Night had fallen deep.
The nights on Jade Balance Star were utterly different from those in the Heavenly Origin Realm.
There was no moon overhead, yet six enormous stars hung beneath the vault of heaven, shedding gentle, cold starlight.
One of them shone especially brightly. It was Shaking Light Star.
Like a lamp that would never go out, it draped the entire field in a veil of silver.
Within the Grade-Five Spirit Field, the leaves of the Nine-Turn Starry Grass were beaded with dew.
Every droplet reflected the starry sky overhead. From afar, it looked like countless shattered stars scattered across the fields.
Xu Changqing stood upon the ridge between fields, pinching the seed of the Celestial River Moon Marrow Flower between his fingers.
The seed was no larger than a fingernail.
It was a deep blue all over.
Its surface was smooth as a mirror, icy to the touch, like a shard of ice essence frozen for a thousand years.
Yet what truly caught his attention was the power contained within the seed.
One layer was water.
Water-aspected power that was immensely deep, immensely pure, and immensely gentle.
Holding it in his palm, he could almost hear the Celestial River surging.
The other layer was yin.
The utmost yin power of Lunar Yin Radiance had been compressed into the seed's core. Through its deep-blue shell, he could faintly see a strand of silver light drifting within, like a tiny sliver of moonlight trapped inside.
Water and yin, the two powers entwined within the seed, yet remained as distinct as the Jing and Wei Rivers, forming a delicate balance.
Xu Changqing withdrew his gaze and selected a spot within the Grade-Five Spirit Field.
The starlight was densest in this area, and the Resting Soil was thickest.
More importantly, this was