Chapter 639: The Black Star-Annihilator Cannon and the Struggle for the Galaxy

After completing the fusion, this component didn’t just evolve to a black Supreme grade—it transformed from an ordinary main cannon into a true Star-Annihilator Cannon. That, above all, was why it unmounted itself from the gun slot.

Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Star-Annihilator Cannon lv0

Grade: Black (1/4)

Trait 1: Power increased by 270%

Trait 2: True damage

Trait 3: Guaranteed hit

Trait 4: Each Fallen Immortal Swordlight fired by the main cannon has a 35% chance to trigger triple critical damage.

Trait 5: Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Swordlight

Trait 6: Fallen Immortal Sword Formation—Ten Thousand Swords As One

Cost: 1000 Eon Energy Points per shot

Attack: 499

Charge: 60s; Cooldown: 360s

Upgrade Requirement: 1500 strands of Floating-land Origin (zero tier); 15,000 Eon Energy Points

{True Damage: Fallen Immortal Swordlight possesses true damage properties. It ignores normal armor, scale armor, plating, shields, and similar defenses, and greatly disregards even true defense and true shields.}

{Guaranteed Hit: Consumes 100,000 Eon Energy Points to mark a chosen target within sight. Within 3 seconds, the next ranged attack from any warship-mounted main cannon will definitely hit. Cooldown: 240 hours.}

{Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Swordlight: Consumes 200,000 Eon Energy Points. After 120 seconds of charging, fires a True Immortal Quantum Swordlight in a designated direction with 1200% the main cannon’s power. Cooldown: 240 hours.}

{Fallen Immortal Sword Formation—Ten Thousand Swords As One: Consumes 500,000 Eon Energy Points. Condenses ten gigantic Fallen Immortal Swordlights, each with twice the power of a standard Fallen Immortal Swordlight. After 300 seconds of charging, these ten swordlights launch a blanket bombardment at the designated location. Cooldown: 720 hours.}

Song Chi spent quite some time examining this brand-new black Star-Annihilator Cannon.

First and foremost, there was no doubt—the attributes on this Star-Annihilator Cannon were top-tier. Just the rarity of the “true damage” trait alone already put it leagues above others like “true armor-piercing,” “true defense,” or “true shield.”

Strictly speaking, this was a real attribute of a higher tier than the latter three. You could tell just by its description about “greatly disregarding true armor and true shield.”

After all, normal true armor-piercing usually only lets you pierce a little through those true defenses.

Beyond that, the two active attack traits didn’t need more words. Sure, they mirrored the single-target and group attacks of the previous Taiyi Quantum Swordlight Battery, but this was on a whole other level—in both volume and quality.

Take the “Fallen Immortal Sword Formation—Ten Thousand Swords As One.” Don’t let the current cap of ten swordlights fool you—once this gets upgraded, Song Chi figured it could probably hit ten thousand gigantic swordlights. Just imagining it was breathtaking.

And then there was Trait 3, “guaranteed hit”—making sure your next attack never misses. Combine that with skills like “Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Swordlight” or “Black Hole Singular Burst,” and the effect would be insane.

……

For all these jaw-dropping traits, Song Chi’s gaze actually lingered most not on the traits themselves but on that “(1/4)” inside the Grade line.

Just a few unclear numbers, yet Song Chi made all sorts of connections in an instant.

‘Could this really be the four Immortal-Slaying Swords?’

‘Immortal-Slaying, Immortal-Massacring, Immortal-Trapping, and Immortal-Breaking!’

‘If these really are the four immortal swords, would collecting them form a special set? Or maybe a further fusion?’

‘Would it stay a Star-Annihilator Cannon after fusing? Or become a Galaxy Cannon?’

‘And what about the grade? Surely it’s at least colored—will it be lower, higher, or the ultimate tier?’

……

After resetting his thoughts, Song Chi decided not to dwell on it.

Whatever the answer, he’d find out once the set was complete.

For now, he still had something else he needed to confirm.

He summoned the Heavenly Ruin back into his Torch Ancestral Orifice, and at the same time, his own form vanished from the Omniverse Market heavens.

Immortal Continent, mountain camp, temporary base.

The Heavenly Ruin hovered in silence. Inside the ship, Song Chi tried to bind the Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Star-Annihilator Cannon with the Destiny Compass.

If his guess was right, this cannon could be used as a beacon to reverse-track the other three sword-type oddities.

“No good…”

Seeing absolutely no response on the map disk, Song Chi stayed expressionless, as if he had already expected this.

If the Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Star-Annihilator Cannon could be bound to the Destiny Compass, then it ought to be traceable.

In other words, if there’s no reaction on the map disk, there are only two real possibilities.

Either the other three immortal swords aren’t within the current 1-billion-light-year tracking range, or they’re sealed away behind powerful forbidden formations, blocking the Destiny Compass’s search.

Either way, he’d have to take things as they came. Song Chi quickly put the matter aside.

After that, he got in touch with the Doomstar Race over at the Mirror Warship, instructing them to notify the replicated Sky-Domain AI to try and locate the remaining part of the Destiny Compass and see if it couldn’t be completed.

……

In the Yan Serpent Galaxy, the Torch Civilisation’s two-galaxy coalition was still steadily conquering the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Civilization’s river system, which spanned barely a million light-years.

Perhaps because an Eighth-Tier Serpent Demon Dominator had just fallen, this latest push was going surprisingly smoothly. The Eight-Armed Serpent Demons hadn’t sent out strong resistance fleets.

But as time went on, the joint fleet from Tianpan and Linyue Galaxies started facing some bad news.

More and more fleets were joining the advance.

Word was that the southern Immortal Houses of the Xian Qin Divine Dynasty were now joining the frontlines en masse.

That sped up their advance, sure, but the share of spoils for every side was dropping across the board.

The leaders of the Immortal Houses had prepared themselves mentally, but it still stung.

Song Family—Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang encrypted group chat.

Song Shixing: “Good thing we saw this coming. Back in the Fire Serpent Galaxy, we took plenty of territory with the Luo Clan. Next, all we need to do is convince the Yao-Han Three to swap lands with us. It shouldn’t leave us too short.”

Song Shiyuan: “It won’t be that easy. Even though Chipan Galaxy spans less than a million light-years in diameter, there are actually four Seventh-Tier Floating-lands there. Just those four account for more than half the galaxy’s total value. For now, only one truly belongs to us. If we want to reclaim the other three from the Yao-Han coalition, we’ll need to put up three Seventh-Tier Floating-lands of our own.”

“And even if you add the piece in the Serpent’s Fang Galaxy, between our two clans we’ve only got two. Still short by one!”

As the discussion heated up, Clan Elder Song Wujian chimed in:

“Shiyuan’s right. The way things are going, the joint fleet’s only going to get bigger. Later on, it’ll be almost impossible for any family to have a whole Seventh‑Tier Floating-land to themselves…”

At that point, Song Chi popped into the chat:

“So Elder, what are you suggesting?”

“The first Floating-land of the Yan Serpent Galaxy, ‘Yan Serpent Floating-land,’ is nearly peak seventh-tier and teeming with life. If we team up with the Luo Clan and approach the Yao-Han Three, we might bag the whole thing for ourselves!”

Most in the chat had already grasped Elder Wujian’s meaning.

He wanted to form an alliance: Yao-Han plus Song-Luo meant five Star-Annihilator Ships. Add in two Dominator Worms and one Tier-Seven Silver-scaled Chi Dragon, and you’d get eight seventh-tier combat forces—enough to control the entire Yan Serpent Floating-land.

After that, both their families could back out of the Yan Serpent Floating-land split, using it as a bargaining chip to lock down the Chipan Galaxy deal once and for all.

Why the urgency? No one could say how long this civilization war would drag on, but the outcome was already clear: even if there was a ceasefire, the Torch Human Civilization wasn’t about to return any conquered galaxies. That meant Chipan Galaxy was already theirs, in all but name.

With that settled, why leave it idle? Better to seize it now and start moving in. If they could get control over the whole galaxy, both clans could kick off interstellar immigration immediately, saving tons of time.

Who knows, by the time this civilization war actually ended, Chipan Galaxy could already be thriving.

The core members all agreed. Galactic emigration is anything but easy. If they could get a jump start while the war was still raging, it’d shave centuries off the process.

And time was the one thing the Song Family lacked right now. If this worked out, it’d be the best possible outcome!

But just as their combined team was about to reach out to the Yao-Han Three along with Luo Clan’s leaders, Song Chi suddenly dropped a bombshell in the encrypted group chat.

“The Immortal Continent Ruins—are you sure that’s a full Star Continent, Xiaochi?”

“Elder, I can’t say 100%, but I’m at least eighty to ninety percent sure!”

Hearing that, the rest of the Song Family basically made up their minds. They all knew Song Chi’s personality—if he’d say that much, it had to be close to the truth.

“Little Chi, could you walk us through the details of the Immortal Continent?”

Song Chi promptly recapped everything he knew, leaving everyone in the group chat deep in thought.

Finally, Song Chi laid out the main issue.

“Only one real problem: on one side we have an entire Star Continent, on the other, the battlefield. Once our battleship replication cools down, do we change course and target the Immortal Continent Ruins instead?”

The core members all fell silent, no one answering for a long while.

Eventually, it was Song Wujian who spoke up:

“From what Little Chi says, the Immortal Remnants should’ve lived there for untold millennia. I don’t see any reason to rush. As for the Primeval Continent’s major sects, they’re exploring at a snail’s pace. We don’t need to worry about them.”

“Right now, our focus should be on the battlefield. Once we truly control Chipan Galaxy, backed by all its resources, we can start exploring the Immortal Continent at our own pace.”

……

Yan Serpent Galaxy, a patch of starlit space.

Multiple Star-Annihilator-class ships gathered there.

Liu Shu: “Song Wujian, let’s just get to the point.”

Song Wujian: “In that case, I’ll be frank. We each have multiple Dominator-level forces. So how about we join hands and take down the Yan Serpent Floating-land together?”

Shen Wei: “What’s the angle? If we can take the Yan Serpent Floating-land, our side isn’t going to settle for less. So what’s in it for us?”

Luo Yi: “Your Majesty Northern Sky King, do you really think it’s that simple? Haven’t you seen the state of the coalition fleet? Nearly thirty Immortal factions are all piling onto the Yan Serpent Floating-land. How much can the three of you hope to claim? And this isn’t just for the current campaign—if we pull this off, we’re willing to give up our share of Floating-land resources!”

Xiao Changqing: “What’s that supposed to mean? What do you want?”

Song Wujian: “It’s a long story…”

For the next ten-or-so minutes, the five Star-Annihilator captains talked it all out, and Song Wujian’s group shared their plan to take the whole Chipan Galaxy.

“You want the entire Chipan Galaxy? Nice try…”

“Even if you win the Yan Serpent Floating-land, you don’t have enough leverage to get our part of Chipan Galaxy. And even if you did, why should we agree? Just for the thirty thousand light-years of barren space around Tianpan Galaxy?”

That was when King Dongli of Yao-Han cut right to the heart of the matter.

He wasn’t wrong—even if Song and Luo matched them in value, there was no reason for anyone else to take the deal.

But Song Wujian had planned for this. Unfazed, he simply posted a screenshot to the chat.

High-Dimensional Wormhole Generator lv80

Grade: Gold

……

“Creating portable wormholes? Now that’s a golden-grade strategic component!”

“So, Song Wujian, you’re saying that as long as we agree to the swap, you’ll help each of us set up a wormhole between any newly won territory and Tianpan Galaxy?”

All three were old, battle-hardened captains—it took them only a second to see the benefits.

Even so, they held private discussions, holding off on an answer.

A direct wormhole from their home base was tempting—no question.

After thinking for a bit, King Liu Shu finally replied.

“Here’s our counter—on top of all that, we also want an extra wormhole opening for each of us. One each!”

“And we’re not cashing those in right away. Once things settle down, when you’re free, open them according to our needs.”

“Just to check, what’s the max range on your High-Dimensional Wormhole Generator? Three million light-years, or ten million?”