The Stellaron Hunter Kafka had invited the Astral Express to change course and head for the Xianzhou Luofu.
That was the main substance of the communication.
As Head of the Divination Commission, Fu Xuan was no stranger to the Astral Express.
The Xianzhou called the Astral Express the Rainbow Carriage. The safe routes that now connected the civilizations of the Sea of Stars all followed the Star Rail laid down by Akivili, the Aeon of Trailblaze.
One of the Divination Commission's important duties was surveying those routes, and most of that work involved searching for remnants of the Star Rail.
They were called remnants because the Aeon of Trailblaze had fallen. The glorious days when the Astral Express traveled through countless worlds were long gone.
Without the power of Trailblaze to maintain it, the Star Rail gradually fell into disrepair. Stellarons also tended to descend upon civilizations along the tracks. Once a civilization was swallowed by a Stellaron, that section of track was lost for good.
Some scholars had pessimistically remarked that, if this continued, the Sea of Stars would return to the age before Trailblaze appeared, and its civilizations would become isolated once more.
Of course, Emanators blessed by Aeons could often disregard that isolation, using an Aeon's power to travel freely among the myriad worlds.
But what made Akivili, the Aeon of Trailblaze, so great was that the routes they opened made travel beyond the heavens possible even for ordinary people.
Though the Xianzhou Luofu was not a faction of Trailblaze, it had benefited considerably from Trailblaze's legacy. The Xianzhou cruised along the remnants of the Star Rail for long stretches, like a service area on a highway, attracting traveling merchants to stop and rest.
Once, many years ago, the Xianzhou had often encountered the Astral Express roaring