emergencies. Now it finally came in handy.

He’d even cleared out anchors he’d left back in Saintlight City, Silverplate Floating-land, Goldenplate Floating-land, and Dragon Abyss City on Red Star Continent.

No way around it—he just didn’t have enough Spatial Anchors to go around.

One in Dragon-Spine, one inside the Starrealm Gut, one at the Flame God Clan ruins, one on Heavenly Ruin itself, and now this one inside the Mirror Warship…

Every single anchor was spoken for, not a single one left free.

High in the Death Calamity Secret Realm, when Song Yan saw Song Chi appear inside the Mirror Warship, he wasn’t surprised at all. He took the LV60 Secret Realm Binder that Song Chi handed over and installed it on his Scorching Sea Blazer right away.

He used the red-grade component to bind the Death Calamity Secret Realm.

After that, both dreadnoughts left the primeval realm, one after another.

Deep in the mountain, Song Chi ordered the Tiger Carapace King Bug to use Dominion Power to completely destroy the realm’s old entrance, making sure nobody could use it to enter anymore.

Once that was done, Song Yan recalled the Scorching Sea Blazer. Then, using a Dimensional Spatial Stone, Song Chi took them both back to Dragon-Spine Continent.

Dragon Spine Sacred Mountain, halfway up, inside the Song Family’s secret realm entrance cave.

With the Scorching Sea Blazer’s help, they opened a brand-new secret realm entrance right in this cave. That brought the total number of entrances here to nearly ten.

Of those, only two were original secret realms. The rest were shattered or Starsea secret realms.

Only after finishing all that did Song Chi and Song Yan finally start inventorying their spoils.

It took hours to go over everything—there was simply too much.

After three hours, they finally had a full inventory list.

4 Supreme Black Oddities.

4 Golden Sanctum Oddities.

10 Silver Legendary Oddities.

84 Red-grade and lower oddities.

50 strands of Eighth-Tier Floating-Land Origin.

9,000 strands of Seventh‑Tier Floating-land Origin.

5 threads of Primal Chaos Qi.

2 sets of Black Hole Core wreckage.

1,000 standard units of Eternal Stone Brick.

10 Death Calamity Cores.

50 Seventh-Tier Dominion Souls.

3 Eighth-Tier Dominion Souls.

1 drop of Seventh-Tier Dominion Origin Blood.

32 drops of Sixth-Tier Beast Origin Blood.

200,000 pieces of Titanite Crystal.

A resource map of the former Death Calamity Star Domain.

Various mineral resources.

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There was so much loot that even Song Chi and Song Yan were dazzled just looking at it.

When they finished, they didn’t hang around—they used Song Chi’s ability to return directly to the Song Family fleet back in Chipan Galaxy.

As for the Mirror Warship still on Serpentlight Floating-Land? No worries—Song Chi had brought back the Flamewrath Giant as well, and he planned to summon the ship back with the same method later.

Calm-Sea Dragon‑Xiang Encrypted Chat Group.

“Song Chi: We’ve left the 5 threads of Primal Chaos Qi on Dragon-Spine Continent. Just a dozen or so to go, and we can complete the third restoration of Dragon Whale Hall.”

“Song Shiyuan: Let’s put that aside. Primal Chaos Qi is almost impossible to find. Even a civilization with a hundred-thousand-year legacy only kept 7 for themselves, including what we intercepted last time. That tells you how rare it is. We’ve already bought up most of what’s available from mid and small powers in the nearby galaxies. The rest depends on what we can dig up here in Chipan.”

“As for Starsea Oddities…”

Everyone’s attention soon shifted to the oddities—especially the four black and four gold ones.

There were fewer silver and red oddities, probably because the last haul left them with only scraps.

Song Chi and Song Yan both uploaded multiple screenshots of the attributes for every black and gold oddity in the chat.

Screenshots appeared one after another.

Supreme Black Oddities: Death Calamity Star Shell, Titan Giant Heart Core, Star Spirit Earth, Time Tower.

Golden Sanctum Oddities: Death Calamity Star Spirit Stone, Starlight High-Energy Particle Stream, True Dragon Scale, Flame Spirit.

Of these eight, three couldn’t be converted into ship components: the black-grade Star Spirit Earth, the Time Tower, and the gold-grade True Dragon Scale.

Still, the Time Tower was pretty amazing. While it couldn’t be made into a ship component, it had its own internal space.

Inside, time accelerated: twenty days in there equaled just one day outside.

Better yet, even if you stayed inside for twenty days, your lifespan was only counted against outside time.

One catch: every person could only enter the Time Tower once in their life. At most, they could stay for twenty years—which would be just one year in the real world.

Even so, this component was stunningly powerful. The clan elders wanted to leave it on Dragon-Spine Continent for nurturing younger generations.

That would give the family’s talented juniors a nineteen-year lead on anyone else.

The Star Spirit Earth and True Dragon Scale, meanwhile, would be sent to the Oddities Exchange in the Market.

The other five could be used directly as ship components.

Oddity: Death Calamity Star Shell.

Grade: Black.

Upgradeable: Death Calamity Star Shell Armor.

Description: A piece of star shell that broke away from an ancient Death Calamity Star in the multiverse age. After ages of evolution, it became a Supreme Black Oddity.

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Death Calamity Star Shell Armor, LV0.

Grade: Black.

Trait: Hull armor defense up by 170%.

Trait 2: True Defense.

Trait 3: Hull armor auto-repairs 1% every 10 seconds when damaged.

Trait 4: Ship durability up by 170%.

Trait 5: Starlight Regeneration.

Trait 6: Death Calamity Star Shell Guard.

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Oddity: Titan Giant Heart Core.

Grade: Black.

Upgradeable: Titan Heart Core Engine.

Description: The heart core left from an eighth-tier Titan Giant after it fell. In a special environment, it evolved into an oddity.

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Titan Heart Core Engine, LV0.

Grade: Black.

Trait: Engine power output up by 170%.

Trait 2: Engine thrust boosted by 170%.

Trait 3: Dark energy reservoir tripled.

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Both black-grade Supreme components had excellent attributes, but they weren’t all that special to Song Chi.

After all, both the Neutron-Star Core Armor and the Antimatter Evolution Engine surpassed them.

Wait, the Neutron-Star Core Armor is just gold while Death Calamity Star Shell Armor is black?

Don’t kid yourself—the Neutron-Star Core Armor is only one step away from Supreme Black. Before long it’ll fully evolve.

Plus, Neutron-Star Core Armor’s traits were much better than the Death Calamity Star Shell’s.

After some debate, the family gave Death Calamity Star Shell Armor to Song Wujian and Titan Heart Core Engine to Song Yan.

The Flame God Starship Hull Armor Song Yan and Song Wujian took off, plus a spare gold engine, got redistributed: Song Xingru got the Flame God Starship Hull Armor since she focused on Fire Law.

The gold engine removed from the Scorching Sea Blazer went to Song Wujian—his Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang still used a silver engine, and was starting to struggle.

Soon all eyes turned to the remaining golden sanctum oddities.

These three included one energy shield, one terracotta warrior type part, and the last one made Song Chi’s eyes light up.

Oddity: Starlight High-Energy Particle Stream.

Grade: Gold.

Upgradeable: Starlight Particle Energy Shield.

Description: Massive high-energy starlight particles transformed in a special environment, becoming a Starsea Oddity.

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Starlight Particle Energy Shield, LV0.

Grade: Gold.

Trait: True Shield.

Trait 2: Shield capacity up by 140%.

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Oddity: Flame Spirit.

Grade: Gold.

Upgradeable: Flame Spirit Terracotta Tree.

Description: Formed from a Flame Spirit Lord’s death.

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Flame Spirit Terracotta Tree, LV0.

Grade: Gold.

Trait: Exotic Flame Power.

Trait 2: Can summon 20 more Terracotta Warriors.

Trait 3: Flame Spear.

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