Chapter 1627: That Existence
No mood to celebrate victory, not even time to grieve!
There was simply too much to do!
But the mention of Ignite Star made everyone's hearts burn with excitement!
After all, they'd gone through all this trouble just for this, hadn't they?
The group followed the central passage of Ceres all the way back to the battlefield at the bottom of the Moon Eye!
In the future, an elevator or something could be installed to reach the moon's core directly, making it easier to travel in and out!
Yang Jian and Pang Badi were organizing the alliance forces to clean up the battlefield, while Freya and others were treating the wounded!
The Star Ring remained connected at all times, allowing Odin to switch battlefields at will!
To prevent Igor and the others from returning to Blue Star and causing more trouble.
At this moment, everyone's attention was focused on Jiangnan!
Baldr could barely contain himself!
(#•̀ω•́) “You keep talking about Ignite Star—how do we ignite it?”
Chen Daoyi suddenly recalled something!
(◞•̌.•̑) “What did you mean earlier when you said you saw my ancestor?”
Jiangnan grinned: (๑¯ิٹ¯ิ) “You'll all know soon enough. Follow me. Excavator?”
Bati's face darkened!
I'm Pandora's Box, dammit! One moment I'm welding the moon, the next I'm digging tunnels!
Will my future international title be something like 'Excavator' or 'Weld Emperor'?
Still, he used atomic collapse to dig downward!
The group followed Bati all the way down until they reached that sealed underground space!
There, they saw the Origin Star, three hundred kilometers in diameter!
The Origin Wind blasted their faces, distorting their skin, yet they were stunned, then flushed with excitement!
Pang Badi was practically drooling. He leaped onto the Origin Spark's main body, imitating it wildly!
(ૢ⁼̴̤̆﹃⁼̴̤̆ૢ) "We didn't work for nothing! Back when I got a piece the size of a fist, I nearly lost my Begonia. Now we have this much!"
Yang Jian was deeply shocked: "The entire moon's core is made of Origin Spark?"
"No wonder they had to use a Star-Devouring Giant Worm to consume it!"
Takeshi, Miyazaki, Koronov—all of them were stunned, their eyes blazing with excitement!
As long as this thing remained, none of their efforts were in vain! Humanity could now embark on the path of evolution!
Qian Benying rolled her eyes, suddenly feeling that the Spark bricks stashed in her Alternate Dimension weren't so special anymore.
(꒪ั‸꒪ั*)…
This stuff is everywhere, huh?
Just then, Freya somehow slipped onto the main body of the Origin Spark!
She was secretly picking up fragments of the Origin Spark, frantically stuffing them into her treasure pouch!
(๑◔〰◔ิ๑) Ehehe~
Jiangnan's eyes widened: ☚(ŎдŎ#) "Hey! You sloppy goddess, let go! This is the common property of all humanity—you can't make off with it!"
Freya pouted reluctantly!
(￢₃￢๑) "Eh? I'm just picking up a few crumbs. What's the big deal?"
Can't even have cookie crumbs?
Odin sighed with emotion: "The Spark... At least humanity isn't completely hopeless. There's something to look forward to."
As he said this, Odin's mouth suddenly gaped wide, his eyes narrowing!
-`(๑¯ิ⌂¯ิ)´- Ah~
Jiangnan: !!!
☚(Ŏ◊Ŏ‧̣̥̇) "Dammit! Hold it! Hold it in! Don't sneeze here!"
"Don't let the Holy Star destroy it, and then have you blow it to pieces!"
Odin was now at the Transcendent Realm. With his nuclear-force sneeze and all his external boosts, its power was probably no less than a nuke, right?
But Odin was panicking too. This sneeze came out of nowhere—how could he hold it back?
Odin: (|||˚ᵒ̌⌂ᵒ̌) "Ah~ ah~"
All the Dao Heaven experts' hearts were in their throats!
Baldr was frantic—he'd been waiting for the Ignite Star, and he couldn't let this ruin it!
He immediately tore a spatial rift in front of Odin!
Σ(ﾟ益ﾟﾉ)ﾉ "Quick! Sneeze in here!"
But Odin kept "ah"ing at the rift, then rubbed his nose.
(•́ก•̀٥) "The... the feeling passed."
Everyone's faces darkened. Jiangnan was about to have Bati open a passage to the core—
But then...
Odin: (|||ŏ⌂ŏ) "Ah~ ah~"
Startled, Baldr quickly opened another spatial rift!
Odin: (⇀ก↼‶) "Slurp... Sorry, it passed again."
Baldr: (ꐦ°᷄益°᷅)
As the passage opened, everyone started walking in.
Odin: (｡˚⋟⌂⋞˚) Ah~ ah~
Baldr glared, opening another spatial rift!
(▼皿▼#) "Are you going to sneeze or not? Stop rattling your throat for no reason! It's terrifying, you know!"
The only person who could scare a bunch of Dao Heaven experts with a sneeze was Odin.
Odin got angry too: (#｀口´)☛ "Who do you think you're talking to? I'm a Transcendent! Watch it, or I'll beat you up!"
Baldr cursed back: "So what if you're Transcendent? Who's scared of your farts?"
Odin: "Who said I farted? I..."
Jiangnan snapped: (ꐦ°᷄д°᷅) "Enough arguing! Little bro, stick your head into the spatial rift and keep it there until the sneeze comes out!"
"What are you looking at? Hurry up! Do we have all the time in the world?"
Odin's face darkened. He obediently stuck his head into the spatial rift, which Baldr carried along as they walked through the passage.
Everyone stared at Jiangnan, their eyes twitching.
A Dao Heaven Ten-Star peak and a Transcendent quarreling—
And a Diamond-8 chewed them out?
And they didn't even talk back?
Is there no justice?
Bai Kou chuckled quietly. Some things aren't determined by strength or rank.
During this moon counteroffensive, although no one said much, deep down they all acknowledged Jiangnan!
After all, without Jiangnan's series of crazy moves, humanity might not have even lasted until dawn.
Jiangnan was the link—the one who brought everyone together.
Following the passage Bati had opened, they finally reached the very center of the Origin Spark!
There, they saw the Ignite Star spell array! The compressed lunar core!
And that blood-red stele!
Jiangnan's expression turned solemn: "This is the Spark our ancestors left for us! Three eras, a legacy spanning over three thousand years!"
"Everything is ready. We are in the best era. As long as we complete the innermost three rings of the Ignite Star spell array on the Nine Silver Rings..."
"We can ignite the moon! The lunar core will serve as the energy source for the spell array! This is the most critical part!"
"To prevent the Holy Star from stealing it, we should set up strict defenses. From today onward, establish a God-Slaying Spell Array here!"
Yang Jian nodded. To be safe, he planned to move the alliance base here later, with layered defenses.
After all, Ignite Star was a long-term endeavor. Yang Jian was already making follow-up plans.
Just then, Chen Daoyi exclaimed!
(◞ὅ口ὅ) "Chen Dao? He... he really is my ancestor? My ancestor's name is Chen Dao!"
Chen Daoyi approached the stele, face flushed with excitement, gently touching the small seal script on it.
(◞͡°´৺`͡°) "My ancestor! My ancestor was here!"
At this moment, Chen Daoyi felt immensely proud, his face beaming like Wang Yousheng's victory expression!
Ye Zhenguo's old face also reddened. He knelt before the stele and kowtowed!
"Descendant Ye Zhenguo pays respects to Ancestor Tian Ling! The Ye Clan still stands—we haven't disgraced you!"
At that moment, every Chinese person present felt a surge of inexplicable pride!
Not for any other reason, but because the words left by the three on the stele were all ancient Chinese characters!
They thought humanity had only reached the moon for the first time in this era through technology—
But their ancestors had taken a stroll up here thousands of years ago!
Now, Jiangning's pupils constricted sharply. She swallowed hard.
(｡･ˇ﹏ˇ･) "Shh... So that's it. This Spark was indeed left by that Existence."
Jiangnan was startled: (•︠ˍ•︡) "Sister Ningning? You know Jiang Fan?"
He couldn't even say the name directly?
Jiangning smiled bitterly: "How could I not know? That Existence—even the words 'humanity' are taboo in the Thousand Stars City!"
"Back then, that person dismantled half of Thousand Stars City, causing a huge incident. Many big shots among the ten thousand races couldn't do anything about him!"
"During that time, a piece of the Origin Spark managed by the Bose race went missing. Because it was too embarrassing, the matter was kept hush-hush..."
"I think... this is that missing piece."
Jiangnan's jaw dropped!
"(ºДº๑) "Whoa? The main body of the Origin Spark was stolen from the Bose race by Jiang Fan?"
"And he went to Thousand Stars City?"
Jiangning nodded: "He was the biggest dark horse to emerge from the Star Ruins Development Plan—an anomaly!"
"He broke out of Blue Star, even subdued many races, resisting the Holy Law Council's control. Those times were chaotic in the starry sky!"
"It was precisely because of that Existence's ferocity that the Ten Thousand Races Accord was born. Humanity was assessed as a race with king-level potential and restricted in development!"
"Because no one wanted another human like him to appear!"
Jiangnan's scalp tingled: "Damn! The era lord of the first spiritual energy revival was that tough?"
Because of too much fear of one person, the ten thousand races made an accord?
Jiangnan finally understood what Jiang Fan meant by "future generations may face calamity because of me."
Jiangnan quickly asked: "Since Jiang Fan is so powerful, now that the Holy Star is violating the Ten Thousand Races Accord and attacking Blue Star, why doesn't he come back to help?"
Jiangning shook her head: "That Existence disappeared many years ago. No one knows where he went!"
"Under his command, races and forces have gradually faded under the Holy Law Council's jurisdiction over the years. But before he vanished, that Existence was already a terrifying powerhouse with the title of Star Devourer!"
"Completely different from a Planet Destroyer—an absolute overlord. Such beings are hard to kill!"
"Although there's been no news, the Holy Star is still afraid. They don't dare make big moves. Fear of being noticed by that Existence is one of the reasons."
Jiangnan swallowed hard, staring at the characters "Jiang Fan" on the stele, full of envy, wincing.
"That fierce! What's his ability?"
Jiangning shook her head: (°ー°〃) "I don't know... I'm only over two thousand years old. I'm still young. I didn't experience that era."
Jiangnan: (≖_≖)…
Bai Kou's eyes sparkled as she nodded frantically!
(งᵒ̌～ᵒ̌)ง "Exactly! Hear that? What's wrong with being over two thousand? Still young!"
Jiangnan: ╮(︶﹏︶)╭…