Chapter 469: The Ninefold Calamity of the Divine Thunder Cannon

Chapter 470: [Divine Thunder Cannon] · Ninefold Calamity Lightning of Destruction

Under his focused gaze, the attribute panel quickly appeared.

[Oddity: Divine Thunder Talisman]

[Quality: Gold]

[Can be Transformed Into: {Divine Thunder Cannon}]

[Note: Once an eighth-grade thunder talisman originating from the Divine Thunder Sect of the Immortal Continent. After hundreds of thousands of years, it became a gold-quality Oddity.]

Song Chi didn’t linger on the Oddity panel, quickly shifting his attention to the ship’s new main cannon attributes.

Divine Thunder Cannon lv0

Quality: Gold

Trait 1: Ultra Yang Divine Thunder

Trait 2: True Armor-Piercing

Trait 3: Main Cannon Power +140%

Trait 4: Myriad Talisman Thunder Prison

Trait 5: Ninefold Calamity Lightning of Destruction

Consumption: 100 per shot (Nether Energy Points)

Attack: 180

Charge: 10s; Cooldown: 20s

Upgrade Requires: 40 wisps of Floating-Land Origin (Tier 0), 4000 Nether Energy Points, 1kg Thunderstone

{Ultra Yang Divine Thunder: Each shot fired carries intense blazing Yang energy, boasting exceptional penetration and corrosion. Deals triple damage to Yin, Nether, and soul-type units.}

{True Armor-Piercing: The Divine Thunder possesses true armor-piercing power—unaffected by conventional armor, scales, plating, or shields. Can slightly penetrate even true defenses and True Shields.}

{Myriad Talisman Thunder Prison: Consumes 100,000 Nether Energy Points to form ten thousand Divine Thunder Talismans, unleashing a focused bombardment on a targeted area. Cooldown: 720 hours.}

{Ninefold Calamity Lightning of Destruction: Consumes 200,000 Nether Energy Points and one Lightning Law Crystal. Temporarily transforms into Star-Annihilator mode, charging Divine Calamity Lightning for a ninefold judgment strike on a target. Cooldown: 20 years.}

Song Chi’s eyes sparkled with excitement. Even though it was only a main cannon, its stats were simply extraordinary.

Not only did it have the top-grade True Armor-Piercing trait, but it also featured group strike capabilities.

Of course, the real highlight was its fifth trait—’Ninefold Calamity Lightning of Destruction.’ Just like the golden [Star Annihilator’s Wrath], it could temporarily turn into a Star-Annihilator, unleashing ninefold thunder judgment on a chosen target.

In Star-Annihilator mode, this Divine Calamity Lightning could devastate even the sturdiest of ships. Song Chi was sure that, if he powered up the gold main cannon to tier six—even if the Heavenly Ruin was only a Zhulu-class Cruiser—it could cripple or even sink a Dreadnought with one blast.

But the real issue was that the ‘Ninefold Calamity Lightning of Destruction’ wasn’t so easy to use. Twenty years of cooldown wasn’t a huge deal—thanks to the Pusa Zen Seal and Timepiece Chess modules, he could bring that down to a bit over two years.

The real problem was that each use required a Lightning Law Crystal. Even the lowest quality was orange, with a value matching or exceeding Upgraded Fire Sources—and much rarer, too.

Still, Song Chi remembered that the Yaoguang Star Tower had a few low-grade Lightning Law Crystals for sale in the Star Tower Mall.

He didn’t hesitate. He returned to Dragon-Spine Continent and logged onto the Yaoguang Star Tower using the Star Order’s projection.

He grabbed the two low-grade Lightning Law Crystals right away. The exchange cost only a few hundred points. With over twenty thousand points to his name, it was a trivial expense.

What caught his eye, though, was the only silver-quality Lightning Law Crystal in stock.

[Oddity: Lightning Law Crystal]

[Quality: Silver / Advanced Law Crystal]

[Quantity: 1]

[Exchange Cost: 5,000 points]

The asking price for this advanced Lightning Law Crystal was a steep 5,000 points, and that gave Song Chi pause.

All his points were hard-earned from the expansion wars and trading at the Market. It had taken decades to save up, and spending a fifth of his savings at once was no small thing.

What’s more, he wasn’t sure if the Divine Thunder Cannon would have any difference in effect depending on the grade of Law Crystal used. If there was no big difference, it’d be pointless to buy the expensive one.

He didn’t overthink it, though. Remembering that the mall offered full refunds, he decided to spend the 5,000 points and took the advanced Law Crystal.

With the Law Crystal in hand, Song Chi spent another hundred points to stock up on Thunderstone—scarce in the Market, but easily exchanged in the Star Tower Mall.

…

Free Stall Area, inside Heavenly Ruin. Song Chi activated the newly cooled-down ‘Compass · Return to Origins.’ The [Soul-Annihilating Iris Beam], now enhanced to lv60, began reverting, its level dropping all the way to lv0 as all those upgrade resources were refunded.

Once it fell to lv0, Song Chi no longer hesitated—he simply swapped it out for the Divine Thunder Cannon.

Heavenly Ruin hadn’t advanced to Battleship class yet, so it only had two main cannon slots, meaning the Iris Beam had to go.

With the swap complete, it was time to power up—so he did, pushing the Divine Thunder Cannon straight to lv69 without delay.

With those stat boosts in place, Song Chi’s gaze focused intently on the ‘Ninefold Calamity Lightning of Destruction’ trait.

{Ninefold Calamity Lightning of Destruction: Consumes 800,000 Nether Energy Points and a low/mid/high-grade Lightning Law Crystal. Temporarily attains full power of a same-grade, same-tier Star-Annihilator. Unleashes Ninefold Calamity Lightning for judgment on a target. Cooldown: 20 years.}

The cooldown hadn’t changed, but at lv69 it could clearly use three different Law Crystal grades. Even without testing, Song Chi could guess the result: higher quality, greater power.

Nodding in satisfaction, he packed away all the ordinary items and made his way back to the Immortal Domain Continent Fragment.

By now, aside from the Spirit Beast Sanctuary, he’d stripped the floating-land fragment of almost everything valuable—just one thing left.

Heavenly Ruin descended from the sky and came to a gentle hover above the small pile of earth, once the Mountain Domain Residence.

Though the Mountain Domain Residence wasn’t an Oddity, it was forged by Chasing Fate Immortal using a high-grade secret domain core and perfected spatial laws. As a unique spatial artifact, it could serve as an oversized portable storage space.

It could even be offered to the Cultivation Sanctuary, letting that low-level primal domain absorb it and further expand its area and foundations.

Song Chi speculated that, if the Cultivation Sanctuary could integrate enough domain core fragments, it might be able to upgrade to gold quality on its own.

That was just a theory for now—the truth remained to be seen.

Following the Chronicle of Ancient Hundred Arrays, Song Chi carefully reduced the Mountain Domain Residence to a palm-sized green stone and moved it onto the warship.

But he didn’t rush to fuse it with the Cultivation Sanctuary—instead, he stored it in the Market.

After all, one Mountain Domain Residence alone wasn’t going to let the Sanctuary hit gold instantly. There was no need to decide just yet; he’d see how to handle it later.

With that settled, he returned to the Spirit Beast Sanctuary and shifted the spatial anchor inside.

When the time came for the Heavenly Ruin’s Battleship advancement quest, he’d need the Spirit Beast Sanctuary to raise the upgrade’s success rate. For now, the anchor point had to stay.

…

Omniverse Market, Free Stall Area.

Inside the quiet, docked Heavenly Ruin, Song Chi immersed his spirit in the Cultivation Sanctuary, anticipation bright in his gaze.

“It worked! Some of the deepwater clams I put in the Azure Spirit Spring actually survived…”

Sensing that a few deepwater clams had made it in the spring at the heart of the Sanctuary, he was genuinely pleased.

The survival rate was low—maybe a few dozen out of thousands—but that didn’t dampen his spirits.

A low survival rate could always be made up with quantity. Deepwater clams weren’t too valuable, and as long as there were enough in the spring, plus the Sanctuary Accelerator’s boost, it wouldn’t be long before he could harvest a batch of high-vintage pearls.

Still, not every clam could live for thousands or tens of thousands of years, and surviving that long didn’t guarantee top-notch pearls. Production would stay limited for now.

That didn’t bother Song Chi. His Guiding Technique was already up to lv47. With just one or two pearls over seven or eight thousand years old, he could get to lv49. Pushing to five-tier Guiding Technique required decades anyway, giving him time for the clams to multiply.

…

Three months later, Song Chi exited the Dragon-Spine Secret Domain again—this time, he’d successfully comprehended [Deathstar Descent].

His plan had been to study [Deathstar Rapid Detonation] as well, but after thinking it over, he decided to postpone it.

All told, he’d already mastered seven secret arts: [Dragon Whale Form], [Return to the Ruins Slash], [Starlight Descent], [Black Core Pulse], [Voidform Avatar], [Sky Shaman Grand Hand Seal], and now [Deathstar Descent]—a considerable drain on focus.

Since the key with secret arts is quality over quantity, Song Chi resolved not to pursue any more before breaking through to tier five.

What mattered more was deepening his insight into the Law of Space and Law of Light.

After decades of expansion warfare, his grasp of space had only hit 45.56%, and light a bit higher at 30.05%—still far from mastery.

Eyes bright with determination, Song Chi drew out [Yaoguang Star Order No.32] to log into the Yaoguang Star Tower.

Level Two of the Star Tower, at the Chaos Monument.

Logging in with his true body, Song Chi took the Dao Comprehension Mat (Imitation) from his Ancestral Orifice, placed it before the Chaos Monument, and sat down. He began his fifth comprehension of the monument.

He’d managed it once during the expansion wars, which made this his fifth time overall.

Counting this session, he only had one more chance left—and he guessed he’d be saving that last one for after reaching tier five.

With both the Dao Comprehension Mat and Dual Pupils activated, Song Chi quickly slipped into deep attunement with the Chaos Monument.

Insights into light and space laws kept surfacing in his mind, and his understanding of both advanced rapidly.

He didn’t know how much time passed, but emerging from his trance he saw both insights had grown impressively.

Law of Space: 45.56% → 45.66%

Law of Light: 30.05% → 30.28%

Compared to his last monument session, this was a much bigger gain—just shy of the boost he’d had during the Law Amplification phase.

Patting the mat beneath him, Song Chi couldn’t help but think it was a fantastic item, then returned it to his Ancestral Orifice.

The Dao Comprehension Mat’s effect, combined with Dual Pupils, was nothing short of remarkable. His future speed at comprehending laws would leave his old self in the dust.

No wonder it was crafted by a being at the Sovereign level—no ordinary item, truly.

With a sigh of admiration, Song Chi quickly exited the Yaoguang Star Tower.

Back in the Heavenly Ruin on Dragon-Spine Continent, he digested his new insights from the Chaos Monument session, then hurried into the Cultivation Sanctuary.

Several months had passed since his first batch of deepwater clams, and with time speeding up thousands of times in the Sanctuary and the spring naturally accelerating aquatic growth, the original survivors had already lived nearly ten thousand years.

He collected all thirteen clams with over eight thousand years of growth and left the Sanctuary once more.

With the Sanctuary’s time acceleration still running, it wasn’t wise to linger too long inside.

Inside the Heavenly Ruin, Song Chi looked down at the thirteen ancient clams and shook his head.

Of the thousand-odd clams in the first batch, more than sixty had survived at first, and with their offspring, numbers had gone up even more.

But as millennia—and especially the three- and five-thousand-year marks—rolled by, most were weeded out. In the end, just thirteen remained.

“Let’s hope for some high-vintage pearls…”

He dug in without hesitation, opening all thirteen at once.

“Not bad! One six-thousand-year pearl, one five-thousand, and two at three thousand.”

He took out the five- and six-thousand-year pearls, pocketed the two three-thousand-year ones for his parents, and disregarded the rest—they were of little use to him.

Mixing the five-thousand-year pearl with a top-tier body refining potion, Song Chi headed to the Full-Attribute Cultivation Chamber in the Market, ready to push his Guiding Technique to lv48.

Half a month later, he emerged with a faint smile, nether energy swirling across his body.

Clearly, he’d succeeded—his Guiding Technique had broken through to lv48, just a hair’s breadth from the lv49 fourth-tier peak.

As for using the six-thousand-year deep-sea pearl, he’d have to wait a bit longer—his body needed time to adapt.