Star Gate

Biodata

Nature and Appearance

• Variable scale: Some Star Gates contain seemingly boundless worlds; others are no larger than a tomb 2.
• Fragmented settings: Ordinary gates may encompass only a train station or haunted nursing home, with an incomplete world built around a single mission 22.
• Portal appearance: An opening begins as a point of starlight and spreads into a warped, irregular doorway. Ren Ye's first portal is oval, slightly taller than a person, with a pitch-black center and multicolored starlight around its edges 2 4.
• Summoned gates: Ordered inheritors can manifest their gates publicly. Yan Duoduo's gate appears behind him with radiance resembling a swirling galaxy 49 50.

Entry and Player Selection

Invitations and Tokens

• People randomly invited into Star Gates are called players 2.
• Some gates require entry qualifications earned through other gates. These chain missions can make an earlier gate's final reward the right to enter a later one 2.
• Entry tokens can provide additional places. Ren Ye's acquired Songstress token allows him to bring one player into the Qingliang Prefecture Star Gate 20.
• Bringing an outside item is subject to the gate's rules. Huang Wei's journal is permitted inside Ren Ye's gate 13.
• Huang Wei believes Qingliang Prefecture admits only players without an inherited class. Such players are not necessarily beginners: they may already have levels from previous missions 22.

Ren Ye's Exceptional Selection

The Imperial Brush had previously opened a gate for anyone who held it and performed the required writing and recitation. When Ren Ye used it, however, the gate recited his birth date, called him by name, and bound the brush to him. A six-hour opening countdown then began in his mind 2 3.

The New Year's Watchers regarded a gate calling out to an ordinary person as unprecedented. When the countdown expired, the portal opened above Ren Ye's bed and pulled him inside 3 4.

Missions and Rules

Scenario Structure

• Mission rewards: Successful clears can grant inheritance abilities and supernatural items. Individual objectives can also award Star Source and experience 2 9.
• Typical duration: According to Huang Wei, ordinary gates are usually completed in one visit; even longer runs generally last only one or two days 22.
• Multi-act narratives: Qingliang Prefecture requires repeated entry. Ren Ye spends roughly three days on its first act and must return seven days after leaving 22.
• Identity cards: Narrative gates can assign roles, factions, and role-specific traits. Ren Ye becomes Prince Huai, receives Zhu Zigui's memories, and undergoes changes to his clothing and face 4 5.
• Linked objectives: A player's actions can activate missions for others. Ren Ye lifting the Nation-Guarding Sword triggers a major inheritance storyline and begins the ten Hidden Pawns' main quests 7.

Qingliang Prefecture's Special Rules

Inheritances and Advancement

Ordered and Unordered Inheritances

Player Advancement System

• Seven stages: The known player advancement sequence has seven stages, each containing ten levels 30.
• Fifteen class systems: Inheritances comprise twelve standard class systems and three exceptionally rare ones 27.
• Stage titles: A title summarizes a player's current class characteristics. Xu Peng is a first-stage Barefoot Doctor of the light system; Huang Wei is a second-tier Star Envoy, titled Blood-Eyed Monk, with a strength-system bloodline inheritance 2 27.
• Class-specific requirements: Xu Peng must taste three thousand herbs and one thousand venomous creatures, then develop and promote a medicine that cures a serious illness and earns public esteem before advancing 27.
• Individual paths: Players within the same class system can develop very different abilities. Xu Peng explains that a compatible modern medical legacy could expand his physician inheritance into surgery, mutation, or virus-related abilities 27.
• Godhood remains unrealized: Despite the saying that entrants become gods, Xu Peng states that no god currently exists in the world 27.

Gate Inhabitants

Huang Wei's journal collectively calls highly intelligent beings within Star Gates Gate Spirits, including people, animals, ghosts, and spiritual entities 13.

• Ren Ye tentatively identifies Er Leng as an Awakened Gate Spirit 13.
• Most native inhabitants of Qingliang Prefecture are Awakened rather than Remnant Souls, one reason Huang Wei considers the gate exceptional 22.

Morality and Player Factions

Effects on Players

• Xu Peng describes the Star Gate as objective and fair rather than morally aligned: it recognizes both good and evil without eliminating either 28.
• Inheritances can influence personality. Xu Peng reports an evil-type inheritance that selects people who died by suicide and magnifies their existing personality flaws 28.
• Classed Order players who repeatedly commit serious wrongdoing can fall into Chaos, changing the direction of their class development 28.

Real-World Factions

These broad player factions are distinct from temporary scenario factions such as Qingliang Prefecture's Court and Fence-Sitter factions 5 28.

• The factions maintain a fragile balance. Xu Peng explains that private grudges are generally settled inside gates without legal liability, while wrongdoing in reality prompts official intervention when evidence exists 28.
• The New Year's Watchers handle player arrests and control; the Mystical Tribunal, jointly established by eighty-six player organizations, conducts trials 47.
• Player chat groups trade gate information, items, and quest guides. Little War Wolf advertises information about Qingliang Prefecture's princess's tomb through this market 24 25.

Notable Gates and Story Events

Qingliang Town / Qingliang Prefecture

Ren Ye's opening notification identifies a first-order Star Gate—Qingliang Town. Later accounts call the narrative gate Qingliang Prefecture, whose setting includes the Great Qian Dynasty, the Capital, the Former Dynasty Princess's Tomb, and the Southern Border 3 22.

Huang Wei suspects the gate may be a downgraded fragment left by the destruction of a much larger gate, possibly a Divine Gate. This remains a hypothesis based on its expansive setting, developed institutions, and unusually high proportion of Awakened inhabitants 22.

Ren Ye also discovers that his father's unfinished manuscript closely matches the gate's plot and stopping point. He investigates the connection, but its cause is not established in the provided events 23 25.

Yan Duoduo's Gate

• Yan Duoduo is an ordered inheritor and one of the country's few high-status gate owners 49.
• During the Tongren Road operation, he manifests his gate above the street. Other ordered-inheritance New Year's Watchers summon theirs in support 49 50.
• The display halts the gathering Chaos players and helps pressure Limp into surrendering 50.

The False Divine Gate

• Ren Ye uses the Spring Breeze Wish-Fulfilling Painting to create an enormous gate illusion during his fight with Bull Terrier 37.
• Bull Terrier mistakes it for the legendary Divine God's Gate and believes a god has summoned him. The apparition is a deception, not a confirmed Divine Gate 37.

Notable Quotes

“There are Star Gates in this world. All who enter become gods.”
— A saying among Star Gate players, quoted by Huang Wei 2

“The Star Gate doesn't distinguish between good and evil. It's absolutely objective and fair.”
— Xu Peng 28