At Heavenly Demon City, Liang Ji and the others' Dragon Snake starship passed inspection and sailed into the enormous Starlight Gate.
With the Heavenly Demon Star Domain now incorporated into the Celestial Star Array Diagram as the Star Alliance's thirty-fourth star domain, the Starlight Gate at Heavenly Demon City could connect directly to the Alliance's other thirty-three domains through the array, allowing people to travel between them.
It was even possible to travel through the gate aboard a starship, though doing so cost more Spirit Stones and merit.
Liang Ji and the others had reaped quite a harvest in the Pioneer War in the Heavenly Demon Star Domain, so they weren't short on Spirit Stones or merit. They chose to pilot the Dragon Snake through the Starlight Gate and return to one of the Star Alliance's original thirty-three domains.
That was far better than slowly flying the Dragon Snake between star domains. It would waste too much time, and would even be slower than Liang Ji traveling through the void in his Star Spirit Body.
Starlight swirled inside the Starlight Gate. Liang Ji had traveled through one many times before, and had piloted a starship through one on several occasions.
But now, as a Seventh-Tier Star Lord, he saw and sensed the process of traveling through the gate differently.
He realized that the journey took place deep within the void. Traveling through these deeper layers of space was more difficult, but also much faster.
Under the protection of the Celestial Star Array Diagram, traveling through the deep void posed almost no difficulty. Only the advantage of speed remained.
When the Starlight Gate appeared ahead once more, Liang Ji and the others flew out of it aboard the Dragon Snake, arriving back in Penglai City in the Penglai Star Domain.
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