Chapter 1224

In some places, when expressing enthusiasm, people say 'I'll twist your head off,' but that's just talk. You're actually twisting it? Isn't this too enthusiastic?

Lu Se and the others were stunned and dumbfounded. The only ones who didn't react much were Ang and the two little ones. The little zombie had once had his head chopped off, and before it grew back properly, the little angel would often twist his head around to play with it.

These stick-insect monsters were even more convenient. One could see the fallen head gradually disappear, and soon it would re-condense on the body. The core of the God Star descendant race is the white crystal; as long as the white crystal is not damaged, the form can be re-condensed at any time.

Even if the white crystal is damaged, as long as the form remains mostly intact, the white crystal can recover. This two-way recovery mechanism makes the vitality of the God Star descendant race extremely tenacious. Only by suppressing the opponent's white crystal in a short time, like Lu Se did, can one completely control the opponent.

The stick-insect monster, having regrown its head, looked regretfully at Lu Se and Lei Dian, especially Lei Dian, because it was the biggest and seemed the 'tastiest.'

"Not food? What a pity. I can only feed myself. Little Papa is already hungry." The stick-insect monster bit off its own right hand and then carried it in its mouth as it walked back to the pit.

In the pit it came out of, a smaller stick-insect monster looked over expectantly. Seeing the big stick-insect monster bite off its own arm, its expectant gaze turned to the arm the big stick-insect monster was carrying.

Lu Se, Lei Dian, Nai Ge Li Si, and the others all revealed an expression of 'unable to accept.' Even Anthony couldn't help but show a strange expression: "This... this survival mode is a bit too harsh, isn't it?"

Only in very harsh survival environments would there be cannibalism... uh, except for undead creatures.

"Uh, we thought wrong. These aren't real limbs; they're just forms they've condensed. Essentially, it's just a kind of energy. It's just feeding its child with its own energy," Nai Ge Li Si quickly realized.

"Yes, yes, yes, energy, just energy." Lu Se let out a long sigh. The two scenes just now were too stimulating—either having one's head knocked off or cutting off flesh to feed one's child. For living creatures, the impact was too great.

Anthony turned to Gangpasa and asked: "Is that your child?"

After receiving an affirmative answer, Anthony asked curiously: "Why do you have children? Aren't you immortal?"

The void has its own laws of balance. Explaining it is too troublesome; the simple explanation is that 'increasing quantity is too difficult.'

The original Primordial Divine Light, the Abyss Maw, the Dark Origin, and even the Ancient Space-Time Dragon could not create an increase. From this, one can see the difficulty.

Without an increase, maintaining the stability of a closed space can only rely on balance. Therefore, species with strong reproductive capabilities must have short lifespans, and creatures with long lifespans must have very weak reproductive capabilities.

Elves have very long lifespans, but their total number adds up to only ten or twenty million, not the same order of magnitude as the billions of humans.

Dragons have even longer lifespans, but if Ang hadn't helped solve the egg-binding problem, they would probably be extinct by now. Even without egg-binding, their reproductive ability is very poor; it takes five hundred years to hatch an egg.

The God of Life has a lifespan of up to one hundred thousand years. If it hadn't met Ang, it wouldn't even be able to sprout a single sapling. Even if it did, a plane could only give birth to one World Tree; the rest are just timber.

And the immortal undead creatures simply cannot reproduce. The birth of undead creatures doesn't rely on undead creatures, but on living creatures. That's why the Monarch has always said: Life is the foundation of the Undead Empire.

Although the God Star descendant races don't know how long their lifespans are, they are definitely not short. Moreover, the continuation of their species has nothing to do with reproduction; the sun is the foundation of their continuation.

Then why do they choose to have children?

Gangpasa explained: "We, low-level. After the child grows up, it's higher-level than us, can fly."

Anthony realized with a start. The reason driving them to reproduce is upgrading and evolution.

Nai Ge Li Si suddenly asked: "If your children upgrade and become more powerful than you, can they in turn help you upgrade and evolve?"

Gangpasa nodded: "Yes, at least it can take us to fly, to leave here."

This makes even more sense. Reproduction is not a selfless sacrifice, but an investment with returns.

Low-level God Star descendant races like them are themselves prey to other God Star descendant races. If they can raise a stronger descendant, even if it can't take them to upgrade together, it can take them away from the surface of the God Star.

After figuring this out, Anthony knew how to proceed: "What do your children eat? What do they need to evolve and upgrade? By the way, how many levels are the God Star descendant races divided into? What level are you?"

What do God Star descendant races need to evolve and upgrade? Of course, it's the power of origin. Chaotic origin, God Star energy—no matter what it's called, it belongs to the most original power.

These stick-insect monsters don't have the ability of little angels to receive power with wings, nor do they have Ang's ability to refine it directly. The only way they get God Star energy is by preying on fire spirits.

However, the number of fire spirits is not large. They don't run fast and don't have high intelligence; they are as easy to catch as grass, but there are also many herbivorous descendant races.

Recently, there have been two light disasters. Those that could leave have already left, but the light disasters also wiped out the fire spirits. It's unknown whether they melted or hid.

So, usually, they can't find much to eat. Of course, for the God Star descendant races, it doesn't matter if they don't eat. Being in the light range of the God Star, they don't need to eat and won't starve to death. Eating is more for fighting, evolving, or feeding the next generation.

As for the levels, Gangpasa doesn't know clearly. It seems no God Star descendant race has done this kind of classification; they only know that those higher-level than them can fly.

Anthony turned to Nai Ge Li Si and said: "Lord Nai Ge, please classify them for us, to make bargaining easier."

"This is easy. It said they can 'fly,' which should refer to the inability to exert continuous force to break free from the God Star's gravity. Let's use it as a base: Earth Level. Those one level higher than it, which at least have the ability to exert continuous force to resist the God Star's gravity, are called Sky Level. Those that can break free from the God Star's gravity are called Void Level."

Having said this, Nai Ge Li Si asked: "By the way, can it star-shift? It probably can't. If it could, it would have flown away long ago."

Anthony inquired and confirmed that Gangpasa couldn't star-shift; it didn't even know of such an ability: "Teleport over just by looking? No, I've never heard of such an ability."

"Never heard of it? Then do you recognize this dragon-like descendant race?" Nai Ge Li Si asked while flapping his wings. He heard from Lu Se and Lei Dian that on the way in here, they had encountered two dragon-like descendants.

Gangpasa was just about to answer, but Lu Se on the side suddenly turned and walked out, twisting his hands to turn his battle Qi into a sword, leaving behind a sentence: "You guys chat, I'll go handle it."

Looking in his direction, one could see seven or eight stick-insect monsters had quietly surrounded them at some point. The stick-insect monsters here weren't just Gangpasa's family. Gangpasa's 'I'll twist your head off' enthusiasm clearly couldn't scare them.

Just then, the little fire person suddenly jumped off the little tree person, shouting "ya ya ya," and ran toward Lu Se. Before Lu Se could react, it jumped onto Lu Se's head and then flowed down like a puddle of flame, wrapping Lu Se into a fire person.