Chapter 1603: These Divine Stars Are Too Naive

The Fifth and Sixth Divine Stars are actually in cahoots? Being able to share a single consciousness space indicates they have a mental connection, such a close relationship, yet they pretend not to know each other at multi-party meetings—clearly they prepared in advance.

The Fifth Divine Star repeated the silver coin's words verbatim, because here everyone is a Divine Star, making consciousness projection inconvenient and movements too conspicuous; they could only wait for the Fifth Divine Star to finish speaking before returning to relay it.

On the contrary, Nai Ge Li Si, being a small Kalami, has weak consciousness fluctuations, making it hard to detect when projected onto others.

The Fifth Divine Star's words left everyone in deep thought; after a long while, the Sixth Divine Star said: "That fellow called Silver Coin spoke incorrectly—our true need is not the opportunity to migrate into the Boundless Realm, but the ability to migrate stars."

"But this is his inference based on my data, and he doesn't know we're connected. If I were merely a lone Divine Star, his proposal would be very tempting." The Fifth Divine Star said.

"Do you really believe they have the ability to migrate you into the Boundless Realm?" the Sixth Divine Star asked in surprise.

The Fifth Divine Star nodded: "They are Soul Guides; obtaining a Boundless Gate is no trouble for them."

The Sixth Divine Star snapped: "Don't nod—you're a Divine Star, don't contaminate yourself with such lowly body language."

The Fifth Divine Star said: "But now we cannot communicate directly via divine light; a bit of body language really helps. Why don't you open your consciousness and we communicate through it?"

"Hmph, why don't you open your consciousness?" the Sixth Divine Star sneered.

It seems these Divine Stars, though sharing the same consciousness network, do not fully trust each other.

After a few exchanges, the Fifth Divine Star turned toward the depths of the consciousness network and said: "Lady Lania, how should I respond to him?"

If Nai Ge Li Si were present, he would surely have already drawn his blade; the Sixth Divine Star claims to be Lania's enemy and even asked them to kill her, yet he is within Lania's consciousness network.

After a long silence, a voice sounded: "It's not strange for Soul Guides to obtain a Boundless Gate—I have one too. But to open it, cooperation from the other side is needed. Go verify this."

"Ah? How to verify?" the Fifth Divine Star stared blankly.

Yeah, how to verify? If verification is required, one must enter the Boundless Realm—but once inside, how would one send back news?

Lania has already sent twelve Dark Stars into the Boundless Realm, yet not a single message has returned.

The Sixth Divine Star said: "Make your demand to them—enter the Boundless Realm, then you'll get a chance to return. If they agree, you go in again."

The Fifth Divine Star said: "But they require me to replace my body, for the Boundless Gate can only transmit small-mass Dark Stars."

Lania's voice sounded: "Not at all—transmitting a complete Divine Star takes too long; they don't want the Boundless Gate open too long, hence they told you only Dark Stars can be sent."

"Ah? Damn it, that Silver Coin's mouth is full of lies." The Fifth Divine Star felt the anger of being deceived.

"Not entirely lies—only by disassembling oneself can one pass through the Boundless Gate; Dark Stars can quickly reassemble, while a Divine Star's core is too large, and reassembly is too perilous, hence the restriction to Dark Stars." Lania said.

The Boundless Gate is too small; to pass through it, one must transmute stellar flame into incremental mist, transmit it inside, then ignite it.

Dark Stars are small in volume and mass, easy to operate; converting to a complete Divine Star, even if only the size of a small fire-man Divine Star, makes the entire process extremely perilous.

"Lania, I don't want to go, I don't want to abandon my true form." After pondering for a while, the Fifth Divine Star said.

If abandoning the true form and entering the Boundless Gate as a Dark Star, his power would plummet by several hundredfold—hard for a normal Divine Star to accept.

Lania's consciousness focused on the Fifth Divine Star, and an intangible pressure bore down.

The Fifth Divine Star felt terrible, yet said nothing and stubbornly endured.

After a long while, Lania's consciousness withdrew; although now there is a consciousness link, he could force the Fifth Divine Star to comply, but this would obviously frighten the other Divine Stars.

They established a consciousness link, not because they were conquered by Lania, but to huddle together—due to the Spacetime Ancient Dragon and foreign wraiths, they were forced to band together for survival.

If Lania oppresses them excessively, even forcing them to undertake this irreversible power-draining task, the other Divine Stars will surely be dissatisfied.

If there were no other matters, it would be fine—anyway, once a consciousness link is established, it cannot be casually severed.

But now everyone's main task is to find a way into the Boundless Realm, which requires repeated attempts, and attempts require severing the consciousness link. If everyone grows dissatisfied, after trying they won't play with him—that would be bad.

Cannot force, so must only coax; Lania's gaze swept over all the Divine Stars.

The Sixth Divine Star said: "Let me go—I've already aged, abandoning my true form doesn't matter."

The Sixth Divine Star voluntarily took on this task, letting everyone breathe easy—Lania need not lose face, and the Fifth Divine Star need not sacrifice anything.

But what pretext to use so those Soul Guides transmit him into the Boundless Realm without linking it to the Fifth Divine Star? After all, on the surface they don't know each other.

"Number Five, have your star offspring sell the news that the Soul Guides possess a Boundless Gate." The Sixth Divine Star said.

Over ten days later, the Sixth Divine Star proactively contacted Antony, saying: "Besides my exhausted strength, I have nothing else of value to offer. If you truly refuse to kill Lania, then forget it."

Antony replied: "How regrettable."

"I bought a message from the Fifth Divine Star—you can use the Boundless Gate to migrate Divine Stars into the Boundless Realm, is that true?" the Sixth Divine Star asked.

"Damn it, he sold us as information?" Antony exclaimed angrily.

The Sixth Divine Star said slowly: "Any information has value; valuable information can naturally be bought and sold, otherwise we wouldn't need to dispatch star offspring to gather information."

"Well, we indeed have a Boundless Gate—do you want to migrate in?" Antony asked.

"If possible, yes, I hope to migrate in." the Sixth Divine Star said.

Antony asked: "Do you know the terms? Entering the Boundless Realm requires offering your soul to my lord—are you willing?"

The Sixth Divine Star pondered for a long while, then said: "I can agree, but after entering the Boundless Realm, I need a chance to report safety to the outside world; otherwise I wouldn't know if I'd be devoured the moment I entered."

Antony nodded: "Very well, I swear by my lord's name."

After confirming the transaction method, the Sixth Divine Star departed, and Antony then laughed in the soul network: "Want to play 'all my people' in my domain? These Divine Stars are far too naive."