novelraw Chapter 1541 - 1089: It’s a Filter
Chapter 1541 - 1089: It’s a Filter
In the space environment, the Star-devouring Evil Spirit circled around Zheng Yichen, becoming increasingly menacing.
If not for the threat of the Star Fluctuation Cannon, the Star-devouring Evil Spirit could now transform into a star-like form similar to the Star God.
Even though Zheng Yichen had devoured most of the Star Gods, the Star-devouring Evil Spirit had also consumed quite a few.
Its strength was far inferior to Zheng Yichen; Zheng Yichen’s improvement wasn’t apparent, often merely increasing the blue bar limit.
However, since the Star-devouring Evil Spirit specialized in countering Star Gods, its enhancement after acquiring Star God Power was much more noticeable.
Still, as the Star God Power it devoured increased, the growth rate of the Star-devouring Evil Spirit slowed down.
A new report was delivered to Zheng Yichen by Lilith.
Through the Illusory Eye, Zheng Yichen quickly scanned the report, speculating that some anomaly occurred at the formation of this world in the Virtual World simulation.
Resulting in the ’Star System’ where the heart-core planet resides turning into its current state.
This place should have become a new stellar system, but now, instead of being larger than Earth, the heart-core planet has become the ’star’ here.
A planet like this serving as a star is truly ’tiny,’ it can’t even be considered a child.
There must be a reason for the environment becoming abnormal, and Lilith’s analysis suggests the Star Gods are the cause; they might have become stellar entities.
It’s just that some incident occurred at their formation, preventing any other stars from appearing, turning into these planet-like ’Star Cluster.’
Without a star, this world’s heart-core planet entered a self-heating mode, but those Star Cluster cannot become true ’suns,’ so there’s no daytime in this world.
The false daylight created by the Star God through its power was previously punctured by Zheng Yichen, and after being exhausted by Zheng Yichen’s chase, the Star God was unable to recreate another false daylight.
"As the forest grows larger, you see all kinds of birds. As the worlds increase, all sorts of situations appear, I’m gaining knowledge."
Zheng Yichen maliciously gazed at those Star Gods; since Star Gods are products of stellar evolution errors, then... never mind, since this world’s planet can self-heat now.
There’s no need to create a stellar-like sun, but creating a sun circling this star isn’t a bad idea.
However, this isn’t something to be considered now, the collusion between the Star God and the incoming Boundary Breaker brought new power against him.
If these hassles aren’t dealt with first, everything else is just a facade, especially since the arrival of the Boundary Breaker, Zheng Yichen doesn’t want to waste time.
As time goes by, no one knows what the Boundary Breaker might bring to threaten him.
This world isn’t the Great World, it doesn’t matter how those Boundary Breakers are messed with.
"How’s the progress on the Godslayer Weapon?" Jumping onto a star, this Star God let out an unwilling wail, not even waiting for Zheng Yichen to strike; the Star-devouring Evil Spirit tore open its surface and extracted its Star Core.
At the instant the Star-devouring Evil Spirit swallowed the Star Core, hundreds of Star Fluctuation Cannons focused, with the powerful attack effortlessly piercing through the Star-devouring Evil Spirit’s body.
The massive body of the Star-devouring Evil Spirit bore hundreds of large holes, reducing its form significantly.
The shrunken Star-devouring Evil Spirit circled around Zheng Yichen, without much self-awareness, instinctively hiding beside Zheng Yichen after being attacked.
The Star Fluctuation Cannon could indeed obliterate its attack.
"If you’ve eaten it, why be so ostentatious, aren’t you just making yourself a target?" Zheng Yichen remarked, reviewing the report provided by Lilith.
The progress of the Godslayer Weapon is 70% complete; Zheng Yichen has excavated numerous Star Cores for transforming the Godslayer Weapon, while Lilith performs self-modification on the Firmament Wheel using the Heart of the Machine.
The Firmament Wheel, bearing the Godslayer Weapon, is in the tuning phase, ready for combat once completed.
If the tuning proceeds smoothly, tomorrow they might attempt using the Godslayer Weapon, signaling the onset of mutual assault.
Several beams shot out from the heart-core planet, accurately hitting some Star Gods hiding from Zheng Yichen, the energy-laden roar of the Star Gods reverberated through space.
The two beams left scars only on the Star God’s surface, while one went straight through the Star God, ensnaring its Star Core, forcibly pulling it down.
The other two beams contained some suppressive power, causing the hit Star Gods to fall from space, crashing near the Dusk Territory.
This heart-core planet clearly has strong resistance; even the massive crashing Star Gods did not inflict much damage, its resistance not weaker than that of meteorites.
"Impressive." Zheng Yichen sincerely praised, taking advantage of the Star Gods’ uncertainty, executing a major warp, amidst the anger of the toppled Star God, using the great sword to tear open the Star God’s star body.
The enormous celestial body split in two under the attack manifesting from Zheng Yichen’s intent, its brutality no less fierce than tearing apart demons by hand.
Zheng Yichen captured the fear feedback from nearby Star Gods, and he showed them a ferocious smile. After snatching the Star Core, his figure vanished instantly from the spot.
Causing the newly appeared Star Fluctuation Cannon to miss its target.
"Analysis complete... The target utilized some form of willpower interference with reality; the interference strength is extremely high." Within the Space Camp, the Shadow Heavenly Eye brought by the Boundary Breaker completed the analysis.
This object has a direct connection with the Eye of the Heavenly Law. Although there is a slight delay when in use, and the attacks that can operate in the Great World cannot be used, other aspects of functionality remain unaffected.
These Star Gods possess Constellation Resonance, all acting as ’sensors’ for the Shadow of the Eye of Heavenly Path. Every time Zheng Yichen eliminates a Star God, a portion of his power is analyzed.
Currently, his willpower interference power has been deciphered. As for countermeasures... Within the Great World, the Eye of the Heavenly Law can counteract, but this world does not fall under its influence, thus counteraction is futile.
But having the information allows the Great World to arrange some new support.
"Don’t devour all the Star Gods without Constellation Resonance symbiosis; some need modification, and the numbers aren’t enough to hold you off,"
said a figure in a white coat calmly, disregarding any potential thoughts of the Star Gods present.
"What are you planning to do?" asked a Star God who hadn’t left; here, these Star Gods all possess great potential to evolve into ’Eternal Star Gods.’
The humans from the heart-core planet can be said to be their ’filters,’ as some of the power of Star Gods upon death is bestowed upon them, and once those humans pass away, they belong to the stars.
Thus, although humans in this world possess strong powers, their lifespan remains quite short. Even those who can become Star Gods and walk the Mortal Realm have lifespans of only two hundred years.
Unless a person walking the Mortal Realm is special, they might be granted a longer lifespan by the Star Gods.
In this world, humans have an average lifespan of eighty years, although ’short,’ due to the influence of Star God power, they can ensure that these humans will not be affected by illness and the weakening of old age at the time of death.
Up to the last moment of life, they will maintain a robust physique.
After all, they are filters, and if they weaken due to age, the filtering performance will deteriorate. Conversely, the closer they approach the end of their lifespan, the stronger their power becomes.
However, as there are too many Star Gods, no matter how they filter, considerable time is needed. During the ancient times of this world, the number of Star Gods once exceeded three hundred thousand.
Later, a war among the Star Gods reduced their numbers by a third, and the remaining Star Gods learned that directly devouring other Star Gods’ power led to mutations, thus halting the war.
Instead, they focused on addressing their own power mutation issues, taking a substantial amount of time to let the current Star Gods return to normal, and those who recovered first had different ideas.
They targeted primitive humans and bestowed them with power belonging to the Star Gods. After numerous tests, they finally found a suitable ratio, allowing them to successfully obtain the filtered Star God power...
The process involves one Star God’s power first altering the constitution of certain humans and then granting the power of another deceased Star God.
Power is granted in unequal amounts based on these humans’ constitutions, keeping them below the mutation standard limit.
Subsequently, the constitution of the associated Star Gods will continually consume another Star God’s power, ultimately stabilizing and assimilating it into the corresponding Star God power.
After death, this portion of power returns to the respective Star God, while humans experience a conflict due to the Star God-influenced constitution and bestowed power, resulting in their ’short-lived’ nature.
As for why they grow stronger with age, naturally, it relates to their constitution enhancing in adaptation during the assimilation of different Star God powers.
With this enhancement, it’s natural for Star Gods to bestow them with more power, ensuring their bodies don’t have too much vacant space, an average lifespan of eighty years being sufficient.
Extending beyond this is possible, but it may lead to the emergence of new Star Gods, although the probability is less than one in a billion, yet a probability nonetheless.
Upon reaching such a level, some humans can resist the influence of the Star Gods’ will.
As for the Mortal Realm walkers, they are specially attended to by Star Gods, with a deeper impact, so don’t think about resisting the Star Gods’ will.
And the manner of bestowing starlight naturally comes from the illumination of the Star Cluster. In this world, there is no place on the heart-core planet that isn’t covered by the light of the Star Cluster.
Some Star Gods first enjoyed such benefits, and others, unwilling to lag behind upon discovery, thus commenced the second war.
This war further reduced the number of Star Gods, nearly halving their existing numbers.
It almost led to the extinction of primitive humans, after all, this Star God wanted to influence the constitution of primitive humans, and that Star God wanted to do the same. The joint result was exploded chunks of meat on the spot.
Ultimately, anyone could end up being the loser.
Therefore, the Star Gods reestablished a new agreement, where wars wouldn’t vanish but only shift, yet their wars couldn’t excessively interfere with humans, as they are their crucial ’filtering’ resources.