The mile-wide pillar of pure, snow-white starlight pierced the clouds above the Central Continent like a bridge connecting heaven and earth.
High above the ancestral Gu Family Courtyard, the sky opened into a shimmering canopy of celestial frost. Yet unlike the cruel, bone-biting blizzards of the Northern Pole before it was healed, this cold did not hurt a single living creature below. Mixed with thirty billion points of Gu Changsheng’s golden hearth-fire, the descending aura carried the crisp, refreshing scent of winter plum blossoms, clean mountain snow, and distant starlight.
Standing a thousand feet tall in the upper atmosphere was a colossal phantom of breathtaking majesty.
She wore flowing imperial robes of astral frost, crowned with a diadem of frozen starlight and nine phoenix plumes. Behind her back hovered nine hundred-foot translucent swords carved from absolute-zero crystal ice. Each blade humming with the supreme sword-law of an ancient Star-Realm sovereign compressed to the absolute pinnacle of Rank 7 Peak so that Planet Canglan’s atmosphere would not crack under her boots.
The entire sky bowed beneath her presence.
Aboard the three-mile Upper-Realm punitive warship hovering in the clouds, all three Rank 7 Nascent Soul Enforcers froze solid on the steel deck.
