The Beast Mechanism swarm Wang Qi controlled had already cut roughly two light-seconds into the planet.
If this planet had a somewhat more massive satellite, the Beast Mechanism swarm might already have entered the satellite's orbit.
But he had no choice but to stop.
While excessive mass brought an immense total of spiritual power and offensive and defensive capability, it also forced its controller to face equally immense inertia.
So-called "inertia" was "the property by which an object maintained its original state of motion." The greater the mass, the greater the inertia.
With such an enormous body, accelerating required greater force and consumed more energy and mana. And when one wished to stop, one likewise needed greater force to resist that inertia.
With Wang Qi's current mana, making his human body travel at sublight speed through escape arts was effortless, and stopping was not especially difficult either.
But if it was the Beast Mechanism swarm, the situation was entirely different.
He had to begin decelerating at a certain distance. Otherwise, he would overshoot or ram headfirst into Green Star.
At such tremendous mass and such extreme velocity, Green Star's gravity had a negligible effect on the Beast Mechanism swarm's trajectory—one that could almost be ignored.
Therefore, Wang Qi had to slow down.
Unless one day he cultivated to a loftier realm, where he could ensure that even while using escape light with a celestial-body-scale Beast Mechanism swarm, he could instantaneously change its state of motion.
Otherwise, whenever he encountered such circumstances, he could only reduce his speed.
This also limited the time it took him to reach his destination.
For precisely that reason, Wang Qi could not allow his avatar to die.
Otherwise, he would not make it in time for this battle.
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