Chapter 692: Breakthrough: The Pinnacle of the Heavenly Ruin
by xennovelAfter reading through the incredibly long attribute panel in front of him, Song Chi’s thoughts spun quickly.
When it came to colored mythic components, his mind instantly leapt to another powerful part.
Although the Heavenly Ruin currently only housed a single colored component, he could get a second one whenever he wanted.
That’s right—he was thinking of the Soul-Devourer Sacrificial Altar.
This component had already completed all four phases of soul accumulation, easily enough to upgrade any designated black-grade component into a colored-grade (lesser) component.
But after hesitating for just a moment, he quickly shook his head. He didn’t move to use it yet.
The Miracle Clone Pod was still over with Clan Elder Song Wujian. Right now, the Soul-Devourer Sacrificial Altar was his one reliable way to temporarily promote a copy of a colored component every time he summoned a Mirror Warship during future civilization wars. That was the most cost-effective use of the altar at this moment.
He pushed down that thought and looked away from the array of installed components, turning his gaze this time to a part he’d previously removed by accident.
The Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Star-Annihilator Cannon.
This main cannon had been repaired accidentally before, but was transformed into a star-annihilator cannon incompatible with dreadnoughts. Now that the Heavenly Ruin had successfully advanced to a Star-Annihilator-class ship, unlocking an extra star-annihilator slot, it could finally be installed.
Swish, swish, swish!
Bolts of strengthening light flickered across the weapon. In no time at all, the black star-annihilator cannon had been reinforced to level 90.
That was it. His stock of seventh-tier Dominion Souls was completely depleted, and he’d even borrowed a batch from the clan as a temporary measure.
Still, after this round of upgrades, the main cannon’s stats really spoke for themselves.
Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Star-Annihilator Cannon, level 90.
Grade: Black (1/4)
Trait 1: Power increased by 540%
Trait 2: True Damage
Trait 3: Guaranteed Hit
Trait 4: Each beam of Fallen Immortal Swordlight fired from the main cannon has an 80% 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: 100,000 Eon Energy points per shot
Attack: 103.6 trillion
Charge time: 30s; Cooldown: 180s
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{True Damage: see details}
{Guaranteed Hit: Consumes 500,000 Eon Energy points, placing a hit mark on any target within visible range. For 30 seconds, the next long-range attack from any warship-mounted cannon is guaranteed to hit that target. Cooldown: 24 hours.}
{Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Swordlight: Consumes 1,000,000 Eon Energy points and charges for 30 seconds to unleash a beam of True Immortal Quantum Swordlight powered up by 2,100% of the main cannon’s force in the chosen direction. Cooldown: 48 hours.}
{Fallen Immortal Sword Formation—Ten Thousand Swords As One: Consumes 2,000,000 Eon Energy points to gather ten thousand beams of giant Fallen Immortal Swordlight, each with double the usual power. After charging for 100 seconds, all beams launch a saturating strike on the selected area. Cooldown: 720 hours.}
Even though he’d psyched himself up beforehand, Song Chi still couldn’t help but suck in a cold breath.
A merciless killing machine!
That was the only thought left in his mind after seeing these stats—the Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Star-Annihilator Cannon’s power was truly terrifying after reaching the ninth tier.
With the ship’s built-in 500% boost to all base components, a single regular shot could deal over ten trillion damage. Add in the 80% chance for triple crits, the True Damage trait, the 2,100% damage multiplier from Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Swordlight, and even the God of the Hunt’s Weakpoint Mark from the Blood Spear. The result almost made him giddy.
“Mm… It’s finally done!”
He retraced his steps, confirming there were no loose ends. With that, he closed the main cannon’s panel and pulled up the Heavenly Ruin’s overall warship attributes.
After this comprehensive round of upgrades, the warship’s capabilities had changed so dramatically that he definitely needed a look.
[Name: Heavenly Ruin]
[Model: Torch-class Star-Annihilator Eon Warship]
[Level: 70]
[Extra Traits: Voidlock, Self-repair]
[Base Components: Black Torch Hull lv70, Infinite Fallen Immortal Quantum Star-Annihilator Cannon (Black) lv90, Blood Spear (Gold) lv80, Myriad-Spirit Annihilation Bow (Silver) lv70, Divine Thunder Cannon (Gold) lv80, Antimatter Annihilation Cannon (Gold) lv80, Celestial Godslayer Cannon (Silver) lv70, Soul-Annihilating Iris Beam (Red) lv60, Moonwheel Shadow Cannon (Black) lv90, Soul-Sunder Sonic Cannon (Gold) lv80, Explosive Particle Cannon (Red) lv60, Gold-Source Armor-Piercer (Red) lv60, Shadowbane Cannon (Orange) lv50, Scarlet Sky Barrage Cannon (Orange) lv50, Electromagnetic Arc Cannon (Orange) lv50, Frostlight Hailstorm Cannon (Orange) lv50, Neutron-Star Core Armor (Black) lv90, Antimatter Evolution Engine (Black) lv90, Yin-Yang Counter-Phase Annihilation Shield (Gold) lv80, Eyes of Heaven (Gold) lv80, Eon Energy Cultivation Chamber lv32 (21/21)]
[Additional Components:
Timepiece Chessboard (Color) lv90,
Black Hole Evolution Layer (Black) lv90, Void Sea Projection Emperor’s Tomb (Black) lv90, Tome of Divine Will (Black) lv90, Soul-Devourer Sacrificial Altar (Black) lv70, Creation Eight Trigram Furnace—Damaged (Black) lv90, Mirror Image Split (Black) lv90, Chaos Godhood (Black) lv90, Eternal Dominion Soul Nest (Black) lv90, Elephant King Ivory Ramming Prow (Black) lv90,
Pusa Zen Seal (Gold) lv80, Angel King’s Authority Wings (Gold) lv80, Destiny Compass (Gold) lv80, Celestial Authority Ring (Gold) lv89, Mythic Serpent’s Eternal Guard Scale (Gold) lv80, Blood War Stele (Gold) lv80, No.004 Cultivation Secret Realm of Chicang (Gold) lv80, Starlight Flash Spirit Stone Talisman (Gold) lv80, Flame Spirit Terracotta Tree (Gold) lv80, Hunyuan Copper Ramming Prow (Gold) lv80, Mirage Dragon Metamorphosis Pearl (Gold) lv80, Four Symbols Rotating Sigil (Gold) lv80, Space Jumper (Gold) lv80, Domain Countercurrent Device (Gold) lv80, Plasma Guardian (Gold) lv80, Frosted Void Prison (Gold) lv80, Mark of Might (Gold) lv80,
Last Aegis (Silver) lv70, Sky-Domain AI (Silver) lv70, Yang·Tongxin Pendant (Silver) lv60, Deathstar Tracking Mark (Silver) lv70, Superbody Compression Plate (Silver) lv70, Voidlock Skyseal Sigil (Silver) lv70, Scarlet Vault Jump Drive (Silver) lv70, Master-Servant Pact (Silver) lv70, Void Shadowslayer Soldier-Tree (Silver) lv70, Void Shroud (Silver) lv70, Skybreaker Drill (Silver) lv70, Life-System Medical Repair Pod (Silver) lv70,
Parent-Child Spirit Control Rings (Red) lv60, Behemoth Heart (Red) lv60, Superpower Controller (Red) lv60, Soulcalling Demon Golem (Red) lv60, Oath Contract Module (Red) lv60, Bind-God Chains (Red) lv60, Totem Spirit Pillar (Red) lv60, Long‑Range Communication Disk (Red) lv60, Taoyi Soul-Suppressing Stele (Red) lv60, Warship Position-Switcher (Red) lv60, Isometric Shrink Module (Red) lv60, Neural Remote Control System (Red) lv60,
External Armor-Piercing Cobalt Launcher (Orange) lv59, Shadowfall Chapter (Orange) lv50, Space‑skipping Pearl (Orange) lv50, Mirage Thrusters (Orange) lv50, Abnormal Status Purifier (Orange) lv50, Viral Spore Repulsion Membrane (Orange) lv50, Holy Cross Marker (Orange) lv50, Ultrasound Magnetic Detector (Orange) lv50, Psionic Lightbeam Integration Module (Orange) lv50, Feathered Delivery Platform (Orange) lv50, Multifunctional Conversion Furnace (Orange) lv50, Atomic Repair Instrument (Orange) lv50, Water Molecule Shield Membrane (Orange) lv50,
Precision Drop Pod (Blue) lv30, Blood-Soul Stamp (Blue) lv30, Spatial Beacon Launcher (Blue) lv30, Sonic Stealth Field (Blue) lv30, Ember Battleship Crew License (Blue) lv30 (163/254)]
[Eon Energy Pool: 30,000,000 / 30,000,000]
[Materials: Immortal Spear, three drops of eighth-tier Dominion Origin Blood, seventh-grade True Spirit Tower power core, thirty-nine wisps of ninth-tier Floating-land Origin…]
As he checked through everything, Song Chi’s gaze lingered a while on the Eternal Dominion Soul Nest.
During the trip to the Red Star Continent, he’d managed to store a host of Dominion Souls within it—including the souls of an eighth-tier Elephant King, an eighth-tier Frost Dragon, an eighth-tier Flame Wolf King, two seventh-tier Flame Wolves, and a host of fifth and sixth-tier foreign souls.
After two years, the Eternal Dominion Soul Nest had accumulated quite a collection of Dominion Souls. If he ever ran into a crisis he couldn’t handle, unleashing these would make for a perfect trump card.
He also noticed the three drops of eighth-tier Dominion Origin Blood he’d already refined.
Extracting Dominion Origin Blood from an eighth-tier corpse wasn’t easy, but for Song Chi, whose power in the Market rivaled ninth-tiers, it was hardly an obstacle. In two years, he’d finished extracting every corpse of the three eighth-tier Dominions he’d killed.
One drop would go to Haoyue, but he could’ve also merged another into the Heavenly Ruin before its latest advancement, overwriting the previously fused seventh-tier blood to further increase the advancement success rate.
He chose not to. The success rate was already so high, and the newly strengthened Seventh‑Tier Floating-land energy tide added another layer of assurance.
In fact, it turned out that the 97% advancement success rate was remarkable. The Heavenly Ruin’s breakthrough hadn’t even used up the slot from the sixth-tier Timeworld Fruit.
Meaning when the time came to attempt breaking through to Star River-class, he could still rely on the power of the seventh-tier Timeworld Fruit, granting him a huge advantage in future advancements.
After logging into the Beidou Sevenstar Hall with his true body to hand the Flame Wolf Lord’s Dominion Origin Blood to Haoyue, Song Chi placed the remaining two drops at the top level of the family’s Merit Tower.
No doubt every top family elder would soon fight over these two drops. With the family’s current strength, his elder brother Song Yan could attempt for a Star-Annihilator after another two or three centuries, and the Prime Ancestor, Xingzu, Ru Zu, along with the recently advanced Song Yiming, would have opportunities to try in the next thousand years.
While they all had the benefit of the clan’s rapid progress, none of them could access the same upgrade resources Song Chi had. So if they wanted higher success rates, using seventh or eighth-tier Dominion Origin Blood was the obvious choice.
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[Yaoguang Star Order Group Chat]
“Jingzhe (No. 32): @everyone, I’ve got urgent matters for the next century and probably won’t be online. Just leave a message if you need me!”
“Qinghu (No. 14): Did you run into trouble?”
“Jingzhe (No. 32): Nope, just busy!”
“Scorching Sun (No. 19): Don’t tell me… Jingzhe, you’re going for Star-Annihilator Captain, aren’t you?”
“Yulong (No. 17): Wait, is Scorching Sun actually right?!”
“Jingzhe (No. 32): I am!”
“Scorching Sun (No. 19): Dude, last time you shocked us all, and now, after just over two years, you’re pushing for Star-Annihilator?!”
“Whitebrow (No. 30): ?”
……
News that he was trying for Star-Annihilator Captain left everyone in Yaoguang Star Tower’s group chat stunned. After the Demon Serpent Floating-Land operation, some had been mentally prepared.
To force their record up to third place among Star River and Star-Annihilator-class elites, his ship had to be the absolute pinnacle of dreadnoughts—just half a step from Star-Annihilator.
Even so, advancing so far in just two years left most chat members completely blindsided.
Song Chi didn’t say much more. After chatting a bit, he set his mind on heading to the Market.
But his Star Order gave another communications alert just then.
Not from the group chat—this was a private message.
“Whitebrow?”
Song Chi’s brow arched slightly at the name, but he opened the chat instantly.
“Whitebrow: Your ship has activated its advancement mission, right? Need any extra resources?”
Beep beep!
He’d barely finished that first message when another came through before he could even answer.
This one wasn’t just a message—it came with a screenshot.
[Name: Chaotic Blood Heart]
[Category: Torch Battleship Advance Resource]
[Effect: Increases Star-Annihilator advancement rate by 17%; also increases success rate for Star River-class breakthroughs by 7%.]
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Even with all his experience, Song Chi’s eyelids twitched at that image.
A 17% boost for Star-Annihilator advancement—and it still worked for the next level. This was the best extra resource he’d ever seen, outshining even the Skythunder Earthfire Stone he’d just traded for from the True Spirit Witcher.
His mind raced, certain ideas flashing through his head, but Song Chi’s reply was totally different.
“Whitebrow, thanks! But actually, my ship already completed its advancement. All that’s left is a breakthrough in Guiding Technique…”
He didn’t try to hide it, explaining honestly.
If he wanted, he could’ve used this chance to trade for the Chaotic Blood Heart, preparing for his future leap to the Star River-class.
With this round of upgrades, the Heavenly Ruin had vaulted straight to the peak of veteran Star-Annihilators—already touching the limit. The only things missing were a handful of special recipe resources. Stockpiling these extras early for the next stage would’ve made sense.
But he knew what set the group chat apart was the openness and sincerity between members—no one schemed against anyone else.
If he started complicating things, he might only distance Whitebrow.
Better to just be straightforward.
With that in mind, he started drafting a message to ask more about the Chaotic Blood Heart.
PS: One more chapter coming up.