Chapter 427: Why Is It ‘Life‑bane Arrow’ Instead of the Overlord Cannon’s ‘Ten Thousand Spirits’?

Why is it called ‘Life-Bane Arrow’ instead of the Overlord Cannon’s ‘Ten Thousand Spirits’?

That’s the reason right there.

The warship rapidly descends, piercing through the straight downward corridor. This underground space, built by the Moro Royal Family, is fully revealed before Song Chi’s eyes.

In every corner of this spacious underground space, countless ordinary Moro tribes are cautiously watching the entrance. They keep their eyes fixed until Heavenly Ruin (Tianxu Cangqiong Hao) lands, but the Fifth-Tier Moro stealth suit hasn’t reacted at all. Only then do the ordinary Moro tribes start screaming and crying.

In the chaos, some Moro tribes try to escape into the void using low-rank stealth suits, but they are easily killed by shadow assassins and fallen angels summoned by Song Chi beforehand.

A slaughter officially begins.

He’s not a saint. The Moro tribe has been an enemy of the duchy from the start. If these ordinary Moro tribes are allowed to escape, it might alert the other three tribes on this chaotic Floating-land. So, he cannot let them go.

Facing the slaughter of dozens of fifth- and Sixth-Tier puppet soldiers, the outcome is predetermined.

In less than half an hour, all Moro tribes underground are eradicated.

Next comes Song Chi assessing his gains.

First, the Fifth-Tier Moro stealth suit, which is over ten thousand meters tall in front of him. Only the Moro tribe can piloth this, and only if they are Fifth-Tier.

But he remembers from a high-level data file opened by his family after becoming the Zhulu‑class Cruiser captain that their family keeps a breeding zone somewhere in the Dragon-Spine Continent’s underground, where many ordinary Moro tribes are raised. Apparently, some of them are Fifth-Tier Moro tribes.

However, due to the lack of technology to manufacture Moro stealth suits, those tribes cannot fully utilize their potential.

He believes the family would be very interested in this Fifth-Tier Moro stealth suit.

Besides, he retrieved the already lifeless Fifth-Tier Moro royal bloodline from inside the suit, along with a micro-space box they carried.

Opening the micro-space box, unsurprisingly, contains some important items the fifth‑rank Moro royal bloodline carried with them.

A red oddity, a complete set of manufacturing schematics for Moro stealth suits (up to fifth rank), and some rare mineral resources…

Song Chi’s first focus is naturally on the schematics—if the family’s research division manages to crack them, this could become a high-end energy‑produced combat mech after the Hellfire Armor series.

Unfortunately, the schematics only go up to fifth rank, and the parts marked on these Fifth-Tier suits suggest that when this remnant Moro royal bloodline fled, they only carried schematics for Fourth-Tier or lower suits. The Fifth-Tier schematics are a product of their redesigns and calculations over the last few thousand years.

After securing these valuable schematics, Song Chi’s gaze shifts to another object.

It’s not the red epic-quality oddity but a fiery-red crystal core about the size of a basketball.

Initially, he didn’t know what this object was, until the Flamewrath Giant in the cockpit hurried over, roaring continuously.

Eventually, through mental transmission, he learned it’s probably the heart core of a Sixth-Tier fire-attribute giant, very helpful to the Flamewrath Giant.

The Flamewrath Giant even said that after devouring this core, it has a significant chance to step directly into the sixth rank—a major surprise.

A Sixth-Tier enslaved creature, even if the Song Family has only a few? If the Flamewrath Giant can successfully advance into sixth rank, it will greatly enhance the overall strength of Heavenly Ruin (Tianxu Cangqiong).

Without hesitation, Song Chi repeats the operation, returning to the Dragon-Spine Continent, informing the elders on the homeland about the Flamewrath Giant’s imminent Sixth-Tier breakthrough, and then sending it to a recent origin explosion site where the Sixth-Tier source resides. He also tosses the Sixth-Tier fire attribute heart core to it.

After completing these steps, he returns once more to the chaotic Floating-land’s underground space.

Long-range Communication Disk LV0

Quality: Red

Features: Communication Sub-Disc

Feature 2: Double Communication Range

Feature 3: Communication Encryptor

Effect: Consuming ghost energy points (depending on the distance between communicators), can actively communicate with the sub-disc. Max communication distance: 0.2 light-years (0.1×2).

No energy recharge or buffering needed.

Upgrade cost: 20 strands of Floating-Land Origin (Zero Rank), 2000 ghost energy points.

Note: Requires 3 special slots

{Communication Sub-Disc: Consumes 10,000 ghost energy points. Gathered to activate and establish a remote connection with the main disk. (Active for 10 minutes, then automatically dissipates). Only one sub-disc can exist simultaneously.}

{Communication Encryptor: Features special encryption methods between main and sub-discs, making external interception difficult.}

Remote communication component?

Upon reading the attributes of this component, Song Chi’s initial reaction was not much excitement, but rather some confusion.

If the previous ‘Spirit Gazing Eye’ detected that red light spot is this oddity, it’s hard not to speculate that the Fifth-Tier Moro royal bloodline leaving the underground wasn’t just for escape—what was their true purpose?

It’s proven that the ‘Spirit Gazing Eye’ cannot work through the space curtain, so the red glow seen earlier must have left the underground space beneath the space curtain. Plus, considering the properties of this ‘Long-Range Communication Disk,’ it’s likely that the Fifth-Tier Moro royal bloodline was using it for contact.

This thought made Song Chi frown.

He can’t be sure who exactly the Fifth-Tier Moro is contacting—other alien species or other Moro tribes outside. But right now, no one can give him an answer.

Without dwelling on this, he recalls Heavenly Ruin, returning it under the escort of puppet soldiers, one-eyed trolls, fire-breathing dragons, Cold Moon Snow Python, Heavy Feather, Thorny Flying Dragon, and other enslaved creatures, heading straight for the secret vault left by the Moro tribe.

The Moro tribe’s heritage has lasted for a long time, nearly twenty thousand years if accounting from before the original fall of their main group. Even this remaining bloodline has a history of several thousand years. This long history naturally means they have accumulated some background.

Given their survival over the last several thousand years, their background probably surpasses the previous Tianxing Family, but not to the extent of some micro-space box. Otherwise, it would be too poor.

In fact, during the puppet soldiers’ slaughter of the ordinary Moro tribes, Song Chi detected their secret vault via brain wave imprinting, indicating that’s where their Family’s heritage was stored.

Walking past the corpses of numerous Moro tribes, Song Chi arrives at the secret vault’s door.

Looking at the alien alloy door, glowing with faint spiritual energy, which seems to be blessed with some special energy, and noting that it can’t summon Heavenly Ruin (4,000 meters long), he can only rely on puppet soldiers and enslaved creatures.

The puppet soldiers can handle it fine, but the enslaved creatures, too, remain large, greatly restricting their strength. Luckily, their numbers are enough. After two days of relentless bombardment, the alloy door’s special energy is completely exhausted.

Boom!

When the alloy door finally collapses, the true appearance of the Moro tribe’s secret vault is fully exposed.

A single glance makes Song Chi shake his head repeatedly.

Compared to the Tianxing Family’s secret vault, this Moro vault is at least ten times smaller. This alone is enough to roughly estimate the value of everything inside.

However, the Tianxing Family has occupied the Red River Sector for thousands of years, collecting resources at a much faster rate than the Moro tribe, which lost its own territory and has hidden for millennia—so this is understandable.

His mind split into thirty-four parts, assisted by puppet soldiers, Song Chi quickly begins tallying all resources in the vault.

Half a day later, Song Chi, now somewhat exhausted mentally, finishes counting everything.

Even though it’s far less than what the Tianxing Family collected, these are his personal spoils, and the total value exceeds what he obtained from Heavenly Sea Floating-land many times over.

Eighty strands of Fifth-Tier Floating-Land Origin

Nine thousand five hundred strands of Fourth-Tier Floating-Land Origin

Two hundred thousand strands of Third-Tier Floating-Land Origin

Nearly a billion strands of Fifth-Tier or lower Floating-Land Origin

Twenty Orange-ranked Glory Oddities

Over a thousand Sixth-Tier or below purple items

Six Sixth-Tier Void Crystals

Over twenty thousand Titanite Crystals

Three special strengthening resources: Bone‑Forge Grass

Various mineral resources exceeding a hundred million tons

…

Counting these resources, Song Chi’s breathing becomes slightly labored.

Although being in charge of the Omniverse Market has always prevented him from lacking Floating-Land Origin, this harvest still surprised him.

Even without counting the Floating-Land Origin, the Void Crystals, Titanite Crystals, and Bone-Forge Grass are urgently needed items.

Moreover, among the dozens of orange oddities, he saw an especially rare repair component.

A component called Atomic Repair Device, an orange-class ship repair part.

This isn’t comparable to the Last Aegis, but it can replace the Healing Fruit component.

The white-quality Healing Fruit was obtained from the Starry Civilization. Now, the Heavenly Ruin has upgraded to Zhulu-Class, and this white-quality repair component is nearly useless.

But because this repair component is rare, it was kept on the Heavenly Ruin until now. Now he can finally replace it.

Loading the Atomic Repair Device, Song Chi upgraded it to level 50.

Atomic Repair Device level 50

Quality: Orange

Property: Stacks repair times +1

Feature 2: Atomic Healing

Consumption: 50,000 ghost energy points per use

Usages: 2/2

Effect: Activating immediately restores 30% energy shield and hull, repairs 30% of the ship’s armor, and 10% of the ship’s total.

Cooling: 14 hours

…

{Atomic Healing: consumes 100,000 ghost energy points for an instant 80% shield and hull restoration. Overload disables it. 24-hour cooldown.}

Song Chi is quite satisfied with this attribute.

…

After finishing the inventory and considering whether to attack the Maimed Horn Family’s three tribes, he ultimately decided against it.

Not to mention these three are ancient six-star civilizations in the Chaos Sector, with backgrounds far beyond the Moro’s. They each have at least Fifth-Tier combatants, and the Maimed Horn Family is rumored to have Sixth-Tier units. Coupled with their unknown cards and the Floating-Land rules, it’s too dangerous.

After abandoning that idea, Song Chi reactivated the ‘Shenying’ (Mirage) ability, sending the formerly enslaved Third-Tier Maimed Horn Family to leave the Chaos Floating-land again.

Once out of Chaos Floating-land, he didn’t wander around. Heavenly Ruin sped westward.

Calculating the time, they’re already in the fiercest stage of the war. Naturally, he wants to join the chaos.

But before that, he has one more thing to do.

He handed over control of the warship to Qiong Tian Zhi Nao and entered the Market.

He took out the three Bone-Forge Grass, using them one by one.

Six days later, Song Chi, having absorbed all three, returned to the Bloodline Baptism Platform. This time, unlike before, his bloodline baptism compatibility increased from 88 to 90.

This means he has successfully reached the threshold for high-level bloodline baptism.

Thinking this, Song Chi hesitated no further and immediately activated the high-level bloodline baptism.

Thick blood mist appeared on the baptism platform, slowly wrapping his entire body. The sharp pain from all parts made Song Chi gasp in cold air.

But to complete this high-level bloodline baptism and elevate his gene and bloodline talent to the level of a Heavenly Sea high‑grade creature, he had to grit his teeth and endure.

Even after reaching Fourth Rank, the gains from stepping into the Heavenly Sea high-grade category are no longer as big as before. But no Heavenly Sea creature would refuse an upgrade in their bloodline talent.

Although he’s already Fourth Rank and can’t experience further rule fluctuations, the gene and bloodline talents still provide a permanent bonus to understanding subsequent rules and breakthroughs like Guiding Technique, so the benefits remain substantial.

Time passed, ten minutes later.

As the blood mist slowly dissipated, it marked the end of his bloodline baptism.

Looking again at Song Chi, his face now visibly lit with excitement. Clearly, his bloodline talent has risen to the fourth level of the Heavenly Sea, placing him among Heavenly Sea high-grade creatures.

Gene-bloodline talent: 74

Bloodline Baptism Compatibility: 90

The 74 points of gene-bloodline talent represent more than just a number—it’s a reflection of potential.

PS: Only two chapters today. The next update is postponed until tomorrow.