Standing on Unbeaten Ground

"It was beautiful."

Meng Chao could not help reaching out, wanting to touch these glittering, elusive stars. "Where was our home, Earth?"

"I don't know."

Wu Haibo pointed to a blurry, incomplete region at the edge of the Star Chart. "We have only unlocked 10% of this Star Chart's secrets. Both Earth and the Solar System are still hidden in the mist. We need to invest more resources, wisdom, and time to find them."

Meng Chao nodded. "Then what about the Otherworld?"

"We have already found the Otherworld's coordinates. Here." Wu Haibo gestured vaguely.

Wisps of Spirit Threads drifted from his fingertips and burrowed into the left side of the Star Chart, making that region rapidly enlarge and flicker.

Meng Chao saw that the planet Earthlings called the "Otherworld" lay on the southwestern frontier of the entire Star Chart.

Yet countless rays spread outward from the Otherworld, linking together the myriad stars that led straight to the center of the sea of stars, forming a magnificent river of stars.

At the end of that stellar river, more than a hundred spheres of light were over a hundred times larger and brighter than the tiny point representing the Otherworld.

It was like a blazing path of conquest, leading directly to the heart of the sea of stars.

Meng Chao stared in fascination when a piercing pain suddenly shot through the depths of his brain.

Just like when he had first been reborn, the floodgate holding back an information torrent opened once more, and countless fragmented images surfaced before his eyes.

No, these were not memories from his previous life.

They were something ten thousand times stranger and grander than memories from his previous life.

Meng Chao seemed to see hundreds of millions of three-dimensional runes floating in the void, their eight