After the Nine Provinces Lamp Map appeared, the Southern Sea Valley seethed with activity day and night. Carpenters, blacksmiths, Light Speakers, and Lamp Guarder apprentices gathered there, felling Southern Sea agarwood for its bones, mining cold iron from the Eternal Night Abyss for its sinews, and drawing silver liquid from the root of light language for its veins. They began building the legendary Light Boat—the "Starfall Boat."
Xiaoman personally oversaw its construction, using his heart flame as a guide to fuse the lamp flames of seven apprentices into the boat's core. Every plank bore Light Glyphs, and luminous currents from the earth veins flowed through every seam. The hull was streamlined like a vast silver leaf, its bow and stern curling upward like lamp flames. Nine Ancient Lamp Array Cores were embedded in its underside, allowing it to resonate with the earth veins and the star paths.
"This boat relies on neither wind nor oars." Xiaoman pressed his hand against the boat's heart, slowly pouring in his heart flame. "It relies on the faith of the Lamp Guarders. As long as the lamps do not go out, the boat will not sink."
After forty-nine days, the Starfall Boat was complete. At the moment of its completion, a wondrous sign appeared in the heavens—the Nine Provinces Lamp Array lit up all at once. Light Glyphs rose into the sky and showered down upon the hull like a rain of stars, coating it in flowing silver radiance. Golden light flashed once more from the Light Language Stele, inscribing:
"Starfall Boat:
Neither vessel nor implement, but resolve crystallized from heart flame.
Its passage follows neither wind nor waves, but star paths and lamp veins,
A vessel for Lamp Guarders to cross the sea and seek the source,
**And the beginning of civilization's return