Chapter 1353: Hearing the Name for the First Time, Yet Able to Utter It

Anthony and Negris, holding the shell of the spray-melon, led Silver Coin and several Starborn back to Ang's side.

Negris asked with some urgency: "Ang, is this the shell of a spray-melon? I'm not quite sure. When I cleared out the Starborn Lord's treasury last time, I only took a casual glance, but such a thick and hard shell should be a spray-melon's, right?"

Ang took the fruit shell, examined it, nodded, and then tilted his head as he looked at it.

"Spray-melon shell, second spray-melon, found by a descendant, said it was in an abyss plane." Anthony quickly summarized the key points.

Although Negris had a good memory and strong calculation power, he often couldn't get to the point for a long time. This habit was fine during casual chats as it easily branched into other topics, but it was a waste of time when reporting.

Ang grabbed the fruit shell and squeezed it, as if he had felt something. He exerted force and squeezed it hard; the shell was flattened by him, and a few seed-like things were squeezed out.

Anthony, Negris, and Du Luo Ken looked at each other in shock. When they came over, they had already conducted some research on the fruit shell, especially regarding its hardness. Despite their best efforts, they couldn't cause any damage to the shell.

It was because of this that they were even more convinced it was a spray-melon fruit. Only a shell of this hardness could withstand the eruption of a spray-melon; it was not inferior to the fruit shell of the World Tree.

Yet Ang had just squeezed it flat with a casual pinch? Weren't they all Star God bodies? Ang hadn't used any other power, nor had he transformed; he had squeezed it flat relying solely on his own Star God body? Had his Star God body mutated?

Six seeds were squeezed out from the fruit shell. Ang put them away and then looked at Anthony.

As soon as Ang turned his head, Anthony knew what he meant and quickly said: "These Starborn are all loyal to us. I'm afraid that if the Guman Snake is exposed and goes berserk, they will be killed by the Guman Snake. I hope my lord can isolate them."

Ang nodded and stuffed them into the Space-Time Chessboard.

"Can the Space-Time Chessboard isolate them? Don't we need to seal the space with Kram, or wrap them with the Holy Shroud?" Negris asked.

This level of spatial isolation wasn't just about finding a space to stuff them into; it required isolating their soul connections.

Ang nodded: "Can't isolate. Then time stop, save."

If he couldn't isolate them, Ang could also pause the time within the space-time domain and then replace their white crystals.

So that was it. Negris nodded to show he understood. Just as he was about to say something else, the ground suddenly began to rumble and shake.

They were currently at the edge of the leaf. By leaning out, they could see the surface of the God Star and the trunk of the World Tree. Everyone leaned out to look.

Even after leaning their bodies out, Negris and Anthony still couldn't see anything. The distance was too far, the God Star was too bright, and there was too much interference. They couldn't see the situation on the surface of the God Star from the canopy, and the other Starborn were the same.

Discovering they couldn't see, Negris and Anthony hurriedly shared Ang's vision.

They saw a robust Star-Flame Giant running wildly near the roots on the surface of the God Star. A face emerged behind its back, stretching out a pair of arms. One hand held a void, the other pulled back, and a Star-Flame Arrow was drawn out.

Releasing its hand, the Star-Flame Arrow shot out, instantly hitting a Starborn in the distance.

The Star-Flame Arrow pierced through the body, accurately hitting the white crystal and shattering it into powder.

The Starborn looked at the Star-Flame Arrow, with only its tail exposed, in disbelief, then looked at the Star-Flame Giant, and then crumbled in horror.

If it didn't hit the white crystal, a Starborn could fight for hundreds of rounds even if its body was smashed to pieces. However, the Star-Flame Arrow of Gebao seemed to have eyes; every shot hit the white crystal. It was simply the nemesis of the Starborn.

This was the first time Ang and the others had seen Gebao's brand-new form. Negris was surprised: "Is this Maibao or Gebao? Why does it look like Maibao devoured Gebao?"

Anthony replied: "Who devoured whom is not important. Anyway, they are both part of the God Star. If Maibao devoured Gebao, that would be even better; Maibao is much easier to deal with than Gebao, but that's unlikely."

Negris also felt it was unlikely. The little angel saw Gebao wrapping Maibao. In this current form, it was probably to cut down the tree.

Sure enough, they saw the Star-Flame Giant shooting and killing the nearest Starborn while running. After running to a certain distance from the tree roots, it suddenly leaped up, shooting toward the main root of the World Tree like a cannonball.

When leaping into the air, the Star-Flame Giant began to spread its arms, dragging a tail trace that grew longer and longer, like two pieces of cloth.

The two pieces of cloth dragged behind the Star-Flame Giant's arms like a pair of wings. When it was about to land, the Star-Flame Giant joined its hands forward, merging the two pieces of cloth into one, and then the Star-Flame Giant twisted its whole body.

The cloth, merged into one but dragging on both sides, instantly twisted into a twist, or rather, a drill. Thus, the Star-Flame Giant plunged into the main root of the World Tree like a drill, instantly drilling out a large hole.

The deeper it drilled, the wider the two pieces of "cloth" swung, gouging the large hole into a large pit, and then it forcibly snapped the main root just like that.

The Star-Flame Giant's method of cutting the tree had new changes, unlike the previous times when it forcibly crashed and snapped it.

After drilling and snapping the tree root, the Star-Flame Giant wanted to dive into the molten fire, but it hit the molten fire with a "clang." The molten fire seemed to be frozen, becoming hard, and the remaining fragments of the tree roots did not sink, all piling up on the surface of the molten fire.

Molten fire frozen? How did these two words come together? It was as absurd as colorful black, but it was presented right before their eyes.

The Star-Flame Giant looked into the molten fire and saw countless tiny root hairs beneath it, dense and thick, like a large net that had long been woven.

Although it didn't know how these root hairs made the molten fire freeze, the Star-Flame Giant immediately realized that it couldn't dive in here and hurriedly turned around to run.

But the Guman Snake had long since moved its main body and made preparations. How could it let it run away so easily? Immediately, countless root hairs pierced through space, rolling toward it from all directions.

The Star-Flame Giant waved its arms, and the originally thick arms immediately pulled out long tail traces, turning into two pieces of "cloth," like two sharp blades, cutting the incoming root hairs into pieces.

Countless juices splashed, and the Star-Flame Giant rushed out from the root hairs and juices, waving the two sharp blades just like that.

However, there were more root hairs in front. The Guman Snake had clearly gone ruthless, directly using root hairs to block all the Star-Flame Giant's forward directions, and from time to time, root hairs pierced into the Star-Flame Giant's body, absorbing frantically.

This was simply a lose-lose tactic, relying entirely on consumption. The root hairs were the foundation of the Guman Snake; as long as the root hairs were still there, no matter how seriously it was injured, it could recover.

But now, in order to stop the Star-Flame Giant, it didn't hesitate to use root hairs to block the opponent, which was equivalent to using its face to block the attack.

Some juices splashed onto the Star-Flame Giant, igniting green flames.

However, at this moment, the Star-Flame Giant could no longer care about this. It desperately waved the sharp blades in its hands, hacking at the root hairs in front of it. However, this was not enough. The face on its back also floated up, waving another pair of arms, also pulling out two cloth-like sharp blades, hacking at the root hairs piercing from all directions.

Just like that, two faces, four arms, and four sharp blades forcibly carved out a bloody path from the endless forest of root hairs. Where could it still care about those splashing juices?

Gebao had already figured out the duration of these dyes. If the opponent spent so much consumption just to pour some pheromone dye on it, that would be great. At worst, it would hide in the depths of the molten fire for another three to five days.

Gebao rushed forward with all its might, its body already dyed green, until its feet felt empty, and it rushed out of the area where the molten fire was frozen.

However, Gebao did not dive directly but leaped forward with a sudden burst of strength, shooting horizontally toward the front tens of kilometers away like a cannonball, and only then did it dive into the molten fire.

Last time, it was because it dived at the position preset by the opponent that it was blasted until it almost fell apart.

As soon as Gebao dived into the molten fire, it dived desperately. There were more root hairs piercing out desperately, stabbing Gebao until it dodged left and right. As long as it dived a few hundred meters deeper, the green flames on its body would be difficult for the opponent to capture.

It thought it was about to escape the attack range, but it didn't expect that the good show was just beginning. The World Tree, which was so huge that its full appearance couldn't be seen, trembled violently and actually split from the trunk. Half of the trunk slowly stretched out, as if a vine slowly straightening its body.

Seeing this scene, an unfamiliar name popped up in the hearts of all the Starborn simultaneously—Guman Snake.

They clearly hadn't heard this name, but upon seeing this giant vine, this name immediately popped up in the depths of their consciousness. Many Starborn subconsciously uttered it.