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Chapter 1895: Chapter 919: Two Major Factions (2)

For this very reason, even the Torch Civilization Expedition Army, which initially boasted eight Mythical Units and 120 million elite fleets, inevitably suffered heavy losses in thousands of years of bloody warfare.

The massive fleet size has shrunk by more than thirty percent, with tens of millions of warships turning into starry sea dust, and countless Torch Captains buried in alien territories.

Even the Mythical Units, as the highest combat force, have faced perilous situations multiple times, with no shortage of threats to their extinction.

The Mythical Black Devourer King Beast, when ordered to rush to the rescue of the encircled Titan Legion, was ambushed by three Abyss Lords of the same rank and fought to the death, its enormous beast body thoroughly corroded and devoured by demonic qi.

The Nine-tailed Heavenly Fox once had its Dharma Aspect shattered and its Divine Soul severely damaged, taking hundreds of years to barely recover.

If not for the Mythical Immortal Ship avatars of five Torch Human Emperors like Song Chi and Jiang Yuan in the Expedition Army, who consistently rushed to the front at critical moments to withstand the fiercest attacks, even at the cost of damaging their avatars to cover the retreat of allied forces, the losses of the Torch Civilization would have been much higher.

These five warships, bearing the will of the Human Emperors, have become the spiritual pillar and strongest shield of the Expedition Army.

Yet, even with Song Chi and the others striving to maneuver the warship avatars, in the face of the torrent of great trends, individual strength still seems insignificant.

All they can do is, under compulsory orders, preserve as much of the civilization’s surviving strength as possible.

Thousands of years of bloody battles have exacted unimaginable costs from both sides.

The Bottomless Abyss has been plotting for countless epochs, with terrifyingly deep foundations, swarming with endless demons, and nearly twice as many Transcendent Demon Gods manipulating the battlefield from the shadows, occasionally projecting destruction onto the scene.

But the All Heavens Star Sea Alliance Army is not without its strongholds.

Support from the Demi-high-dimensional Land "Chaos Divine Land" has always been the key to sustaining the Alliance Army.

Existences like the Father of the Sand Sea and the Heaven-Burning Ancestor, though unable to easily descend into the starry sea in true form, continuously provide resources, materials, and rule fragments with high-dimensional characteristics, assisting the Alliance Army in forging stronger war machines.

It is precisely with support from the Chaos Divine Land that the All Heavens Star Sea Alliance Army manages to meticulously entangle with the Bottomless Abyss Camp, maintaining an uneasy stalemate despite an apparent disadvantage in Transcendent battle power.

The frontlines shift repeatedly across the vast starry sea, with galaxy communities turning to dust amidst the war, or becoming completely polluted by abyssal demonic qi, nurturing breeding grounds for new demons.

The war seems to stretch indefinitely, with both sides gritting their teeth to persevere, waiting to see whose reserves will be exhausted first, or waiting for a variable crucial enough to break the balance to emerge.

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Compared to the boundless war engulfing the Expedition Fleet, the Torch Domain remains remarkably calm.

The Torch Domain, Sky Mountain Secret Realm.

The "All Heaven Six Harmonies Reincarnation Array" continues to emit a gentle glow, guarding the peak of the Secret Realm where the torch of civilization resides.

Meanwhile, supported by the full strength of the civilization, after several thousand years, the Heavenly Ruins Continent has reached its most critical moment.

During these millennia, although the Torch Civilization strategically retreated, the enormous gains from previously sweeping through over a dozen river system communities are now revealing their profound significance.

Among those river system communities, there exists a staggering number of High Rank Floating Lands. Coordinated by the civilization’s highest orders, High Rank Torch Captains across various factions transform into "Origin Hunters," traversing these territories once part of the civilization’s domain, continually hunting and extracting Origin Cores from the High Rank Floating Lands.

These Origin Cores, teeming with immense vitality, are transported incessantly to the Heavenly Ruins Continent. Under the nurturing of this massive amount of origin, the Heavenly Ruins Continent, which had recently advanced to the Ninth Level, is evolving at an astonishing pace.

As time progresses, the continent’s area is aggressively expanding, earth veins rising continuously, and rules becoming increasingly solid. In a few short millennia, it has completed an accumulation process that normally takes millions, if not tens of millions of years, comfortably reaching the peak of Ninth Level Floating Land.

Now, the entire Heavenly Ruins Continent is enveloped in a teeming, imminent eruption-like aura, as if billions of dragons and snakes are stirring beneath the earth. The surging Origin Power has reached its limit, with only one, albeit incredibly arduous step remaining to ascend the Tenth Level Star Continent.

And the driving force and principal beneficiary of all this—Song Chi, is already well-prepared.

His goal is far more than elevating the Heavenly Ruins Continent to the Star Continent.

It is to seize this once-in-millennia surge of Star Origin Energy and utilize this vast origin energy to aid his flagship, the "Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong," in advancing to the Eleventh Rank—Realm of Mythical Origin, a dream harbored by countless Torch Captains!

In fact, from the moment he entered the Cultivation Secret Realm for seclusion, his intention was solely on this.

In the exaggerated time flow of "Chicang’s No. 004 Breeding Secret Realm," his cultivation in the Guidance Technique advanced triumphantly, and although not yet at the peak of the Tenth Rank, it is not far off. Should the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong successfully break through, he would quickly complete the advancement, never trailing behind.

In terms of resources, he holds three long-treasured "Tribulation Crossing Mixed Elemental Breaking Saint Pills," which can significantly increase the success rate when upgrading from Mythical Immortal Ship to Mythical Origin Ship, along with a portion of already harvested Eleventh Rank Dominant Origin Blood, and a drop of Tenth Rank Evil God’s Blood from the Heavenly Realm.

Furthermore, aided by Jiang Yuan, Ying Yi, Ji Heng, and Ferdinand, a special resource formula required for transitioning from Mythical Immortal Ship to Mythical Origin Ship has been barely assembled. These resources will jointly forge a solid ladder for advancing to the Eleventh Rank.

After numerous simulations by the Dome Sky Wisdom Brain, which has already reached Three-Colored Quality, factoring in all these bonuses, the base success rate of this advancement is about thirty-five percent.

Thirty-five percent!

This figure, while seemingly not low for advancing to a Mythical Origin Ship, is still fraught with substantial risk.

Nonetheless, considering the potential use of two "Time Chess Board" components, the success rate can further increase.

"Yet, even so, the success rate remains not optimistic..." Song Chi thought clearly.

However, he held an important trump card—a newly acquired "Blessing of the Time God King" component.

Its feature "Power of Time Order·Zero," capable of resetting cooldown times of features, in conjunction with "Time Chess Board," means an additional opportunity for "Retrospect," sufficient to elevate the success rate to a relatively considerable level.

Compared to previous advancements, this venture is Song Chi’s boldest yet, but he is keenly aware that under the pressure of the abyss and transcendent power play, the Torch Civilization must quickly possess its own, true Dinghai Divine Needle.

A Torch Captain with the ability to wield Twelfth Rank Transcendent battle power, through his flagship and Zhu Tian Ruins Market among other trumps, is vitally important to the present Torch Civilization.

"I must gamble this once!"

Muttering in his heart, Song Chi resolutely sent out a message with the highest privilege on the Torch Network.

"No change to the schedule for the Heavenly Ruins Continent’s advancement, accelerate the Floating Land’s upgrade!!!"

Upon receiving his message, core members of the Song family in the Heavenly Ruins Continent all bore exceedingly grave expressions. They were well aware of the low success probability for Song Chi’s attempt at advancing to an Eleventh Rank Mythical Origin Ship.

After all, the Cang Qiong’s advancement to the Tenth Rank was less than ten thousand years ago, providing relatively short time to gather the various resources needed for advancement, which is indeed a critical weakness.

However, even with this awareness, all members of the Song family faithfully executed Song Chi’s orders because they knew even better that all this was to ensure the Torch Civilization’s legacy.