Global Era of Star Trekking

“It seems like my cobalt shell launcher can cause severe damage to the Star Devouring Vine!”

“I wonder if it’s because of the live rounds!”

Hearing his explanation, Song Fu shook his head:

“It’s not about the live rounds, it must be the cobalt shells!”

He had tried everything before, including live rounds, but there wasn’t much of a difference.

“Chi, what’s the enhancement level of your armor-piercing cobalt shell launcher?”

Song Chi gestured the number 30 with his hands.

“Lv30, huh…”

Song Fu frowned; this enhancement level wasn’t quite enough for a Fourth Rank Star Devouring Vine.

After a moment of silence, he gritted his teeth and decided to bite the bullet. The Star Devouring Vine was critical for his future attempt to reach Fourth Rank, so he couldn’t worry about the cost anymore.

“Alright, Chi, calculate how many resources it would take to enhance this component to Fourth Rank.”

Song Chi’s heart stirred with a bit of surprise. It sounded like his great-great-uncle Song Fu was preparing to help him enhance the [External Armor-Piercing Cobalt Shell Launcher] to Lv.40.

“By the way, do you have enough special cobalt shells on your ship?”

Song Fu added another question, as enhancing a component to Lv.40 wasn’t a small expense. Even with his net worth, it was quite a painful undertaking, and he didn’t want to find out there weren’t enough backup ammunition after the enhancement was complete.

“Great-great-uncle Fu, don’t worry about that!”

A dozen seconds later, Song Chi reported the required resources one by one.

“487 strands of Third Rank Floating Land Origin, 2 strands of Fourth Rank Floating Land Origin, 420 Titanium Crystals, and 1 Law Stone.”

At this data, Song Fu’s eyes twitched.

“Is this component Orange Quality too?”

Seeing Song Chi nod, Song Fu could only suppress the pain and take out the substantial resources one by one, which were then slowly pulled in by the Cangqiong.

After receiving this impressive amount of resources and verifying them, Song Chi turned to the communication projection and bowed deeply in thanks.

He even felt choked up inside.

“What a good man, great-great-uncle, you really are a good man!!!”

Suppressing the urge to choke up so much that he almost laughed out loud, Song Chi controlled his swift descent, ready to land and reload the cobalt shells, while he also hastily began enhancing the component.

After using up all the newly acquired resources, he successfully enhanced the external launcher to Lv.40.

After the enhancement to Lv.40, the attributes of the component naturally soared. Once he reloaded two special cobalt shells, the Cangqiong promptly took to the sky again.

(I won’t list the attributes, to avoid accusations of padding the story.)

Whoosh whoosh!

Once he had climbed back to an appropriate altitude, two special cobalt shells were immediately launched. Song Chi didn’t even look to see the reaction within the dust, but instead made a rapid descent, preparing to reload once more.

The anti-magic effect could only last for one hour, and considering the time taken with each reloading, he had to make the most of every second.

Yet before the Cangqiong had completely touched the ground, a thunderous roar could already be heard from millions of meters away.

Following two earth-shattering explosions, Song Fu’s voice, filled with surprise, emanated from the communication projection to the side of Cangqiong’s main control room.

“Chi, quick, it’s working! Those dormant vines have started thrashing about again, hahaha, it looks like the Star Devouring Vine has truly been hurt!”

Hearing this, Song Chi, after newly mounting two cobalt shells, once again maneuvered the Cangqiong to rise and then examined the radar screen.

As expected, with the head-on bombardment of the enhanced Lv.40 armor-piercing cobalt shells, the energy fluctuations emanated by the main body of the Star Devouring Vine had suddenly plummeted significantly.

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If the two cobalt shells from before only delivered a weakening effect of 1, now it has already reached triple digits, and the gap is clear at a glance.

Without hesitation, Song Chi launched the second round of Fourth-Rank cobalt shells.

After this round, the energy fluctuations of the Star Devouring Vine displayed on the radar had fallen to the lowest point of the Fourth Rank.

At the same time, the countless vine tendrils, as thin as hairs, suddenly halted their movement and limply fell to the ground. These tendrils were not retracted back underground this time and were scattered in disarray over the two-million-meter expanse of sandy terrain below, seemingly devoid of any life.

Seeing this, Song Fu’s anxious voice sounded.

“Chi, you didn’t receive a prompt from the Floating Land Origin, did you? Is the Star Devouring Vine really gone just like that?”

Song Chi shook his head quickly, of course aware of the reasons for his great-great-uncle’s eagerness. The Star Devouring Vine was also a Fourth Rank lifeform; even though it had only recently advanced to the Fourth Rank, and its promotion success rate wouldn’t be as terrifying as that of the Golden Armored Giant Beast, it should still be about 10%.

The price he paid this time was not small; if it were truly killed by him just like that, it would be a huge loss for him.

“Don’t worry, it’s playing dead, but it should be over soon!”

Hearing Song Chi’s firm tone, Song Fu didn’t doubt further. When it came to Song Chi, or rather, the term “Family Sequence Candidate,” he maintained sufficient trust.

A minute later, the Cang Qiong, having completed loading the third round of shells, rose into the air again.

Then it launched another roaring salvo!

However, this time there was an unexpected twist—the two special cobalt shells didn’t explode, as if they had simultaneously misfired.

Song Chi didn’t have time to wonder; the next second, his eyes widened in shock.

Above the Vault of Heaven, millions of meters away, and right above where the main body of the Star Devouring Vine was located, a star over five thousand kilometers in diameter, composed entirely of boundless devouring Law, tore through the clouds and slowly descended.

If the previous commotion caused by the Star Devouring Vine’s roots was akin to the earth cracking, then this was unquestionably like the sky itself was collapsing.

Chi had a rough idea of what this was.

If he wasn’t mistaken, this should be one of the unique abilities of the Star Devouring Vine, known as [Starfall Devouring].

Even though he had heard of it before, witnessing it firsthand was still incredibly shocking.

Of course, this [Starfall Devouring] was not an attack method but rather a supportive ability. The surface of the star gathered infinite devouring Law, which could greatly enhance the devouring Law controlled by the Star Devouring Vine itself, while also suppressing the enemy’s Law, thereby securing an invincible position.

Whoosh!

Song Chi made a tentative attack with a hundred-meter Sword Light Phantasm. As expected, this ordinary attack from the Fourth-Rank Level [Pure Yang Sword Beam Cannon] didn’t cause any ripples when it met the devouring star, and the entire phantasm was devoured along with it.

Seeing this, Song Chi’s gaze turned to Song Fu in the projected light screen.

He knew that the Star Devouring Vine had this trump card, so his great-great-uncle must know it too. Therefore, he was fairly certain that the other party must have a countermeasure for this black star filled with devouring Law.

Indeed, upon seeing this devouring star, not only did Song Fu not show any panic on his face, but he also showed a slight smile.

“Having not fully mastered the power of the devouring Law and recklessly summoning this [Starfall Devouring] is more than this Star Devouring Vine can bear. Old man me will add fuel to your fire!”

Muttering to himself, a streak of orange light suddenly shot from the Blessing Class Cruiser, and whatever this orange light was, upon entering the black star, the devouring Law on the star’s surface started to violently surge.

A strong Law aura began to spread continuously in all directions!

Even though they were millions of meters apart, the energy shields on the surfaces of the two Torch Warships began to show severe ripples.

Fortunately, the Energy Shield components of both warships were enhanced to above Fourth Rank. With the emergence of a subtle and mysterious force, the two streams of energy began to continuously resist the erosion from the devouring Law outside.

Looking at the radar screen beside him, amid the unrestrained ravaging of infinite devouring Law, the energy fluctuations emitted by the Star Devouring Vine’s main body were rapidly weakening.

Clearly, it couldn’t withstand the star it had summoned, comprised of the devouring Law.

Beep beep beep!

From within the communication projection, Song Fu’s solemn voice sounded again.

“All right, Chi, your task is done. Now you just watch from the sidelines!”

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