Chapter 1008 - 526: 【Red Vault Jump Device】and Gold【Star Mirror Stone】_2
Although the final victor was still the Starlight Palm Seal, its remaining Might had dropped to less than one-tenth.
Seeing this, Song Chi no longer hesitated. He controlled the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong to charge straight ahead. Just before the two sides were about to make contact, he activated the long-dormant “Neutron Star Fission” Feature.
As expected, the Starlight Palm Seal, which had only a sliver of Might left, completely disintegrated under the tens of millions of degrees of heat emitted by the miniature neutron star, leaving the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong untouched from start to finish.
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Inside the treasure vault building below, sensing the terrifying commotion from outside, Jing Ji briefly hesitated, but Song Yan shook his head:
“No need to worry, we just need to speed up!”
Song Yan had long heard the Elders in their family discuss his seventh brother, Song Chi, as well as the Dominator Projection. It was for this reason he was certain Song Chi would be fine and confident that his brother could buy them enough time.
Rushing into the vault, and based on the intel provided by their insider, Song Yan led Jing Ji and the other companion directly to the underground levels of the building.
“Ignore the other floors; head straight for Underground Level 5!”
The Star Spirit Race’s treasure vault had a seven-level design, all located underground. To access it required using a device similar to an elevator. However, what made this device unique was its restriction: it could only travel to one level at a time. To switch levels, one must return to the ground floor and re-enter.
Currently, time was pressing, and Song Yan’s group certainly didn’t have the leisure to waste on exploring multiple levels. They only had time for one.
Fortunately, their insider had held a position of considerable authority and knew the fifth level housed the vault’s most valuable treasures—not the deepest seventh level.
Once they determined the target level, the trio quickly reached the entrance to the treasure vault on Underground Level 5.
[Please present your identification credentials!]
The vault’s Star Rock Gate required a special form of verification, but Song Yan immediately produced a unique identity card from the Star Spirit Race.
[Elite Warrior of the Star Core Battle Hall, “Xing Yu,” you have permission to access the Secret Vault. Verification complete!]
The intelligent voice of the Star Rock Gate echoed as the massive door rumbled open.
“Quick, make the most of the time we have; take the most valuable items!”
After sending a few Puppet Soldiers in to ensure there were no hidden dangers, Song Yan and the other two rushed into the vault. The trio promptly split up to collect items from different sections of the vault.
Song Yan headed to the right. After separating from Jing Ji and the other companion, he did not immediately begin gathering items but instead took out the Dimension Space Stone that Song Chi had handed him earlier.
Activated by Spectral Energy, the Dimension Space Stone released three brilliant beams of light. These beams condensed a second later into three Sixth Rank Void Assassin Clan Soldier Figurines, which appeared before Song Yan.
“This is… a remote puppet control ability?”
Until this moment, Song Yan had not fully understood why Song Chi had given him the Dimension Space Stone and emphasized immediately activating it upon entering the vault. Now, seeing the three agile Soldier Figurines, he instantly understood.
He chuckled but didn’t waste any more time and started collecting vault items alongside the three Void Assassin Clan Soldier Figurines controlled by Song Chi’s Brainwave Imprint.
The battle outside raged on. Even though Song Chi had to focus most of his energy on his opponents, his mastery of “Fifty Uses With One Mind” allowed him to spare three threads of his mind to command the Figurines without much strain.
Through the vision of the Void Assassin Clan Soldier Figurines, he quickly identified a plethora of resources and Starry Sea Oddities.
Silver Oddity: [Star Iron]
500 strands of Sixth Rank Floating Land Origin
High Rank Mineral Resource: [Star Core Stone]
Red Oddity: [Starlight Pearl]
10 strands of Seventh Rank Floating Land Origin
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As his gaze scanned through the items, Song Chi did see many valuable objects, but nothing extraordinary enough to excite him.
Of course, items like the Silver Oddity [Star Iron], Seventh Rank Floating Land Origin, and the Red Oddity [Starlight Pearl] were decent pickups, so he directed the Soldier Figurines to secure them.
After all, they were valuable and portable, without being overly cumbersome.
As they moved swiftly through the vault, one of the Void Assassin Clan Soldier Figurines finally reached the inner core area. That’s when Song Chi spotted one of his true primary objectives for this mission.
Neutron Star Remains.
“Two pieces of Neutron Star Remains. Not bad, not bad!”
Without hesitation, he commanded the Figurines to store the remains inside the storage capsules they carried, before continuing the search and collection.
Minutes later, Song Chi’s gaze fell upon a highly intriguing Oddity, or to be precise, a Strange Object that could be converted into a warship component.
It was a Jump Device.
Red Vault Jump Device (Level 0)
Quality: Silver
Feature: Doubles the maximum jump distance
Feature 2: Adds +800 Space Resistance to warships
Feature 3: Jump Charge; can store up to two charges
Feature 4: Red Vault Jump
Consumption: 3000 Spectral Energy Points/Jump
Available Jump Charges: 2/2
Effect: After charging, the warship carrying the device can perform a spatial jump in a specified direction. Current maximum jump distance: 40 (20×2) light-years.
Charge Time: 1 hour; Buffer Time: 24 hours
Upgrade Requirement: 10 strands of Zero Rank Floating Land Origin, 1000 Spectral Energy Points, 10g of Space Sand
Note: This component occupies 4 slots.
{Red Vault Jump: Consumes 80,000 Spectral Energy Points to perform a long-range spatial jump in a specified direction. The maximum jump distance is 100 times the normal jump limit. Cooldown Time: 1 year (High unpredictability without a detailed Star Chart, posing significant risks.)}
For this Silver Jump Device, what Song Chi valued most was its “Red Vault Jump” Feature. The reason was simple: upgrading this component’s Enhancement Level could push its single jump distance to astronomical scales. Distances of tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, or even millions of light-years were conceivable.
Crucially, it was what he desperately needed at the moment. The upcoming search for the [Time Chess Board] component would require the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong to traverse billions of light-years extensively. Depending solely on the current [Aurora Transition Device] and [Roarer Jump Device] would be far too slow.
Without further delay, Song Chi immediately secured this Silver Component.
Time continued to tick away. In a flash, the trio had nearly swept through the entire fifth-level vault space, leaving only one-tenth of the innermost section untouched.
At that precise moment, Jing Ji’s voice rang out in urgency.
“The spatial shift effect is about to end! We have thirty seconds—thirty seconds before we must retreat!”
Hearing this, the four of them stopped hesitating and rushed towards the vault’s core zone.
This remaining one-tenth region was the most critical section of the vault. Just the golden light radiating out hinted at the presence of at least one Golden Sanctuary Wondrous Oddity.
Indeed, their immediate focus upon entering was precisely on this Golden Oddity.
Moments later, Song Chi finally observed the attributes of this Golden Oddity.
[Oddity: Star Core Mirror Stone]
[Quality: Gold]
[Convertible: No]
[Note: A unique Gold Oddity formed over a million years within the Star Core of a Seventh-Level Floating Land. Its utility seems somewhat limited.]
Seeing its attributes, both Song Chi and Song Yan frowned, but Jing Ji and the other companion reacted quite differently. Their target had been this item all along. Previous intelligence had only suggested it was a Silver Quality [Star Mirror Stone], but to their surprise, it was actually a Golden Sanctuary Wondrous Oddity.
Evidently, for them, this was a monumental windfall. The [Star Core Mirror Stone] could serve as a foundational material for crafting their Mirrors Clan’s Original Illusion Mirrors. The higher its quality, the more powerful the resulting Original Illusion Mirror, symbolizing greater potential for their future development.
Nevertheless, retrieving other items remained the priority. Beyond this core zone’s [Star Core Mirror Stone], there were still many other valuable treasures to claim. As for the ultimate division of the [Star Core Mirror Stone], that would be a matter for later discussion.