Ten days ago, when any merchant caravan or wandering cultivator in the outer Orion-Jade Spiral Arm heard the words “Cloud-Sea Sector,” they would shake their heads and fly ten light-years around it. Back then, it was a pitch-black graveyard of toxic purple dust, fifty frozen ice-worlds, starving moss-eaters, and vicious bug-riding slavers.
Today—on the tenth morning since the Light-Year Sword-Rail Express crossed the border—anyone flying into the Cloud-Sea Sector thought they had accidentally stepped into the legendary Immortal Harvest Heaven!
Up in the high orbital sky, the suffocating purple dust clouds had been completely transformed into one hundred thousand square miles of Floating Nebula Paddy Fields. Wave after wave of glowing Golden Nebula Rice rippled in the warm space breeze, while two billion polite, brass-belled Harvester Locusts led by Queen Xiao Jin neatly cut, threshed, and bundled fifty million tons of ripe spirit grain every single hour!
Hanging beneath the golden cloud-paddies were one hundred Mini-Sun Greenhouse Lamps powered by Ao Ming’s dragon-fire, bathing all fifty planets below in perpetual 75-degree spring sunshine.
And threading between all fifty lush, green agricultural worlds and the gleaming white Snack Factory Moon at the center of the sector was a dazzling spiderweb of bright yellow Double-Track Sword-Rail Lines!
