Large Five-Colored Altars could traverse star domains, cross the galaxies of the universe, and reach the boundless void. Even the Big Dipper Five Regions formed a super Five-Colored Altar, prepared to cross between two worlds and break into the Immortal Realm.
Such great altars offered long range and convenience, but their drawbacks were equally obvious: they required experts like Gai Jiuyou to refine them, and every activation consumed tremendous energy.
To unite the myriad heavens and ten thousand domains, the Heavenly Court needed to lay out the Ancient Starry Road and open its channels, allowing fresh blood to flow continuously through them. Each Ancient Life Star was an important pressure point along those meridians.
The Big Dipper Burial Emperor Star and Ziwei Imperial Star were major strongholds of the universe, so installing large Five-Colored Altars at their cores was perfectly reasonable. The stars along the Ancient Starry Road were less important, serving as waystations that needed only small altars inscribed by Saints to act as coordinates in the universe.
In the dark, cold universe, scattered stars resembled crystalline diamonds embedded in a black curtain.
The Eight Trigrams Gate atop the Five-Colored Altar released an everlasting radiance, its trigram symbols seemingly cast from metal. Everyone on Ziwei Star gathered and traveled through the universe to their first stop, a small brown star. Unlike the vibrant Ancient Life Stars, this brown star was desolate and deathly still, without the slightest sign of life.
"Darkness is the norm in the universe. Life is the greatest miracle in this world..."
Man-Demon Dongfang Taiyi spoke meaningfully, making everyone's heart tremble.
In the cold universe, darkness knew no bounds, and silence was the eternal theme. The clamor of living beings often lasted only an instant, passing like a streak of light, too faint to discern.
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