Chapter 1668

The battle between the new and old kings of the undead was extremely brutal, often ending with the old king being devoured by the new king.

However, Ange and the king had a relatively harmonious relationship; the king was very protective of his own, Ange cared for nothing but farming, neither was particularly power-hungry, so there was no fundamental conflict.

If Ange encountered any trouble, given the king's protective nature, he would surely roll up his sleeves—but there was an awkward problem: Ange's strength far surpassed the king's, and they had already opened a huge gap in energy level.

Ange's mere projection, his avatar, already had an energy level not much lower than the king's true body, so he couldn't be of much help and sometimes even freeloaded off Ange's benefits, which made the king feel embarrassed.

So, seeing no trouble, the king slipped away; no one knows how he got to the furnace branch line, or why he was sent to aid Kelaniya.

But Anthony and Nai Ge Li Si had somewhat guessed it: given the king's nature, if there was a chance to kill someone, he certainly wouldn't let it pass.

He probably heard the news that ghost patrolers were gathering here, so he volunteered to come.

As long as the silver coin remained silent, the others' discussion would naturally lean toward accepting the other's aid—after all, it was a good thing, others came to help without seeking repayment, what reason would there be to refuse?

"Well, since everyone agrees, I'll open the Boundless Gate and invite them over," Kelaniya said.

Anthony and the others hurriedly switched to Oxia's perspective.

Oxia's vision and the silver coin's vision were completely different: the silver coin saw an illusion, seeing himself in a solemn and magnificent palace hall, but Oxia saw vast expanses of tree bark wrapped with human heads and white crystals.

Seeing those pallid, lifeless heads, seeing their eyes clouded and hollow, Nai Ge Li Si finally understood why Oxia called them the living dead.

These living dead had no souls at all—they were merely thinking corpses, believing they controlled the River of the Dead Council, but in reality were just empty shells parasitized by Oxia.

As Oxia's vision extended to another area of the bark, others couldn't tell this region apart from the one where heads were planted; they were seamless, indistinguishable.

Yet, with the experience of the ancient corpse snake, Nai Ge Li Si and the others could still tell this area no longer belonged to Oxia's body—it was already the true form of the Myriad Worlds Divine Tree.

The true form of the Myriad Worlds Divine Tree: the bark split open, and a Boundless Gate was pushed out from within, formless influx poured into the Boundless Gate, and soon it emitted a faint glow.

After an unknown time, the Boundless Gate slowly opened.

A silver-glimmering foot bone protruded from within, toe touching forward to test, once steady, a skull shot out quickly.

This sneaky bony posture bore no resemblance to the king's usual domineering, chop-first attitude, yet Nai Ge Li Si recognized him at once: "It's really the Undying Old Man, really that old fellow."

Anthony and Ursman obviously couldn't identify the person from the skeleton frame; this sneaky appearance didn't match the king's persona, so they hesitated: "Really Your Majesty? How come it's… like that?"

"It's him, it's him, it's that old undying—don't think he's reckless, he's always been like this, sneaky." Nai Ge Li Si without hesitation exposed the king's shortcoming.

Others had never seen the king's sneaky side, but Ange and Nai Ge Li Si had; when they first arrived at the Feilie Empire, the king's strength had just reached Mourning, and back then he was very cautious.

Others, having never seen this side, thought it unlikely, but Nai Ge Li Si recognized him at once: it really was the old undying.

Sure enough, after peeking and confirming the near side of the Boundless Gate was safe, the entire skeleton crawled over.

This was also why Anthony and Nai Ge Li Si thought him sneaky: at this level, a skeleton observing the outside doesn't need to extend its head.

Even extending just a toe or finger, one can perceive the outside via soul undulations—so when that foot extended earlier, it had already scanned the surroundings, yet it still insisted on stretching out its head, putting on a show.

A silver-glimmering celestial skeleton stepped through the Boundless Gate, stars dotted its body, and the surroundings were instantly enveloped in an invisible soul undulation.

This undulation spread like ripples, sweeping over all things, sweeping over the Myriad Worlds Divine Tree, sweeping over those gray-white heads above, finally converging on Kelaniya.

"Kelaniya, you may call me the Undying Sovereign." The king spoke lightly.

Kelaniya's thoughts swept doubtfully over the king's body: "A skeleton?"

Kelaniya could never have imagined that the one sent by the Furnace Lord with sworn assurance to aid her was actually a humanoid skeleton.

Indeed, this is an Influx Body; placed on others it might be valued, but Kelaniya is a God Star, and the God Star itself is the source of influx, so an Influx Body means nothing to him.

Moreover, the skeleton's physical drag in the void slows its movement below that of Star Descendants—how could it catch the Ghost Hounds? Even if it could, could a tiny Influx Body defeat them?

A flood of doubts welled up in Kelaniya's heart, and he quickly recalled what Heliros had said: Just try.

Thinking this, Kelaniya's focus instantly locked onto the king, saying: "Undying Sovereign, you…"

Before he finished speaking, the king instantly became a phantom, plummeting downward and crashing hard onto Kelaniya's surface shell, blasting open a large hole and burrowing into the starflame within.

Everyone gasped at once, and Nai Ge Li Si cried out in alarm: "Star Shift? Phantasmalization?"

Anthony immediately said: "Not Star Shift, but phantasmalization—Your Majesty made the Stellar Body phantasmalize? How is that possible?"

The Stellar Body can actually phantasmalize? Everyone instantly realized the benefits: the Stellar Form is Ange's strongest combat form, able to withstand the high temperature and pressure deep within the God Star, with super-strong attack power, its only flaw being inability to move quickly.

If the Stellar Body can phantasmalize, then isn't it also capable of Star Shift?

While they pondered the benefits of the Stellar Body's phantasmalization, Kelaniya panicked completely—he discovered this Influx Body couldn't be blocked, couldn't be stopped, couldn't be hit, like a loach slipping flexibly into his core.

Loaches aren't scary, but one that slips into your body and you can't even grab—now that's terrifying.

Kelaniya suddenly thought of a question: if this Influx Body was sent by Heliros to kill him…