At those words, Fang Qianyuan also looked over with a touch of curiosity. As the man's thoughts shifted, a vast sea of stars appeared at the center of the Star Map.
He was using his Divine Sense to control the Star Map's display scale. As the image continued to magnify, a panoramic view of one utterly inconspicuous Star Realm within that sea of stars appeared before them.
Only then did everyone see that within that Star Realm lay a faint patch of blue light, tiny as a mote of dust. Its texture resembled the spirit essence of the Spirit-Taming World and its surrounding regions, stirring an instinctive yearning in them.
It was the yearning all living beings felt for spirit essence, vitality, and such things. This longing was innate, born of the attraction between humans of the Spirit-Taming World and things sharing their origin and nature.
"Is that spirit essence? A star possessing spirit essence?"
"It really does seem to be..."
"Then does that mean similar stars exist in the seemingly gray, desolate starry sky of the Dharma-Ending Age we saw earlier? Perhaps our previous search was too cursory. We need to narrow the scale to within each Star Realm and search every star."
"Exactly. Even in our native Star Realm, the empty stretches of the sea of stars are gray and dim. The spirit essence represented by that blue light radiates from celestial bodies like the Spirit-Taming World."
Everyone understood then. Stars bearing spirit essence still lay scattered throughout the boundless sea of stars.
But against astronomical distances measured in millions or hundreds of millions of jing-li, they were truly minuscule. Finding one was as difficult as fishing a single pearl out of a vast ocean.
Without this Star Map, they could not send their Divine Sense through the