Chapter 589: A Clash of Titans: The Conquest at the Edge of the Stars

Even after evolving the Samsara Time Domain to the eighth tier, it still couldn’t tear through this Eight-Armed Serpent Prison?

That’s just outrageous!

Could it be these two Tier Six Eight-Armed Serpent Demons are special somehow?

Of course. If they’re able to wield the formidable bloodline art, Serpent Prison, that alone proves their lineage is leagues above ordinary Eight-Armed Serpent Demons.

Sensing that even the Samsara Time Domain was being suppressed by a dual Serpent Prison, countless thoughts raced through Song Chi’s mind.

In the end, he was pretty much certain—the two Tier Six Eight-Armed Serpent Demons before him were anything but ordinary.

Realizing this didn’t make him panic. If anything, he grew even more interested.

Right now, the Heavenly Ruin’s combat strength was enough to spar with even dominator-tier beings. Among its peers, it was practically unstoppable, which had made fights feel dull. But these two, clearly stronger than any typical Tier Six Serpent Demon… they were the perfect test to see just how much power the Heavenly Ruin now wielded.

Song Chi didn’t withdraw the Samsara Time Domain. Instead, he willed a brand new component on the battleship to life.

The ship thrummed with power.

Wisps of black and white energy streamed from the Heavenly Ruin, and before the two Tier Six Eight-Armed Serpent Demons could make a move, that energy quickly gathered high above the twin Serpent Prisons. Thirty-six chess pieces—eighteen black, eighteen white—materialized in the sky.

Each chess piece was wrapped in an intense Law of Time. As they fully formed, these mysterious rule-forces twisted together into a single chain of laws. That chain stretched onward, ultimately linking all thirty-six pieces.

At this point, the starry chessboard formed by the thirty-six black and white pieces finally emerged in full.

As soon as the Timepiece Chessboard came together, boundless temporal power flooded directly into the dual Serpent Prisons below.

In an instant, the same dual Serpent Prisons that the Samsara Time Domain couldn’t shake before began to expand drastically.

Cracks echoed out—loud and clear—as the walls of the domain began to fracture. Just before the dual Serpent Prisons totally collapsed, the two Serpent Demons reacted in time.

Enormous volumes of blood energy steamed off their bodies, and above each of their heads appeared a terrifying eight-armed apparition, towering over hundreds of thousands of meters high.

They had unleashed the Serpent Demon clan’s other ancestral art—Serpent Demon Avatar.

For a moment, the auras of both Tier Six Serpent Demons surged tenfold.

That alone proved Song Chi’s earlier suspicions were right.

Ordinary Eight-Armed Serpent Demons could only boost their power three to five times with this art. These two, though, had just jumped tenfold. There was no questioning their extraordinary bloodline.

Thanks to the host’s strength skyrocketing, the Serpent Prison domain itself was supercharged.

Yet even with both demons bewildered by this sudden surge, the collapse of the dual Serpent Prisons didn’t stop—only slowed a bit.

In the end, the dual Serpent Prisons were still torn apart from within by the Timepiece Chessboard hanging above them.

As a colored mythic component, the Timepiece Chessboard’s Time • Chessboard ability was far beyond imagination. Even with just the minimum thirty-six chess pieces, its power easily eclipsed that of the Samsara Time Domain.

The air vibrated once again.

Song Chi wasn’t surprised in the least. As the master of the Timepiece Chessboard, no one on this battlefield knew its limits like he did.

So the moment it shattered the Serpent Prisons, Song Chi—fully prepared—commanded the Heavenly Ruin’s mythic mech form to break free from all those bindings, regaining complete freedom. He charged straight at the Tier Six Eight-Armed Serpent Demon ahead.

With the tip of the Immortal Spear aimed squarely at the demon’s vertical pupil, Song Chi poured copious Law of Space into the lance. If it struck, it would instantly pulverize the serpent’s skull.

But how could a serpent with such a rare bloodline go down as easily as the others?

Even when thrust with all his might, the Immortal Spear managed to pierce that cloud of blood-colored steam around the demon, but it couldn’t get past the fully mastered Earth Law protecting it underneath.

Almost as if he’d expected that, Song Chi didn’t panic. In his dual pupils, the Law of Light flared violently.

Thanks to the human-machine resonance of the mythic mech, starlight spilled from a rift deep in the void above the mech’s head.

The torn space quickly widened until the shadow of the Death Calamity Star finally broke free, hanging over the mech’s crown.

Bathed in the Deathstar’s light, the mythic mech’s power churned wildly. And unlike the huge boost the light gave the Heavenly Ruin, the blood-red steam clinging to the serpent demon was steadily corroded by the falling starlight.

“Antimatter Evolution Engine: High Overload Burst”—Activated!

Jets formed by the engine flared under the mech’s legs, firing on all cylinders. Raw power hurled the giant forward without pause.

With the Deathstar’s power behind him, the demon’s sturdy Earth Law shield finally buckled.

With a wet splatter,

the Immortal Spear punched through one of the demon’s vertical pupils, and before it could even scream, Space Law erupted inside its skull, snuffing its life out instantly.

The third Tier Six Eight-Armed Serpent Demon had fallen, leaving only one survivor. Now, sheer terror took hold—it didn’t dare face the Heavenly Ruin any longer.

In a blur, it spun around and, boosted by the Serpent Demon Avatar, bolted madly toward the nearest Heavenly Serpent Mothership.

But Song Chi clearly wasn’t about to let it escape. Slaying that previous Tier Six had instantly boosted the Soul-Devourer Sacrificial Altar’s progress by 2%.

No other Tier Six Serpent Demon could compare to that.

It was obvious—these two with noble origins had souls vastly stronger than their peers.

Just as the Heavenly Ruin was catching up, an awe-inspiring figure burst from a massive Heavenly Serpent Mothership in the distance.

Bathed in a flash of golden light, that towering silhouette, easily thousands of kilometers tall, crossed millions more in a single bound to land right on the Song Family fleet’s battlefield.

More precisely, this was a Tier Seven Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Dominator, stepping directly between Song Chi and his fleeing prey.

A majestic aura radiated from its form, a Law Field only a Tier Seven could emit. Under its crushing domain, the Heavenly Ruin bore an unimaginable pressure.

Less than two seconds after the serpent arrived, the dual energy shields on the Heavenly Ruin’s surface shattered—one layer gone. The Yin-Yang Counter-Phase Annihilation Shield was already starting to flicker.

Fortunately, after their upgrade to Tier Eight, the new “Yin-Yang Echo” trait granted the shield powerful self-repair. Stacked with the Neutron-Star Core Armor’s “Neutron-Star Pulse,” the shield was holding—for now.

But the once-unstoppable Time • Chessboard field was now completely suppressed by the Dominator’s Law Field. It no longer had any effect on the enemy.

Song Chi realized then: he simply hadn’t used enough chess pieces—the field’s power wasn’t enough to match a true dominator-tier being.

And besides, this serpent dominator was hardly a run-of-the-mill one. Its fifth-grade genetic bloodline meant it stood with the absolute strongest of its class.

Just as Song Chi was debating whether to use his trump card, a huge spatial ripple surged from the rear of the Song Family fleet. In a flash, the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang warped right in front of the Heavenly Ruin’s mythic mech form. A Star-Annihilator-class Ship and an Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Dominator now faced each other head-on.

This small shift was like the spark that would ignite both sides’ final showdown.

As the Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang and the Dominator raced away, dragging their battlefront billions of kilometers across the starry sky, both kingdoms’ forces and the serpent fleets’ Tier Seven elites sprang into motion.

In the blink of an eye, seven Star-Annihilator-class Ships and seven Serpent Demon Dominators soared up, carving out seven new dominator battlegrounds across the stars.

Not only did fourteen dominator-tier powers leap into the fray, but the main fleets—once lurking in the rear—now charged into the six battlefields outside the Great Wall of Civilization, each reinforcing their chosen front.

At this point, the battle had reached its absolute peak.

While taking in the far-off scene where Calm-Sea Dragon-Xiang was fighting, Song Chi didn’t forget about the remaining Tier Six Serpent Demon.

Life-bane Arrow.

Zen Seal: External Time Stop.

Black Hole Collapse.

Activating several components at once, Song Chi successfully finished off the serpent of noble blood.

As expected, another 2% progress for the Soul-Devourer Sacrificial Altar.

Now, the altar had reached 90% completion for its first stage.

And it wasn’t just Song Chi or the Song Family’s battlefield. With reinforcements from both kingdoms’ second-wave fleets, the tide was turning on battlefields across the board in favor of the Torch human fleets.

Sensing the shift, the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon fleet responded quickly.

Near the wormhole passageway, ten more giant Heavenly Serpent Motherships suddenly launched another awe-inspiring figure.

At the same moment as they spotted this colossus, the majority of civilian captains on the two kingdoms’ side felt panic gripping their hearts.

“How can this be? We’ve already seen seven serpent dominators, and even our own two King Dinghai Monitors have entered the fray—yet they’ve still got dominators waiting in reserve?”

“Damn it! One more dominator could turn the whole tide!”

While the less-experienced captains grew frantic, the scions from powerful families and prominent factions stayed calm.

They knew—the Yaohan Liu Royal Family still had a Silver-scaled Chi Dragon up their sleeve.

Right then, a hatch opened on one of the Yaohan Liu fleet’s largest dreadnoughts, and a tiny silver dragon shot out.

Its size swelled rapidly as the dominator-class Silver-scaled Chi Dragon streaked toward the new serpent dominator on the horizon.

Just like that, the eighth dominator battlefield opened up.

At this point, the human Torch fleet’s advantage became all but insurmountable.

A thunderous boom split the void—

Somewhere, a dominator duel shook creation itself. Before anyone at the lower ranks could figure out what happened,

a howling roar echoed through the stars.

“All Eight-Armed Serpent Demon warriors, retreat!”

Compared to the commands broadcast by the serpent dominators, the ship captains of the two kingdoms were clearly much more excited.

Because the only words ringing in their ears were:

“Pursue!”

Just from that alone, you could tell—the dominant side of the battlefield had decisively emerged.

Suddenly, the millions of ordinary Heavenly Serpent warships—once a raging tide—were now fleeing in total disarray. Their earlier ferocity was matched now only by their panic.

With over two hundred million Torch human warships in hot pursuit, enemy ships were being shot down by the thousands every moment.

Much later, the starry expanse around the wormhole’s threshold was littered with the remains of countless warships. Among the debris were the fallen shells of both Torch and regular human ships, but the serpent side had sustained the heaviest losses—wrecks of ordinary warships, several small motherships, and even one of the giant motherships lay among them.

Song Family High Command Voice Chat

Song Wujian’s voice came through quickly:

“Alright, following discussion among the two kingdoms’ Star-Annihilator-class Captains, it’s been decided: clean up the field first. In half a month, we’ll begin advancing into the Chipan Galaxy.”

At that, a Philip Family battleship elder spoke up quietly:

“King Dinghai, is the advance plan for half a month nailed down yet? Have the vanguard fleets been finalized?”

The question instantly drew every Star-Annihilator-class Captain’s attention in the chat—everyone cared deeply about this.

“Details aren’t final yet, but the numbers for each kingdom’s vanguards are set.”

“Morningstar Kingdom will send twenty million ships as the vanguard. Yaohan Kingdom’s contribution will be fifty million.”

With that, the tone in the chat went heavy.

Twenty million for the vanguard—no small number. Especially since the Morningstar Kingdom’s total fleet this time wasn’t much more than fifty million, and after these battles it’s dropped below that mark.

In other words, nearly half their people would be in the vanguard in half a month.

The only comfort was that the vanguard would be split in two: the first wave, devoted to an all-out assault regardless of casualties; the second, focused on securing and holding the territory gained, setting up defenses for the main fleet behind.

As an allied group to the Song Family, they’d most likely be assigned to the second wave. It would be groups like the Gold Horn Lu Family and Dusk Family Joint Fleet heading up the first wave.