Xu Qing looked at the enormous dreadnaught, then walked toward it. As he neared, its reflection appeared in his eyes. Flames surrounded it, with the high heat causing everything to ripple and distort. The fluctuations coming off it seemed to encompass two aspects.2

The first aspect was Xu Qing’s mark that came from his old dharmaship. Although the old ship had been dismantled in preparation to make the dreadnaught, those pieces had been reused as the new foundation.0

The second aspect of the fluctuations were that of the ancient sun. Xu Qing had carried that ancient sun at his waist for a long time in the Moonrite Region, and had therefore developed a close connection to it. After sensing the fluctuations, Xu Qing realized that the dreadnaught didn’t seem anything at all like a stranger. All he had to do was mark it as his own, combine the two aspects of the fluctuations, and then he would have full control of what was essentially the same ancient sun as before, just upgraded.3

As everyone looked on, he floated up until he was over the ancient sun, then took a deep breath and sent his divine sense into the sun. There was no resistance at all.0

In hardly more than ten breaths of time, Xu Qing’s divine sense filled it, causing rumbling...5