BONG—BONG—BONG—!
At midnight sharp on New Year’s Day, the great golden clock tower atop Dry-Well Star-Hub Station (The Capital Moon) rang twelve times across the quiet, glowing starry sky.
Across all fifty planets of the newly united Dry-Well Star Kingdom, two hundred billion well-fed citizens were sleeping soundly under warm quilts in heated courtyard homes. On the four-lane Wormhole Highways, night-shift cargo trains glided smoothly along dashed white lines painted by Phantom-Blade Ghost King, while ten thousand hydro-dams spun quietly in the Gravity Whirlpool to keep every streetlamp glowing at 200% charge.
Up in the glass-domed observatory at the very pinnacle of the Capital Moon, Pei Xuan sat cross-legged on a woven reed mat from Dry-Well Village.
As the twelfth midnight chime echoed inside his mind, his RTS Territory Screen lit up with a dazzling cascade of golden fireworks, logging the largest single-day point settlement in the history of the Broken Star Belt!
HUMMMMMM—BOOM!
With five trillion pure Loyalty Points and the warm, unshakable gratitude of two hundred billion souls pouring into Pei Xuan’s dantian at midnight, the miniature white-gold sun inside his lower abdomen gave a deep, joyful roar.
Every single meridian, bone, and drop of blood in Pei Xuan’s body turned crystal-clear and warm as jade. His Rank 8 Early (Star Realm) cultivation clicked into absolute, flaw-free 100% Perfection, standing just half a step away from igniting a true Rank 8 Mid & Peak: Cosmic Solar Furnace!
