On the Pano Plane, after Haeptis and the Lord of Life ascended to godhood one after the other, the Blue-White Star, once so immense that it stretched across heaven and earth like a true celestial body, had now shrunk drastically.
At this moment, it resembled more a gigantic island floating high in the sky.
Though it remained majestic, wreathed in dense divine essence and the aura of laws, it ultimately fell far short of the oppressive presence it had possessed at the beginning, when it covered the entire firmament.
Yet although the Blue-White Star had shrunk, its position had not changed.
For from the very beginning, it had lain in the "interlayer" between the Pano Plane and the cosmic starry sky, like a special barrier wedged outside the plane.
Thus, even after shrinking into a sky island, it still floated at the boundary between the Pano Plane and the cosmic starry sky.
And so, this new Blue-White Star island seemed to have become a true Heaven-Bearing Island!
Standing upon the island and looking up, one saw the endless cosmic starry sky—deep, dark, and cold. Rivers of stars hung across the distant heavens, colossal celestial bodies lay scattered in the depths of the cosmos, and occasionally, warped streams of law-light streaked through the darkness.
The sight was so magnificent it stole one's breath, as though taking just one more step upward would truly break free of the plane's restraints and enter the vast, boundless universe of heavens.
And when one lowered one's gaze, one saw the Pano Plane below.
Yet from this height, the land of the entire plane had become incomparably tiny. Mountains and rivers looked like rolling little earthen mounds, the oceans like patterns of azure blue, and even the cities and living beings upon the continents had become