Chapter 238
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Chapter 238: Title
In the 15,000th year of the Galactic Era,
To commemorate the ten-thousand-year establishment of the Galactic Empire, humanity across the galaxy prepared for an unprecedented grand celebration.
Human civilization had evolved through five distinct epochs: the Primordial Era of ignorance, the Mother Planet Era of terrestrial expansion, the Exploration Era of interstellar colonization within their native star system, and the Wanderer Era when civilization stretched beyond their solar cradle into the cosmic void.
After eons of warfare and fragile truces, through relentless expansion and colonization, humanity finally imprinted its footprints across the spiral arms of the Milky Way.
The advent of stargates revolutionized galactic travel, while trans-wormhole technology consolidated civilizations under centralized power. Thus emerged the inevitable fifth epoch –
The Galactic Era.
This epoch symbolized humanity’s ultimate conquest of the Milky Way, turning its gaze toward extragalactic frontiers. Though the galactic-named governing body had merely existed for ten millennia, this was but an eyeblink in humanity’s hundred-thousand-year odyssey. Historical archives revealed political entities enduring over eighty millennia – like the decaying Galactic Human Alliance that perished at the Wanderer Era’s twilight, its carcass fertilizing the nascent Empire’s ruthless ascendancy.
To 21st-century Blue Star dwellers, this era surpassed science fiction fantasies – a reality where the Milky Way became humanity’s private garden. All alien civilizations either knelt before human supremacy or faced extinction.
But technological omnipotence bore thorns:
For Blue Star natives, the Empire’s world pulsed with unseen perils. When even Zhongxia’s primitive electronic networks enabled mass surveillance, how much more terrifying became a galaxy-spanning civilization wielding godlike technologies?
…
Bai Ye blinked in disorientation as his meditation chamber dissolved into open air.
Reality snapped into focus – he’d witnessed this phenomenon in newsfeeds. Never seen a pig run, but he’d eaten pork; while the Heavenly Inquiry World and Outlets World remained obscure to most, any informed citizen knew about the recent transmigration incidents. Combined with the Heavenly Law Ancient Stone Tablet’s countdown… he’d clearly won the cosmic lottery.
Fortunate? Undoubtedly. How else would he have surfed the Awakening of Spiritual Energy’s crest? He’d been first to encounter the ghost cultivator – *ahem* – the red-clad senior. As a bloodline bearer himself, he might not crack the global top ten, but securing a top fifty spot on the post-Awakening Talent Ranking? Child’s play.
【Talent Ranking: Crowdsourced list of notable Practitioners emerging after the Awakening of Spiritual Energy, excluding ancient practitioners.】
His surroundings resolved into a narrow alley bracketed by towering walls. Good – no witnesses to his sudden materialization. But which world? The phone’s countdown stream before crossing had pointed to… the Galactic Empire. A future epoch then, likely the interstellar age.
As Bai Ye lifted his foot to explore, a hauntingly familiar voice froze him mid-step.
【Number 456 ‘I Am Really Bai Ye’ has successfully traversed the dimensional barrier. The system will sever its connection with you in three minutes.】
【Heed these critical reminders, Number 456 ‘I Am Really Bai Ye’.】
【Primary Directive: Designated world ‘Galactic Empire’ maintains hostile relations with the source world. Taskers shall assimilate this realm while preserving their core principles.】
【Though no conflict holds inherent righteousness, war becomes inevitable for the source world’s survival. Secure victory while minimizing collateral damage—should this world eventually become subsidiary to ours, let history record your judicious actions.】
【All taskers are prohibited from disclosing their origins, including any references to Blue Star, Heavenly Law, or the source world through verbal or involuntary means.】
【Maintain absolute anonymity to evade detection by the world consciousness. Breach of this protocol will result in immediate mission termination and permanent exclusion until inter-realm hostilities cease.】
【Final advisory: Karma’s wheel turns inexorably beneath the gaze of cosmic law.】
The system’s presence dissolved into silence.
Bai Ye waited several heartbeats, confirming his solitary state. The narrow alleyway before him seemed to mock his predicament. Had they truly abandoned him here without basic orientation? This operational negligence could prove catastrophic.
When continued mental queries yielded no response, he accepted his new reality. Survival and mission completion now depended solely on his capabilities—not that refusal was an option.
Drawing steadying breath, he acknowledged both peril and opportunity in this trial. With measured steps, he emerged from shadowed confines.
A child of the 21st century, Bai Ye respected technological civilization’s ‘perils’. Despite this world’s Tier One Pinnacle classification, he moved with panther-like caution rather than reckless abandon.
The grading system from the Heavenly Law Ancient Stone Tablet remained controversial among Blue Star scholars. Prevailing theories suggested rankings reflected both a realm’s current power concentration and its latent capacity for energy containment.
Which made the current panorama utterly baffling.
Before him stretched a cityscape surpassing sci-fi imaginings—gleaming towers piercing cloudbanks, antigravity vehicles weaving luminescent patterns. Yet this qualified merely as Tier One Pinnacle? Question marks materialized above Bai Ye’s head as he gaped roadside.
This civilization dwarfed Blue Star’s achievements, yet occupied the same tier? His pulse accelerated with dawning apprehension.
Moreover—why deploy a bloodline bearer to such a tech-dominated sphere? The Rise of the Sorcerers realm would have better complemented his skills!
Retreating into the alley’s relative shelter, he reassessed. The absence of visible cameras offered false comfort—future surveillance might defy recognition.
Beyond the pedestrian lane, hovercars screamed past at velocities exceeding 160 mph, their aerodynamic forms leaving retinal afterimages. Bai Ye pressed against damp brickwork, recomposing himself.
Statistics suggested most counterparts in his situation succumbed to panic—hence the swelling ranks of first-wave returnees. Survival favored the analytical.
*
"Seventy percent recall rate from the initial deployment before even initiating the second wave." Ye Linlang’s eyelid twitched as diagnostic screens reflected crimson across her features.
Although she hadn’t initially held high expectations for these newcomers, the seventy percent figure left her momentarily speechless. This meant seven thousand of the first wave travelers to the Galactic Empire had been repatriated – most meeting untimely demises.
The Unregistered Being approach proved unviable. While the Galactic Empire authorities hadn’t yet taken serious notice, continued recklessness would inevitably lead to exposure.
—Indeed, curious eyes had already begun observing.
Tsk. This served as a valuable lesson: such direct crossing-over methods couldn’t be replicated in similar tech-driven worlds.
Of the remaining three thousand travelers, how many would ultimately endure? At least the Galactic Empire’s sprawling interstellar domains offered concealment. Ten thousand travelers were but a drop in the cosmic ocean. Her system’s deployment protocols prioritized remaining undetected above all.
If direct insertion failed, soul possession offered alternative legitimacy. The research on soul dominance – suppressing native consciousness while elevating traveler essence – neared completion. Mass application seemed feasible, though procuring sufficient recently deceased hosts in this interstellar era posed challenges…
Success in the Galactic Empire prototype would enable replication across fragment worlds and dimensional realms.
The Mysterious Awakening realm’s development lagged concerningly. Should this current endeavor succeed, strategic applications for that eldritch plane could commence.
Ye Linlang finalized her decision, commanding: "System, initiate Protocol B for second-wave deployment."
【By your will, Your Excellency, the Major Deity.】
Originally this method remained locked below 50% conquest threshold, but sufficient Fantasy Points warranted experimentation. Moreover, unrestricted traveler autonomy proved counterproductive to end objectives. Better to engineer system-assisted guidance – triggering beneficial quests through environmental data harvesting while maintaining operational support.
High-tier worlds could naturally suppress lower existence planes when backed by strong power. The Mysterious Awakening fragment world’s current parity with Blue Star in world consciousness rendered suppression tactics inefficient despite Blue Star’s material advantage – the energy expenditure outweighed potential gains.
No such constraints bound the Galactic Empire and Rise of the Sorcerers projects. Both existed as subordinate constructs to Blue Star’s reality, mere potentialities requiring traveler interactions to generate Fantasy Points and emotional resonance for actualization.
By every metric, traveler infiltration promised substantial benefits. The Galactic Empire blueprint – extrapolated from Blue Star’s technological trajectory – contained harvestable innovations applicable to prime reality.
If only they could be retrieved…
…
Blue Star.
When asked about Zhongxia’s dominant communication platform, any informed citizen would name the Spiritual Network Forum.
【Thread】【Trending】Experiencing Another World Death Within 60 Minutes – AMA
1L: SpeedRunner
OP vanished after dropping that title? Typical clickbait.
2L: InkAssassin
woc! Luck-vampiring OP’s residual fortune brb
3L: SlimeSupreme
Sub-hour regression? Textbook misfortune specimen.
4L: JadeRabbit4Ever 【OP】
Drank water. Calmed nerves. Return to find vultures picked my thread clean??
Brothers, you read that right – I’ve crossed over.
Judging by the world I’ve landed in, this must be the Galactic Empire prophesied on the Heavenly Law Ancient Stone Tablet. A ridiculously advanced sci-fi realm with sky-racing hovercars and tech so mind-blowing it left me utterly speechless.
【Ahem, don’t mock my simple way of expressing things.】
5L: FluffyBunny
OP’s my soulmate! Masters the art of swearing-across-worlds! Bet you’re shaking in your boots?
6L: NamelessWonder
Popcorn ready.
7L: ProudRabbitNation 【OP】
Was mid-way through Brother Yang’s livestream when everything blinked black. Next thing I knew, I’m in some grungy alley getting lectured by this system voice.
Stepped outside and boom – flying cars zipping through skyscrapers that pierce the clouds! Couldn’t tell if I’d dropped into Cyberpunk 2077 or some Interstellar Future timeline.
Before I could say "transdimensional tourism", security flagged me as an Unregistered Being. Worse? The universal translator apparently needs DLC – couldn’t understand squat! Got hauled off faster than you can say "illegal immigrant".
Panicked and bolted like an idiot. Made it three steps before a sky-taxi T-boned me at full velocity. Felt every bone snap, saw my own blood painting the pavement… Yeah, that’s nightmare fuel for life.
8L: SourPatch
How are you even breathing? My envy’s burning brighter than a supernova.
WHY can’t cool stuff like this happen to me?
9L: GracefulSwann
Count yourself lucky – most only get one ticket to that ride. Surviving’s already winning the cosmic lottery.
10L: CosmicVoyager
Key takeaway: Death there isn’t permanent. OP’s walking proof!
11L: ProudRabbitNation 【OP】
"Temporary" my tail! My battleship tour! My Mecha test drive! All gone for who-knows-how-long! QAQ
12: ElevenEleven
Chin up, OP. Check the Rise of the Sorcerers forum – some returnees wish they got off as easy as car-crash-quick.
13L: BreadwinnerDuck
At least yours was instant. Those Sorcerer World survivors? Rumor says death’s the easy part there…
…
The Galactic Empire and Rise of the Sorcerers subforums stay lit 24/7. Threads refresh faster than light-speed, trending nonstop across Weibo and every social platform imaginable.
Special Bureau Headquarters
Information Section 2
Within the classified corridors of Information Technology Section 2, analysts swarm like digital ants. Their mission: track every breadcrumb about the Fourth and Fifth Worlds from the chaos of cyberspace.
No containing the truth anymore – taskers keep spilling secrets across every platform. The Bureau’s new full-time job? Damage control and data mining.
This also spared Division 2 some effort, as they simply needed to trace the online IP address, locate the poster, and conduct a separate inquiry.
Never underestimate the Special Bureau’s capabilities. Having operated for nearly two years, the organization had matured into a well-oiled machine with established protocols for every procedure.
Information Section 2 compiled the materials, which would first be dispatched to Lin Jing’s team for analysis before curated information could be selectively released.
Speed was crucial – the second countdown on the Heavenly Law Ancient Stone Tablet only had hours remaining.
Allowing another mass repatriation of the second batch would prove disastrous, not just for mission integrity but for human dignity… though truth be told, the "accidental returnees" weren’t exclusively human, as multiple races had participants experiencing similar mishaps.
Lin Jing’s Office
Two newly arrived documents lay on his desk, their pages brimming with intelligence about the Galactic Empire and the Rise of the Sorcerers.
He opened the first dossier.
Galactic Empire maintained a temporal ratio with Blue Star: one local day equaling three Galactic days.
This civilization boasted extraordinary advancement, its citizens enjoying 150-year natural lifespans extendable through biotechnology by 100-200%. Classified as a peak Tier 2 civilization under Blue Star’s metrics, they’d harnessed their entire galaxy’s resources through widespread colonization…
Subsequent pages detailed aspects of daily life and various technological devices encountered by taskers. The temporal discrepancy meant many operatives lasted merely days before encountering expulsion-worthy anomalies.
One tasker’s serendipitous acquisition of a translator proved revelatory – not only deciphering local languages but uncovering Galactic humanity’s origin planet as Blue Star itself.
The device contained linguistic data from ancient Huaxia, enabling flawless communication. This tool marginally extended the operative’s survival time.
Lin Jing annotated margins with observations as he progressed. With limited concrete data, educated conjecture became their primary tool for reconstructing alien societies.
Setting aside the first file, he reached for the document labeled "Rise of the Sorcerers".
———World of Rise of the Sorcerers———
Eastern features always stood out conspicuously in Western crowds, particularly when crowned by a freshly shaven scalp.
Huixin smoothed his monastic robes, fingertips brushing the monk’s mark branding his bare head as he gazed bewildered at the rushing pedestrians. Few passersby spared more than cursory glances for the young Shaolin disciple.
Moments earlier, he’d been chanting sutras in the temple hall.
"A Western land?"
The scene confirmed his displacement – men in black suits clutching briefcases, ladies twirling parasols over floral dresses, all moving through architecture utterly foreign to Zhongxia.
This wasn’t his first crossing. Sidestepping an approaching carriage, he assessed his surroundings with practiced calm. His English competence, honed through interactions with foreign temple visitors, served him well.
A monk’s survival skills included alms-seeking. Fortunately, 1885 London hosted enough Chinese expatriates to make his appearance unremarkable.
A discarded newspaper revealed his location and era. Wry amusement touched Huixin’s thoughts – while this 19th-century English capital felt archaic, at least it wasn’t as temporally distant as the Heavenly Inquiry World.
"Excuse me, are you the young monk Huixin?"
A hesitant voice called out. Hearing Chinese in this foreign land stirred an indescribable excitement within him.
Hmm? Wait, there shouldn’t be anyone who knows me in this world. Could they be from Blue Star?
Huixin turned to see a man and woman standing three paces away. The girl who’d spoken watched him with tentative curiosity.
"I am Huixin. Have you come from our homeland?" Though he asked, his mind had already concluded the truth.
Their clothing stood out starkly against this era’s fashions – the chasm between mid-21st century attire and late 18th-century styles couldn’t be more apparent.
"Yes! Oh thank goodness!" The twenty-three-year-old-looking girl exhaled in relief, tugging the young man who towered beside her. "I’m Song Yi, this is Song Ming. We’re fraternal twins."
"Greetings, young monk Huixin." Song Ming inclined his head.
Though not identical, the siblings shared that subtle resemblance of blood relations – the arch of brows, the set of jawlines.
Huixin pressed his palms together. "Benefactors."
Song Yi leaned forward earnestly. "What should we do next? We’re completely lost in this situation."
At thirteen, Huixin’s height often deceived – his 170cm frame suggested adulthood. "Truthfully, I’m uncertain myself. We’ll need to proceed step by step."
Song Ming tilted his head. "Don’t you know this world’s circumstances, young monk?"
"Should I?" Huixin blinked.
Around them, the square’s occasional passersby paid no heed. Few in this era could comprehend Chinese anyway.
"They call this place Rise of the Sorcerers," Song Yi whispered. "The little assistant gave us clues. Didn’t you check your system?"
Huixin froze. He’d disabled notifications during meditation.
The term "little assistant" clicked – the Heavenly Law Battleground System’s online nickname, ubiquitous among Blue Star’s virtual device users. Though confined to virtual domains and battleground functions, its prowess had become legendary, sparking endless petitions for mainstream tech upgrades.
"Please wait." Huixin summoned his task panel.
Missed system alerts had coalesced into envelopes. He skimmed through arrival protocols and objectives. The main mission mirrored Heavenly Inquiry World’s – conquer this realm. The stagnant Progress Bar confirmed no tasker had made headway yet. Whether this boded well for first-mover advantages remained unclear.
His attention dropped to the first task:
[Initial · Find a Sorcerer]
Objective: Locate a practitioner of sorcery
Reward: Unlocks subsequent task chain; +1 Heavenly Law point
Huixin frowned. Since when did task interfaces… Ah, there – a two-minute-old update notice:
[Task System 1.0 Update Complete]
[World tasks now trigger randomly per tasker, generating unique chains. Progress unlocks cross-world support when local tier lags behind source world’s.]
[New deployments via virtual world intermediaries using soul projection. Host souls will be suppressed during occupation…]
As Huixin absorbed this, the twins’ eyes glazed – they too were receiving the update. Simultaneously, across Blue Star and Galactic Empire, every system user froze mid-action as the announcement unfolded.
