What the Positions Implied, Speculations Aplenty

Human Emperor Starland.

A figure had indeed appeared at the First Star Position.

His physical body was peerlessly powerful, as though it concealed endless strength. With every gesture, the vast radiance of the blazing sun seemed to shine upon the heavens.

True to his name, Li Jiuyang swept his gaze across the surroundings.

"These are my future opponents."

His aura was formidable, and a naturally disdainful Energy Flow flowed from his eyes.

Within an enormous star beside him,

the figure there stood solitary and otherworldly, as if she did not belong to this mortal realm. She possessed a beauty so cold it had become stillness itself.

She was unmistakably a female cultivator.

Yet her eyes did not turn toward the surroundings. She merely remained silent and tranquil, as though her mind was as silent and empty as the star beneath the pillar of light. Only a faint, ethereal aura of Moon Essence spread around her.

Some had already noticed the differences among these stars.

Since the auras emitted by the stars differed, the Great Dao they cultivated and the Divine Abilities they practiced were surely inextricably linked to those stars.

At the Seventh Honored Position, vast, dense Xuanhuang Energy Flow coiled around the figure.

He laughed heartily. "Fellow Dao Companions, since we have gathered here, why remain silent?"

His voice traveled outward.

Yet when it fell upon everyone's ears, it was as though it had been veiled by distant, hazy light and shadow. No one could tell from where this fragment of Heavenly Secrets had come.

"Well said. I wonder whether you have noticed that, if fate allows in the future, we may be able to use this place to withstand some of those powers."

Another person spoke.

"Oh? What you say makes sense, Dao Companion. Before the Path of