Chapter 487: The Sequence Civilization Ladder!

"Die, die, die… all of you, die!"

The legendary top‑tier swordsman of the Green Star Clan, eyes blazing with fury, let out a chilling low growl as his sword's ringing reverberated through the entire night sky.

Even the scattered source energies around many strongmen turned into sword‑like light, gently rippling.

Within the silver sword‑light, divine power flickered like sparks and electric arcs.

Clearly, this mid‑rank legendary Green Star Clan strongman had already brushed the level of a weak demigod; this ultimate Sword Dao Divine Incantation could carry a portion of divine might.

Many strongmen naturally noticed that the Green Star swordsman had reached the threshold of a weak demigod.

Yet even such a powerful top‑tier Green Star swordsman…

…was in a terribly miserable state at that moment.

Blood‑red flames erupted from his body like a volcano, enveloping his legendary aura and spewing continuously from numerous wounds.

His right arm, cut off at the shoulder, hung limp.

His chest, abdomen and other spots were pierced by seven or eight steam‑like, glowing feather‑blades as hot as red‑hot branding irons.

The divine fire he strained to ignite was constantly suppressed by the calamity‑blood‑flame divine incantation and never gained momentum.

While resisting, the other segments of this Green Star swordsman's Sequence Vines had long since been burned to ash.

At this point, the Green Star's supreme transcendent swordsman was nothing more than a trapped beast in Ta Ke's hands.

After consulting with Lord Lei Qiao,

during the nearly two years of daily defense duties at the Temple,

Ta Ke began repeatedly employing Star Scar together with his various forbidden spells for combat slaughters.

More and more Green Star warriors fell dead at Ta Ke's hands.

As Ta Ke's fame grew day by day,

inevitably the top‑tier legendary strongmen of the Green Star Clan started to challenge him.

After all—

stepping on another's legendary name to ascend higher can solidify one's own legendary reputation.

And the Green Star strongman before us is said within the clan to bear the title "Sword Saint."

In the legendary realm, once one cultivates the Sword Dao Divine Incantation seed to legendary level, one may be crowned "Sword Saint."

This Green Star Sword Saint's strength was indeed extraordinary.

The moment they clashed, Ta Ke felt a definite pressure.

The opponent, however, sensed a mortal danger.

Amid the slaughter, many observing strongmen whispered among themselves.

"Ta Ke's use of Star Scar power is becoming ever more refined."

"Just over a year ago he only applied Star Scar to solid forbidden spells; now he's equally adept at using it in ethereal forbidden spells."

"I also heard Lord Lei Qiao has privately instructed Ta Ke on deeper utilization techniques many times."

"I've also heard that if Ta Ke weren't a human but a member of our Elf clan, I'd suspect he's Lord Lei Qiao's illegitimate son!"

While the elves on this side laughed and chatted cheerfully,

many strongmen of the Green Star clan wore far less pleasant expressions.

Over these past few years,

Ta Ke Lamoer has not spared killing their Green Star elites.

Though the Green Star clan boasts many legendary strongmen, being slaughtered by Ta Ke like pigs left everyone disgraced.

Moreover—

Ta Ke's rapid accumulation of legendary traits by treading on the corpses of countless Green Star legends is astonishing; in just a few years he has already advanced four levels.

The legendary realm.

Such rapid promotion is virtually impossible.

Their own clan's fame evidently acted as a "catalyst."

And that is precisely what the Green Star clan despises most.

Even more troublesome matters lie ahead.

Because Ta Ke can completely annihilate the Green Star's Sequence Vines, he has caused the true downfall of the Green Star clan.

This has made many formidable Green Star warriors unwilling to join their front line.

Even the Green Star strongmen dispatched there mostly try to avoid confronting Ta Ke.

Consequently, their front line has seen no progress for years.

Though Ta Ke's strength may not be exceptionally great,

the opponent's tactics are numerous and can truly snuff out the Green Star clan.

Thus, the deterrence Ta Ke has built surpasses even that of demigod‑level cultivators.

This makes many Green Star strongmen view Ta Ke as a thorn in their side.

Feeling the slaughter nearing its end, they followed the massive intertwining currents of divine incantation flame power.

"Boom!"

As Ta Ke whispered a detonation,

"Boom—"

A terrifying colossal explosion that made even demigods' spirits tremble swept the entire starry firmament.

The Forbidden Incantation: Star Explosion, once a powerful forbidden spell, now mainly serves as a "fuse."

A portion of the Black Hole power from Divine Incantation: Black Hole·Chain·Devourer, combined with the flame power of Divine Incantation: Calamity·Blood Flame, and Ta Ke's own underlying Chaos World of the Sequence,

using Forbidden Incantation: Star Explosion to trigger all this destructive force is truly a star‑sky divine incantation‑level phenomenon.

Amid the violent starburst rumble.

A Green Star Tribe Sword Saint was annihilated here.

If it had challenged other strong ones, even though this legendary sequence perished, their other sequences could still remain.

But the challenger was Taku Lamor.

Naturally, Taku would not give the opponent any chance of survival—one Taku kills one.

The tangled, intertwined projection of the Green Star Tribe's legendary sequence vines.

Not only the legendary sequence projection, but also the master projection and the ordinary sequence projection were all twisted to pieces.

A massive palm suddenly burst from the legendary sequence projection and squeezed down toward Taku.

Purple divine power flared brilliantly, and the surrounding spatial world was completely crushed.

A demigod-level strongman of the Green Star Tribe made a move.

Unable to contend with a demigod-level foe, but escaping was still no problem.

The moment Taku sensed the Green Star Tribe's unprincipled demigod making a move, his projection immediately performed a phase traversal.

This phase technique, after its level increased, proved very useful for traversal.

Clack…clack…clack…

The void was crushed into fragments.

But Taku evaded that strike.

The attack caused Taku's projection to slip away, and the Green Star Tribe demigod instantly became enraged.

The massive hand grasped again.

This time, the space within a thousand‑kilometer radius was suppressed by divine power, clearly intending to finish Taku.

Boom!

Another surge of demigod divine power also erupted.

Demigod Lei Qiao, a night‑elf strongman, made a move.

At the instant Demigod Lei Qiao acted, a distinctive curse rang out.

"Shameless Green Star trash, I'm going to teach you a lesson today, you bitch‑bred mongrel, learn what manners and integrity are."

Boom—boom—boom…

While hurling verbal attacks, Demigod Lei Qiao's strike was also quite ruthless.

Demigod Lei Qiao scolding his subordinates is fine, but he is also extremely protective of himself.

Many attacks aiming at Taku were blocked by him.

Taking advantage of the gap, Taku naturally fled the battlefield swiftly.

In Taku's understanding, many strong ones should possess the lofty, revered demeanor of a true master.

But in reality, each strong one's personality differs.

Some are deep‑minded and never smile or speak lightly.

Others are wildly arrogant and fearless.

Clearly, Demigod Lei Qiao belongs to the latter.

Amid the duel of the two demigods.

Taku observed the duel of the two demigod strongmen closely, feeling a hint of sentiment.

When facing demigod strongmen, there was a time when Taku dared not even watch from afar and had to leave quickly.

Now, Taku can calmly watch the demigod duel.

Even under demigod attacks, he can still dodge and buy some time, perhaps even escape.

Soon!

The clash between the demigods concluded.

The assault here ended once again with the Green Star Tribe's failure.

Such offensive‑defensive battles have occurred periodically over the years Taku defended the Star Scar·Ancient God Statue Stone Hall.

Moreover, the frequency is increasing.

From this corner, Taku can also feel the overall front lines growing ever more intense.

Star Scar·Ancient God Statue Stone Hall.

Taku, having withdrawn his projection, slowly opened his eyes.

"Two months ago my level rose to 220, and the legendary source energy underwent a minor metamorphosis; although there were no major breakthroughs, even these source energy improvements bring a decent boost."

"After reaching a higher level, achieving a major advance requires decades or even centuries of hidden cultivation to break a key node; otherwise… it's hard to undergo a qualitative change."

"For me, maintaining a steady level‑sequence increase."

"Just wait for the key node at level 240; after all, that's the realm of a weak demigod and also the divine domain!"

"Besides… during this period my research on the Steam Demigod Statue yielded some gains in the sequence‑civilization ecology."

In thought, Taku lightly waved his hand, and as the source energy of the Half‑Artifact Forgotten Divine Ring blossomed, a passage to the Divine Realm·Mystic Ancient House opened.

Entering the Divine Realm·Mystic Ancient House, a nation that resembles a massive chamber‑world.

A peculiar ecological force of the sequence civilization spread in Taku's perception, revealing a distinct outline.

Some of these powers emanated from the high towers of the steam ecology and the surrounding steam source energy.

Some arose from the daily life, battles, and work of the Steam Mechanical Clan.

Others were feedback from the Steam Chaotic Star Core nurturing the ecological nation of the entire Mystic Ancient House world.

These sequence‑civilization forces gradually coalesced and rose, forming a towering, vast staircase leading to the void vortex deep in the high sky!

And this is why many strong beings yearn to ascend the higher‑level Civilization Sequence Ladder.

Ta Ke lifted his hand and brushed lightly.

The interwoven threads passed through Ta Ke's palm as if they were nothing.

Those void threads are even hard for Ta Ke to touch.

Sequence! Civilization!

Life is born from the most primitive transcendental traits and matter, forging civilization.

Then life and civilization, in turn, drive transcendental traits to construct the sequence, climbing to higher tiers.

Throughout the whole process.

The vast transcendental world's ecology, matter, energy, and life all undergo a cycle.

Following this cycle forms part of, or the starting point of, the Civilization Sequence Ladder.

But this naturally cycled Civilization Sequence Ladder is too weak to support the ascent of strong beings.

As a top‑tier strong one of a mighty civilization,

one can touch this cycle and continuously reinforce and build a ladder of one's own sequence civilization.

Ta Ke, already accomplished in transcendental ecology, has a decent talent; as his level rises, he can gradually discern the sequence threads and thus strengthen the Steam Sequence Civilization Ladder.

However, after mastering the powerful transcendental talent Steam·Civilization·Weaver,

and with Ta Ke's study and mastery of the demigod statue,

now Ta Ke can touch the Civilization Sequence Ladder and reinforce it.

In recent years, Ta Ke has gradually used the Steam·Civilization·Weaver to guide and weave the steam ecology's power to strengthen the Civilization Ladder.

Not only has the ecology inside the Divine Kingdom·Mystic Ancient House shown results,

but even the numerous external steam ecologies, up to the Steam·Chaos Star Core, have shown slight effects.

The Civilization Sequence Ladder above level 300 is under construction!

Ta Ke estimates that many strong beings in the chaotic ancient continent's starry transcendental world should sense these changes.

Divine strong ones' scent detection remains keen.

In his thoughts, Ta Ke flicked his hand and produced a token of solid dragon‑blood wood grain.

At this moment!

The blood‑colored aura blooming from the dragon‑blood wood token pulsed rhythmically like breathing.

Months ago, Lord Lei Qiao handed this dragon‑blood wood token to Ta Ke.

He told Ta Ke that when the token shines, it signals the opening of the Divine Forbidden Land.

At the same time, the direction guided by this dragon‑blood wood is the gathering point for this advance into the Divine Forbidden Land.

In the past two days, the dragon‑blood wood's aura has risen, clearly indicating the entry time point has arrived.

"When Lord Lei Qiao delivered this token, he instructed me to explore forward silently."

"Mainly to prevent the Green Star Clan from tracking and discovering that coordinate."

"Although there are several coordinate locations, reaching one undetected and safely is far better than encountering complications."

"Currently the Green Star Clan has added many elite members in this area, especially demigod strong ones, reportedly five or six more."

"Know that under the Three‑Eyed God of our human ecological world, there are only seven powerful demigods."

"If discovered and relentlessly pursued, it would be troublesome."

"After today's battle, it will be almost…"

Ta Ke gently rubbed his palm.

"It should be over now!"

In his thoughts, Ta Ke began to act.

……

A little half‑day later.

Deep in Furora's Cosmic Mountain Range, on the world‑vine strung between the World Tree,

"Boom—boom—boom…"

A legendary source energy, perfectly attuned to nature, surged as a hidden current, causing the whole world to tremble slightly.

As the first raindrop fell, it tore a startling mark in space.

Immediately, a divine curse like a sudden gale and rain swept over everything.

The entire massive vine was covered by the divine curse Star·Rain·Cascade.

Ta Ke, hurrying along, stared at the abruptly erupting divine curse converging from all directions, feeling a bit stunned.

To avoid the external net of detection set by the Green Star Clan and unnecessary trouble,

Ta Ke proceeded smoothly along the world‑vine, like picking fruit along a vine.

The continuous days of travel have been very steady.

But today, just as he was about to reach the coordinate, in this seemingly normal area, things went awry.

Moreover, the one who discovered Ta Ke and cast a forbidden curse was only a lower‑rank legend, whose level is just 215, lower than Ta Ke's.

Ta Ke swung one hand and raised a half‑artifact light shield.

This half‑artifact light shield was seized by Ta Ke.

It contains the power of luminous traits, which Ta Ke loves and finds very handy.

Ta Ke therefore treats it as one of his armors.

Clang—clang—

Dense divine‑curse raindrops hammered the half‑artifact light shield like heavy hammers, exploding into waves of bright light.

He realized that he was only discovered after breaking into the lower legend's ecological nest region.

Ta Ke defended while swiftly infiltrating this legendary ecology, searching for the Green Star Tribe legend that had attacked him.

Ta Ke's legendary will was like a sharp dagger, piercing straight through.

The Green Star Tribe legend did not expect that this human legend was so fierce, daring to use his own legendary will to enter its legendary ecological realm.

Immediately, the Green Star Tribe legend deep within the ecology mobilized forces in succession to hinder Ta Ke.

But when trying to block him, the Green Star Tribe legend was stunned to find it could not block him at all.

Ta Ke quickly mastered the power of Star Scar, aligning it with his legendary will and injecting it into the opponent's legendary ecology like a blade—one of the methods he had long wanted to test.

This slight trial yielded a truly astonishing result.

As Ta Ke's legendary will surged forward, he roamed the opponent's ecology as if entering an uninhabited realm, searching at will.

"Ta Ke!"

A voice, a mix of shock and anger, came, tinged with a hint of resentment.

After all, this was his legendary ecological domain, now invaded by the opponent's legendary will, and most importantly, he could not stop it.

This is a more ecological banditry than an ecological invasion.

"Oh? So you know me?"

Ta Ke chuckled softly.

Immediately, his legendary will surged along the pathway and poured in forcefully.

"Pop!"

The remaining ecological will over there shattered like bubbles.

"Running away so cleanly? I thought a Green Star Tribe legend with such astonishing insight power would duel me to the death!"

"Truly... so slippery, a rare human clarity."

With that thought, Ta Ke instantly wielded the primordial power of the cosmic mountains, leaping and traversing away from the place.

Sure enough, just a few breaths after Ta Ke left,

Two top‑tier Green Star Tribe demigods traversed time and space, arriving swiftly; their powerful demigod divine power probed and rapidly swept across the entire world.

"Ran away?"

"Looks like they ran, and there are ripples of spatial fluctuations."

"Can it be detected?"

"Very difficult! The mountain's primordial power covered the fluctuations; although we can guess the traversal distance is short, even that short range is a scope we have been unable to fully investigate for centuries."

"So Ta Ke is indeed set to explore the Divine Forbidden Land."

"No problem; several Sequence True Gods have already deduced this situation."

"If Ta Ke enters the Divine Forbidden Land this time, even if he is immortal, we can still neutralize him, because in the Divine Forbidden Land the power we have accumulated far surpasses any of their forces, aimed at dealing with Ta Ke, the Elf King of the Elf Tribe, and the Star Core Giant of the Starlight Clan—beings hopeful of ascending to divinity."

"Moreover, this time it's not only the Mountain Elf Tribe sending a large number of talented legendary elves, but also the Starlight Clan and several other opposing factions, each sending many strong ones in."

"Unfortunately for them, the Green Star Tribe has long set a massive harvesting net in this regard."

"This time, they will pay a tragic price for their greed!"