Chapter 1689

Starborn, regardless of their outward form, are essentially life nurtured by divine stars.

However, while their appearance may not be refined, their internal differences are numerous; first, divine stars cannot nurture something they have never seen.

The outward form of Starborn is certainly related to what they have seen—for example, the stick insect is assembled from creatures that once existed in the plane, and so is the concrete form; it is called concrete because it possesses a pair of tentacles resembling a long nose.

Theoretically, this divine star cannot nurture an outward form absent from this star field, but this is merely theory, as Seeing Ange and others have also discovered life contamination.

The Chaotic Surface and the Shenguangtong Alliance both suffer from life contamination, as they host various beings of shared origin, such as humans, dwarves, elves, and so on.

It is unknown whether this concrete form arose due to life contamination or because it comes from the Laniakea branch.

The concrete form, upon appearing, immediately asked eagerly: "Do you know what happened in the Laniakea branch?"

Anthony said: "You come from the Laniakea branch? You don't know what happened there? Then how do you judge the truth of my information?"

Laniakea suffered a great disaster; such immense calamity, when viewed from other voids, is immediately apparent—but not now. Starlight transmission is not that fast; Seeing Ange ran faster than starlight.

Now, looking back at the Laniakea branch, the unhatched orphan divine stars still flicker, and no one knows what happened there.

Yet, Anthony's probing just now caused the concrete form to leap out directly—clearly, it had another way of knowing something had happened in the Laniakea branch; upon learning that Seeing Ange's group came from there, it hurried out to gather news.

From this, the other party likely comes from the Laniakea branch, has connections there, and thus obtained unexpected news.

However, the other party knows Laniakea suffered something but not what—otherwise, they would not be anxiously seeking them to understand the situation—so Anthony is even more curious: by what method did they learn of Laniakea's great change?

The concrete form hesitated, gazing at Anthony and the others, wondering what they were thinking.

Anthony said in the soul network: "Everyone be careful—they might attack. If they do, we must seize that concrete form, as well as the one ahead, that one, that one..."

While speaking, Anthony placed a soul marker on his chosen target.

Nai Ge Li Si was somewhat startled: "They dare to attack? They are merely Starborn—dare to attack a divine star? Moreover, why seize these few?"

Anthony said: "They do not know my lord is a divine star, and may not even recognize the Lord of Stars; as for why seize these few, these few are clearly the leaders among these Starborn; they seem not to belong to the same organization, merely brought together temporarily by this concrete form."

Nai Ge Li Si glanced at Seeing Ange and suddenly realized: at this moment, Seeing Ange is merely a dull black skeleton, for to conceal his aura, the specks of starlight on his bones have been covered.

Even if they recognized a star skeleton, they would not identify this as one—they would assume it is the bone of some giant.

Though a giant skeleton spanning tens of thousands of kilometers is large, it is not rare; previously, the divine star shattered by the spacetime ancient dragon was followed by many giant creatures, so giants are not strange.

The size of giant beasts and strange creatures routinely reaches tens or hundreds of thousands of kilometers; the forms of giant Starborn are comparable to planes—for example, Gangpasa, a secondary descendant, lives on the remains of a Starborn.

To concrete forms and other Starborn, Seeing Ange's group before them is merely a moving large bone plus a dimensional beast—daring to attack is certain; they were originally prepared to attack, but were startled by the pretext Anthony brought forth.

However, after hesitating for a while, the concrete form did not attack, but said: "My Boundless Gate cannot connect to any of the gates in the Laniakea branch, and the disconnection is progressive, as if some disaster is spreading."

Nai Ge Li Si slapped his waist: "Ah, the Boundless Gate."

The Boundless Gate can cross two realms, but in the outer realm it can function as a teleportation gate.

If crossing two realms, one gate corresponds to one gate—it is fixed and unadjustable; but if used as a teleportation gate, it can search widely for other Boundless Gates, find matching markers, and then cross.

Nai Ge Li Si has never used this function, so he never considered it could transmit any information.

From the concrete form's perspective, all Boundless Gates failing to connect one after another is indeed a terrifying matter.

Since the other party did not attack, Anthony also dared not act rashly, only able to say vaguely: "The mist vortex suddenly began collapsing, sucking everything in—we had no choice but to flee."

"Collapsing? Why? What happened there?" the concrete form asked.

Anthony waved his hand: "First answer our question—who are you?"

With so many Starborn, their forms myriad and styles vastly different, they do not seem to be nurtured from the same branch.

Humans and elves and dwarves might come from one place, but if they are circular, square, triangular—you would certainly not think they come from the same branch; yet here there is indeed a batch of geometric Starborn, and we do not know which branch they come from.

"We are wanderers," said the concrete form.

"What does 'wanderer' mean? Do Starborn also wander?" Anthony asked.

The colossus said: "Starborn without a home star are wanderers; we have all lost our home star for various reasons."

"Can Starborn without a home star live this long? How long have you been here?" Anthony asked.

Starborn who leave their home star cannot live long; they must periodically bathe in divine light, or else wither and die.

Thus, although the little fire person nurtures many Starborn on its body, the nearby Feilie Empire and Shenguangtong Alliance have hardly seen any Starborn appear.

Yet there are other ways to extend the time Starborn can spend away from their home star—for example, storing incremental amounts and carrying them personally.

But this requires the home star to accomplish; with no home star, where would one store the increment?

Moreover, the increment cannot be stored for long; if it could be stored long-term, what longevity issue would the home star still need to worry about? Store most of the increment, wait until the main body nears decay, then release it—would that not suffice?

Therefore, Starborn cannot rely on stored increments to wander long-term abroad.

As for relying on chaotic mist manifestation? Manifestation first requires complete understanding of things; Starborn cannot comprehend increments, meaning they cannot use chaotic mist to manifest increments, then transform them into home star divine light.

The concrete form's thoughts swept over Seeing Ange's group, making Anthony's heart skip—he realized he might have asked a foolish question.

Sure enough, the concrete form said: "You would ask such a question, making me doubt whether you are truly sent by Kelania—do you not know the primordial divine light?"

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