Chapter 384: Steam Realm Ship Master's Essence!

The location is very tricky!

Using the wreckage of sunken ship fragments as a framework at the point where they fall in the void, we open a multitude of temporal‑spatial wormhole doors inside.

With the Great Fan's wreckage area as an anchor and cover, both the safety and defensibility of the temporal‑spatial wormhole doors are perfectly in place.

More crucially, it's neither too far nor too close to us.

Trying to hinder us is already too late.

Moreover… they surely have a contingency for my opening a wormhole to break in; I guarantee that once opened, a massive force will pour down like a flood.

They might even cut off my temporal‑spatial wormhole outright.

Sure enough! The Grand Legion's war operations have considered every aspect.

This move shows they're strategic experts, and what they've prepared is a large‑scale, protracted offensive.

Even when attacking my tiny realm‑ship territory, they haven't relaxed at all.

This time… heh… it truly feels like the Grand Legion is pressing in!

Above the massive world mast of the Four‑Tusk Elephant Realm Ship.

Ta Ke gazes into the distant void, speaking to himself as if in a monologue.

"But… the current Four‑Tusk Elephant Realm Ship is no longer the one from three years ago,"

Ta Ke thinks silently.

Over these years, Ta Ke has been expanding the Four‑Tusk Elephant Realm Ship.

The armies of the three Shark Insect Empresses that previously attacked Ta Ke, under Ta Ke's expulsion and counterattack, and their own strategic needs,

have already abandoned the feeding‑style assault on Ta Ke and withdrawn completely.

Now, the entire Four‑Tusk Elephant Realm Ship is wholly Ta Ke's domain.

In recent years, Ta Ke's development of the Four‑Tusk Elephant Realm Ship has reached a brand‑new height.

The first and second decks have also been fully ecologically developed by Ta Ke.

The Steam Insect Tribe's ecological cycle and the construction of the old Steam Star ecology are both intact.

Additionally, the powerful steam ecologies of the third and fourth decks, built long ago, are in place.

Now!

The massive Four‑Tusk Elephant Realm Ship is gradually taking on the shape of a Steam Realm Ship.

In the core of the realm ship that others cannot perceive — the Realm Ship Core Ecology —

now, the steam ecological cycle is also beginning to run.

It is strongly supported by the steam ecology.

The Four‑Tusk Elephant Realm Ship not only no longer sinks, but also shows signs of breaking free.

The Blood Sea Sunken Ship is now gradually floating up, becoming a true realm ship—a true… Steam Realm Ship!

Meanwhile, the massive Mo Lei·Shen Ting and the enemies of the Foreign Divine Alliance are advancing from afar.

They have come to annihilate the realm ship.

At the top of the realm ship's mast.

Besides Ta Ke, there is Chao Shen Da Shi Gailisi and the Steam Spirit Wen Di, who has already ascended to the ninth rank.

Both are gazing into the distance.

But they can clearly see very little.

"How many wormholes have they opened?"

Gailisi, unable to see the deep void, furrows his brows and asks.

"I sense roughly sixteen."

Ta Ke thinks for a moment and replies.

"Sixteen… that many?"

A heavy pressure bears down fiercely on Gailisi's heart.

After all.

If this place becomes a battlefield,

he will have to personally fight; not only him, but all realm‑ship people cannot escape.

Each and every one must rush to the front.

A war of this scale

cannot be turned around by one or two people's strength.

"Generally speaking, not every Insect Empress possesses the ability to deploy troops through wormholes."

"Sixteen wormholes mean they have at least thirty Chao Shen Da Shi Shark Insect Empresses."

"Hiss… thirty master Shark Insect Empresses!"

Gailisi draws in a cold breath.

"Winning the world battlefield of the Blood Sea Ancient Ruins Sunken Ship cannot be done with only a few Shark Insect Empresses."

"Moreover, the number of Chao Shen Da Shi on their side could be several hundred, even up to a thousand."

Ta Ke says calmly.

"And beneath the Chao Shen Da Shi, the war legion's manpower reaches hundreds of millions."

Upon hearing that figure, Gailisi's eyes twitch violently.

He knows the battlefield situation is extremely grim.

But when the Grand Legion presses in, he truly feels the terrifying power of war.

If that thousand Chao Shen Da Shi were to unite and strike, this world would surely be shattered.

Of course, if the other side really does that.

Alu Mo Fu Ban Shen will instantly project over, slaughtering those Chao Shen Da Shi.

On the battlefield, the strong crush the weak; that's solidly the royal way.

But normally, the side forced to act often ends up at a disadvantage.

He gropes the newly forged, level‑120 demon ring staff on his wrist.

Ta Ke has a lingering desire to go up and try it.

But to try it would guarantee death.

Those legendary strongmen are eager for Ta Ke to just rush in.

Retracting his gaze, Ta Ke looks at the Si Ya Xiangjie Chuan beneath him.

The massive Si Ya Xiangjie Chuan is completely enveloped by a thick steam crystal wall.

After three years of the world crystal wall's ecological operation.

The steam crystal wall's thickness has settled to over thirty kilometers.

Even some steam has spread into the surrounding void blood sea.

The internal powerful steam ecological cycle.

The external steam crystal wall.

And the gradually forming steam realm ship world ecology.

This is the preparation Ta Ke made for this protracted war.

Of course, Ta Ke's preparations go far beyond that.

"Buzz!"

A master‑level ecological projection appears beside Ta Ke: Luo Mos.

Normally, Luo Mos, far away in the Zi Yulan transcendent world, could not project onto the Si Ya Xiangjie Chuan.

But now.

Luo Mos and his companions are located inside the Si Ya Xiangjie Chuan.

Not only Luo Mos is inside the Si Ya Xiangjie Chuan.

Zi Yulan's numerically powerful frontline Chao Shen Da Shi have also prepared within the Zi Yulan transcendent world.

Besides the Chao Shen Da Shi assisting the Si Ya Xiangjie Chuan.

Ta Ke also solidified two temporal‑spatial wormholes.

He opened a war corridor from Zi Yulan to the Si Ya Xiangjie Chuan.

At this very moment.

Two shark‑insect master queens within Zi Yulan's ecology are frantically sending troops into the Si Ya Xiangjie Chuan.

Thanks to the resonance between Ta Ke's steam and the ship's origin.

Zi Yulan's master‑level steam shark‑insects can enter the Si Ya Xiangjie Chuan unhindered.

For a long time, Ta Ke has invested resources and aid into Zi Yulan.

Now, Zi Yulan's war feedback is Ta Ke's strongest backing.

The enemy's forces, as if a tide, Boom—Boom—flood this side of the world.

Ta Ke's side is no weaker either.

Two fierce master‑level steam shark‑insect queens, eager to test themselves.

Ta Ke's own ninth‑tier pinnacle steam shark‑insect queen has also birthed a high‑grade shark‑insect army of three hundred million.

This three‑hundred‑million‑strong high‑grade shark‑insect army consists of standing shark‑insects.

Once war breaks out, the production of short‑lived seed steam shark‑insects can also quickly rise by over a hundred million.

To meet this frenzied, enduring war.

The foundation of Ta Ke's preparations is undeniably profound.

The projected Luo Mos looks down at the outline of the specially made "steam wristband" on his wrist and can't help but click his tongue in praise.

"Ta Ke, your method of communicating with the origin is truly marvelous."

"The forged wristband actually possesses the origin's protection and passage traits, allowing us to enter the Si Ya Xiangjie Chuan unimpeded."

Ta Ke merely gives a light smile.

The things that over 10,000% Steam·World·Origin Static can achieve are numerous!

Communicating with the origin is only the most basic, simplest aspect.

"How do we do it?"

Gazing at the distant starry sky, Luo Mos looks at Ta Ke and asks.

"Defend, and hard‑drag!"

Ta Ke replies briskly.

"In fact! The number of hundred‑level steam shark‑insects birthed by the steam master shark‑insect queens we have in reserve is fully comparable to the hundred‑level exotic shark‑insects produced by those thirty‑to‑forty exotic shark‑insect master queens over there."

"But relying on the world's steam crystal wall ecology, we will hold a greater advantage."

Knowing the steam ecology's traits, Luo Mos naturally understands Ta Ke's idea.

"Such close‑range melee, on one hand, provides us with more flesh‑and‑blood resources."

"Thus weakening their shark‑insect war potential."

"On the other hand... it also helps the steam realm ship break free of its restraints, right!"

Ta Ke nods.

"Of course, the most important aspect."

Luo Mo Si looked at Ta Ke and paused.

"The longer you drag it out, the more it benefits you; you also want to use this endless steam ecological cycle war to ascend to Chao Shen Da Shi, right?"

Ta Ke relaxed his shoulders and reached out with both hands.

"Senior Luo Mo Si, you've said everything; I have nothing left to say!"

"Ascend to Chao Shen Da Shi!"

Ta Ke took a deep breath, his eyes slightly narrowing.

"Indeed, it's faster!"

In these two years, Ta Ke borrowed cultivation from the Flame World Tree.

And the resonance between steam and the primal source, gaining primal cultivation.

Add to that the resources Ta Ke has in his own hands.

Combined, they make Ta Ke's growth speed astonishingly fast.

Although Ta Ke previously told Luo Mo Si that it would still take two or three years.

But in reality!

Ta Ke's foundation is even more profound than the outside world imagines.

Half a year later, Ta Ke's master‑sequence seed had already been preliminarily bound.

At that point, Ta Ke could directly settle the seed and ascend to master.

However, completing the preliminary binding only creates a master, which would be a 100‑level Chao Shen Da Shi.

Ta Ke communicated with the world's primal source, continuing to advance.

He elevated the steam‑chaos master seed to its utmost.

Once settled and born, it will be a 110‑level Chao Shen Da Shi, possibly even at level 110.

This can save a great deal of cultivation time.

A little less than half a day later!

Three War Portals tore open the void.

Masses of exotic shark insects, mechanical demon insects, evil‑flame snake insects, death worms…

Various kinds of exotic insect races.

They surged in overwhelming numbers, rumbling toward the worldship's domain.

They roared and shrieked, bearing a madness that sought to tear the world apart.

Meanwhile, Zi Yulan's steam shark insect master empress had already linked minds with Ta Ke's steam shark insect empress.

In the preparations of the steam shark insect empress and numerous shark insect priests.

Masses of powerful steam shark insects have already lurked within the steam crystal wall, murderous intent high, poised and waiting for their prey to arrive.

Very soon.

Exotic shark insects and steam shark insects opened a massive, meat‑grinder‑like, frantic slaughter.

The war, a blood‑and‑flesh grinding mill that swept across the entire world's insect races, grandly opened its curtain.

The surge of the insect war, simple yet not simple.

Both sides' Chao Shen Da Shi, legendary strongmen, even divine strongmen, were silently observing from the shadows.

If the chance arises, any strongman would not hesitate to act.

Beneath the grinding mill of flesh and blood war, the strong also clash silently!