"Night has finally fallen!"
The peak Grandmaster responsible for controlling the Heavenly Cycle Star Formation looked up at the star-filled night sky, his eyes brimming with wild joy.
He rapidly formed hand seals, sending one profound sigil after another shooting into the enormous stellar formation diagram high in the sky like meteors.
"Hum."
After absorbing those sigils, the formation diagram suddenly erupted with starlight several times more brilliant than it had been during the day.
The entire diagram began spinning madly at an astonishing speed. An immense, irresistible suction force surged from it, frantically devouring the power emitted by the stars in the night sky. Directly beneath the formation diagram, one phantom star after another slowly condensed into existence.
At first, they were only the size of fists, but under the endless infusion of stellar power, they swelled dramatically at an astounding rate.
In the blink of an eye, a full three hundred and sixty-five phantom stars had appeared beneath the formation diagram.
These phantom stars slowly rotated and arranged themselves according to some ancient, profound celestial pattern.
Fine threads of starlight connected them, weaving into an incomparably intricate net of stars, like a Heavenly Cycle Star Map reduced countless times over.
All three hundred and sixty-five phantom stars lit up at once. Three hundred and sixty-five highly condensed pillars of starlight poured down from them, flooding into the Ice Phoenix and the white lotus like three hundred and sixty-five silver rivers of heaven.
The Ice Phoenix raised its head and released an incomparably piercing phoenix cry.
Under the infusion of boundless starlight, its deep-blue phoenix eyes, which had dimmed from its injuries, blazed with dazzling radiance once more.
The wounds across its body that had been pierced through by the Dark Mass rapidly healed at a visible speed.
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