Chapter 1624

The information density of the divine light was too great, so besides Kelania reporting the mission failure, the entire hollow echoed with Lanian's roars and curses.

Melania couldn't translate everything, so she picked out the key points to translate; Lanian had already classified the matter as 'foreign ghost dispelling the trap,' so the next step was to ask what to do.

Kelania said: "Since the foreign ghost dispelled the trap, we might as well use it to blast the ghost guide, anyway, without the guide, the foreign ghost won't appear here."

"Good idea, since you thought of it, why didn't you do that earlier?" Lanian rebuked.

Kelania explained: "The ghost guide doesn't enter the divine star, so it can't trigger the restriction; we need to change the passive-triggered restriction into an active trigger, but the restriction of the sixth divine star itself is beyond our control, so if we set a trap for the ghost guide, we need a completely controllable divine star."

I felt several consciousnesses converge in the void a few times, and in the end, Kelania said: "The sixth divine star voluntarily abandoned its body; I don't know who else would willingly abandon their body, and even if there were, the power of an ordinary divine star might not be enough—traps like this only work the first time; after being touched once, they'll be on guard."

The reason the sixth divine star was used as a trap is because its body is large enough; ordinary divine stars aren't qualified to become traps—that is, if we want to set another trap, we'd need to find something with roughly the same mass as the sixth divine star, which is difficult.

The sixth divine star abandoned its body because it began to decline, and with the opportunity to enter the boundless land, it did so; despite that, it still left an imprint in its body rather than generously giving it to others, showing how hard it is to get others to completely abandon their bodies.

"Won't you think of a way? Tell him about the harm the ghost reflections pose to the branch, let them eagerly offer their bodies to contribute to this path, blah blah blah..."

Melania translated up to this point when Nai Ge Li Si interrupted: "Is this what they said, or did you add embellishments while translating? I don't believe their dialogue is this bureaucratic."

Melania hurriedly said: "I translated it; their words really mean this, I only did some artistic polishing."

"Oh, alright, continue, continue—you've been hanging around here a long time, you haven't learned anything else, but you've picked up official speech." Nai Ge Li Si complained.

"It's all thanks to the lord's teaching, all thanks to the lord's teaching." Melania blurted out, almost making Nai Ge Li Si explode.

Everyone here was translating the other side's dialogue, but the shadow guide seemed not to be listening; after observing for a while, it drifted along the edge of the hollow toward elsewhere, which also caused Ange to experience intermittent light changes from Lanian and the others, so he occasionally missed some content.

"What does it want? Why not listen first before acting? Cutting through this matter cloud like this, you hear nothing." Nai Ge Li Si said.

Wursman thought for a moment and said: "Could it be that it doesn't understand?"

Nai Ge Li Si and Antony exchanged glances, and Antony said: "Makes sense—we have Melania translating, and the lord can capture all light changes; it might not necessarily be able to interpret the information in the divine light, and even if it understands a little, it might not be able to receive all light changes.

This is just like humans and instruments capturing light—ordinary people look up at the starlight in the void, twinkling, and they made up a song: 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star.'

But switch to Hesro's stargazing instrument, and it can, through the twinkling of starlight, carve out a consciousness.

So the ghost guide might not necessarily be able to understand the content of the divine light.

"Then what does it want?" Nai Ge Li Si saw the ghost guide circle around to the back of one of the rock-shell divine stars.

Here, "behind" refers to the projection of the rock-shell divine star under Lanian's divine light; Lanian's volume is too great, so under her divine light's illumination, it's like a shadowless lamp—the tiny rock-shell divine star casts only a tiny shadow in her light, and the ghost guide drifted toward that shadow point.

"It seems it wants to use the shadow to avoid Lanian's divine light and approach them, but..." Antony said, then suddenly stopped speaking.

"But what? Why are you being coy at this moment?" Nai Ge Li Si asked, puzzled—this death god stick, saying half and leaving half, keeping people in suspense isn't a good habit.

Antony spread his hands and said: "It's not that I'm being coy, but I also can't be sure—this obvious loophole, don't these divine stars of Lanian know about it? If a loophole is especially obvious, it's probably not a loophole but a trap.

Saying this, Antony added: "I'm only guessing, after all, Lanian's divine stars usually don't seem very smart, so maybe they really didn't notice this loophole."

Antony judged correctly—this is indeed a trap. When the ghost guide came to this shadow, before it even emerged from the matter cloud, a terrifying thought locked onto it, and at the same time, a voice echoed in the void: "I see you."

Lanian's 'seeing' is not merely seeing—these divine stars' star souls are abnormally strong, their thoughts overwhelming and unmatched; when Gmzeburg's projection came over, even before showing his face, Ange threw away the king and ran, not daring to contact the other's thoughts.

And now Lanian is a main path master whose mass is three hundred thousand times that of a little fire person; his star soul is overwhelming and unmatched—basically, the ghost guide cannot resist it; once locked on at close range, it instantly falls into darkness.

The surrounding space was firmly sealed by the overwhelming thought; the ghost guide couldn't even extend its thought outward—thought prison.

Over... a flicker of despair passed through the ghost guide's heart—Lanian can actually use thought to build a thought prison? How strong is his thought exactly?

If it's trapped in the thought prison, unable to extend its thought outward, then it can't even call for help; the ghost patrolers can't sense its situation, nor can they come to save it—this means it's doomed.

In the midst of despair, a 'light' seeped in—light is just an adjective, because now its consciousness can't perceive anything, all around is darkness, and the only thing it can connect to feels like a 'light.'

I don't know what this is, but the ghost guide clung to it like a drowning man grasping at the last straw.

A voice came over: "Abandon your form, come here."

The ghost guide's spirit trembled—it remembered this fluctuation; it was the patroller's, the patroller lord coming to save it.

Without hesitation, the ghost guide abandoned its form, and its consciousness followed that 'light' over.