Chapter 286 - Chapter 284: The Eternal Return (Part 1)

Five years had passed since the convergence that had reunited the three fragments of consciousness and revealed the existence of the Tenth Star to the world. The Celestial Academy continued its eternal drifting above clouds that themselves seemed to embody the impermanence that consciousness had learned to accept as fundamental truth. The floating islands carried on with the work of cultivation, though the meaning of that work had transformed so completely that observers from before the convergence would have barely recognized it as the same institution.