Bai Xiaowen looked up.
The sky of this Frozen Star was neither dark gray nor dark red, but a vast expanse of white, as though countless snowflakes and grains of salt filled it.
Through the hazy gray-white sky, he could make out a faintly visible palace.
"What is that palace...?"
Bai Xiaowen slowly circulated his spirit force, rose from the ground, and flew toward the palace.
Strangely, although the palace in the sky looked very close, Bai Xiaowen could never approach it as he flew toward it. Every step he took forward seemed to make the palace retreat a step; the faster he flew, the faster it receded.
"It seems to be an illusion, like a mirage. But this place does not seem to have the conditions for a mirage to form..." Bai Xiaowen frowned. This illusory palace was highly unusual.
He could not help recalling the "star map" stored within the Titan Star Chart, and the eye symbol positioned at the center of the nine planets.
Since the palace hung in the sky, visible yet unreachable, could it be related to that eye symbol?
Or perhaps that palace was what the eye symbol represented.
Bai Xiaowen slowly descended and stepped onto the ice and snow.
Through the ice, Bai Xiaowen's spirit sense could detect an energy fluctuation buried beneath the place where he had landed on Frozen Star. It was very similar to the fluctuation of a Planetary Portal.
More precisely, this was the long-range Planetary Portal leading to Aqiluo Star, except it had been sealed beneath the ice. Bai Xiaowen had used these two portals to travel between the first and second layers of the star region.
"At the very least, I should dig this portal out first."
There would usually be a Boundary Stele near a portal.