The Years Are Long; I Can No Longer Protect My Homeland

On this day, schools and workplaces everywhere suspended classes and work.

Today marked the civilization-wide leap of the entire planet. They were about to leave their world, face the universe, and truly enter the vast solar system.

"Wow! Dad! Come out and look at the rocket!" A little boy shouted in front of the sofa, clutching a fluffy golden dog-like pet in his arms. "It's huge! It's really huge!"

"Has it started?"

In the kitchen, a man was busy at work. He hurriedly poked his head out, stared at the television, and suddenly shouted,

"Dear Little Jack, wait for me! Go wake your lazy mother in the bedroom too! Our whole family will watch together and witness this historic moment!"

In the blink of an eye, the family of three was sitting on the sofa. The man stared fixedly at the television and muttered, "It's a pity your dad has no talent for cultivation. I was never the studying type, and I'm no good at researching those secret manuals. So it all depends on you, my smart Little Jack! Cultivate diligently in the future, then teach me and Jenny so your mother and I can live longer and stay young forever!"

The same scene was playing out all over the world.

The rocket on television was unimaginably huge.

It was like a towering, perilous peak piercing straight into the heavens.

This super-sized rocket, jointly built by the Nine Great Continents, stood rooted to the earth. It was nearly a hundred times larger than ordinary rockets on Earth.

In recent years, people had called it a modern world-class miracle, comparable to the land pyramids and the Entropy Emperor Mausoleum!

It was called the Nine Provinces Interstellar Rocket! Its technology originated from the basic knowledge of the Ixdar People. Moon-landing technology had