Chapter 485: Intimidating the Curtain Shadow Demigod!

Outside a mottled, shattered World Tree Minor Divine Kingdom.

Within a radius of several tens of thousands of kilometers around it, most of the World Trees have been struck down and shattered.

A battle of astonishing scale is currently underway.

The number of participants on both sides exceeds forty or fifty.

Not only are there Legendary projections, but top-tier Legendary powerhouses are also fighting.

Moreover, there are several points of weak Demigod-level strength engaging in high-intensity combat.

The spatial layers have long been twisted upside down.

In the distance, Demigod-level power also lurks in the shadows.

In the midst of the slaughter, many Legendary-level forces try to get as close as possible to the mountains and to the vicinity of the World Tree.

【Chaos·Calamity Blood Flame】

Even when facing Demigod artifact armor.

At the same time, Ta Ke also imbues a little of the Star Trace power.

With that thought, Ta Ke, who has preliminarily prepared the Legendary Ecological Magic Net, sees a Green Star Clan Legendary expert approaching here.

At this moment, the fighting in all corners is gradually drawing to a close.

Two huge, sharp, blood-flame-wreathed light feather blades, each a hundred meters long, have already emerged from behind him, avoiding the Demigod armor, and pierced directly into his Legendary state.

"Moreover… your Legendary true body may not die, but those Legendary masters of yours, as well as the transcendent-state sequence segments beneath them, will surely not be preserved."

"Not good!"

Accompanied by a twisted howl.

"Because it's a projection, it can't kill you, but it's enough to make you suffer."

A corner of the brutal slaughter war.

Moreover, in the depths of the void, with no cover, once locked onto by a special forbidden spell, it will become very troublesome.

Meanwhile, Ta Ke, focusing on his spellcasting, pays no heed to the roar of the projection of that mid-tier Legendary powerhouse.

The mid-tier Green Star Clan Legendary knight who was opposing that Legendary swordsman just unleashed a Heavy Sword Forbidden Spell strike, and suddenly felt something was wrong, his face drastically changing.

Even if it cannot be completely blocked, being able to offset part of it is good.

And this, too, is experience summed up by many Legendary powerhouses from long-standing slaughter.

Such a life-and-death struggle naturally cannot give the opponent even the slightest such opportunity.

But that sharp Divine Curse blade still pierced through.

After advancing to Legendary, Ta Ke's Eternal·World combined with Steam·Light Feather Blade already possesses astonishing penetration and destructive power; adding the Star Trace power now makes it utterly terrifying in its destructive capability.

"You damned cunning bastards, is it not just because I've killed more of your Green Star Clan over the past two or three years that you're guarding against me like this?"

"This time, it's again three projections coming to surround me."

"Ta Ke… your flames can't burn me to death; you just wait for me!"

First, it can avoid the enemy's potential concentrated fire.

【Steam·Light Feather Blade】

A Green Star Clan Legendary projection howls in uncontrollable rage.

By contrast, near the mountainous land, the World Tree, World Tree vines, and the like are nearby.

At the same time, indeed there are spellcasters releasing large-scale forbidden spells, even divine curses, who can also use these massive obstacles to block.

The Three Great Divine Curse Forbidden Spells are linked together.

As long as an opportunity arises, Ta Ke can deliver a heavy blow to the opponent, severely injuring or even killing them.

"Whoosh—"

It is precisely because of this experience that many World Trees have become the first to suffer in the slaughter of battle.

Feeling the traces of having been torn apart and scorched by the pervasive Divine Curse Calamity Blood Flame, Ta Ke gave a low, cold chuckle twice.

"In the several battles over the past half year, the Green Star Clan has done this every time."

If in the deep void above, those spellcasters can easily lock onto a target and concentrate fire.

Ta Ke also showed no courtesy, acting decisively.

【Star Trace】 power in Ta Ke's hands has already begun to show its edge.

Ta Ke, slowly gathering and condensing his Divine Curse meridians, looks around.

"Even if I can't kill you, crippling you halfway is enough!"

Although there is no position directly protected by Demigod artifact armor, there is also the bolstering of Demigod artifact defensive power.

【Black Hole·Chain·Devourer】 wielding 【Chaos·Calamity Blood Flame】 ruthlessly tore apart the mid-tier Legendary projection.

【Eternal·Vision】

"Hiss—"

The scorching Divine Curse blood flame, like a flood, instantly poured into the Legendary sequence of the Green Star Clan knight.

"Hah… die for me!"

Meanwhile, the swordsman opposite him also seized the chance to strike down with a sword.

Sizzle—

Half of the Green Star Clan Legendary knight's head was directly sliced off, his Legendary state suffering severe loss.

Crimson Calamity Blood Flame surged forth from the wound on the Legendary state's head like a volcano.

The Divine Curse "Calamity Blood Flame" ravaging the Legendary sequence and state left this mid-tier Green Star Clan Legendary knight utterly unable to resist.

"Hahaha—"

The Elves' legendary swordsman laughed as sharp divine spells, forbidden sword slashes erupted successively.

While each sword swing unleashes astonishing destructive power, it also shatters the legendary state of the Green Star Clan's legends.

"Prince Ta Ke, I'll leave the corpses for you later, but I'm taking everything else."

The legendary elf swordsman also knows what Ta Ke wants; while attacking, he says to Ta Ke:

"No problem!"

Ta Ke nods, and thus does not continue to intervene in their battle.

After scanning the surroundings, he confirms that several other battles nearby are also gradually coming to an end.

Ta Ke directly flies toward the Divine Kingdom garrisoned there.

Even though Green Star Clan powerhouses atop the distant World Tree notice this scene and feel indignant, they can do nothing against Ta Ke!

After all, they have previously targeted Ta Ke's projections.

But turning around, Ta Ke unleashes a stronger legendary projection, counterattacking them in a wave against the Green Star Clan.

Although in that battle they also killed many of Ta Ke's formidable legendary projections, causing his true body to suffer considerable injury.

But they paid an extremely gruesome price for it.

Many Green Star Clan legendary powerhouses were killed or wounded.

They know that besieging his projections and provoking Ta Ke leads to a dire outcome.

Nowadays, the Green Star Clan has also become wiser.

Using their Green Star Clan lives to exchange for Ta Ke's projections is nothing but a bloody loss.

Ta Ke has been garrisoned at the 【Star Traces·Ancient God Statue Stone Hall】 for nearly three years now.

At the beginning, Ta Ke merely followed many spellcasters in engaging in projection battles.

Although the participants were all legendary-level powerhouses engaged in fierce and brutal combat, and Ta Ke's projections were often shattered.

But overall, the situation was normal.

But as Ta Ke repeatedly used the divine spell 【Chaos·Calamity Bloodflame】 to burn to death the Green Star Clan's full sequence of fighters, the situation gradually increased.

The Green Star Clan then began to guard against Ta Ke.

And the Green Star Clan's precautions...

Moreover, after that battle a year ago where they besieged a point and sent reinforcements targeting Ta Ke's projection,

Ta Ke gradually gained fame within the 【Star Traces·Ancient God Statue Stone Hall】 area.

As Ta Ke arrived to participate in the defense of the 【Kairia】 minor Divine Kingdom,

Many of the projections that had come to support and whose battles had ended, as well as the legendary powerhouses stationed here, turned their gazes toward Ta Ke.

"Lord Lei Qiao!"

Ta Ke salutes the dark-skinned demigod projection, then stands behind it.

"Hmm! Well done!"

Meanwhile, Lei Qiao, whose face remains as cold and calm as ever, rare as it is, offered a word of praise.

This dark elf "Lei Qiao", who oversees the 【Xiluoyue·Goddess Statue Ecology】, though somewhat hot-tempered, possesses astonishingly strong strength.

Back when the Green Star Clan besieged Ta Ke's projection,

Lei Qiao also decisively supported, not retreating half a step, re-projecting even if his projection was shattered.

Otherwise, Ta Ke would have struggled to counter-kill many Green Star Clan powerhouses.

Although Ta Ke's projection has some strength, in terms of projection support,

the truly crucial role still belongs to this dark elf "Lord Lei Qiao".

Many gazes from afar wandered over Ta Ke for a moment, then gradually withdrew.

Many people gathered together, whispering amongst themselves.

"Is that guy the Ta Ke who has risen to fame recently?"

"Of course it is; if it weren't for Ta Ke, those many legendary powerhouses of the projection wouldn't even be praised—just getting off with a couple of scoldings would make them happy for two days."

"Exactly! You know Lord Lei Qiao usually doesn't give a good face to many people, but his attitude toward that Ta Ke has improved considerably."

"I also heard that the other day, Lord Lei Qiao even scolded a newly promoted legendary elf maiden to the point of tears on the spot; you know, reaching the legendary realm involves countless battles and cultivation, their sequence will is already extremely resilient, yet he made her cry with his scolding—just imagine how harsh his words were."

"Hehe... If we had Ta Ke's strength and talent, we naturally wouldn't suffer demigod reprimands, and might even become a key cultivation target of the demigod state."

"Having just promoted to lower legendary not long ago, he can easily use projections to slay mid-tier Green Star Clan legendary powerhouses; such ability is extremely rare even in the history of our A'fa Elf Kingdom."

"Indeed! Previously Ta Ke killed thirty or forty Green Star Clan legendary powerhouses, and more importantly, we only managed to kill at most the legendary segments of those Green Star Clan legendary powerhouses."

"And this Ta Ke, when he slays the Green Star Clan, he truly uproots their vines completely, eradicating them thoroughly."

"I privately heard that the Green Star Clan fears Ta Ke even more than they fear Lord Lei Qiao!"

"His deterrence against the Green Star Clan is completely unparalleled!"

"Hehe... Being able to directly exterminate all of the Green Star Clan's vine sequences is practically the bane of the Green Star Clan—who among them wouldn't tremble upon seeing him?"

"Furthermore, I've heard that Ta Ke, upon arriving at the 【Xiluoyue·Goddess Statue Ecology】 of the 【Star Traces·Ancient God Statue Stone Hall】 only two or three years ago, has already grasped the power of Star Traces, and his extraordinary talent is off the charts!"

"To master the power of Star Traces in such a short time? Indeed, somewhat absurd."

"Lord Lei Qiao, who guards the difficult 【Xiluoyue·Goddess Statue Ecology】, will look upon Ta Ke with new eyes—turns out there's this layer of connection!"

"If this were a legendary elf of our Elf Kingdom, they'd surely be summoned back to the depths of the Divine Kingdom for comprehensive cultivation—too bad he's a human!"

"If our people produced such a genius, the whole clan would have been in an uproar long ago!"

"Ta Ke's talent is so astonishing; why then does he fight here among us?"

"That guy's sequence-ecology civilization is being invaded by the Green Star Clan... and I heard the specific location is in that death-sunken Dead Star disaster land!"

"Oh! Now I see, I understand!"

Amidst the private discussions of many powerhouses, the battles on the outskirts of the Divine Kingdom soon drew to a close.

The elf swordsman who previously helped Ta Ke flew over nearby and, from a distance, tossed him an extraordinary bracer.

Ta Ke took it over and looked, and indeed it was the Green Star Clan Legendary Knight he had previously set on fire.

From the collapsing, dead sequence remains, Ta Ke could feel that his other sequence vine segments had already died first before this Legendary segment perished.

Although this sequence-state remains are already gruesome, being able to piece together a humanoid outline is already difficult, but it can still be used.

Many Green Star Clan powerhouses in the distance watched the numerous powerful support projections arriving around the Divine Kingdom, seeing no chance, they reluctantly dispersed.

And those Green Star Clan powerhouses, as they surveyed the Divine Kingdom, many of their gazes fell upon Ta Ke.

After all!

Over these past few years, Ta Ke's terrifying flame methods.

It has frightened many Green Star Clan Legendaries.

Even many Green Star Clan Legendary powerhouses are now unwilling to come here to fight.

Even if they do fight, they will try to avoid Ta Ke as much as possible.

After all, the gains of war belong to the clan, but one's life is one's own.

As for what's more important, those elites of the Green Star Clan naturally know.

After the Green Star Clan dispersed,

Numerous projections then began to assist a certain small Divine Kingdom in scouting and reconstructing its shielding defenses.

Such similar battles have already taken place many times in the defense of the Star Trace·Ancient God Statue Stone Hall over these past few years.

After a short while, Ta Ke, having finished this round of defense, returned with his spoils to the Star Trace·Ancient God Statue Stone Hall.

"Hah..."

Inside the magical cottage, Ta Ke, who was seated in meditation, rarely eased his cultivation.

He lightly rubbed the newly acquired transcendent storage bracer.

Feeling for a moment the powerful mid-tier Legendary remains within, Ta Ke nodded slightly.

"This counts as quite good top-tier star-phase material; using such material, the star-phase projections constructed will be stronger."

"Moreover..."

Ta Ke paused, then muttered to himself.

"That demigod 【Life Veil】 has consumed so many of my good things; it should give me more feedback. Over these years, I can count as its major client!"

The foundation of Ta Ke's Steam Star-Phase Grandmastery is the 【Legendary Soul Veil】 forbidden spell ritual.

As his strength grew, Ta Ke gradually came to grasp the final direction of these rituals, as well as the mysterious entity behind them.

Previously, that entity could only be looked up to, never touched.

Now, as Ta Ke advances to Legendary, his foundation gradually becomes substantial.

Divinity grasped in hand, and further settled within the Legendary ecosystem.

Ta Ke now also has the capital to converse with those mysterious and powerful beings!

Inside the Divine Kingdom's Magical Cottage.

Above the firmament are huge twenty-plus Steam-Chaos Star Cores.

Beneath the blazing star cores, large numbers of the Steam-Mechanical Clan move back and forth here, building their Steam-Mechanical nation.

Thanks to the powerful steam-ecological force unleashed by the Steam-Chaos Star Cores,

this Steam-Mechanical nation has already begun to give birth to master-level Steam-Mechanical beings.

Although they cannot yet participate in Ta Ke's level of battle, they can still handle some odd jobs.

Moreover, Ta Ke can also let them graze in the external steam ecosystem, allowing them to develop freely in the outside world.

As a strong promoter of the steam ecosystem, scattering some Steam-Mechanical beings within the steam ecosystem is quite reasonable, right?

On a cliff deep within the Steam-Mechanical nation.

Ta Ke stands silently here.

Meanwhile, large numbers of mid-to-high tier Steam-Mechanical beings prostrate themselves reverently around him, showing faith, worship, and a sense of destiny belonging to Ta Ke.

As the founder of the 【Steam-Mechanical Clan】.

Ta Ke is truly the father god of the 【Steam-Mechanical Clan】.

At this moment, before Ta Ke's eyes, the altar of the 【Legendary Soul Veil】 with its metal basic framework has already been constructed.

"At least these guys' altar construction is far more careful and detailed than if I did it myself."

"If I did it myself, at best it would just be usable."

"While these Steam-Mechanical tribes, in every detail, strive for perfection."

Previously, one had to perform the chanting of the 【Legendary Soul Veil】 ritual.

This time, Ta Ke directly threw the remains of a mid-tier Legendary Green Star Clan member onto the altar.

"I think we should talk!"

Ta Ke's tone was indifferent and calm.

Not long after, a dim shadow flame rose up from the altar.

Pairs of deep, mysterious eyes, like stars, flickered uncertainly within the hazy shadow flame.

Ordinary transcendents who dare to meet those strange eyes will suffer damage to their sequences.

But Ta Ke calmly met their gaze.

"I want to build an ecosystem here."

"I hope the sacrificial ritual here stays open for a long time, so that whenever someone puts resources into the altar, they receive corresponding feedback."

"No matter what level of resource input, we need as much feedback as possible."

"At the same time... I hope the feedback gained from sacrificing resources can be as great as possible."

You can choose to disagree, but I have already, through some rituals of others, found other spirits with the 【Curtain Shadow】 trait.

Even…… I guess some of them might be your enemies, right?

As Ta Ke's words trailed off.

The shadow flame sank into silence, as if it were thinking.

After a long while, the eyes within the shadow flame suddenly burst open.

Ta Ke·La Mo Er…… your demands are too greedy!

For this mysterious 【Curtain Shadow】 demigod, knowing its name, Ta Ke wasn't the least bit surprised, after all Ta Ke had already sacrificed more than once or twice.

That's been tens of thousands of sacrifices over the past several decades!

Ta Ke, however, smiled and then began to speak slowly.

I have already offered you countless resources, and I may offer even more in the future.

What's most important…… I might become stronger than you in the future, you mysterious elemental spirit-like demigods; the sequence civilization ecology can hardly support you reaching level 300, right?

A silent threat mixed with maneuvering caused the flickering shadow flame to fall silent again.

I will try to give you more feedback.

After all, the other party still gave Ta Ke a steady reply.

I like cooperating with wise gods!

Ta Ke put on a smile and tried to give a friendly reply, as if the previous threat had never existed.

As the remains of the Green Star Tribe's legendary figure were devoured, the fallen legendary Curtain Shadow proved to be much stronger than before.

As Ta Ke tossed the Curtain Shadow aside, a large number of steam machines immediately lifted this life-sequence Curtain Shadow and rushed toward the nearby 'Steam Star Phase Ecology Zone'.

In the Steam Star Phase Ecology Zone, these Curtain Shadows will be transformed by the ecology into the corresponding 'Steam Star Phase Master' or 'Legend·Steam Star Phase'.

At this moment, Ta Ke and this Curtain Shadow demigod reached a cooperation agreement.

From now on, Ta Ke only needs to throw corpses in, and he won't have to operate it himself.

The steam machines can then complete all subsequent operations, truly 'procedural mechanization'.

Leaving the God Nation·Magical Cottage.

First, take a brief look at the training progress of the auto‑training for this period's 【Xi Luo Yue·Goddess Statue Ecology】.

Then Ta Ke re‑entered the training state, while also sending a thread of his mind to the demigod stone statue outside to conduct deep study and learning.

Auto‑training, study and learning, battle and slaughter!

These past few years, Ta Ke's training rhythm here.

Aside from this place being a bit dangerous, possibly being surrounded by enemies, Ta Ke's training progress over these years has been quite good.

Just as Ta Ke was gradually immersing himself in contemplating the demigod stone statue.

Ta Ke!

A voice interrupted Ta Ke's training.

"Huh?" Ta Ke looked up and discovered it was actually the strong‑tempered, scolding‑loving, powerful demigod 'Lei Qiao'.

But this time, Lei Qiao did not have his usual aloof, ever‑ready‑to‑explode demeanor.

The more this was the case, the more Ta Ke felt a few doubts in his heart.

After all, Ta Ke had also been scolded several times before.

But today, Lord Lei Qiao is somewhat different from before.

This time he even came over, obviously there must be something important.

If there were no important matter, this demigod lord would not pay a personal visit.

"Lord Lei Qiao!"

Ta Ke quickly opened the passage of the Magical Cottage and invited the demigod Lei Qiao inside.