Above First City, countless stars glittered. From the Taiyin-Solar Stars in the surrounding starfields, fine strands of silver light cascaded like waterfalls and gathered over the city.
The brilliant starlight of an entire starfield poured down, sustaining the ancient city.
Such sights were common in the universe. Cities floating in space drew countless cultivators, and naturally needed vast amounts of energy from heaven and earth to sustain them.
After obtaining the Purple-Gold Gourd, Jiang Yun had yet to examine the Nine-Turn Immortal Pill Fragments inside when his Protector Grand Ceremony began.
As the eldest guardian of the Ancient Road, Azure Phoenix Daoist presided over the ceremony. He stood beside Jiang Yun on the high platform and proclaimed to the ancestors of the Human Race that Jiang Yun would safeguard its prosperity in the years to come.
In the most distant ages, the guardians of the Human Race Ancient Road truly protected the entire Human Race.
But as the Human Race grew and spread across the universe, even a Quasi-Emperor could not watch over everyone, much less a Great Saint guardian.
In time, the role became that of guarding the Human Race along the Ancient Road. Jiang Yun had learned this at Azure Phoenix Daoist's Altar, where the history of the Human Race was inscribed.
Around the ceremony grounds sat rings of powerful figures from across the universe, a dark mass stretching into the distance. Not one hovered in the sky; all sat in stone chairs.
Seen from above, the dense crowd resembled a divine lotus blooming outward. It was hard to imagine that these people could pluck stars and seize moons with a lift of the hand.
At the very front sat the champions of the Big Dipper, there to celebrate the deputy hall master of their Northern Suppression Divine