"Rest easy, my ladies. It is merely a routine patrol of the star sea. I shall return shortly."
Chu Qing smiled gently and lightly flicked his sleeve. At once, a long, clear immortal dragon's roar suddenly rang out above the Nine Heavens. Vast and boundless, its entire form glimmering with auspicious violet-gold radiance, the Eternal Heavenly Palace slowly emerged from the void and hovered above Stone Ridge Spirit Academy. Chu Qing took a single step, his figure instantly transforming into a brilliant stream of light that transcended space and time before landing steadily upon the white marble deck atop the Heavenly Palace.
With a slight movement of Chu Qing's thoughts, the Eternal Heavenly Palace's enormous hull jolted violently, tearing through layer upon layer of spatial barriers. It became a violet-gold streak spanning trillions of dimensions and shot directly toward the Lightless Sea, the forbidden region at the far north of the Beyond-Realm Starry Expanse, at a terrifying speed beyond the limits of ordinary Daluo.
Within the vast rivers of stars it passed along the way, countless Stone Ridge Great Harmony cultivators stationed at the checkpoints of various star domains looked up at the sky. Upon recognizing the Eternal Heavenly Palace's majestic true form, they all dropped to one knee in fervor and shouted the name "Heavenly Venerable Chu." Under the governance of the Great Harmony Order, the entire starry sky was orderly and well-regulated. Yet as the Eternal Heavenly Palace flew ever higher and drew closer to the northernmost star domain, the surrounding Spiritual Energy and Law of Karma began to thin and darken at a rate visible to the naked eye.
After crossing a full seven hundred and twenty shattered primordial star systems, the once dazzling and resplendent starry sky vanished completely behind the Heavenly Palace.
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