"Boom..." A thunderous roar rang out high in the heavens as halos more dazzling than ordinary stars appeared one after another. Each halo initially spanned several miles, then rapidly expanded, shrouding an area of a hundred miles. At the same time, divine senses, Yuan senses, and even more Clear Sight Lights swept back and forth across the starry sky, creating a somewhat chaotic scene.
"Crack, crack..." Another peal of thunder sounded, and the halos began to turn transparent, revealing enormous Dharma bodies within. Though the halos hung extremely high, everyone could clearly see what lay inside. Those Dharma bodies belonged to Great Grandmasters around the seventh-grade Yuan force, such as Murong Jiang and Gongshu Jingye. These Grandmasters each released their true qi, condensing it within the halos. Seals like city walls descended from the heavens, layer upon layer, enveloping the entire starry sky. The previously disorderly divine senses and Clear Sight Lights were immediately swept clean; no one dared reveal such rashness before Great Grandmasters.
Xiao Hua stood upon a slowly rising star, narrowing his eyes as he looked at the Great Grandmasters within the halos. The halos were immense, and there were many Grandmasters. Sweeping his gaze across them, Xiao Hua estimated that nearly two hundred Great Grandmasters had appeared. In other words, nearly two hundred Confucian cultivator families had come to Star Picking Tower this time in preparation to enter Star Moon Palace. Beneath the halos, aside from the star on which Xiao Hua sat, several hundred more stars were gradually ascending as well. Each was crowded with figures, amounting to more than ten thousand people in all.
Once all the stars had settled beneath the halos, "Boom..." another thunderous roar erupted. In the center of the halos, a full moon appeared out of thin air. Amid moonlight