No one knew what year or month it had been, or which great power had acted. The hundreds of thousands of celestial bodies in the Asteroid Belt of the Main Worldline, along with uncountable interstellar dust, had been gathered into eight clusters of varying sizes. Outside the clusters, everything had been swept empty. Within them, rocks collided, split apart, and fused together, creating a scene straight out of a movie.
Four major Star Gate ports had been established along the entire solar orbit, stationed respectively in the east, south, west, and north. Each was a third-tier giant city capable of housing more than a billion people, collectively known throughout the martial world as the Four Heavenly Gates.
The four star ports, together with the eight clusters, resembled the twelve marks of a clock, dividing the Inner and Outer Solar System. This was the distribution map of the Main Worldline's Asteroid Belt.
Wherever the scarlet gemstone went was the East Heavenly Gate, one of the Four Heavenly Gates.
The East Heavenly Gate was even larger than Shaluo City after eight cities had been combined. It had also been built later, with newer technology and design concepts entirely unlike old relics such as Shaluo City and Tumubao.
It no longer used a spread-out structure. Nearly a perfect tetrahedron, it resembled a colossal silver-glinting rice dumpling floating through space, slowly rotating at a fixed speed.
It saved space, propulsion, risk, and force fields, while offering greater structural strength—a distinctly deep-space style.
Its exterior was like this, and so was its interior. If Tumubao still looked somewhat like an old Earth city, then the East Heavenly Gate was utterly science-fictional, with colossal structures rising everywhere.
Unlike Shaluo City or Tumubao, it was not divided into flat districts. It was a three-dimensional city, layered from