Chapter 638: The Seventh-Tier Timeworld Fruit and the Golden Sword Stone

Just as Song Chi’s thoughts grew more chaotic, an immense force abruptly descended on the Heavenly Ruin.

The ‘Reality-Conversion’ of the Void Sea Projection Emperor’s Tomb had ended.

After a dizzying spin, the Heavenly Ruin vanished from the mountain chamber and reappeared in the Omniverse Market.

The moment he returned to the Market, Song Chi gathered his scattered thoughts.

He immediately tried to direct his mental power, wanting to communicate telepathically with the sixth-tier Doomstar and seventh-tier Nightmare Soul Body still on the Immortal Continent. In the end, there was no reply.

“Even with the quality of the Celestial Authority Ring, I’m still severely restricted by that world…”

Confirming this, Song Chi felt a bit relieved that the Void Sea Projection Emperor’s Tomb was of supreme black quality—otherwise, this entire plan would have been impossible from the start.

“No, with the Star Continent’s position, even a supreme black Oddity would likely be affected. The only reason I could reliably send the battleship over was because both the Immortal Continent and Omniverse Market exist on the Shadow Side of the Void Sea. Just that alone removed most of the restraints…”

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Time slipped by. While waiting for the Mirror Image Split component to finish cooling down, Song Chi threw himself into Guiding Technique training and kept absorbing soul energy with the Soul-Devourer Sacrificial Altar.

But with both the Timepiece Chessboard and the Pusa Zen Seal speeding up cooldowns, the wait for the Mirror Image Split feature was actually much shorter than expected.

Still, neither effort yielded any major breakthrough.

On this day, the doors of the Full-Attribute Cultivation Chamber swung open again as Song Chi, still stuck at Guiding Technique lv68, stepped out.

He left seclusion, not because Mirror Image Split was ready, but for another reason.

He made a quick trip outside the Market, and by the time he returned, he’d already summoned the Heavenly Ruin back from the outside.

Under the vault of the Market, the main control room of the Heavenly Ruin hovered quietly. As Song Chi boarded, his form vanished.

Meanwhile, deep in the Cultivation Sanctuary, Song Chi reappeared beneath a massive white jade tree stretching ten thousand meters high.

He looked up and saw a perfectly transparent White Jade Fruit hanging above. Threads of time’s origin law spiraled around it—this Timeworld Fruit was undoubtedly fully ripe.

Staring at that Timeworld Fruit, even someone like Song Chi couldn’t keep the turbulence from his heart.

This wasn’t just any fourth, fifth, or sixth-tier Timeworld Fruit. It was the seventh-tier fruit born of a seventh-tier Timeworld Tree. Just this unremarkable-looking fruit was enough to drive every Star-Annihilator-class Captain in the Torch Human Civilization insane.

Streams of dark energy flowed from Song Chi as he carefully plucked the seventh-tier Timeworld Fruit.

He exited the Cultivation Sanctuary and stowed the fruit away with the utmost caution.

By his calculation, it had been over five hundred years since the first seventh-tier Timeworld Fruit was harvested. Only with the non-stop acceleration of the Sanctuary Accelerator did this second one finally appear. It hadn’t been easy.

Now that he had the Timeworld Fruit, Song Chi didn’t bother going back into closed cultivation. There were only a few days left on Mirror Image Split’s cooldown, so he didn’t see the point in getting comfortable again.

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Inside the mountain base on the Immortal Continent, a surge of gold light burst from the Heavenly Ruin, and soon after a mirror warship—nearly identical—materialized beside it.

After that, Song Chi quickly summoned the original Heavenly Ruin, then disappeared from the mountainside entirely.

Command over the mirror warship was then handed off fully to the replicated Sky-Domain AI.

Before leaving, he’d given that AI just one job—retrieve the other half of the Infinite Sword Stone from the designated coordinates.

Remotely controlling the mirror warship was a real headache.

The ‘Mind-Bridge’ function granted by the gold Celestial Authority Ring was cut off—not to mention the family secret Voidform Avatar technique.

The Mirror Image Split feature, which should allow real-time remote control of the mirror warship, also couldn’t escape the Star Continent’s repulsion. After all, it was just a gold-tier component.

Under these restrictions, all he could do was occasionally let the sixth-tier Doomstar on the mirror warship return to the Traveler’s Inn and report status directly.

Time passed, and in a blink, a year was gone.

One day, the sixth-tier Doomstar felt his Market-Walking Token tremble. Sensing the change, he triggered his inner power and vanished from the mirror warship.

Back in the Omniverse Market, Song Chi—having timed his summon about right—quickly received news that wasn’t the best.

In a whole year, the mirror warship didn’t even make it halfway through its eighty thousand light-year journey. It barely jumped just thirty thousand light-years out.

“Immortal Remnants, huh…”

Listening to the Doomstar’s report, Song Chi quickly caught the key details. According to him, the mirror warship encountered several other beings along the way. Most called themselves Immortal Remnants. Outwardly they looked the same as any other cultivator from the Primeval Continent, but harbored intense malice toward outsiders.

These Immortal Remnants were fearsome fighters. They could wield all sorts of spells and Dao Techniques, and the will of the Immortal Continent itself backed them up. If the mirror warship hadn’t retained much of the Heavenly Ruin’s might, it probably would have been destroyed by their attacks.

Even so, Sky-Domain AI had no choice but to avoid their territory, as some among them had even reached the seventh or eighth tier.

After he’d gotten the story, Song Chi handed a black Projection Emperor Stone to the sixth-tier Doomstar and sent him out of the Market.

Learning firsthand how dangerous the Immortal Continent really was, Song Chi grew even more hesitant to set foot there himself. Still, sending a projection for support was safe enough, as long as he didn’t risk using ‘Reality-Conversion’. He wouldn’t jeopardize his own safety back in the Market.

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“Immortal Remnants… Are they the legacy of ancient cultivators from the Immortal Civilization?”

“No, by the Doomstar’s account, the malice and bloodthirst—they don’t fit the Immortal Civilization at all. It’s as if those cultivators suffered some kind of extreme corruption or distortion. Maybe the power that destroyed the Immortal Civilization was some dreaded evil god, or perhaps they angered a group of demon gods from the Unrivaled Abyss?”

Once the Doomstar was gone, Song Chi’s mind kept spinning, but no one could give him answers.

Yet Song Chi couldn’t shake the sense that the secret to what really befell the Immortal Civilization lay with these so-called Immortal Remnants.

He waited another half a year. He thought he’d be called upon to project another warship to the mirror warship, but instead, fate surprised him.

One afternoon, noise broke out in a Traveler’s Inn room on the Market’s third floor.

Song Chi arrived first at the door, because that room was connected to the very Market-Walking Token the sixth-tier Doomstar had.

Minutes later, Song Chi stepped out of the Traveler’s Inn with something new in his hand.

A glowing golden sword stone.

Maybe all the bad luck had run out the previous year, because for the past half a year the mirror warship had gone unusually smooth—no Immortal Remnants appeared, and it easily obtained the other half of the Infinite Sword Stone.

Downstairs, Song Chi focused on the sword stone in his hand. Soon, the golden Oddity’s properties showed up before his eyes.

Oddity: Immortal-Snaring Sword Stone

Quality: Gold

Can transform into: Immortal-Snaring Sword Cannon

Notes: Once a legacy immortal artifact of the Taiyi Immortal Sect on the Immortal Continent, this item turned into a golden Oddity after countless millennia of nurturing. It seems to be incomplete.

“So, the Immortal-Snaring Sword Stone…”

A spark flashed in Song Chi’s eyes—his mind leaping to connections.

The most vivid memory was from myth. The Immortal-Snaring Sword, if he remembered right, was one of the four legendary swords of the Immortal-Slaying Sword Formation, famed throughout his previous life.

“Could this really be the Immortal-Snaring Sword of legend?”

He found himself holding his breath as he set off quickly for the Heavenly Ruin.

He didn’t even bother to check the properties of the Immortal-Snaring Sword Cannon. After all, once it fused with the Taiyi Quantum Swordlight Battery, its stats would surely evolve. No need to waste time.

Song Chi held out the golden Immortal-Snaring Sword Stone in front of the Taiyi Quantum Swordlight Battery. As soon as they made contact, the entire Heavenly Ruin shook violently.

In the next moment, the two parts began to merge. Silver and gold light wove together, forcing Song Chi to squint.

The process lasted a full three hours. When the blinding light faded, Song Chi finally opened his eyes.

What he saw surprised him: the Taiyi Quantum Swordlight Battery, previously installed and secure, had somehow been completely ejected and was now floating quietly before him.

But what drew his attention most was the new part. Now, it wasn’t silver or gold—it glowed with the even higher-tier light of Eternal Darkness.

Song Chi’s gaze fixed on this new device as a fresh status panel appeared before his eyes.

Abyssal Immortal-Snaring Quantum Star-Annihilator Cannon lvl0

Quality: Black

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