Han Li continued to scale the staircase all the way until he reached the top of the Star Gathering Platform, and only at the very center of the platform's top level was he able to find a diagram of the Big Dipper.

He briefly inspected the diagram before sitting down with his legs crossed, then raised his head to look up at the sky, upon which he discovered that the heavens had already taken on a dark blue hue, and several stars had already appeared.

He closed his eyes and began to meditate in silence.

Around two hours later, Han Li's eyes sprang open, and he gently uttered the word, "begin".

The four brown-robed elderly men around the platform each flipped a hand over to produce a palm-sized Starwash Stone upon hearing this, then pressed the stones into the indentations on the ground before them.

The four stones cracked in unison as bursts of white light rose up from the indentations, flowing along the runes and patterns engraved into the ground to quickly reach the Star Gathering Platform.

All nine levels of the platform instantly began to glow brightly while taking on a translucent appearance, and the constellation diagrams engraved onto the platform also began to radiate dazzling silver light....