Global Era of Star trekking Chapter 1846 - 897: Myth Variant Virus Spores (Part 2)

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Previously on Global Era of Star trekking...
Song Chi stood before the Ninth Rank Extreme Golden Apple Mother Tree in the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong's secret realm, its growth stalled at a mythical bottleneck despite eons of accumulation. To propel its ascension, he first purified and integrated the Tenth Rank Evil Spirit Divine Tree Heart and the neutral Star Sea Celestial Sunflower Core, sparking a turbulent fusion of deathly chill, stellar light, and vital energy that boiled the realm's laws into a vortex. When these proved insufficient after days of strain, he committed the priceless Eleventh Rank Peak Starry Sky Extreme Yang Flower Tree Heart, triggering a cataclysmic eruption of divine light and mythical pressure that reshaped the tree into a Tenth Rank Mythical entity, its branches now bearing potent fruits of unparalleled life force.

Following that, Song Chi meticulously examined the status of the cultivation secret realm under his feet, confirming everything was in order. The Golden Apple Mother Tree embedded inside would stay securely contained, preventing any unwanted attention. He readied himself to head back to the all-attributes cultivation chamber in the ruins market, where he could process his recent gains and practice in peace, biding his time until the massive conflict of the "Heaven-Fighting Ruins" erupted across enormous territories in millennia to come.

Yet, right when his spiritual awareness was on the verge of full withdrawal, the compact Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong housed in his brow's ancestral aperture—holding the Five-Colored Sky Patrol Radar [Eye of Truth] acquired from the Father of Truth—reactivated its linked "Mythical Coordinates" function after a cooldown spanning centuries.

A pristine spatial coordinate materialized abruptly in Song Chi’s center.

"Hmm? It’s here again..."

Initially, Song Chi brushed it off. This ability delivered a haphazard location for a mythical relic roughly every few centuries, though those spots were invariably too remote from the Torch Civilization's sphere.

Moments later, as he instinctively gauged the fresh coordinate's proximity to the Torch Civilization's realm, a fierce tremor jolted his spiritual sense.

"This distance... it's really just a few trillion light-years off? Right inside the [Space Wormhole Generator]'s farthest leap capability?!"

A few trillion light-years might seem like an impossible span for typical societies, yet for Song Chi, equipped with a Tenth Rank Battleship and elite spatial tech such as the [Space Wormhole Generator], such a gap had become surmountable.

His pulse quickened despite himself, the nearness of these mythical coordinates—stemming from a legendary relic—proving irresistibly alluring.

Song Chi acted swiftly; when chance knocked, he always seized it.

Still, for caution's sake, he opted against personal involvement.

A thought from his mind sparked the [Mirror Image Splitting] module, and shortly after, a duplicate vessel mirroring almost every power of the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong materialized gradually.

"Go!"

Assisted by the interim-fitted duplicate [Space Wormhole Generator] module, the copy warship swiftly left the Heavenly Ruins Continent, tracing that reliable but vastly remote space wormhole portal toward the far-off stellar region tied to the mythical coordinates.

Over the ensuing days, Song Chi's main form oversaw operations from the Zhu Tian Ruins Market, emphasizing clan growth while monitoring the [Split Mountain Ancestor City] under his watch in the Chaos Divine Land. At the same time, he tracked the duplicate warship's progress via their soul connection.

The transit through the wormhole proceeded smoothly; traversing trillions of light-years shrank to mere instants via the space wormhole, but upon the duplicate warship's arrival at the mythical coordinates' zone, the vista it encountered stirred deep worry.

This was a sprawling stellar expanse long claimed by a horde of utterly loathsome creatures.

Myriad insect race beings in diverse shapes and threatening jaws infested the whole stellar field and galactic streams, rampaging through every resource in sight and transforming it into raw bio-energy to breed even greater swarms for the Insect Mother.

This place truly served as a key command zone for the Starry Sea Insect Race.

Moreover, based on the faint but immense awareness emanating from the star domain's depths, it seemed probable this was a personal domain of a Primordial Mother Queen among the insects.

"The mythical coordinates... lead straight to the insect race’s nest?" Song Chi's spirits dropped, realizing the situation had turned exceptionally dire.

Insect race domains were fortified rigorously, particularly the stellar zones housing a Primordial Mother Queen, turning them into deadly lairs teeming with peril.

While the duplicate warship held great strength, detection would unleash infinite insect waves, and might even alert the Primordial Mother Queen herself. Then, mere survival would overshadow any quest for discovery.

Song Chi grasped the dread instilled by the Starry Sea Insect Race all too well. Ranked among the Shattered Starry Sea's top three disasters and controlling more than forty galactic system clusters, the Starry Sea Insect Race stood as the shared foe of every sentient society in the Shattered Starry Sea. Even so, against aggression from the Eternal Clan and the Titan Giant civilization—both harboring transcended entities—the insects never yielded ground.

Every entity in the Shattered Starry Sea recognized the implications.

Within its ranks, the Starry Sea Insect Race harbored a Twelfth Rank transcended mother queen, probably able to stand firm against the Eternal Clan and Titan Giant civilization, each with their own transcenders.

With these thoughts swirling, Song Chi wavered.

After some deliberation, he chose not to retreat right away, instead directing the duplicate warship through their soul bond and merging the [Eye of Truth]'s probing prowess with the [Three Realms Five Elements Certificate]'s hiding talents to the fullest. Like a spectral shadow, it warily navigated the hazardous stellar domain, methodically closing in on the target coordinates.

The scouting endeavor proved far tougher than anticipated. The insect race's bio-detection web blanketed the cosmos; on multiple occasions, near-misses were dodged only thanks to the [Three Realms Five Elements Certificate]'s seven-colored Quality for flawless stealth and the duplicate warship's sturdy capabilities.

Luckily, persistence pays off. Through years of grueling hunts and refinements, the duplicate warship at last zeroed in on a strange nebula under tight insect watch.

This nebula exuded an unnatural chill, formed not from standard stellar debris and vapors, but saturated with a thick, ominous dark green haze.

Innumerable minuscule spores radiating subtle vital pulses drifted and writhed as if alive inside the haze, forming an innate shield that blocked nearly all probes; even the [Eye of Truth]'s scan beams turned hazy and indistinct once they pierced within.