Lieyang Star had been split in two by a single axe strike from the previous generation's Noxian God of War. The planet had been destroyed, its core cooled. If any other civilization had faced such a catastrophe, it would have perished long ago. Yet for Lieyang, an old-established Godly Civilization, stabilizing it was no difficult feat.
Relying on their powerful technology, they drove stellar energy to make the planetary core burn once more, forcibly preserving the remaining half of the planet. One had to admit, it was an astonishing undertaking.
Could Lieyang not find another, more suitable planet to inhabit and relocate its people there?
Of course they could. They had been capable of doing such a thing easily as early as thirty thousand years ago, when they entered the Gene Era. The only reason they were unwilling to leave was that Lieyang's attachment to its Main Star had reached a level others could not understand.
The Main Star was their home. Once they left it, Lieyang's foundation would be gone.
That was why, despite Leina having found a new living space for Lieyang's countless citizens, that stubborn old man Pan Zhen still chose to stay behind and fight New Tiangong to the bitter end.
Compared with the past, Lieyang Star's environment could only be described as extremely harsh. The destruction of its core had caused the magnetic shielding generated by the core's heat to vanish. The radiation brought by the dense stellar cluster exceeded all imagination. The present Lieyang Star was like a gigantic oven, with vicious rays scorching the ground and the air twisting into an illusory haze beneath the intense heat.
The enormous star occupying nearly a fifth of one's field of vision hung high in the sky. The light it emitted was eternally a searing