Celestial Being Candidate

The ship sailed through the void for seven days.

For most of those seven days, Xu Wuyi stayed in his cabin.

The void outside began to change. The dark-red nebula grew brighter and brighter, and a dense expanse of lights appeared in the distance—the defensive satellite array of Azure Prime. The lights densely filled the void like a glowing sea.

The ship slowed down.

Charles's voice came through the cabin communicator. "Xu Wuyi, we're here. The ship is passing through the outer defensive perimeter and will land in about twenty minutes. You can come over to the porthole and take a look. Azure Prime's scenery is pretty good."

Xu Wuyi walked to the porthole.

As the ship passed through the final layer of defensive satellites, the full sight of Azure Prime unfolded before him.

It was an enormous planet, its surface covered in vast swathes of blue.

Not the blue of oceans, but the blue of energy. The entire planet's surface glowed, pale-blue radiance seeping up from the ground, passing through the atmosphere, and forming a thin halo in the void.

The buildings across the planet were as densely packed as a forest. Towers, domes, floating platforms, aerial corridors—structures of every shape were piled layer upon layer, stretching from the ground all the way above the clouds.

Countless points of light moved between the buildings. They were aircraft and pedestrians weaving through the sky. A pale-blue energy barrier covered the city overhead like a transparent eggshell, enclosing the entire city within.

This was Azure Prime.

One of the most powerful civilizations on the Second Astral Battlefield, a colossal entity with a foundation spanning tens of thousands of years.

When the ship passed through the energy barrier, its hull gave a slight shudder. The view beyond the porthole shifted from blurry