Rumble...
The Heaven-Viewing Mirror slowly turned, its center aligning with Fang Yun, and released a beam of hazy gray light.
The hazy gray light surpassed the speed of light, striking Fang Yun the instant it appeared.
Fang Yun was enveloped in a gray pillar of light slanting down from the north, a hundred li in diameter.
The Sages saw time flow more slowly within the gray pillar, while space grew more stable.
Dense ancestral might rippled through the gray pillar of light.
The Sages sent out wisps of divine sense to probe it, only to discover that their divine senses had entered not a space a hundred li across, but an endless expanse of void.
They hurried to withdraw their divine senses, but could not!
They hastily calculated what would happen and discovered, to their astonishment, that their sacred senses would not return for at least thirty years.
Before their eyes, their divine senses had advanced only an inch through the void!
Near at hand, yet distant as the horizon; a hundred years in a single breath.
Joy appeared on the Sages' faces.
"Fang Yun, be on your way," Ao Min said with a smile.
"I actually quite like your poetry." Regret showed on Ao Chijiang's face. As he finished speaking, pure energy surged skyward behind him, and a white true dragon formed of sacred sense soared upward to settle before the Starfire Armillary Mirror.
"Please strike, Senior!" Ao Chijiang bowed respectfully. Sacred power gushed from his entire body like a golden Yangtze River, pouring into the Starfire Armillary Mirror.
The Starfire Armillary Mirror trembled lightly, then began expanding and contracting without pause.
With every expansion, it spewed countless flames; with every contraction, hundreds of millions of stars appeared around its outer rim.
After several cycles, thousands of swirling galaxies