Standing in the silver moon dust at the base of the fifty-mile-wide Ancient Star-Gate, Enforcer Xue Sha stared in disbelief at the empty thirty-foot cylindrical power housing.
“Wait a minute!” Xue Sha shouted, his neon-yellow Debtor #0001 vest glowing brightly against the gray moon rocks. “You want me to act as the power core for a fifty-mile Interplanetary Star-Gate?! Are you crazy?! That ancient stone ring connects ten whole planets across millions of miles of space! Even if you drain a Half-Step Rank 8 Soul-Formation cultivator dry like a squeezed lemon, my dantian can’t output that kind of continuous spatial energy without exploding!”
“If you tried to power it directly with your flawed Blood-Moon Qi, of course you’d pop like a cheap firecracker,” Pei Xuan said calmly, walking up the ancient stone steps with the foot-long brass Moon Star-Gate Master Key in his hand. “That’s why we’re not plugging your dantian straight into the wall socket. First, we unlock the gate—and then we give you a proper Dry-Well mechanical transmission.”
Pei Xuan stepped up to the giant brass pedestal at the base of the fifty-mile ring, lined up the Moon Star-Gate Master Key with the ancient star-shaped keyhole, and pushed it in with a firm twist!
