On the morning of the seventh day since landing on World #6: Thunder-Peak Planet, every citizen across Pei Xuan’s territory stopped their work for ten minutes and looked up at the public spirit-screens.
Along the entire length of the glowing golden Star-Train Sky-Rails connecting Planet Canglan, Dust-Rock Moon, Green-Sprout Star, Black-Iron Moon, Warm-Spring Star, The Gravel-Yard Asteroid Belt, and Thunder-Peak Planet, five hundred thousand Star-Iron Golems and one hundred thousand Thunder-Hawk Couriers had just finished bolting down the final segment of a colossal engineering marvel.
Running parallel to every single foot of Star-Train track through the dark void of space was an arm-thick, gold-and-violet trunk cable fused by Pei Xuan in the Fusion Cube.
At the central transformer plaza of Thunder-Peak Station #1, Pei Xuan stood in front of the twenty-foot-tall Master Grid Switchboard, surrounded by Old Wei (now a freshly minted Rank 7 Early Nascent Soul master), Hong Ling, General Tie Zhan, Abacus Su, Old Guo, Boom-Pot Sun, Chief Ticket Inspector Ye Guhan, Chief Shi Gang, and Postmaster General Lei Zhen.
“Report grid readiness across all six worlds,” Pei Xuan said into the interplanetary broadcast microphone.
On the giant holographic screen above the plaza, six sub-screens lit up one after another:
