Chapter 1679: You Didn't Think There Were No Restrictions, Did You?

"How do you know it's from eight million years ago? Since eight million years ago, no new divine stars have been born in the void, and how do you even know about the Origin of Life? You're just a tiny incremental body—where did you learn the secret of the Origin of Life, a divine star mystery? Did you come from the Origin of Life yourself?" Lania asked.

The king didn't answer but countered: "No new divine stars? Why? Without the Origin of Life, can't you give birth to new divine stars?"

Lania snapped: "Answer my question."

The king had to say: "Yes, I came from the Origin of Life."

"Indeed, Gammez Fortress—you're from Gammez Fortress. They have the Boundless Gate, and you came out through it." Lania excitedly said that a divine star actually produced such intense emotional fluctuations, this surge causing intense consciousness lightning around the main body; from the outside, it looked like thunder on the divine star's surface—see how excited this made him.

The king calmly said: "No, we have nothing to do with Gammez Fortress."

"What! No relation? Then besides Gammez Fortress, does the Origin of Life contain other divine stars with Boundless Gates?" Lania exclaimed.

The king said: "You answer me first—why are there no new divine stars?"

Lania also didn't bother with the usual tacit understanding of switching topics after two trips, explaining: "New divine stars are born, but there are no newly born divine stars. Newly born divine stars in the void are based on old divine stars, re-aggregated and fused, then nurturing star souls."

"However, such star souls are filled with various consciousness fragments of the old divine star; they are rebirths of the old divine star, not newly born divine stars."

After hearing Lania's explanation, everyone understood what she meant—this is the same concept as life pollution.

Only divine stars that migrated out of the Origin of Life are truly new; those re-aggregated in the outside world are themselves dependent on old divine star matter, thus mixed with large amounts of consciousness fragments, making them impure.

In terms of the divine star concept, they are not newly born divine stars.

In the Soul Network, Anthony couldn't help but say: "No wonder Dirididis wanted to bury us in an information storm—emotionally, in the concept of divine stars, this level of coverage already counts as successful parasitism."

Meanwhile, the king directly told Lania: "Exactly, and other divine stars also have Boundless Gates. I came out from another Boundless Gate. We not only have Boundless Gates, but also Star Migrants, who can at any time return divine stars to the Origin of Life."

"Star Migrants? You also have Star Migrants? Are you serious?" Lania asked in shock.

The king said: "Exactly, we obtained the inheritance of the Star Migrants. Lania, my lord, do you still remember those twelve dark stars you sent in?"

"You know them? What happened to them? What did you do to them?" Lania asked.

The king said: "They have all been converted into Star Migrants, capable at any time of moving divine stars out of or into the Origin of Life. Lania, my lord, once you enter the Origin of Life, you'll never again have to worry about spacetime ancient dragons or foreign realm wraiths. How about it? Do you want to enter the Origin of Life?"

Lania's consciousness locked tightly onto the king, saying nothing for a long time.

After a long while, Lania said: "You didn't come via the Furnace Branch—your target has always been me. You took that big detour through the Furnace Branch just to gain my trust, right?"

The king spread his hands: "You can think that."

Saying that, the king silently thought: You can think that, but I never said that. Chabada, if I'm saying I fled here because I couldn't survive in Ange's place, but after going around in circles I came back—would you believe that?

Lania asked: "To enter the Origin of Life, what price must I pay?"

The king spread his hands and said: "Your mass is too great—our Star Migrants cannot move you intact into the Origin. You need to discard your main body and recreate a small-sized avatar, roughly one three-hundred-thousandth of your current mass."

Lania chuckled: "That's indeed quite attractive—for other planets, anyway. As for me—"

Saying this, the king suddenly felt something speeding toward him from behind. He turned and saw a massive stellar skeleton bursting from the stellar flames behind, lunging at him and grabbing his neck in one motion.

Trying to control himself? The king clutched his head with both hands and simultaneously kicked out.

His raised hands blocked the embrace, and his kick sent the opponent flying.

Before the opponent's posture could settle, the king stepped forward and threw a rushing punch.

The opponent raised both hands in front to block, deflecting the king's fist. On impact, a huge void exploded at the point of contact, sending both king and opponent flying apart.

After creating distance, the king finally had leisure to observe the opponent—a four-kilometer-tall giant stellar skeleton, currently sparkling with starlight, obviously infused with increment.

The king roared: "You mastered increment this fast? Damn it—if I'd known, I wouldn't have given it to you."

Lania sneered: "Foolish bone frame—you think only you can increment? The wisdom of divine stars can illuminate the void. Perish, fool."

The stellar skeleton lunged forward, delivering a knife-hand chop.

As if cooperating, the trajectory of the knife-hand chop caused all stellar flames to divert smoothly to both sides, allowing the chop to pass without obstruction, utterly unaffected in speed.

No wonder it's home turf—the opponent moves far more agilely in the stellar flames than the king.

The knife-hand swing is faster than the king's fist; the king could only hastily raise both arms forward.

With a booming clang, the point of contact exploded again into a huge void, the sound spreading as an energy wave, pushing all stellar flames aside by the impact, but soon they recoiled under immense pressure.

The stellar skeleton punched and kicked, moving with stellar flame coordination—agile and fast, far surpassing the king.

The king felt as if he were deep in the sea, surrounded by immense pressure like seawater, every action having to resist the water's drag.

Meanwhile, the stellar skeleton moved as if through air, far more agile, beating the king into a sorry state.

Their combat intensified countless times, with massive spatial explosions erupting repeatedly inside the divine star.

Though the king was embarrassed, his strong combat experience still let him block the stellar skeleton's attacks each time; when he couldn't, he'd dematerialize and flee.

Thus followed a chase and escape, occasionally pausing to fight, the resulting chaos gradually spreading across the entire divine star.

Lania began to feel something was wrong—if this keeps up, how much lifespan will he lose?

Can't keep fighting—Lania controlled the stellar skeleton to dematerialize and rush forward, trying to crash into the king's body, regardless of the king's state, as long as it could entangle him.

But just as it was about to hit the king, his vision suddenly went dark, and his consciousness link with the stellar skeleton was severed.

The king laughed loudly: "Using the body we gave you to attack me? You didn't think there were no restrictions at all, did you?"