Game of Gods

The Xia Lun Galaxy spanned two hundred thousand light-years. Its stars shone brilliantly, and it was larger than the Milky Way—the center of its star group.

Yet it contained only fifty billion stars, the vast majority of them red giants and blue giant stars.

Its only dwarf stars were neutron stars. Far more of its mass lay in vast, irregular nebulae and star clusters.

This resulted from the different parameters of this dimension. Certain factors made the outward thermal pressure from the blazing cores somewhat greater than the inward pressure of gravitational collapse. To maintain hydrostatic equilibrium, the stars all swelled to enormous sizes...

None of this prevented life from emerging, however. Life, and even civilization, still arose in many seemingly inhospitable places.

Comet civilizations were probably a distinctive feature of this dimension. Half the life in this entire galaxy originated on enormous comets...

Born on comets and destroyed on comets, a much smaller proportion of civilizations in this dimension ultimately made it into space.

Countless lives perished under nature's cruel selection.

Only by entering the interstellar age, gaining powerful productive capabilities, access to the countless resources around them, and the ability to reshape nature could they finally break free.

From there, civilizations soared. Their populations exploded and spread across planet after planet, making it nearly impossible for nature to wipe them out.

But in the Xia Lun Galaxy, civilizations faced something even crueler than natural selection: outside interference from... the Star Group Overlord.

As another three-dimensional spacetime, it shared many similarities with theirs. Both had star group structures and broadly similar Star Realm Orders.

And wherever social civilizations existed, civilizations generally also pursued the path of ascension entities.

In this galaxy, one powerful ascension entity farmed twenty-one interstellar civilizations and tens of thousands of primitive races.

It was not