Chapter 1681

A skull hand bone suddenly protruded from a mass of light, that light mass being the stellar body after phasing.

Seeing this, the king was stunned, actually able to partially condense? The stellar body either fully phases or fully condenses—how is it that only a hand condensed?

This is not a simple matter; it means one must control the body to produce two different states, one solid, one energetic.

How are energy and matter connected? And how can they be compatible, remaining stable without exploding? This requires exquisite control, and moreover under the terrifying pressure inside the giant star—just thinking about it gives the king a headache, yet he saw it in Ange.

But compared to this lone hand bone, Ange's energetic-state body shocked the king even more: the entire region near the center of Star Six, approaching one ten-thousandth of its total mass, is all phased incremental body, seemingly having replaced Star Six's core and become the new stellar core.

"Ange, how did you do this? Where did you get so much increment?" The king, forgetting he only had a head left, asked with his jaw opening and closing.

Star Six is already depleted; its increment has all gathered together, yet it could not possibly condense into such a large core.

Star Six's mass is sixty thousand times that of a little fire person; although the core only accounts for about one ten-thousandth of the mass, it is already more than six times that of a little fire person, all pure increment.

That is, at least six or more newly born little fire person's stellar bodies are needed to build this increment core.

Ange's voice sounded: "Devour, offer."

"Devour and offer? Whom did you devour?" The king wondered; Ange quickly pulled over Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si and a few others to explain—turns out it was one of the three stellar bodies captured from the cold star battle.

"No, even if you devoured a stellar body, how do you transfer its increment here?" The king asked, puzzled.

Increment must enter the stellar core to prolong lifespan; if it only lingers on the surface, it soon decays and is useless. If it were useful, the great stellar bodies of the void would have long since beaten out dog brains—devouring other stellar bodies to prolong lifespan, who would pass up such a chance?

He had previously carried bricks in Lania for so long, yet could not move much increment into the core; Ange hadn't started earlier than him by much—how did he give the core so much increment?

This gap is truly huge; the king carried increment in units of giant star skeletons, while Ange carried increment in units of stellar bodies—this difference is who knows how many orders of magnitude.

The hand bone gripping the king's skull jerked sharply, swinging to the other side of the increment core.

From this position, the king saw a hand bone protrude from within the increment core, its palm gripping another hand bone, which in turn gripped yet another, and so on—hand bone gripping hand bone—forming an ultra-long hand bone chain, extending all the way to the stellar surface.

The king exclaimed in shock: "Ah, it can even be done this way?"

Directly using a skeletal chain to communicate through the entire stellar body, so that surface increment can be directly transported to the core, without needing to carry it bit by bit—thinking of his own foolish back-and-forth hauling in Lania, the king just wanted to bang his head to death here.

But even if he had known this approach back then, he wouldn't have used it on Lania, since he wasn't truly trying to prolong Lania's lifespan.

Antony and the Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si people also noticed Ange's anomaly; Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si sucked in a breath of cold air: "How did you gather so much increment? I said why you never phase? Even the old-timers succeeded in tempering—why don't you phase? Turns out you've poured all your energy into this."

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si occasionally shares Ange's vision to check the situation, but normally the view centers on that giant star skeleton, so everyone always thought Ange hadn't succeeded in phasing.

Only now, to save the king, did Ange activate this increment core, and only then did everyone see the full picture.

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si asked: "With such a large increment core, then."

Star Six said: "Of course I'm alive; according to my calculations, this increment is enough to burn for ten billion years—after increment burns, the reserve burns, and the reserve is enough to burn for one hundred million years, so I now have eleven billion years of lifespan."

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si pursed his lips; he's already immune to this number.

He used to be a mere ten-thousand-year-lived dragon, with a concept of a hundred-thousand-year-old tree's lifespan, feeling envy and jealousy, but eleven billion years here is just a number—too large, he feels nothing.

"But this should just be normal lifespan, right? If you used suppression methods like others, wouldn't you be able to live even longer?" Antony asked.

Star Six said: "My mass is too great; suppression methods like Morlania's aren't easy to use, and I don't know other methods."

"I still have a few other methods here—want to try them all?" Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si said.

"Several? Star Six asked doubtfully: 'Methods to suppress stellar decay and prolong lifespan—you still have several? Are you the stellar body or am I? I don't know either way.'"

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si spread his hands, saying pretentiously: "You are just a stellar body, but I am the God of Knowledge—stellar bodies don't necessarily all have knowledge."

Star Six fell silent; if it were before, he would surely have retorted, but after enduring Lania's period of narration, he had to admit that stellar bodies like him, who haven't experienced ancient times, truly lack knowledge—never having seen things like stellar soul chains, gravity cages, etc.

He sighed inwardly; Star Six asked: "What other methods are there?"

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si introduced: "There's a method where the surface is covered with fruit shells—principle similar to Morlania's hard shell, but it's grown from plants, requiring cooperation with your Myriad Worlds Divine Tree—do you still have the Myriad Worlds Divine Tree?"

"Pfft, after increment depletion, the Myriad Worlds Divine Tree has already withered." Star Six said.

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si said: "Without the Myriad Worlds Divine Tree, we can only haul such shells from other divine trees for you—but your body is too large; to cover the entire surface requires a lot of material, and compared to Morlania's hard shell, it has a flaw: its surface is cracked, meaning it's not a pressure vessel, only able to reduce energy loss, not slow decay."

Morlania, unable to hold back, interjected: "My condensed hard shell actually doesn't slow decay much either—only about ten percent at most, and because internal pressure increases, I've been walking on eggshells these years, fearing explosion, so I periodically open small vents to release pressure, making the slowing effect only about nine percent."

Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si smirked: "Yes, yes, slowing by nine percent—this nine percent equals fifteen billion years."

Star Six asked: "Any other methods?"

"The second method is like Lania's—find an energy pit to nest in; all increment released will settle in the pit, forming an increment cycle." Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si said.

"Any more?"

"No more." Lord Lord Lord Lord Lord Nai Ge Li Si said.

The king suddenly interjected: "Actually, there's another method—I asked about it in the furnace branch: return to the Origin of Life, find the increment source point, find the source point, and the stellar body can achieve increment sustainability."

Before anyone could ask what the increment source point is, everything around—including space, stellar flames, matter clouds, etc. —began to tremble, as if under some force's vibration.

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