Outside the ten-mile-wide ring of the Dry-Well Star-Gate, the 100-Mile Crimson Star-Splitting Saber Wave roared through the vacuum of space like an angry red dragon!
It was only fifty miles away from the Star-Gate’s entrance turnstiles.
Inside the station plaza on Planet Canglan, millions of citizens held their breath—not out of fear, but because their 1-copper bets were about to be decided!
Right at that moment, Pei Xuan took a single calm step off Platform #1 of Dry-Well Central Station and walked straight through the shimmering portal of the Star-Gate into outer space.
He wasn’t wearing bulky armor or carrying a giant weapon. He wore only his neat, dark-blue Dry-Well County Magistrate robe, with a plain jade belt around his waist and a pair of comfortable cloth shoes made by the village grandmothers.
Yet the instant Pei Xuan’s cloth shoes stepped out into the cold vacuum of space, the entire cosmos around the nine worlds hummed like a giant bronze bell!
Inside Pei Xuan’s mind, the Fusion Cube spun once, consuming 100 Billion Loyalty Points to merge [Dry-Well County Magistrate’s Official Stamp] + [The Nine Planetary Core Veins] + [20 Billion Citizens’ Civic Faith]:
HUMMMMMMM—!
