Chapter 1652

Lania ultimately refused the proposal; he wasn't familiar with the Lord of Silence, Kanatos, at all, and letting the other party's eyes come over—whether they could see the spirit guides was unknown, but they would certainly see through his Lania branch completely.

Kanatos is a mysterious figure, and the Silence branch is likewise; combined with Lania's own speculation, all factors made Lania highly wary of him.

If it were the Rift Lord Irina saying she'd come to help, Lania would certainly not refuse, because the obelisk and the Boundless Gate are products of Irina's rift branch, and they had already established basic trust.

But Irina made no such proposal, possibly because she also couldn't find the trail of the spirit guides.

The meeting was interrupted, and the obelisk slowly sank into the body of the Myriad Worlds Divine Tree; the Boundless Gate had already been retracted after use.

Although he had established basic trust with Irina, trust is originally built on controllable foundations, and the obelisk and Boundless Gate are controllable things, which is why he trusts them.

Having refused others' help, Lania must now find a way to locate these spirit guides himself, preferably capturing them to discover why they've gathered here.

Thinking of this, Lania gazed into the distance, where he could sense something—a dark star crystal—moving rapidly toward the position of the Sixth Divine Star.

At the edge of the material belt, Antony's party landed on the true form of Loswein; upon landing, everyone immediately felt something abnormal.

Nai Ge Li Si said: "How do I feel this stickiness all around? It's like being in water—no, in gel."

Ursman said: "This might be why he's called the Cold Star; in this force field, all molecular motion is reduced by about sixty percent."

Nai Ge Li Si said: "It's somewhat like Seeing Ange's spatial delay."

"Not the same; the lord's spatial delay is a spatial power, this is merely a force field, not so advanced—it just looks large in range because the divine star's body is too huge."

Ursman finished speaking, then turned to the Sixth Divine Star and said: "Sixth Divine Star, could you share the principle of cold light with us?"

The Sixth Divine Star looked at Seeing Ange, Seeing Ange nodded, and the Sixth Divine Star used consciousness to share the principle of cold light with everyone.

Within the same soul system, that's the convenience: once one soul learns a skill, it can instantly be shared with all.

As for whether others learn or use it, that's their own affair.

Seeing Ange projected onto the Cold Star and immediately felt the field delay Ursman mentioned; the entire Cold Star was bound in this field, with molecular activity greatly reduced.

What use is this? Seeing Ange's first thought was extending lifespan.

A divine star's lifespan is determined by its increment; as the increment decays, only the remainder remains; a divine star without increment is called an exhausted divine star.

If even the remainder is burned up, the divine star ceases to exist.

From the perspective of life-bearing races, the divine star radiates light, provides heat and light, and nurtures all things.

But from the divine star's perspective, it is pure self-sacrifice for others, an unrestrained waste; if merely nurturing life, there are far more efficient methods.

For example, laying down crust on oneself to prevent increment loss while also providing living space for life-bearing races.

As for star descendants, they can survive on the stellar flame surface, and even more easily on the crust.

Cultivating tens of billions of lives to feed back to oneself is far less laborious than unrestrainedly emitting light and heat to illuminate the dark void.

With a thought, Seeing Ange sent the message to the Fire Sprite and the Abyss Maw.

Not long after, the life-bearing races on them began to feel the temperature dropping.

What once required the Myriad Worlds Divine Tree to isolate in order to endure temperature, now one could simply stand on the crust without much discomfort.

The change is real; the Sixth Divine Star also wanted to transform its true form into a cold star, but discovered it hadn't yet mastered its true form—let alone transforming into a cold star, even temporary movement was impossible.

Well, better to just obediently control the true form.

This should have been simple, but due to its enormous size—sixty thousand times the mass—any action takes a long time.

Nai Ge Li Si asked: "How should we handle these few divine stars?"

Seeing Ange said: "Without star souls, just consume them."

"Consume them? That's too wasteful! Can't we release the star souls of those you captured, letting them control their own bodies?" Nai Ge Li Si asked.

Can it be done? Seeing Ange himself was stunned; he had never considered this question.

Before, it was impossible, because these stacked sheets were restored by him from fragments; he obtained only a fragment of foreign ghost, and all stacked sheets contained only data, no true star soul.

But now he has truly captured five star souls—can they be released again?

Seeing Ange tried, and it seemed possible, though he temporarily refrained from releasing them, instead opening a stacked sheet, condensing a soul imprint, and striking it onto the star soul within.

Indeed, the soul imprint directly took hold on the star soul, with no resistance whatsoever.

The soul imprint was as if tailor-made for them; the star soul sealed in the stacked sheet had no capacity to resist, and the imprint applied as easily as stamping paper.

Even simpler than Seeing Ange personally capturing an undead creature to imprint.

Seeing Ange attempted to release the star soul; the moment it left the stacked sheet, it startled, looked left and right, then turned to flee.

Before it could take a few steps, Seeing Ange's thought stirred, and it was compelled to return, crying out in fear: "What did you do to me?"

Seeing Ange ignored him, directly probing his star soul with intent, carefully searching, and saw many memory fragments.

A divine star's life is long, so his memory fragments are disjointed, with little connection between one fragment and the next.

Seeing Ange saw the moment of his hatching— the void blazing brilliantly—then saw his law-abiding early life, until the flashing warning light in the starry sky, that was the light of the divine star's detonation.

He was at a loss, like an animal in the forest hearing its kin wail, trembling and staying in place, until long after a divine star arrived to report, urging them to retreat to the mist belt.

He came to the mist belt, met the Cold Star Kanatos, followed Kanatos to see Kelaniya, and saw Kelaniya use the Kelaniya Arrow to shoot and explode a disobedient divine star.