BONG... BONG... BONG...
As the twelfth chime of midnight faded softly across the warm main hall of the [Gu Family Flying Courtyard Star-Cruiser], all five children. Twelve-year-old Gu Nian, thirteen-year-old Ye Xiao, ten-year-old Su Nuannuan, nine-year-old Jiang Tuntun, and toddler Little Fifth (Ao Xing)—were fast asleep in a peaceful, rosy-cheeked row on the heated kang sofa, their arms still draped over [Dad’s Illustrated Family Growth Albums].
After tucking the velvet quilt snugly around the five sleeping kids. Moreover, Letting Empress Luo Qingxue kiss each forehead goodnight, Gu Changsheng stepped quietly out onto the cobblestone courtyard lawn beneath the blooming golden osmanthus tree.
Inside his dantian, the accumulated warmth of 77 Billion Protected Citizens, five 0% Darkening Rank 7 children, and his newly reunited Rank 8 Empress wife was roaring like an ocean of liquid gold!
“Changsheng!” Grandpa Yao floated out onto the porch alongside Grandpa Fu and Auntie Qin, his eyes wide behind his golden monocle. Meanwhile, He sensed the space around Gu Changsheng’s shoulders beginning to shimmer with Star-Realm laws.
“You’re breaking through from Rank 7 Peak (Planetary Guardian) to Rank 8 Early (Star Realm / Solar Furnace) right now?!
Should we raise the ship’s blast shields?! In the Upper Realm, whenever a cultivator ignites a Star-Realm Solar Furnace, the uncontrolled cosmic radiation. Moreover, Heavenly Script Tribulation Lightning shatter every roof tile within a hundred miles and wake up half the sector!”
