Chapter 1676: Can't Get Up, Need to Hear Some News to Relieve Boredom

A massive chain shot out from Lan Ya's body in an instant, tightly binding the newly arrived godstar—Star Soul Chain.

The newly arrived godstar was somewhat dazed, shouting in shock: "Lord Lan Ya, what are you doing?"

Lan Ya said lightly: "Borrowing your increment for a moment."

As soon as the words fell, the flung chain instantly tightened and retracted rapidly, directly pulling out the other godstar's star soul.

The other party had no ability to resist at all; this newly arrived godstar had a mass roughly fifty times that of a small fire person, but compared to Lan Ya, it was as insignificant as a firefly beside a bonfire.

The chain pulled the star soul into Lan Ya's body, while the godstar's main body, having lost its star soul, immediately collapsed in structure and began to dissipate.

Lan Ya's entire aura suddenly dimmed, and the gravity on his body rapidly increased—Gravity Cage.

The gravity cage formed by the sudden increase in gravity resembled an invisible giant hand, gently pulling and deforming the godstar, stretching it from a sphere into an ellipsoid, then into a long strip, and finally into a line, which fell onto Lan Ya's body and coalesced into a massive vortex.

A godstar with fifty times the mass was thus easily subdued by Lan Ya in two moves, leaving Anthony and others staring in disbelief, their spirits shaken.

"This... this... this is a skill? He hid so many skills?" Na Nai Nai Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si exclaimed in shock.

So-called skills are actually combinations of various individual techniques.

For example, the Star Soul Chain requires a powerful star soul, the ability to manifest thoughts into chains, and the ability to cage consciousness; when these three are combined, it becomes the Star Soul Chain—its principle is not complex at all.

After combined practice, they formed an unconscious reflex, with all three manifesting simultaneously, thus becoming a skill.

Another example is the King's Arrival of the Golden Skeleton: it first requires a powerful soul capable of communicating with nearby ownerless remains, then through soul traction to animate them, and also requires the ability to multitask; otherwise, a pile of ownerless skeletons would just collide into a heap.

As long as one can achieve these, the principle of the skill is not complex at all.

Lan Ya possesses a powerful star soul and also powerful gravity; the newly arrived godstar was directly killed by him like a chick.

Anthony said with lingering fear: "Fortunately, Your Majesty was not deceived just now; otherwise, if Your Majesty floated to the godstar's surface, he might have been locked by his chains—this guy is too sinister, actually hiding a trick. Fortunately, Your Majesty saw through his disguise, Your Majesty is mighty."

The king scratched his head, thinking to himself: Did I really see through her disguise? I should have? Maybe I sensed something was off, so I didn't fall for it—definitely not because I relied on my ability to resurrect and wanted to die together, definitely not.

Ursman said: "I never expected Lan Ya to hide so deeply—two skills at once, and they're linked. It seems we've always underestimated godstars."

It's not their fault for underestimating godstars; after coming to the outside world, all the godstars they encountered, except Moraniya, Kelaniya, and Dilidisis, had only some attack methods, while the rest relied solely on their mass, throwing out star flames or the like, with energy level and destructive power not matching at all.

Like Lan Ya using star soul to forge chains, directly restraining the opponent's star soul—this soul-level skill has never been used by any other godstar.

If the king had dared to leave the star flame and flee via the Boundaryless Gate just now, he probably couldn't have escaped the Star Soul Chain's restraint—let alone leaving the star flame, even if he reached the godstar's surface, he might have been restrained.

It turns out that Lan Ya's apparent compromise was actually a lure to draw the king to surface while pretending; if not for Anthony throwing out the bait of extended lifespan, he probably wouldn't have drawn out these trump cards.

Now Lan Ya no longer wants to restrain the king's soul; he only wants to extend his own lifespan, summon a subordinate, and have him swallow it directly.

This powerful star soul, under Lan Ya's Star Soul Chain, cannot even resist, transformed into increment into a vortex, always waiting for the king's extraction.

The king floated up to a safe distance, guided the increment into his body, absorbed it fully, then began to descend, using the godstar's immense pressure during descent to forge his body.

Because of prior experience, in just ten years, the king re-forged Broken Star, successfully achieving virtualization.

Everyone let out a long breath, whether Lan Ya or Anthony and others.

Na Nai Nai Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si said: "Finally succeeded—ten years. The old immortal first virtualization took only a few months, but this time it took ten years—this is too slow."

Anthony said: "Your Majesty first only needed to shatter a skeleton under two meters; now it's necessary to shatter a four-kilometer-high skeleton—the amount to be shattered is different, so ten years is already fast."

"Indeed, fortunate that we succeeded; otherwise, Lan Ya would have grown impatient." Na Nai Nai Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si said happily.

During these ten years, Lan Ya summoned two more small godstars, similarly performing soul restraint and increment seizure, swallowing a large amount of increment.

This was done in the first two years; from the third year onward, the Silver Coin side began reporting that he received news that Lan Ya was killing godstars to seize increment.

From that time onward, Lan Ya's summoning of other godstars was never successful again.

Also from that time onward, Kelaniya stopped searching for the traces of the Sixth Godstar and the Spirit Guiders, instead hiding; without relying on Silver Coin and Osia, Anthony and others could not find him at all.

At that time, the Nether River Council's consecutive agenda items were all about how to respond to Lan Ya's plundering of branch godstars.

As the Lord of the Branch, just for a few godstars' increments, he made himself the public enemy of the branch; if now the king regrets and says he won't do it, he could certainly make him explode in place from anger.

Being able to virtualize also means the work of extending lifespan can proceed; everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

The king began transporting increment, and Na Nai Nai Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si and others discussed: "How did the news of Lan Ya killing godstars leak out? Clearly, after soul capture, information should not be able to transmit."

"It's not simple," Anthony said: "Just set up things like soul fire or soul boxes elsewhere; when a godstar dies, you know immediately."

Ursman added: "Moreover, godstars are not just godstars; he also has a host of star descendants and other vassal races; his star descendants wander elsewhere, suddenly dissipate, and upon checking back, they were summoned by Lan Ya—one like this, after three consecutive summonings, the star descendants perished; everyone knows something is wrong."

Na Nai Nai Nai Nai Nai Ge Li Si muttered: "It seems exposure is absolute; he took enormous risks, truly driven mad by the desire to extend lifespan."

Realizing this, everyone immediately felt their trump cards were thicker; after transporting increment twice, the king suddenly collapsed on the spot, shouting loudly: "I can't go on, I'm exhausted to death, I can't get up—I need to hear some entertaining news to regain strength to continue transporting."