SFS Chapter 266 Star Core Level
Chapter 266 Star Core Level
Song Chen stood on the sea, sheathed the Tianjun Blade, and stretched his shoulders.
"I've finally saved enough."
He took a deep breath.
The system panel unfolds before your eyes.
Upgrade the system level to level five.
The 100 million kill points I had just acquired vanished instantly.
[System main program is being upgraded...]
The panel dimmed for a moment, then a new color he had never seen before appeared—a deep, dark gold, like the afterglow of a star deep in the universe.
The font on the panel has also changed; the lines are thinner, and the edges have a faint glow.
The store icon, attribute bar, storage space, and all other modules have been re-rendered.
[System main program upgrade complete]
Current Level: Level 5
[Unlocked Product Tier: Star Core Level]
Star core level.
Song Chen stared at those three words, his mind going blank for a second.
Above S-class is the Star Core class.
He had always suspected that there should be levels above S-rank, which were not in the Great Xia martial arts system but were present in the system.
He had always assumed it would be called SS-level, or SSS-level, or something else—something within the human language system.
But the phrase "star core level" is quite interesting.
"Star Core," Song Chen repeated softly.
He raised his head and looked up at the starry sky above.
The night sky over the sea was free from urban light pollution, and the Milky Way was so clear it looked like a luminous river stretching across the sky.
Countless star cores, countless points of light, each one could be a world in itself.
The reason why Earth is the way it is today is because of that meteorite from fifty years ago.
Extraterrestrial civilization, star core level.
Song Chen put these two concepts together and went through them in his mind several times.
Meteorites were dropped by aliens, psychic energy was brought by aliens, and warriors and alien beasts were created by psychic energy.
The root of all this lies with that meteorite.
The product grade given by the system happens to have a name with cosmic connotations.
Song Chen thought about it, but couldn't figure it out.
He stood on the sea for a while, the sea breeze causing the straps of his Northern Darkness Armor to sway gently.
Then he looked away from the starry sky.
If you can't figure it out, don't think about it. You'll find out when the time is right.
He looked back at the system panel.
The upgraded system not only adds Star Core-level items, but its functionality has also changed. In the attribute bar, a plus sign has been added next to both Health and Spirit, with a line of small text next to them.
[Kill Points Conversion: 5000 points / 1 HP]
[Kill Points Conversion: 5000 points / 1 Spirit Power]
Song Chen was stunned for a moment; the kill points could now be added automatically.
Previously, attribute upgrades required using elixirs; now, you can directly add points, exchanging 5,000 for one point.
As long as you have enough kill points, you can add as many as you want.
Song Chen was overjoyed; this change was more practical to him than any new product.
Stuffing handfuls of pills into your mouth is no substitute for a direct boost.
He continued scrolling down the system panel.
The store page has been rearranged. A new tab has been added above the original product category bar, with the font still in dark gold and the words "Star Core" written on it.
Song Chen clicked on it.
[Combat Skill: Shattered Galaxy]
[Special Ability: Void Walking]
[Special Ability: Star Core Domain]
[Combat Skill: Star Annihilation Slash]
[Combat Skill: Star Mark Step]
[Special Ability: Void Travel]
[Combat Skill: Eternal Body]
……
Song Chen scrolled through the store list from beginning to end, and then from end to beginning.
The names of these products do not conform to the naming conventions of the Great Xia martial arts system.
The naming style of the Great Xia's combat skills is Seven Thunder Slashes, Wings of Gale, and Soaring.
The B-grade, A-grade, and S-grade combat skills that the system sold before were also in this style.
But the star-core class is not.
In the Star Core Realm, traversing the void, galaxies shatter...
Each name seems to have been plucked directly from the starry sky.
As Song Chen looked at these names, the thought returned to his mind: the Star Core level must be the level of an extraterrestrial civilization.
He was satisfied with everything in the store, but unfortunately, he had used up all his kill points while upgrading the system, so he could only look on helplessly.
He shook his head: "Let's go back first and talk about it then."
With a swift movement, he flew towards the direction of Tianhai.
Song Chen didn't walk fast on the way back to Tianhai.
The sea surface was covered with the corpses of various strange beasts, and the ocean currents slowly pushed these corpses toward the shore, forming a dam of floating corpses along the tide line.
Dozens of tugboats were at work, with the largest military tugboats towing the corpses of three sixth-tier beast kings towards Tianhai Port.
The massive body of the whale was pulled by four tugboats, leaving a wide trail on the sea.
The Abyss Python King's corpse was too long, so it was cut into three pieces and transported separately.
The giant squid's tentacles were cut off one by one, each one thicker than the deck of the tugboat. They were top-grade materials for supernatural abilities, and the people at the Martial Arts Research Institute had long been eyeing them with envy.
Song Chen stepped over the corpses, the soles of his Northern Darkness Armor boots creating ripples on the seawater.
The lights of Tianhai Port were already visible in the distance, and temporary searchlights were erected on the city walls, their beams sweeping back and forth across the sea.
The roar of machinery came from the direction of the dock; it was the dissection workshop for dissecting the corpses of alien beasts, operating around the clock since the start of the war.
Song Chen found Zhou Wangyue outside the port.
His teacher was standing on the bridge of a command ship, holding a tactical data board, surrounded by a group of staff officers.
Everyone was reporting on the progress of recovering the alien beast carcasses, the statistics on the city's defense losses, ammunition resupply requests, and the arrangements for transferring the wounded...
Zhou Wangyue listened and signed the document, occasionally pointing with his finger.
Song Chen landed on the bridge deck: "Teacher, how is Tianhai doing now?"
Zhou Wangyue handed the signed document to an advisor, not answering the question, but instead asking, "Have you killed enough?"
"Yes, that's enough killing." Song Chen nodded.
"Oh, right, there's something else."
Zhou Wangyue waved for the staff officers to disperse, leaving only the master and apprentice on the bridge.
He waved his hand: "Speak if you have something to say."
Song Chen cut to the chase: "I need information on all the Beast King's hideouts within the Great Xia territory."
Zhou Wangyue did not answer immediately. He turned to another page on the tactical data panel and pulled up a map marked with a red warning symbol.
On the map of the Great Xia Dynasty, eight red dots are distributed in various directions, with the estimated density of alien beasts and the highest combat power level marked next to each red dot.
Zhou Wangyue handed him the data panel: "There are eight sixth-tier beast king dens within the Great Xia territory, three of which are inland: the Qilian Mountains, the depths of the Daba Mountains, and the Yunling Rainforest."
"Five of them are located on the border: the Mongolian Plateau, the Tianshan Corridor, the South China Sea Islands, the Northeast Snowfield, and the Southern Tropical Rainforest."
Song Chen took the data tablet and slid his finger across the screen.
The intelligence on each hideout is very detailed, including the number of alien beasts, the type of beast king, terrain analysis, and the deployment of human defenses in the surrounding area.