# Chapter 2891: Star Sea Rune Source!
And the silicon-based race wasn't about to leave the Carbon Alliance alone either. After all, some races' star domains were simply too close and blocked off the collection areas!
They had no choice but to strike!
Besides, Jiang Fan only stipulated that they couldn't attack humans. As for other members of the Carbon Alliance, they were no different from other races!
If the Finality Plan was to be executed, conflict with the Carbon Alliance was inevitable—there was no avoiding it. It was just a matter of sooner or later!
But the Carbon Alliance members weren't going to just sit back and wait. How could they willingly hand over the star domains they'd worked so hard to build up and feed them to a black hole?
And so the conflict began. The Carbon Alliance's combined forces were no pushover—it wasn't something the silicon-based race could take down so easily!
But the silicon-based race didn't care about any of that. They were even on the verge of directly deploying the Ancestral Machine!
Seeing that the silicon-based race was determined to swallow this territory, the Carbon Alliance didn't back down either. Some humans even entered the battle, and races with Star Devourer-level experts were showing signs of joining in!
Seeing the situation turning bad—if this continued, once the Ancestral Machine was deployed, Jiangnan would have no choice but to enter the fray!
But the silicon-based race didn't care. This move might not have been without the intention of forcing Jiang Fan into a complete falling out with the Carbon Alliance!
However, Jiang Fan ordered them to stop attacking this front for now and push forward in other directions instead!
As for this matter, they would deal with it later!
The Silicon Lord had no choice but to give up. After all, Jiang Fan was the boss now!
Of course, Jiang Fan understood clearly that as long as the Finality Plan continued to be executed, conflict with the Carbon Alliance was only a matter of time!
And when that happened, he would inevitably have to face Jiangnan face to face!
Even though he knew this full well, Jiang Fan still hoped that day would come later rather than sooner!
The execution of the Finality Plan was already showing initial results!
If you were now standing in an area that had already been swept clean by the silicon-based race, you would witness a spectacular sight!
A void of nothingness in the starry sky—not a single trace of matter remaining. Looking out, all around you was impenetrable darkness!
Perhaps you might see some faint light—that was the glow from the golden event horizon of the Final Black Hole!
That faint light didn't represent hope, but annihilation!
Such a starry sky was incomparably pure!
But... it seemed a little too desolate!
If you looked down from God's perspective, you could see that, centered around the Final Black Hole, tens of thousands of stars were gradually being extinguished!
Darkness spread slowly in all directions, as if devouring everything—slow yet relentless!
The Starry Sky World... seemed to be gradually dying!
The myriad races of the starry sky were in a panic over this matter, but there was no good way to stop it!
Jiang Fan plus the silicon-based race—how could anyone stop such a combination?
Right now, the area where the silicon-based race was collecting matter wasn't large, and there weren't any large-scale conflicts yet. But what about later?
Like boiling a frog in lukewarm water, this problem would have to be faced sooner or later. They could only hope it wouldn't be too late by then!
The matter of Xun Zu hadn't even been resolved yet, and now Jiang Fan's Finality Plan had emerged!
The starry sky was truly beset with disasters. And even more annoying was that during this period, Jiangnan's various nursery rhymes and world speakers disrupting everyone's peace had never stopped!
The people of the starry sky were almost driven to nervous exhaustion!
Naturally, there was widespread complaint, which was exactly what Jiangnan was happy to see!
And during this time, Jiangnan hadn't been idle either!
The Star Sea Source Flux Array was no longer useful for someone like Jiangnan!
While using the War Horn to annoy everyone, he was also training in the Dimensional Gap with Black God's original body, tempering his will, familiarizing himself with the operating principles of the world's rules!
By emptying his Realm Source Energy repeatedly, he increased his body's tolerance!
In less than a month, Jiangnan could already absorb a hundred drops of Realm Source Water in one go, and his energy mist showed signs of beginning to liquefy!
Jiangnan didn't just train with Black God; whenever he was free, he would go find Wanxiang and pick a fight!
Wanxiang was utterly tormented. While busy dealing with a pile of messy affairs from the Matter Alliance, he also had to get beaten up by Jiangnan!
And he couldn't refuse either—otherwise, Jiangnan would attack the Matter Alliance!
He had never been so humiliated in his entire life!
At the same time, he was shocked by Jiangnan's rate of growth. How was this guy, every time he came to beat me up, stronger than before?
If he kept growing like this, wasn't he going to break through the heavens?
During this period, the investigation that Jiangnan had entrusted Yakeli to carry out finally yielded results!
He immediately called Jiangnan to convene a high-level meeting of the Carbon Alliance!
Inside the conference room of the Dimensional Star City!
Jiangnan's aura was steady and calm. He sat at the head of the table. Although his posture was quite casual, he still gave off a heavy sense of unshakable stability even in the face of catastrophe.
(͡°～͡°) "How's the investigation going? Is there a way to solve the Slave Mark problem? Not the kind that removes the mark individually—that's just treating the symptoms, not the root cause. It's best to solve the problem at its source!"
Yao Hong's expression turned serious: "Don't say that! We actually found something. The method does exist!"
"It's just that... it's a bit difficult to handle!"
Jiangnan's eyes lit up. He rested his chin on both hands and grinned:
(〃≖↼≖) "There really is one? As long as there's a way, I'll handle even the difficult matters!"
"Give me the details first, then we'll make a specific battle plan!"
Ai Jiang nodded and immediately projected a hologram!
"Currently, the starry sky is roughly divided into four powers: the Carbon Alliance, the silicon-based race led by Jiang Fan, the Wanxiang Matter Alliance, and the Bose!"
"The Bose race, with the Eternal World as their base, have gathered almost all the small races in the starry sky that have no affiliation or backing, and have built the Eternal Kingdom centered around the Eternal World!"
Under the current situation, races without backing simply couldn't survive. Only by relying on a strong race could they have a chance to live. Given the circumstances, this was understandable!
As for what price one had to pay to rely on the Bose race... that went without saying!
Ai Jiang continued: "Now the Bose race has completely stopped pretending. After several campaigns, almost all defeated races have been branded with Slave Marks, driven and exploited by the Bose race!"
"Even to this day, the Bose race is still in the business of selling slave species. And during wartime, the demand for slave species is especially high—business is booming!"
Jiangnan squinted his eyes. The phrase "the victor is king, the loser is a bandit" was truly being interpreted to the fullest!
(￢～￢) "What about the Starfall Round Hall? That old guy Xun Zu didn't move it into the Eternal World, did he? Do we still have a chance?"
If it was really inside the Eternal World, Jiangnan would be helpless!
As everyone knew, the development and trade of slave species had always been the responsibility of the Saint Star faction among the Bose race's four major factions!
And the Starfall Round Hall was the place where all developed Star Ruins Gates were uniformly managed and stored!
Through the Starfall Round Hall, one could reach any Star Ruins!
Ai Jiang: "There is indeed a chance! But it's very difficult! The Starfall Round Hall also wasn't placed inside the Eternal World. In fact, it can't be placed there!"
"Currently, the Starfall Round Hall is located within the Eternal Kingdom, extremely close to the Eternal World. It's the most core area of the Bose race, and its defensive power is the strongest!"
Jiangnan was startled and couldn't help raising an eyebrow:
(๑◔～◔ิ) "Can't be placed in? What do you mean?"
Yao Hong quickly explained: "It's because of the Star Sea Rune Source!"
Wang Youzhi grinned at the explanation:
(◕͡°͜ʖ͡°) "You guys managed to find out about this thing? Your intelligence network is pretty impressive!"
Yao Hong said somewhat helplessly:
(≖﹏≖٥) "Lord Black God, if you knew, you could have told us earlier. You made us go through a lot of trouble!"
Jiangnan asked curiously:
(๑¥﹃¥) "Star Sea Rune Source? What the hell is that? Is it some kind of treasure?"
Wang Youzhi said smugly:
(︶.̮︶◕) "So you don't know about this, huh? This is where we need to talk about the origin of runes! You should all know about runes, right? The native language of the Bose race!"
"By combining and arranging different runes, curse arrays can be formed, enabling all sorts of incredible abilities—like gravity, amplification, acceleration, recovery, teleportation, and so on!"
"And don't you find it amazing? Runes are just messy characters. How can they achieve all this?"
Hearing this, Jiangnan was stunned. He knew quite a few curse arrays himself, but he had only memorized them by rote. He didn't understand the principles at all!
And he had never thought about the essence of runes!
Σ(°～°٥) "How... how can they?"
Wang Youzhi chuckled: "Because the essence of runes is actually the manifestation of the world's rules! It's like individual characters in a program. Individually, they might have no meaning! But when combined, they can implement all sorts of mysterious functions in the Starry Sky World!"
"After the singularity Big Bang, when the Starry Sky World was born, as energy scattered in all directions, some energy naturally entangled and intertwined, forming natural characters and carvings!"
"If the World Will of the Starry Sky World had its own language and script, then these naturally formed characters would be it!"
Jiangnan's mouth hung wide open!
∑(°口°๑) Damn!
As expected of the Starry Sky History Book—it knows so much!
So runes had such a grand origin? No wonder they could achieve so many functions!
Was it through runes connecting to the world and mobilizing a tiny bit of rule power to achieve complex functions?
"Then what is the Star Sea Rune Source?"
Wang Youzhi said flatly: "You can think of it as the source of all runes, the mother source of every rune! It's also the connection and bond between runes and this starry sky! The mother of ten thousand runes!"
"The Star Sea Rune Source was a product born together with the starry sky at its birth—a companion! I remember I said before that the Bose star, where the Bose race originated, was also born during that period, right?"
"And this Star Sea Rune Source fell onto the Bose star. You could say that from the moment the Bose race was born, they picked up a golden finger that fell from the heavens. It also took them a long, long time to gradually develop the various uses of runes!"
"However, if the Star Sea Rune Source is destroyed, it means runes lose their connection to the Starry Sky World, and all runes will lose their original effects, becoming completely useless!"
"This would cause the collapse of the entire rune system of the Bose race!"
Yao Hong spread her hands: ╮(•́～•̀)╭ "That's the method! Find a way to destroy the Star Sea Rune Source! If the rune system collapses, then things like Slave Marks would naturally lose their meaning!"
Jiangnan's eyes sparkled:
(ʃƪ⁰̷̴꒨⁰̷̴) "Nice! This is a good method! So the Star Sea Rune Source really is a treasure!"
"But if it's so precious, why doesn't Xun Zu put it inside the Eternal World for proper protection?"
Wang Youzhi shrugged: ʅ(･´‸･｀)ʃ "Xun Zu would love to put it in, but that's only if he actually can! Don't forget! The Star Sea Rune Source is a product of this Starry Sky World—its companion—and it only belongs to this world!"
"But the Eternal World has already become its own world, independent of this one. Once Xun Zu takes the Star Sea Rune Source into the Eternal World, it's equivalent to crippling himself—all runes would become ineffective!"
"The reason runes work is because the Star Sea Rune Source exists within this world. If you take it inside, won't it stop working?"
"Do you still remember the Divine Runes of the Ancient Star God Race?"
Jiangnan suddenly understood: "I do remember that. Uncle Zhu and Wu Liang have both used them!"
Wang Youzhi said: "Once upon a time, there weren't just runes in the Starry Sky World; Divine Runes also existed! But most of the Star Sea Divine Source was destroyed!"
"Therefore, Divine Runes have declined now and have almost lost their original function—like rootless duckweed!"
"But after all, they are naturally formed symbols from the world's birth. Even though the Divine Source as a bond is almost gone, they can still have some effect. However, they're practically scrapped now and can't compete with runes at all!"
Wu Liang's face darkened. So that was the story?
Jiangnan's eyes gleamed:
(´≖◞⥎◟≖) "Star Sea Rune Source, huh? What a good thing! I'm already starting to get itchy hands!"