Global Era of Star Trekking

However, Song Chi was different. Having the cultivation secret realm that accompanied the ship and the “Secret Realm Accelerator” feature, he could fully support the rapid advancement of the Cloud Vine and ensure it kept pace with himself in a short period of time.

Given this premise, one can imagine the value of this Cloud Vine in Song Chi’s eyes.

Yet, without the means to use deadly killing methods, the difficulty of subduing and enslaving a starry sky plant was immense, and this was the dilemma Song Chi was currently facing.

After long contemplation, he finally decided to take action.

Starry sky plants like the Cloud Vine were rare, though they weren’t as exceptional as the Silver Apple Mother Tree, but they weren’t far behind. Encountering both a Cloud Vine Heart and a complete Cloud Vine within a short period of time was luck exploding for Song Chi recently, and missing this opportunity might mean no other chance for who knows how long.

Having made his decision, Song Chi didn’t act immediately; instead, he had the Dome Sky Wisdom Brain carefully plan the subsequent action scheme with the highest success rate.

It wasn’t until half an hour later that the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong abruptly swept forward, charging directly towards the peak fourth rank Cloud Vine.

As the warship burst out from the void, the Cloud Vine immediately reacted; its pitch-black vine body turned golden, appearing as if a layer of special metallic armor covered the entire vine body.

Moreover, numerous vine tendrils sprouted from the surrounding fragments and small asteroids, wrapped up with a small amount of Metal Law, turning them into sharp arrows.

The golden light splashed, and hundreds of thousands, even millions, of vine tendril arrows fired off, their attack density a hundred times denser than rain, constantly falling on the Yin Yang Offsetting Annihilation Shield of the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong.

At this moment, the shield value of the [Yin Yang Offsetting Annihilation Shield] was being worn away at an alarming speed; within a short period, the Energy Shield’s shield value dropped below 90% and continued to decrease.

Aware of the Cloud Vine’s attack method, Song Chi did not panic; the Void Escape Orb was activated immediately, and the warship disappeared from its place.

He didn’t choose to immediately flash right next to the Cloud Vine but moved to the other side of the vine body. By that time, the charging of the Bow of the Annihilation of All Spirits had finally finished, unleashing Annihilation Arrows infused with infinite Power of Annihilation.

Fearful of completely erasing the opponent with one strike, the consolidated “Arrow of Annihilation of Living Beings” didn’t carry the features “Black Hole: Singularity Rapid Explosion” and “Black Hole: Annihilation”; it was only the “Arrow of Annihilation of Living Beings” feature that was activated. Even so, the Cloud Vine in front seemed to sense a severe threat of death and quickly made a response.

A substantial amount of Metal Law surged from within its body, generating a Domain of Golden Light on its surface, and further reinforced the metallic armor on its exterior. Moreover, a considerable concentration of Wood Law’s power amalgamated inside the vine body itself, ready to repair any damage at the earliest opportunity.

The light flashed brilliantly, and the Annihilation Arrows quickly collided with the golden light domain. However, similar to the previous encounter, there was no earth-shattering explosion or shocking energy shockwave—the Annihilation Arrows simply dimmed slightly and then penetrated the golden light domain, entering the body of the Cloud Vine.

As for that layer of metallic vine armor, it failed to serve any purpose against the life-targeting Annihilation Arrows.

In less than ten seconds, the Dome Sky Wisdom Brain detected that the vitality within the body of the Cloud Vine had plummeted drastically.

With its vitality greatly diminished, the surrounding metallic energy also drastically decreased. Seizing this opportunity, the attack features of the two main cannons of the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong were suddenly fired, leaving two massive holes on that golden vine body.

The onslaught didn’t end there; the External Cobalt Piercing Bullet Launcher beneath the warship was also activated, and two special cobalt shells were fired.

After this series of attacks, the vitality emitted by the Cloud Vine was further eradicated.

Guessing that the timing was about right, Song Chi cautiously maneuvered the warship closer to the target, as the condition of the Cloud Vine had now been weakened to the extreme. At this moment, attempting to enslave it with the Light of Slavery was likely highly feasible.

However, just as the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong slowly approached, sudden faint spatial fluctuations emerged from the side of the warship.

The spatial fluctuation was extremely subtle. If it wasn’t for Song Chi having an intermediate achievement in Space Law Comprehension and the enhancement of Double Pupils, he might not have been able to detect it immediately.

The power of his Spiritual Force rotated at high speed, with the assistance of the Dome Sky Wisdom Brain, the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong managed to complete a minor angular adjustment to the ship’s body within a very short time.

Do not underestimate this slight adjustment, as it was because of this move that the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong dodged one of the two sudden attacks from the side.

[Warning, the external spatial slicing energy attack has damaged the Energy Shield by 12%, current Shield Value remaining 84%.]

Even though it was subjected to only one of the attacks, it still eroded 12% of the Shield Value of the Yin Yang Offsetting Annihilation Shield.

However, Song Chi’s attention was not on the Energy Shield at all, but was instead fixed on the two spatial rifts torn open on the side, where the shadows of his Double Pupils turned from illusory to solid in that moment, with the fundamental laws of both Space and Light circulating rapidly at the bottom of his eyes.

The source of the two previous attacks was these two spatial rifts, and the creature that launched the attacks must also be hiding deep within these rifts.

“Split-Gold Owls, and there are two of them…”

Although the opponent had tried their best to conceal their form, the capturing ability of the Double Pupils enhanced by the Law of Light was exaggerated. Through the fleeting shadow in the spatial rift, he easily deduced the identity of the other.

Hiding within the spatial rift and attacking Cang Qiong were the two Split-Gold Owls, and crucially both were of the Fifth Rank.

With this answer, his heart sank.

He had a certain understanding of Split-Gold Owls. As one of the Starry Sky Behemoths, although their lineage was only mid to lower tier among Starry Sky Behemoths, the key point was that this species, like the Cloud Vine, possessed dual Attributes.

Unlike the Cloud Vine’s Metal and Wood Attributes, the Split-Gold Owls specialized in Metal and Space Attributes, which made their movements usually very strange, elusive, launching an attack and then immediately diving into a spatial rift, making them hard to defend against.

In addition to this, they also had a certain natural talent in the Metal Attribute, making their attack power not weak.

“Did these two Split-Gold Owls just happen to pass by this Star River and were attracted by the attack of Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, or do they have a special relationship with the Cloud Vine?”

Pausing his approach towards the Cloud Vine, Song Chi was on guard and also guessing the relationship between the two parties at the same time.

If it really was a coincidence, it was easy to deal with. He could just leave a space beacon in this Star Domain, and come back later to deal with this Cloud Vine. But if there was a connection between the vine and the two owls, then without resolving these two Split-Gold Owls, he basically couldn’t achieve the enslavement of the Cloud Vine.

As for the connection between the Cloud Vine and Split-Gold Owls, it was not just Song Chi’s imagination; such a scenario was not uncommon.

Both originally shared the Metal Attribute, and the Cloud Vine itself had the ability to autonomously gather Metal Attribute energy from the surrounding Star Domain to enhance the Metal Attribute energy around itself, making it possible, based on this point, to form a special supporting or even symbiotic relationship with Metal Attribute Starry Sky Behemoths.

In the family archives, such cases had been discovered several times.

Thinking this, Song Chi quickly made a decision.

He was determined to obtain this Cloud Vine.

Two Fifth Rank Split-Gold Owls, if it was during the Cruiser’s time, Song Chi might have left without looking back, but now the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong was at the Fourth Rank, and the warship had two Sixth Rank Enslaved Species, as long as he could restrict the spatial advantages of the two Split-Gold Owls, damaging or even killing them wouldn’t be difficult.

No sooner said than done, as Song Chi’s thought shifted, the stationary Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong started moving towards the Cloud Vine again.