Chapter 1600

There's actually a godstar hiding in the material belt? How is that possible?

When Anthony first saw the godstar, he was startled, but upon realizing the other party was even more frightened than he was, he grew bold and immediately chased after them, with Nai Ge Li Si hurrying to follow.

"Why would there be a godstar here? Wouldn't its own gravity disturb the material belt?" Nai Ge Li Si asked in bewilderment through the soul network.

A godstar is inherently a massive object with an enormous gravitational range; hiding in the material belt, its gravity alone would cause all matter to continuously fall onto it, and before long, the entire material belt would be completely devoured by it.

As soon as Nai Ge Li Si finished speaking, he felt a void before his eyes, and the two found themselves in a vast hollow, this hollow containing no matter at all, empty and spacious, capable of holding several hundred godstars, which is quite large, yet still insufficient.

Take, for example, the Little Fire Person godstar—its gravitational reach extends to the edge of the boundless great hollow, and on the other side, it can touch the Silent Dead Sea; any matter within this range lacking resistance would be gradually pulled in by its gravity and ultimately consumed.

This great hollow before us is insufficient to cover the godstar's gravitational range; without resistance, it would be absolutely impossible to maintain the current state.

Secondly... where is the godstar? Where did the godstar go?

Everyone looked around, but saw no trace of the godstar; if it had fled, entering the material belt would surely have left a passage, yet now there is no sign of any such trace.

"My lord, please help me weigh all things." Anthony slapped his chest and shouted devoutly.

Immediately, Anthony's vision began to change—from pitch black, to countless lines emerging, outlining things invisible to the eye.

Anthony noticed a distinct patch of density in the material belt to his front-left, inconsistent with the surroundings.

"Come out, I see you." Anthony shouted sternly in that direction.

Not only did it not emerge, the area of differing density shifted slightly backward, moving deeper into the material belt.

Anthony hurled an energy ball toward that direction; it reached the inconsistent density zone and then exploded with a boom.

"Don't hit, don't hit—I'm coming out, don't hit me." A flustered voice rang out, and from the inconsistent density area drifted a large expanse of mist, which slowly condensed in the hollow into a sphere.

"Isn't it a godstar? Why is it all increment?" Nai Ge Li Si asked doubtfully through the soul network.

Anthony said firmly: "What I just saw was divine light—it must be a godstar. Could it be mocking us? Wasn't what we saw earlier him? Or is there another godstar here?"

Ursman's voice echoed in the soul network: "Could he have mastered the technique of rapidly converting increment and starflame?"

Ursman did not follow, but his consciousness projected over, observing the entire process.

Nai Ge Li Si said: "Even if one can rapidly convert increment and starflame, it's impossible to produce a godstar core."

No matter how much increment, a stable core is still required to condense into a godstar; mere starflame or increment, without a core to support them, is just a lump.

The Abyssal Maw spent so long devouring the entire Silent Dead Sea just to ignite the core.

Now here there actually is a godstar that can quickly disperse itself into a lump—where is its core? Has it also scattered?

They discussed in the soul network, while Anthony, facing that lump of mist, demanded: "Who are you? Why did you run when you saw us? What did you do? Speak!"

The lump of mist weakly replied: "I... I... I was afraid, so I ran."

Anthony is an old god-trickster—when you're weak, he's strong; sensing the mist's weakened aura, his own aura instantly strengthened by three parts: "What are you afraid of? Did you do something bad to us, making you afraid? Speak—what did you do!"

"I... I didn't do anything, you came and I just ran—I really did nothing..." The lump of mist was about to cry.

"Then why did you run? What's your name?" Anthony's tone grew stern.

"I... I have no name." The lump of mist weakly said.

"Then why did you run? No name doesn't require running." Anthony's tone softened slightly, while inwardly he mused: Indeed, a godstar—no name.

The lump of mist said: "I am afraid."

"Afraid of what? Afraid of us? Have you been struck by a creature of my kind before?" Anthony softened his tone further.

Through the shifts in tone, Anthony fully stirred the mist's emotions; compared to a few sentences ago, it was no longer so flustered, and said: "I have never seen another living being; you are the first moving thing I have ever seen."

"Are there no other living things here?" Anthony asked doubtfully.

Void is truly the desert; the material belt is not, for its extreme material richness means there should be many living beings—in the Silent Dead Sea, Anthony has seen juvenile Devouring Abysses, strange trees, undead dragonfolk, and so on.

"There are also some little bugs; they rub against my light, then chirp and chatter at me." The lump of mist said.

"Light? You can also emit light? I just saw you emitting light earlier—why no light now?" Anthony asked.

"I... I..." The lump of mist stammered.

Anthony's tone turned "stern": "Why won't you reveal your true form? Are you trying to deceive me with a false appearance, then lie in wait to attack me?"

Anthony's hat-setting technique was too practiced—one hat after another—and this inexperienced godstar had never seen such a sight; it hurriedly contracted toward the center, then a tiny godstar core drilled out from dimensional space, igniting all the mist that had gathered upon it.

Anthony, Nai Ge Li Si, and Ursman all involuntarily slapped their thighs (waist muscles), actually having hidden the core within dimensional space, while the rest transformed into increment-mist, instantly concealing themselves.

This is a godstar only one-eighth the size of the Little Fire Person godstar, or perhaps called a dark star; its core is only a small cluster, roughly the size of a leaf from the Myriad Worlds Divine Tree.

A leaf of the Myriad Worlds Divine Tree is only one or two thousand kilometers in diameter; placed upon a godstar core, it is an ultra-small volume, easily stored within dimensional space.

As long as the godstar core is stored away, the remaining starflame can rapidly transmute into increment-mist, allowing one to hide effortlessly.

A clever conception, not difficult to implement, yet the effect is excellent—if not for Ange, who could, from a chaotic jumble of material belt, discern a slightly denser region?

In the soul network, Ursman rapidly said: "Ask him—who taught him to cut such a vast dimensional space? And how to rapidly convert starflame into increment-mist?"