An Unexpected Starry Sky

Standing once again in Iona's control room and gazing at the stars before him, Fang Zheng could not help but take a deep breath.

He did not know whether his guess was correct, but if things truly were as he thought, then he would have far greater freedom of choice—the Heavenly Dao Palace would no longer need to remain tucked away in some corner of this world. It could become a genuine city beyond the heavens. What was more, Fang Zheng might even be able to begin new explorations by exploring other places... In short, once they stepped into the Stars and Seas, there would be so much more they could do. After all, space offered far more freedom than the ground.

"Set off."

Fang Zheng nodded to Iona. Soon afterward, the three warships led by Iona swiftly rose into the air and flew toward the heavens.

"Current altitude... eight thousand meters..."

Iona operated the warship while reporting to Fang Zheng.

"Nine thousand meters... ten thousand meters..."

As expected of Space Battleships, in just a few minutes, the three warships reached an altitude of thirty thousand meters. To Fang Zheng's delight, his system interface was functioning perfectly this time, without a single warning popping up.

It seemed his guess had been right!

"Keep ascending."

"Yes, Captain."

Following Fang Zheng's order, the warships accelerated upward once more. Before his eyes, the originally Azure sky gradually darkened. The three warships passed through the clouds and shot straight into the sky. In less than five minutes, they broke through the atmosphere and arrived beyond this continent... At last, when the warships turned again, Fang Zheng saw the true form of the continent where he lived for the first time.

It was a gigantic blue planet.

From the outside, it looked quite similar to