On the central golden plaza of Star-Gold Station #1, three million workers, golems, rabbits, monkeys, skeletons, and former pirates stood shoulder to shoulder under a sky of fluttering red silk banners.
Across all ten worlds, every spirit-television screen—from the desert tea shops of Planet Canglan to the heated glass igloos of Frost-Mirror Star—was tuned in to the live broadcast.
Right in the center of the station platform, the two ends of the ten-million-mile Moon-Spider Sky-Rail met face-to-face.
One track came from the east, linking Planet Canglan, Dust-Rock Moon (World #1), Green-Sprout Star (World #2), Black-Iron Moon (World #3), Warm-Spring Star (World #4), and the Gravel-Yard Belt (World #5).
The other track came from the west, linking Thunder-Peak Planet (World #6), Frost-Mirror Star (World #7), Scrap-Heap Star (World #8), Red-Gourd Moon (World #9), and finally arriving here at Star-Gold Planet (World #10) before looping straight back through the Level 10 Dry-Well Star-Gate!
Only a single three-foot joint remained between the two gleaming black-iron rails.
Pei Xuan stepped off Star-Train No. 1, walked up to the junction with Old Wei, Hong Ling, General Tie Zhan, Ye Guhan, and Chief Golem Shi Gang, and opened his Fusion Cube.
A six-foot-long, dazzling golden railway spike materialized in Pei Xuan’s hands, humming with the combined pulse of ten worlds.
