Chapter 1347

The Small Firefolk Divine Star is a massive ball of molten fire, unlike the ancient Azure Divine Star; in its prime, the Small Firefolk Divine Star is enormous in size, with an extremely high core temperature, its surface molten fire possibly exceeding six thousand degrees, and its very core reaching over ten million degrees—a height the Azure Divine Star could never imagine.

Even when the Azure Divine Star was young, its core could not reach such a temperature; after encountering the Small Firefolk Divine Star, everyone realized they were fundamentally two different species, incomparable, and the methods used against the Azure Divine Star simply do not work here.

Not to mention anything else, merely penetrating deep into the molten fire is an extremely difficult task.

After hundreds of millions of years of growth, the World Tree's roots can reach depths of tens of thousands of kilometers beneath the molten fire, but this is already the known limit.

The Starflame Giants, due to sharing the same origin, can also penetrate to depths of several tens of kilometers, but this requires a powerful core and complete form; only then can they withstand the high temperature and pressure at such depths.

Geibao and Maibao are far from being powerful at this moment; they are remotely delivered and then imprinted here, and being able to grow to their current level in a short time is already quite good, yet they still have several voids' distance to go before becoming true Starflame Giants.

Secondly, they cannot maintain a complete form; if they wish to 'merge' into the molten fire, they must disperse their own form into a loose mass of molten fire, merging with the divine star's molten fire, after which they cannot withstand greater temperature and pressure, and penetrating even a few hundred meters is already their limit.

Yet this is already the deepest any organism has managed to penetrate.

The Ancient Man Snake cannot take root in the molten fire, otherwise it would not need to parasitize the World Tree; the other Star Descendants also cannot enter the molten fire, and earth-level bamboo insects or the like, if they fall onto the molten fire, are burned to death directly.

They are descendants of the divine star, but that does not mean they can withstand the divine star's might, just as the human body is seventy percent water, yet falling into water will still kill one.

Only those high-ranking Star Descendants can operate on the molten fire's surface for extended periods, but at most they can only play briefly in places a few tens of meters deep, and they absolutely cannot reach the depth that Geibao and Maibao have achieved.

This is also Geibao and Maibao's greatest reliance: penetrating to depths others cannot reach, they are nearly invincible, but with the crucial precondition that no one can see them.

Although a depth of a few hundred meters is already beyond what the Star Descendants can reach, their attacks can, as most Star Descendants are hundreds of meters in size, high-ranking ones several kilometers, and top-ranking ones tens of thousands of meters or even hundreds of kilometers.

The place where the divine star's secondary descendant Diyakosu was born is the corpse of a Star Descendant over a thousand kilometers long, and it is the corpses of Star Descendants that have nurtured these secondary descendants.

A depth of a few hundred meters is still less than one body length for most Star Descendants; in the molten fire, Geibao and Maibao's defensive power is actually reduced, because they must disperse their form, and truly taking a few hits from them would cause great loss.

Due to many limitations, penetrating into the molten fire is very safe and reassuring for Geibao; who would have thought that just after submerging, they would discover seven or eight fruit shells, which had exploded, releasing green flames?

"Good, those areas are all stained; as long as it is in that area, it will definitely be stained." Feinik said excitedly, and just as his words fell, he saw a piece of green 'cloth' detach from that green area and dive deeper.

The Ancient Man Snake no longer had the leisure to pay attention to Feinik; its roots frenziedly stabbed toward the two green figures.

Although it cannot take root in the molten fire, it can still penetrate briefly; once the roots pierce in, they frenziedly swell, producing huge tubers that explode with a boom.

The swelling root tubers exploding in the void may not be powerful, but in the molten fire they become entirely different, because their explosion drives the solidified molten fire to spread rapidly outward; any object here suffers not from the root tuber explosion's damage, but from the molten fire's explosion damage.

Maibao was torn apart on the spot, and after the chain-reaction explosions and the molten fire calmed down, its traces could no longer be found.

Geibao was the same; the root tubers exploded in all directions around it, but having prepared in advance, it tried to spread out its 'cloth' as much as possible, swaying back and forth with the explosion wave; after a few such movements, its form was torn into dozens of strips of cloth.

One of the largest 'cloth strips' rode the explosion wave upward, 'gathered' the remaining fragments, and continued diving deeper.

As it dove, Geibao's form contracted inward, condensing into the original form of the Starflame Giant, and it dove deeper into the molten fire in that Starflame Giant form.

"Ah... it got away, what a pity." The Ancient Man Snake stared as that green dot vanished into the molten fire's depths, and lamented aloud.

"Yes, what a pity, wasn't it said they couldn't dive too deep? But at least we destroyed one of them." Feinik also lamented.

In those deep places, not to mention emitting green light, even if they emitted five-colored light, it would not be visible from above.

The Ancient Man Snake said: "I overlooked one point; it cannot dive deeper in molten fire form, but it dove using the Starflame Giant form; regardless, at that depth, whether Starflame Giant or molten fire form, we cannot see it."

Do not think powerful beings will not make low-level mistakes; the more powerful the being, the more likely they are to make low-level mistakes, just as some emperors do not dress themselves, because they often do not need to pay the price for low-level mistakes.

On the contrary, people like Anthony and Silver Coin, who climbed up step by step from lowly positions, will not make low-level mistakes, because the cost of making a mistake is too high for them.

The Ancient Man Snake had schemed for so long, yet committed a low-level mistake: it did not calculate how deep Geibao and Maibao could dive in Starflame Giant form; regardless, that depth no longer requires hiding or fighting—directly reverting to the original Starflame Giant form suffices.

Fortunately, it had not prepared to fight at that depth; it only wanted to destroy the enemy in shallower waters, and now that it has destroyed one, it will closely monitor the rest.

The Ancient Man Snake issued orders to the Star Descendants to surveil the entire divine star, then turned to Feinik and said: "Thanks to your sending me several more bottles of dye, otherwise it might not have been enough to cover that area."

"You're welcome, it's only right; letting customers be satisfied is our greatest goal." Feinik said sincerely.

"This mission is already complete; the Starflame has also been sent back by you; I wish to commission you with another task: find out where the imposter of the Empress Feilie King is." The Ancient Man Snake said.

Feinik said in astonishment: "Someone is impersonating the Empress Feilie King? Who? Who dares to impersonate my lord?"

"I don't know; a black crystal skeleton, calling itself the Great Emperor Empress Feilie; if I did not know the Empress Feilie King already had an increment, I would probably have been deceived by them."

PS: Recently my waist hurts, I can't sit still, ow ow ow

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