Chapter 1629: Entering the Star Battlefield

Darkness, weightlessness.

Inside the transmission channel, Lin An felt as if his body were being crushed, disintegrating into the tiniest basic structures.

Expanded to the limit, it felt as if he were infinitely large.

Shrunk to the limit, it felt as if he were only a single point.

Constantly distorting and magnifying senses, it robbed one of the ability to self‑perceive.

Like a transparent dimensional worm, in the narrow pipe he was swept along by a torrent toward the unknown.

"Just how long has this transmission been going on..."

Straining to lift his "head," Lin An barely controlled his thoughts, striving to perceive everything around him.

Oppressed, powerless, dissociated.

Unlike any previous instance transmission, this journey to the Star Battlefield seemed completely different.

He could not estimate how much time had passed, nor could he judge where he was.

Barely opening his eyes, Lin An could only see the space around him warping and spreading forward.

All around were gorgeous, multicolored flashes.

In the view, the stars overlapped, each brilliant star seeming to pile atop another.

Overlap upon overlap.

The world's brightness kept rising.

In a kaleidoscope‑like channel, it seemed every point of light was merging and brightening.

When countless rivers of stars, like stacked paper, kept piling up, the entire star river merged into a huge sphere of light.

Soon, the endlessly stacked stars turned into the ultimate light.

Just like the initial moment of the cosmic big bang, it rapidly expanded in Lin An's sight.

Watching such a shocking scene, beyond the limits of imagination.

Even if Lin An remained as calm as possible, at this moment he couldn't help but lose himself a little.

It was like an ant that, having unintentionally glimpsed a corner of the universe, lost the ability to think.

"Is this... truly spatial folding technology?"

"Am I in a wormhole? Or did the system directly fold a path through the universe!?"

He could not comprehend what principle this transmission was based on.

After struggling to regain his senses, Lin An strove to resist the various indescribable distortions, trying to understand everything.

Whether it was Chu An or the fugitives, they had told him that the best way to study the rule‑lines was to watch the rules in action!

Although hard to comprehend, this was merely an ordinary transmission.

But constantly craving to grow stronger, Lin An naturally could not let this chance slip by.

But he didn't have long to analyze it.

In an instant, white light surged.

After the endless light seemed to devour his entire field of view, a terrifying eruptive force burst forth from within the channel.

The next second, Lin An's vision went black and he instantly left the transmission state.

"Beep, entered the Star Battlefield."

"Please complete the mission according to system instructions."

"Current Star Battlefield level (Level 1), difficulty: extremely low"

Half a minute later.

He gasped heavily.

Like a rebirth, like a fish returning to the sea.

After disengaging from the spatial transmission state, Lin An struggled to stand upright, spending considerable time before regaining control of his body.

Before his eyes appeared a semi‑transparent system screen.

On the screen loomed a huge map, with a red dot at the center and blinking blue dots at the edges.

According to the markings, that blue dot indicated his position.

In the mission, there were only two short lines of text.

"The Star War preparation phase will begin in ten minutes."

"All trial participants must reach the Death Star Fortress within thirty minutes, or be erased!"

"Before the war begins, all trial participants will be unable to directly attack each other."

"Preparation countdown: 9:59"

"War countdown: 39:59"

The icy, bright‑red numbers flickered.

Watching the erasure countdown, Lin An drifted slightly, as if recalling a mission he had once experienced.

It felt very familiar.

Is the punishment for the preparation phase just erasure?

But...

Trial participants?

This title carries many meanings.

Lin An's gaze narrowed; he instantly realized that the Star Battlefield's type was much like previous trials.

In that case...

The Overseer had indeed not deceived him.

His replacement mission is far from being a life-and-death catastrophe; it's more of a competitive type. Although people will still die, the intensity probably isn't too high?

Single-person mission, just stay alive..

Looks like, there's nothing special about it.

The initial system prompt also said it was extremely low difficulty.

However, although he judged the difficulty to be much better than he imagined, Lin An did not relax his vigilance at all.

The low difficulty is for the Fifth Stage.

But for him, it's not like that.

Especially...

Step and exert force.

In an instant, Lin An burst forth with half of his strength and charged forward.

The yellow-brown ground beneath his feet instantly cracked.

The dust kicked up fell back to the ground instantly at high speed behind Lin An.

Accompanied by a delayed whistling wind.

One second later, Lin An's expression suddenly turned grim.

Looking back, this charge of his only covered less than a kilometer.

Under super-effective thinking, Lin An instantly calculated his true speed and the world's gravity field value.

At least over... three hundred times gravity!

Is it a rule limitation, or does this planet's gravity really reach this height?!

Under normal state burst, my speed is about a hundred times the speed of sound, but just now it was only about three times...

Feeling the immense pressure filling his whole body, Lin An subconsciously looked up.

In the dimly bright sky where no celestial bodies could be seen, moving black chains were shifting.

Like a seal, it blocked off the entire sky.

It's quite obvious, this doesn't look like a planet.

And these chains are likely to prevent them from leaving the battlefield.

Under constant adaptation to the immense pressure from inside out, Lin An also dared not be certain of his judgment.

On Earth, he could never come into contact with such terrifying gravity.

He only knew that in the face of this immense gravity, even a Fourth Stage Awakened One would be instantly crushed to the ground.

The fragile would simply burst from within, and all their organs and brain matter would be squeezed out like toothpaste under this immense pressure.

That is, his physique is strong enough that for a while he felt no serious problem!

Just...

If it's a rule limitation, that would be better; perhaps it's to prevent the destructive power of battles between Fifth Stages from being too great, so as not to destroy the battlefield.

But if it's truly a physical constant limitation...

"I might even die on the way!"

Lin An's expression was grim.

After realizing that upon entering the Star Battlefield he would face such trouble.

Without hesitation.

After quickly locking onto the direction, Lin An decisively began to run wildly toward the fortress.

The reason is none other than that.

After comparing the distance on the map just now, he suddenly discovered that the distance he had just moved was almost invisible to the naked eye!

By comparison and calculation, he still had a full three thousand kilometers to the so-called Star Fortress!

If his speed weren't reduced, this distance would be nothing but a few minutes for him, but now...

Even if he didn't waste a single second, in less than forty minutes he could at most move two thousand four hundred kilometers!

Fast!

Faster!