The Sun System's boundaries extended over a vast area. It was not as people traditionally imagined, where reaching the outermost planets, Neptune and Pluto, meant leaving its bounds.
The diameter from the Sun to Pluto was only 10 billion kilometers. At Chen Jue's current flying speed of 60% of light speed-640 million kilometers per hour-he could cross it in just fifteen hours.
But if the Oort Cloud was taken as the boundary of the Sun System, that meant a straight-line distance of 30 trillion kilometers.
Even traveling at 100% of light speed, it would take three full years to reach the conceptual edge of the Sun System.
Fortunately, the unidentified flying object that had received the SOS from the Solar Helium Flash and sent a response toward Earth was currently only a little over 130 billion kilometers from Earth.
Moreover, it was approaching Earth at 400 million kilometers per hour.
With both sides speeding toward each other, Chen Jue estimated that he would need only four or five days to rendezvous with this being suspected of being a descendant of the Heavenly Realm Human Race.
He simply settled comfortably inside the spherical craft, observing the beautiful, profound starry expanse while studying how to improve the writing and applications of Spirit Script.
While Chen Jue continued flying with Bixi in tow.
At that same moment, in an unknown region of space 100 billion kilometers from Earth.
A craft built entirely from bronze-colored metal was passing through successive belts of cosmic dust and asteroid fragments.
The craft resembled a conical pyramid, its overall size approaching that of a 100,000-ton aircraft carrier.
Since it was moving forward, however, the pyramid flew lying on its side.
The craft's entire surface was covered in densely packed clusters of tiny Spirit Script characters.
These clusters