Rising smoothly on the golden tide of two billion glowing sky-lanterns, the three-mile-long hull carrying the Gu Family Five-Courtyard Mansion ascended effortlessly through the starry night sky. It floated right in front of the fifty-mile-wide Ancient Orbital Star-Gate three hundred miles above Planet Canglan.
Up here in high orbit, the view from the front wooden porch of the ancestral house was nothing short of breathtaking.
Behind the white picket fence of the front yard, the glowing blue-and-gold sphere of Planet Canglan curved majestically across the bottom half of the sky. Still shining with the ten-thousand-mile golden birthday message formed by two billion sky-lanterns.
Directly ahead of the porch railing, framed inside the fifty-mile golden archway crowned by the [Rank 7 Golden Spatula Keystone], the tranquil sapphire mirror of the dimensional portal rippled like clear summer lake water.
Through that sapphire portal window, theGu family could see straight into the vast. Glittering expanse of the Lower Astral Corridor—where ten distinct. Jewel-colored planetary beacons hung suspended along a winding river of starlight like ten stepping stones leading toward the distant, ice-crowned fortress of Sector 6.
On the porch dashboard, Empress Luo Qingxue’s [Frost-Phoenix Hairpin] hovered above its velvet cushion, its sapphire beak pointing unerringly through the open gate toward the first emerald-green planet in the corridor.
