Thinking this, Jade Slip Xiao Hua emerged from the space, his consciousness returning to his physical body. Without even forming a hand seal, his body slowly began to transform. First came all manner of human forms, then beastly shapes, and finally even the forms of grasses, trees, and flowers. Every one was lifelike to the extreme!
While Xiao Hua cultivated Qingqiu Mountain's secret art, the dozen or so tiers of pavilions outside Star Picking Tower had begun rotating faster. The flames and colored lotus flowers previously formed from light and shadow had now turned into clouds and rosy mists. The tower-shaped Star Picking Tower in every direction was gradually becoming oval. Clouds and mists drifted into the sky, and Righteous Qi Pillars came crashing down one after another. As the pavilions spun, streak after streak of starlight likewise swayed into being, while curtains of starlight and moonlight gradually rose amid the Righteous Qi Pillars.
"Rumble..." Once the space for several hundred miles around Star Picking Tower had been filled with clouds, mists, and stellar radiance, the entire earth began to shake. Amid the roaring, Star Picking Tower rose out of thin air, and beneath the earth, its foundation broke through the soil. Broken stones rolled, mountain ridges collapsed, and a ship-shaped vessel spanning a thousand miles flew out from underground, lightning arcs flashing across its entire body as it rose into the air! This vessel resembled a lightning boat, but it was in fact vastly different. The Star Picking Tower at the center of the flying vessel alone was something no lightning boat possessed. Moreover, though the lightning arcs around the vessel looked vigorous and powerful, they actually relied upon the power of clouds, starlight, and moonlight, and were far less forceful than a lightning boat's propulsion.
The flying vessel