Chapter 1032: 541: 7th Tier [Time Realm Tree] Enters the Cultivation Secret Realm

Chapter 1032: Chapter 541: 7th Tier [Time Realm Tree] Enters the Cultivation Secret Realm

Carefully reviewing the attributes of the Multiverse Marketplace after the ascension, Song Chi’s gaze finally fixated on the “Dominion Position” characteristic.

With the power of domination granted by the marketplace officially reaching the Eighth Rank, many plans could now be placed on the agenda.

…

Chenxing Kingdom, the Tribulation Spirit Star Domain under Song Family’s jurisdiction.

The Tribulation Spirit Star Domain was far from a prosperous region. On the contrary, it ranked among the most barren territories within the Song Family’s domains.

This led to a consistent lack of visitors, including members of the family and even Torch Ship Captains among the kingdom’s commoners.

However, this situation changed over a hundred years ago. To other factions in the kingdom, it seemed as if, out of nowhere, the Song Family had begun prioritizing this star domain more heavily.

On this day, dozens of Second and Third Rank Torch Warships gathered here, belonging to both the Song Family and the Chenxing royal family. Once assembled, the fleet sped toward the same destination together.

The journey of the fleet was unhurried, maintaining the speed of an ordinary fleet. However, at one moment, this fleet of forty warships suddenly manifested in the pitch-black starry sky.

Inside a large combined illusion realm, the forty warships quickly dispersed into an orderly formation. Ahead of them, two battleships, each ten thousand meters long, hovered silently in place.

Behind the two battleships, a swirling spatial passage emanating intense spatial fluctuations could be seen. This was the entrance to the “Time Realm Tree Secret Domain.”

The two battleships each belonged to the two factions. The one from the Song Family was captained by Song Tianshu, who had recently completed his ascension.

“Greetings, Ancestor Tianshu!”

Twenty members of the Song Family respectfully addressed him. Hearing this, Song Tianshu on the battleship nodded slightly.

“Here to rotate with the previous batch of guards who’ve served the secret domain for the last twenty years?”

“Yes, Ancestor!”

At the forefront among the twenty warships, Song Liang’s eyes glimmered faintly. Recalling the special mission he had just received, he felt a mix of emotions brewing within.

Fortunately, being within the sealed environment of the warship, there was no way for anyone to detect his inner turmoil.

“Alright, proceed. Remember to remain vigilant while guarding. This secret domain is of critical importance to the family!”

“Understood!”

…

In the fleet’s formation, the unobtrusive “Liangchen” cruiser—recently upgraded to its current rank—seamlessly followed alongside. Once united with members of the Chenxing faction after entering the secret domain, the forty warships swiftly headed toward their designated guard stations.

Within the “Time Realm Tree Secret Domain,” the Time Realm Trees did not all grow in one location. Some thrived in underground spaces, while others were rooted in surface areas.

Song Liang’s assigned guard station was located deep underground, specifically in the region where the Buddha Golden Body’s skull lay.

Accompanying Song Liang were three individuals. In the encrypted communication network, Song Liang exchanged glances with another Song Family Captain aboard a separate cruiser. Both nodded simultaneously.

In the main underground corridor, closer to the deepest depths.

For reasons unknown, one of the Song Family cruisers lost control and crashed into the side wall of the corridor.

Coincidentally, the cruiser collided directly with the leading Chenxing cruiser that had been traveling alongside it.

Clang, clang, clang!

Sharp metallic clashing echoed as the Chenxing flagship was forcibly rammed by the immense impact, its hull driven solidly against the stone walls lining the corridor. This secondary collision caused unavoidable damage.

But the most critical issue lay elsewhere—on the stone wall was a significant spatial rift. Subjected to the rift’s spatial slicing, the Chenxing flagship’s energy shield was overloaded, and its armored hull sustained notable damage.

“My apologies, my apologies. I got distracted for a moment,” said the Song Family cruiser captain who had caused the commotion, hurriedly offering an earnest apology.

Given how sincere he sounded and seeing that there were no catastrophic consequences, the Chenxing flagship commander refrained from losing his temper.

However, his restraint did not extend to the others accompanying him. From the line behind, a sharp voice rang out:

“Are you blind? How could you still manage to crash in such a wide corridor?”

The speaker was another Third Rank cruiser captain from the Chenxing Family who shared a close bond with Resser Chenxing. Having heard a while back about a Zhulu Warship Captain from the Song Family personally killing his friend over some trifling conflict, this man had harbored resentment ever since.

“Who are you calling blind? We’ve already apologized. What’s your problem? First you shamelessly trespassed on Song Family territory to fight for secret domain ownership, and now what? Are you planning to kick us out completely?”

The Song Family personnel were not ones to back down, firing their rebuttals sarcastically.

“Who’s shameless now? This is the Chenxing Kingdom’s territory. Is there anything beyond the purview of the Chenxing royal family?”

“Get lost! If not for our Song Family’s Dominator Battleship, what Chenxing Kingdom would you even have?!”

…

The argument escalated, tempers flaring on both sides, with the tension teetering toward open conflict.

Such commotion naturally couldn’t escape the attention of the previous batch of stationed commanders in the underground core zone. Shortly thereafter, several other warships rushed over.

“What’s going on here? You’re causing trouble even here?”

“Who’s causing trouble? Isn’t it your Chenxing crew looking for a fight?”

The Third Rank Captain from the Song Family did not back down. The prow of his cruiser shifted to a specialized ramming angle, further intensifying the standoff.

Yet amidst this corridor conflict, no one noticed the unobtrusive “Liangchen” cruiser at the rear of the Song Family formation silently opening a hatch.

Moments later, a faint spatial ripple swept through, and a shadow flickered toward the underground depths.

At the bottom of the sinkhole, the commanders from both factions guarding this spot were drawn away by the commotion in the corridor, leaving this area vacant.

Buzz, buzz, buzz!

Amid the spatial fluctuations, a Void Assassin Soldier Figurine emerged from the void.

The moment it appeared, it quickly retrieved a golden token from its hand.

The “Ruin Market Projection Rank” activated, and waves of purple mist energy rapidly enveloped the sinkhole’s depths.

Through the perspective of the imagery projection, Song Chi in the Multiverse Marketplace locked onto the Seventh Rank “Time Realm Tree” he had previously concealed.

The purple mist energy subtly surged, forming a barrier that sealed off the entrance connecting to the corridor. To the warships in the corridor, the sinkhole appeared unchanged.

With the corridor sealed off, Song Chi acted without hesitation. The purple mist energy imbued with Quasi-Eighth Rank Domination Power morphed into a massive hand that grasped directly at the Seventh Rank “Time Realm Tree.”

The concealing bronze seal had been withdrawn, revealing the ten-thousand-meter White Jade Tree in its full glory at the sinkhole’s depths.

The misty hand wrapped around the tree trunk, lifting it steadily upward. Unlike the previous attempt, this time the immense power of the Quasi-Eighth Rank managed to shake the tree’s foundation, and its deep-seated roots gradually loosened.

But just as success seemed imminent, dim Buddhist light abruptly radiated from the sinkhole’s depths, struggling to resist the next move of the purple mist hand. Song Chi paid it no heed; the Eighth Rank power surged further within the firmament of the marketplace.

In the end, the Buddhist light dissipated entirely under the relentless purple mist energy, and the Seventh Rank “Time Realm Tree” was fully uprooted.

Without immediately ending the market projection, Song Chi used the purple mist energy to smooth over the central sinkhole pit until no trace of irregularity remained. Only then did he deactivate the projection.

Bringing both the Seventh Rank “Time Realm Tree” and the Void Assassin Soldier Figurine, Song Chi returned to the Multiverse Marketplace.

A few minutes later, the corridor conflict concluded with both factions compromising. The transitions between the two groups of guarding commanders were carried out without anyone discovering a single anomaly in the sinkhole below.

…

In the Multiverse Marketplace, within the free trading zone.

A beam of light shot out from the high-altitude Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong Warship. Upon contact with the ten-thousand-meter White Jade Tree below, the Seventh Rank “Time Realm Tree” began rapidly shrinking.

Ultimately, it was shouldered by a Fourth Rank Robber Star Clan member and carried into the warship.

Within “Chicang’s No. 004 Breeding Secret Realm,” at the edge of the Green Water Spiritual Spring.

The Seventh Rank “Time Realm Tree,” restored to its full height of ten thousand meters, was successfully transplanted with the help of Top Rank “Immortal Domain Spirit Soil.”

Looking at the towering “Time Realm Tree” standing alongside the spring, Song Chi’s eyes betrayed a glimmer of satisfaction.

The Seventh Rank “Time Realm Tree” now belonged solely to him—to the Song Family—entirely removing any claim the Chenxing Family might have had.

“With the breeding acceleration provided by the ‘Secret Realm Accelerator’ characteristic, I wonder how long it will take to cultivate the next Seventh Rank ‘Time Realm Fruit.’ Hopefully not too long.”

…

Having completed the transplantation of the Seventh Rank “Time Realm Tree,” Song Chi considered this major task settled. His next priority was even more critical—securing the “Time Chessboard” components.

To that end, he used the “South Compass·Shuoben” characteristic to offload the “Black Hole Evolution Layer” and replaced it with several components borrowed from the Star Tower members.

After this adjustment, the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong’s temporal resistance soared to a terrifying degree.

In the Alien Star Domain nearly a trillion light-years away from the Dragon Spine Continent, Song Chi’s figure emerged out of thin air.

Having just transmitted into the area without summoning his warship or deploying marketplace projections, Song Chi spent several days preparing for these subsequent actions.

Only after entering the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong Warship and summoning the Quasi-Eighth Rank marketplace projection did the terrifying time dilation effect cease troubling him.

[External time slows by 80,000 times; internal warship time slows by 80 times.]

With the protection of the Eighth Rank marketplace projection and formidable temporal resistance, the time rate difference between the inside and outside of the warship reached a staggering thousandfold. This was no ordinary phenomenon.

Even so, this allowed Song Chi to relax significantly as he maneuvered the ship further forward.

Much time passed, and Song Chi, observing from within the marketplace, shook his head.

“It’s still not enough. I need to stack more temporal resistance!”

Outside, the power of the marketplace projection was close to exhaustion, yet the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong Warship was still dozens of miles away from the “Time Chessboard.”

Long before reaching a distance of a thousand miles, the external world had already entered a frozen time state. Only the marketplace projection’s protection and the warship’s inherent temporal resistance prevented the interior from succumbing to the time freeze as well.

Before departing, Song Chi swiftly reversed the warship, steering the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong back beyond the thousand-mile threshold.

Only by doing so could he ensure that, during his next attempt, he would not be immediately trapped in the frozen state upon arrival.