The sea of stars was vast and boundless.
Pan Xuan traveled alone through the starry sky, his golden escape light tracing a long trail through the dark void.
Behind him, the Nine-Clawed Golden Dragon Law Deity flickered in and out of sight, its golden dragon eyes surveying everything around him as it sensed the fluctuations of each star's essence.
He had already collected the essences of more than twenty golden stars. Each contained pure power of the stars, and he had carefully stored them in Spirit Jade.
A cloud of golden luminous mist had already accumulated within the Spirit Jade. It was the concentrated Star Origin, radiating a gentle yet profound glow.
Pan Xuan nodded in satisfaction and continued flying toward the next star.
In the starry sky ahead, an unusual star caught his attention.
The star was not large, yet it radiated an indescribable light.
It was neither blazing red nor cool white, but a noble purple that carried a supreme majesty.
That purple light stood out in the sea of stars, like the sovereign of myriad stars, with all the others standing guard around it.
Although the surrounding stars each radiated their own light, they all paled before this purple star. Like ministers paying homage to their sovereign, they showed a faint tendency to draw toward it.
Pan Xuan halted his escape light and gazed at the purple star, an inexplicable tremor stirring in his heart.
Within that star lay a power that made his blood surge.
It was imperial qi, the majesty that commanded all things, the noblest aura between heaven and earth.
With a thought, he changed direction and flew toward the purple star.
The closer he drew, the stronger that imperial qi became.
Pan Xuan could sense that this star's essence was utterly different from