Chapter 1670

From the perspective of the Divine Star, if the King really wants to extort, there's really nothing that can stop him.

Others don't know how hard the Star Skeleton is, but Seeing Ange and the others are all too clear about it.

The Accretive Body comes in countless numbers; the Star Skeleton might be the hardest of them all—even if it falls into the interior of the Divine Star, it remains unharmed, and with just one arm it can pull the entire Silent Dead Sea; destroying it is extremely difficult.

And being small in size is, to some extent, also an advantage, as the energy that can act simultaneously on its surface area is greatly reduced.

It's like a hollow iron ball: throw it into the deep sea and it can easily be crushed by seawater pressure, but if you replace it with a solid iron bead of the same weight, even the deepest seabed cannot harm it in the slightest.

Letting the Star Skeleton burrow into its interior is like dropping an iron bead into the sea: on land, there's still rocky ground to support it, so one hammer blow can flatten it, but once in the water, no matter how large the iron hammer, it cannot be flattened.

Unless there are other means, it's impossible to kill him by pressure alone inside the Divine Star.

Just thinking that other Star Skeletons could also burrow this way into the interiors of Divine Stars like the Little Fire Man, Anthony and Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si felt utterly uncomfortable all over.

Quickly shaking their heads to dispel these thoughts, they turned and asked: "Your Majesty, how did you get to the Furnace Branch? And how did you make the Star Corporeal become incorporeal? What's the situation like over at the Furnace Branch?"

Anthony fired off a string of questions.

The King spent some effort and then recounted everything that happened after he went to the Furnace Branch.

"The Boundaryless Gate has a teleportation function; I randomly picked a point and teleported there, then arrived at the Furnace Branch. According to your units of measurement, the opposite side is roughly a Divine Star with sixty times the mass of a Little Fire Man. I gave it a name called Iron Hammer."

"Ah, why call it Iron Hammer?" Hearing this name, which is completely unlike the normal Divine Star naming convention, Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked in surprise.

The King asked, puzzled: "Can't it be called Iron Hammer?"

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si said: "It's not that it can't be called that, it's just that the name is weird—normally, shouldn't it be done by converting the spectrum to sound waves, then phonetically transliterating?"

The King waved his hand impatiently: "This is just your habit—how can that be called normal? In the void, there's no such naming convention; it's just your habit. Divine Stars originally have no names, and I can't read his spectrum, so I just made one up casually. I called him Iron Hammer because he dared to hammer me."

The King arrived at the surface of the Divine Star called Iron Hammer, and the other party actually opened the Boundaryless Gate on its surface, preparing to subdue the visitor at first contact, just like when the Gefmez Fortress imprisoned those batch of Dark Stars.

But he didn't expect that the one who came was actually a Star Skeleton that couldn't be smashed by a hammer.

As soon as the King stepped through the Boundaryless Gate, he burrowed into the other's interior, lay there to indicate he had been struck, and refused to get up without compensation, making the Iron Hammer Divine Star so angry it nearly exploded on the spot.

As a Divine Star, it probably never expected in this lifetime that someone would say they were hit by it and demand compensation—what thing could withstand a blow from a Divine Star?

Naturally, what followed was a siege and pursuit, but unfortunately, the King's body was indestructible, his soul unyielding, and he even had the ability to self-seal; even the Divine Star's consciousness assault could do nothing to him.

Thus, after a stalemate lasting several months, the King infiltrated the Divine Star's core region and quickly discovered an advantage: the Divine Star's interior is actually very suitable for tempering the body.

The Divine Star's immense pressure constantly squeezes and batters the Star Corporeal and the Star Attractor; as long as one continuously injects accretion, strengthening the Star Corporeal and Attractor to oppose the Divine Star's immense pressure, the Star Corporeal and Attractor can become increasingly refined.

However, the King has already run out; without Seeing Ange's help, he lacks a large source of accretion and can only supplement a small amount through self-faith, enough to maintain consumption, but wanting to grow stronger is somewhat difficult.

So the King had a change of heart and began wreaking havoc in the Divine Star's core region.

The Divine Star's accretion continuously decays from its core, then slowly releases to the surface; the King's destruction disturbed the core, accelerating its decay rate.

Every time the King threw a punch, the Divine Star would lose several years of lifespan; after a few days of beating, it would lose tens of millions of years of lifespan.

Thus, the Iron Hammer Divine Star had no choice but to consider the matter of compensation.

"Finally, he used accretion capable of sustaining ten thousand years of decay, and as a condition of introducing me to another partner, exchanged for my departure from his main body." The King said at last.

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si spat out a mouthful of old blood: "You still want him to introduce you to a partner?"

The King said matter-of-factly: "He wants to drive me away, but if he doesn't give me a target, where would I go? So he definitely has to find me a new, strong one."

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si said: "Alright, then did he switch you to Helios's body?"

"No, no, I chose a Divine Star with only about two hundred times the mass of a Little Fire Man—I feared I couldn't bear too strong a star soul, so I proceeded step by step: after withstanding two hundred times, I switched to one thousand times, then ten thousand, then fifty thousand, and finally arrived at Helios's body. On that fifty-times-mass Divine Star, I learned the ability to shatter the Star Corporeal." The King said.

"You actually know how to do it step by step? Shattering the Star Corporeal is the ability to make the Star Corporeal incorporeal, right?" Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked.

"Nonsense, do you think I'm like you? Luo Ke can't even beat you, yet you dare to challenge me—back then I let you off easy." The King said impatiently.

Because the pressure inside the Divine Star is very beneficial for tempering the body, the King was very willing to switch partners—extorting one, replacing it with another, stepping up gradually, gathering a lot of accretion, and finally arriving at Helios's body.

Helios is already the strongest existence in the Furnace Branch; originally, the King had prepared to just lie low there, but after mastering the ability to shatter the Star Corporeal, even if the other party doesn't give him accretion, he can still scavenge it himself—only the efficiency would be much lower.

Unexpectedly, Helios actually found something that interested him; that day, Helios told him there were more than five Spectral Hounds gathering in the Lania Branch, and that something major must have happened there.

If it were merely a gathering of Spectral Hounds, it might not arouse the King's interest, but since the Lania Branch is causing the Spectral Hounds to gather, the King just couldn't help but consider it.

Because he knows Seeing Ange and the others are in the Lania Branch, these Spectral Hounds are very likely related to Seeing Ange and the others.

Unexpectedly, not only are they related, they are directly Seeing Ange and the others impersonating them; saying this, the King couldn't help but sigh: "You can even impersonate Spectral Hounds—how did you do that?"

"Seeing Ange picked up a fragment of foreign Spectral, restored it, and gave each of us two stacked sheets; each sheet records the specific data of a Divine Star." Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si explained what the stacked sheets are.

The King froze: "You say these stacked sheets—how are they so like my Brass Book? Why would foreign Spectral store these Divine Star data—what for?"

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si couldn't help but ask: "Old immortal, what was your Brass Book made for, again?"