Chapter 2112 - 1673: Finding the Source Point for Perpetual Increment

Chapter 2112: Chapter 1673: Finding the Source Point for Perpetual Increment

A skeleton hand bone abruptly emerged from a ball of light, which was the star body after virtualization.

Upon seeing this scene, the Monarch was stunned. To actually be able to condense partially? The star body should either be wholly virtualized or wholly condensed; what was this about only condensing one hand?

This is not a simple task; it means one must manipulate the body to produce two different states: one solid state and one energy state.

How do energy and matter connect? How do they remain compatible and stable without exploding? This requires extremely subtle control and must be accomplished under the terrifying pressure within the Giant God Star. The Monarch was troubled just thinking about it, but here it was evident in Ange.

However, compared to this solitary skeleton hand, Ange’s energy state body shocked the Monarch even more. Nearly one ten-thousandth of the total mass of the center of the Sixth Divine Star was the incremental body after virtualization, seemingly replacing its core as the new Divine Star Core.

"Ange, how did you do it? Where did you get so much increment?" The Monarch asked, jawbone opening and closing, despite having only a head left.

The Sixth Divine Star has already depleted, and even gathering all its increment together couldn’t form such a large core.

The mass of the Sixth Divine Star is sixty thousand times that of the Little Fireman; while its core only accounts for approximately one ten-thousandth of the mass, it’s already more than six times the mass of the Little Fireman, entirely pure increment.

That means at least six newly born Little Fireman-sized Divine Stars would be required to build such an increment core.

Ange’s voice resonated: "Devour, dedicate."

"Devour and dedicate? Who did you devour?" The Monarch exclaimed.

Ange quickly pulled Negriss and others over to explain; it turned out to be one of the three Divine Stars captured during the Cold Star battle.

"No, even if you devoured a Divine Star, how did you transfer its increment here?" The Monarch asked baffled.

Increment must enter the core of a Divine Star to extend lifespan; if it remains on the surface, it quickly decays, rendering no effect. If it worked, all the God Stars in the Void would have fought fiercely for it, as devouring other Divine Stars would extend lifespan—who would let that opportunity pass?

Previously, he had been moving bricks at Lania’s place for a long time without managing to move much increment into the core; Ange hadn’t started much earlier, so how did he transfer so much increment to the core?

The disparity was truly vast; the Monarch transported in units of Giant Star skeletons, while Ange moved increment in units of Divine Stars, differing by countless orders of magnitude.

The hand holding the Monarch’s skull suddenly twisted, turning to the other side of the increment core.

From this position, the Monarch saw a skeleton hand extending from the increment core, its palm holding another skeleton hand bone, which in turn held another hand bone, forming a super-long skeleton chain extending toward the Divine Star’s surface.

The Monarch shockingly exclaimed: "Wow, it can be done like this?"

Using a skeleton chain to directly connect the entire Divine Star allows surface increment to be directly transported to the core, without needing repeated trips. Thinking of his silly trips back on Lania, the Monarch wanted to ram his head into something.

Even if he had known this concept at the time, he wouldn’t have used it on Lania; he wasn’t genuinely trying to extend Lania’s lifespan.

Anthony and Negriss’s people also noticed Ange’s anomaly. Negriss gasped: "How did you accumulate so much increment? I kept saying you never virtualized, but Old Immortal has already refined successfully, so why haven’t you? Are all your efforts spent on this?"

Negriss occasionally shared Ange’s vision to check the situation, but since the usual view centered around that Giant Star skeleton, everyone assumed Ange hadn’t successfully virtualized.

Only now, in order to save the Monarch, did Ange utilize this increment core, revealing the full picture.

Negriss asked: "With such a large increment core, the Sixth Divine Star should be considered alive, right?"

The Sixth Divine Star replied: "Of course alive. According to my calculations, this increment is enough to burn for ten billion years. Once the increment burns out, I’ll burn the stock, which can last for another billion years, totaling eleven billion years of lifespan now."

Negriss sneered, already immune to this figure.

He used to be just a dragon with a ten-thousand-year lifespan, having a concept of the Old Tree’s hundred-thousand-year lifespan, feeling envy and jealousy, but eleven billion years becomes merely a number to him, its magnitude having no emotional impact anymore.

"But this should only be a regular lifespan, right? If you learned some inhibition methods like others, could you live even longer?" Anthony asked.

The Sixth Divine Star said: "My mass is too large; inhibitive methods like Morania’s aren’t very applicable. I also don’t know any other methods."

"I have a few other methods here; want to try them all?" Negriss said.

"A few? How come you have multiple methods to inhibit Divine Star decay and extend lifespan? Who’s the Divine Star here, you or me? Why do I not know anything?" The Sixth Divine Star asked, puzzled.

Negriss shrugged, haughtily saying: "You’re just a Divine Star, but I’m the God of Knowledge; Divine Stars don’t necessarily have knowledge."

The Sixth Divine Star fell silent. In the past, it would certainly have retorted, but after the experiences narrated by Lania, it had to admit that stars like itself, which hadn’t undergone ancient times, truly lacked knowledge; it had never seen Star Soul Chains, Gravity Cages, etc.

Sighing internally, the Sixth Divine Star asked: "What other methods are there?"

Negriss introduced: "There’s a method where the surface is covered in fruit shells, its principle similar to Morania’s hard shell, but it’s grown by plants and requires cooperation with your Tree of Ten Thousand Realms. Do you still have your Tree of Ten Thousand Realms?"

"Nope. After the increment depletion, the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms withered away." The Sixth Divine Star said.

Negriss said: "Without the Tree of Ten Thousand Realms, you can only get this shell from another Divine Tree, but considering your size, covering the entire surface demands considerable amounts, and unlike Morania’s hard shell, it has a flaw: the surface is cracked. It’s not a high-pressure container, merely reducing energy loss without delaying decay."

Morania interjected: "Actually, my hardened shell can’t delay much decay either; it only extends decay by about ten percent, and due to increased internal pressure, I’ve been living cautiously these years fearing an explosion any day. I periodically release pressure through small openings, so the prolonging effect is only around nine percent."

Negriss sneered: "Yes, extending by nine percent; that’s nine percent of fifteen billion years!"

The Sixth Divine Star asked: "Are there other methods?"

"The second method is like Lania’s, finding an energy trap to nestle in, where all increment release would sediment in the trap, creating an increment cycle." Negriss said.

"Any more?"

"No more." Negriss said.

The Monarch suddenly interjected: "There’s actually another method I learned at the Furnace Branch: returning to the Origin of Life to find the Increment Source Point; once found, the Divine Star can sustain increment eternally."

Before everyone could inquire what the Increment Source Point was, everything around them, including space, star flame, material clouds, etc., began to vibrate as if shaken by some force.