The changes in rank on the black stone tablet were faithfully recorded.
The Summit of the Stars had always been an important observatory for Eastern Xia.
Every year, one-third of the Supreme Research Institute's budget went to the "observatory."
There was a space telescope there, built in the Imperial Era at enormous cost in manpower and resources. It could carry one's gaze across countless light-years to reach this place.
To this day, New Dongxia had never managed to reverse-engineer this astonishing "tool."
This was also why many "extreme Ascension Faction" proponents of the Mechanical Path advocated opening up the Empire's legacy.
They believed that if New Dongxia fully absorbed and mastered the golden-age technology of the Imperial Dongxia, it would inevitably advance to a new level and welcome tremendous, soaring growth.
Yet, for some reason, the Council of Ministers seemed to have tacitly agreed to maintain a conservative stance, unwilling to casually unlock the Imperial legacy held by New Dongxia.
"There's been a change in the Stellar Cup rankings."
When Qin Shi's name appeared on the black stone tablet, the news finally reached the Supreme Research Institute at the heart of the Imperial Capital, after a long transmission that took nearly half a cosmic day.
An observer at the Central Observatory copied down the ancient symbols. A specialist then deciphered them, revealing the two characters: "Qin Shi."
"He climbed rapidly from the bottom of the Youth Group rankings into the Top Hundred. Another supernova."
The observer sighed.
As an observatory employee, he and his predecessors had witnessed the birth of countless legends.
He still remembered admiring the wall of honors that filled the lobby before he joined. The names of the First Generation Ten Prodigies stood out clearly.
What surprised people, though, was that legends like Qi Wuxiang and He