The Milky Way could now be called a sacred place in the universe!
Its civilizations were still relatively backward in strength, but this region had given rise to Huang Ji. That made it, without question, the center of the universe.
Ascension Entities came from every direction to sightsee. They gazed in reverence at everything ordinary about the Milky Way, as if even its interstellar gas smelled sweet.
Earth Civilization was the holiest place of all. But so many overlords wanted to make the pilgrimage that Ziwei simply refused to receive any of them and forbade them from approaching Earth's territory.
Group leaders and even Star Realm Overlords from far and wide could only admire it from a distance.
Lin Li, however, could pass through without obstruction.
He stepped out of a wormhole and found himself back in the Solar System.
"The Solar System is the capital. Only members of Earth Civilization can trade land here, and everything within the Fifth Ring belongs to Huaxia. The other five interstellar nations can only buy land beyond it," Alan explained.
"The Fifth Ring?" In an instant, Lin Li imprinted the motion of every particle in the star system into his mind. He discovered that ring-shaped structures had been built along the orbits of all eight planets, housing vast populations.
"These massive Star Ring Cities are the main residential districts," Alan said. "Mercury's orbit is the first ring, Venus's the second, Earth's the third, Mars's the fourth, and Jupiter's the fifth. Saturn is the sixth, while Uranus and Neptune are the seventh and eighth..."
"Beyond the eighth ring lies a military buffer zone stretching billions of kilometers to the Kuiper Belt. All of that counts as the capital's urban area."
"From beyond the Kuiper Belt to the Oort Cloud is the suburbs. There are