They Were Witnessing a Miracle

Around them, beams of silvery-white light lit up one after another.

One, two, ten, a hundred...

The lights appeared in succession from every direction in the void, as though someone were lighting silver candles one by one against a pitch-black curtain. As each beam faded, it revealed a figure with silver hair and silver eyes.

Some were tall, some short; some were men, some women; some were old, some young...

Standing together, they looked like an expanse of moonlight that had been split into countless pieces, only to gather again at this moment.

The Moonlight Clan.

One clan member after another appeared, forming a solid ring around the Star-Moon Bow and the Star-Moon Arrow.

[Star-Moon Bow, Star-Moon Arrow]: Pah! You actually called for backup! You're bullying us because there are fewer of us! Pah! You have no martial virtue!

Unfortunately, the Moonlight Clan members were unmoved.

Overwhelmed by sheer numbers, the Star-Moon Bow and the Star-Moon Arrow were finally captured.

Being pinned down by several pairs of hands at once left them with nothing to live for. But they held fast to one thing.

They would never betray Lord Moon God's whereabouts.

They wouldn't talk even if they were beaten to death.

Even if these people handled every trace of moonlight aura on them until it developed a patina.

They wouldn't breathe a word.

And so they were taken away.

Escorted by a crowd of Moonlight Clan members, they disappeared in a great procession.

A spaceship hovered silently in the distance.

Yunhuo sat in the cockpit, the livestream screen in front of him.

The viewer count in the upper right corner was soaring at a speed he had never seen before, the digits changing so fast he could barely make out the ones place.

One million.

Three million.

Five million.

Eight million.

Ten million.

The count finally began to slow at ten million, but it was still climbing.

Yunhuo knew he had gone viral.

Completely and utterly viral.

Overnight, he had been propelled to the very top of the entire Federation's livestreaming platform.

At any other time, Yunhuo would have leaped out of his chair with excitement, stumbling over his words as he thanked his loyal viewers for their tips.

Then he would have taken a screenshot and shown it off on his social feed for three days and three nights.

But right now, Yunhuo wasn't as excited as he had imagined he would be.

He sat there with both hands still resting on the console.

The barrage of comments on the screen was so dense that he couldn't make out a thing.

But his gaze remained fixed on the void, now completely empty. Only moments ago, Yuexi, the Moonlight Clan's leader, the Star-Moon Bow, the Star-Moon Arrow, and a host of Moonlight Clan members had been standing there.

Yunhuo's heart was racing.

It seemed he had witnessed a miracle.

At this point, anyone who still couldn't see it wasn't stupid, but blind.

The Star-Moon Bow, the Star-Moon Arrow, and the Moonlight Clan's leader—every last one of them pointed to one thing:

The legendary Lord Moon God seemed to have awakened.

In a conference room for the Federation's upper echelons.

Everyone seated there belonged to the upper echelons of the entire alliance. The meeting had been called when Yunhuo began his livestream and saw the Star-Moon Arrow.

Someone shot to their feet, someone sat in a daze, someone...

Everyone thought of the same question, a question enough to make the entire interstellar realm tremble.

If the Moon God had awakened,

Then what about his brothers?

Could the Sun God and the Star God be far behind?

And if they all awakened, could the other gods' awakening be far behind?

No. Everything would return.

The entire star region was about to witness something that would sweep across the universe...

—The awakening of the gods.

That day, the entire Federation exploded.

Headlines.

Headlines everywhere.

#MoonGodAwakens#

#TheGodsAreAwakening#

#WeAreWitnessingTheArrivalOfMyth#

#MoonlightClanAppearanceCoordinatesLocked#

One topic after another was frantically pushed onto the trending list. The top spots were filled with subjects related to the gods, crushing the Federation election, the interstellar league, top celebrities' scandals... all to dust.

The celebrities and politicians who usually wielded enormous influence were collectively struck silent that day.

A recording of Yunhuo's livestream spread like wildfire across the entire internet.

In the footage, silver light filled the sky, Moonlight Clan members appeared in overwhelming numbers, and the Star-Moon Bow and Star-Moon Arrow were captured alive.

Outside the footage.

"Am I fucking watching a mythology documentary???"

"The Moonlight Clan! Living Moonlight Clan members!"

"Has the Moon God awakened aaaaaaaaah—"

"What about the Sun God! When will the Sun God wake up! My ancestors worshipped the Sun God for eight hundred generations!"

"People at coordinates Milky Way ****, pay attention. That dead star on your doorstep might be some god's sleeping place!"

"Crazy, crazy, everyone's gone crazy! I don't recognize this world anymore!"

Across the entire Federation, from the core star regions to the mining planets on the frontier, from professors at the highest institutions of learning to street vendors selling snacks.

Everyone was discussing the same thing.

—The Moon God had awakened.

—The gods were coming back.

And all of this was only the beginning.

Meanwhile, the Moon God himself, whom they were thinking about, was on his way to his Moon God Palace.

That was right. He had been in this world for a while now.

Only then did Wuma Xiu suddenly remember.

He had a Moon God Palace.

When he had first transmigrated, things had cropped up one after another: first the creations, then the Zerg, with the Moonlight Clan thrown in between.

[Host, the star network is full of news about the Moon God's awakening now.]

The system was reporting to Wuma Xiu.

It now felt that its future was full of hope.

As long as the host didn't stir up trouble,

At this rate, it would surely be able to keep a low profile and survive a few more days.

"Got it."

Wuma Xiu responded offhandedly, but his mind wasn't on the news on the star network.

He was thinking about something else.

Where had he left his Moon God Palace again?

Wuma Xiu frowned and thought for a long time before finally remembering.

What a coincidence.

It was in the very star region where he had first met those people.

Wuma Xiu quickly pinpointed its location.

The next second, he vanished from where he stood. When he reappeared, he was hovering directly above the Moon God Palace.

The Moon God Palace looked just as it always had.

The entire palace was built from bricks and stones formed of moonlight.

The palace floated in the void with nothing supporting it from below. A faint halo of moonlight surrounded it, as though draping it in a veil as thin as a cicada's wing.

The palace's eaves swept upward, their casual lines possessing a beauty that seemed utterly natural.

Wuma Xiu looked down at it a couple of times. His first thought was: Mm, it's still here.

His second thought was: Huh? Why is there a spaceship next to it?

There was indeed a spaceship parked near his Moon God Palace.

Wuma Xiu's gaze fell on the spaceship, and he took a closer look. Then his brow twitched.

An even greater coincidence followed.

The spaceship was a familiar one.

He recognized it. When he had first come to this world, he had been very interested in the spaceships of the interstellar age.

The curves of their metal hulls, the construction of their engine nozzles, the consoles on their bridges...

Everything had seemed novel to him.

So he had gone aboard a group's ship to have a look around.