Chapter 1605

Ange's current actions are equivalent to dismemberment, plucking the stellar flame of Star Six bit by bit, shooting it out with gravitational strings, and reassembling it at the destination.

Star Six can understand Ange's actions, but cannot accept them.

Understanding is because he had long prepared for this; after all, entering the Boundless Gate also requires disassembling oneself into incremental mist, then reigniting on the other side.

But he cannot accept it, because if Ange keeps plucking like this, when his mass falls below the balance line, his entire body will explode.

He hasn't even seen the Boundless Gate yet, and he's already exploding a clone? Or is there a clone that can serve as the main body, entirely built from increments?

If he is certain to enter the Boundless Gate, this clone will directly convert into the main body, and the original main body will be abandoned, because the Boundless Gate will sever all soul and consciousness connections.

But now he hasn't seen the Boundless Gate yet, and doesn't want to explode his clone before then.

However, he can't escape anymore; Ange pulled hard, the gravitational midpoint immediately shifted, and swiftly moved onto Star Six's body.

Star Six's heart tightened; what he feared most had happened.

The gravitational midpoint is the balance point of two devouring abysses' gravity, but the balance point is relative to them; if something is on the balance point, to that thing, this is the point of contention between the two sides.

Two ropes are in contention; if suddenly a finger is shoved into the contention point, what would happen to that finger?

Star Six thought he would become that finger, getting crushed in the abyss's contention, but the next moment he felt something was off: although the gravitational midpoint had moved onto his body, it seemed not to be in contention.

Star Six is an aged but well-traveled divine star; he immediately realized the cause: "A third force has joined in—is it him? Is the power of the Spirit Guide this great?"

Star Six looked shocked at Ange.

The Devouring Abyss is an extremely extreme entity in the void; its mass is not smaller than a divine star's, but it emits no light or heat, pouring all its power into the attribute of "devouring."

Therefore, in terms of devouring power alone, its power is extremely extreme, greater than that of a divine star.

Yet Ange has become the third force, manipulating the gravitational midpoint—isn't this equivalent to contending against two Devouring Abysses?

Star Six's understanding of Ange is that he is a Spirit Guide, not the main body of foreign spirits; can the power of a Spirit Guide really be this great?

A mind full of questions, but Star Six instead calmed down, letting Ange pluck him into pieces.

Originally his mission was to verify the Boundless Gate; anyway, he was going to be torn to shreds, so being disassembled once or twice makes no difference, as long as he doesn't explode before seeing anything.

His form kept shrinking; soon his mass fell below the balance line, but Star Six did not explode, because when he was about to fall below the balance line, he began to feel the gravitational midpoint's force acting on him.

If the full force of two Devouring Abysses acted on him, that would be contention; if only a small force acted on him, just enough to fill the mass balance, then it would not be contention, but protection.

Now, the force of the gravitational midpoint is protecting him, slowly strengthening, filling the missing part of the mass balance—mass decreases by one unit, gravity increases by one unit, as if someone were weighing these two forces on a scale, precisely adjusting.

Finally, Star Six shrank to only one-sixtieth of his original mass; this mass had already reached the limit for a single gravitational string ejection.

Ange gave Star Six a virtual pat, imprinting a mark on him; before Star Six could clearly see the mark, Ange had already pulled the gravitational string—whoosh—and shot Star Six out.

Star Six only felt his vision go dark, then he slammed headfirst into "himself"—a description most people would find hard to understand: how can one crash into "oneself"?

But for entities whose consciousness and body can separate and exist independently, it's easy to understand—for example, if your consciousness runs ahead of your body, when you uncontrollably return to your body, you'll feel similar to slamming into yourself.

Star Six indeed slammed into himself; the stellar flame Ange had shot earlier had already condensed here into a pool of loose stellar flame, until Star Six slammed into it.

It was like falling into a gel; the next moment, all the gel gathered around Star Six as the center, rapidly condensing into a divine star.

Xiong Xiong's stellar flame burned, soon illuminating the surrounding black mist, yet the black mist blocked all light, preventing it from reaching farther.

Star Six discovered he had been shot into a huge mass of incremental mist; the dense incremental mist blocked his perception.

"Where is this?" Star Six's heart sank; he had originally wanted to use the last opportunity to confirm the Boundless Gate's position, but didn't expect the other side to have already guarded against this, actually using incremental mist to shield all position information.

Now he can only determine a rough direction through perception of the projection, but cannot determine distance; trying to find a gate in the void with such vague information is practically harder than letting him go kill a spacetime ancient dragon.

"The Boundless Gate is there." Anthony floated out of the incremental mist, but did not answer Star Six's question; instead, he pointed at the distant Boundless Gate and said.

Star Six took a deep look at Anthony, discovering this Anthony was exactly the same as the Anthony at the gravitational midpoint.

Could he have two identical bodies? Or does he have a method of rapid movement? Star Six muttered to himself as he floated toward the Boundless Gate.

Anthony opened the Boundless Gate, grabbed a wisp of black mist, threw it into the gate; the black mist passed through without hindrance, then Anthony immediately closed the gate again.

"Ah—" Star Six instinctively shouted, he hadn't even seen clearly how the black mist entered, how it was already closed.

Anthony said complacently: "You've already seen clearly—it's connected properly; you can personally verify where it leads, but you must know, once you enter, you must offer your soul to my lord; do you agree?"

"You promised that after I enter, I can come out once to report the situation to my companions; we also agreed that if I cannot contact them within the agreed time, that means you deceived me, and they will broadcast your deception in the void." Star Six said.

Anthony nodded: "Correct, I established the contract under my lord's lord; you need not worry I will break it, please."

Anthony made space before the Boundless Gate.

Looking at the Boundless Gate, Star Six hesitated a moment; this going in would mean he must abandon his main body.

But thinking he was already exhausted, his main body wasn't worth clinging to, so he cleanly severed the connection with his main body, his consciousness fully merging into this dark-star clone at this moment.

From this moment on, he is no longer an aged divine star, but an insignificant dark star.

Opening the Boundless Gate, Star Six dove in without hesitation.