After Zhang Yan emerged from the Floating Heavenly Palace, it was already nighttime. He looked up and saw a sky full of stars, a brilliant Milky Way stretching across the sky, hanging upside down on the Heavenly Vault in magnificent splendor.
He raised his head to gaze at it for a moment, and a surge of emotion welled up in his chest, giving rise to a feeling of soaring ambition, as though he could shatter the heavens and roam the Nine Heavens.
Just as he was about to rise and take flight, a voice suddenly called out from behind him, "Isn't this Junior Brother Zhang?"
Zhang Yan turned back and saw a round-faced man with a somewhat comical demeanor smiling at him. He recognized the man and cupped his hands in greeting, saying, "Ah, Senior Brother Miao."
The man in front of him was none other than Miao Kun, one of the Sect Leader's registered disciples.
