The chanting didn't take long, yet Duan Mingyuan felt as if he had completed an interstellar journey.
In that vast Star River, he also glimpsed something else.
The birth of the first humanoid, to the first settlement, the first nation.
The first weapon was crafted, followed by conflicts between settlements, wars between nations.
People established an empire that thrived for thousands of years, breaking the boundaries of geography, and spreading the seeds of civilization beyond their planet.
Then a disaster unprecedented occurred, the empire fragmented and disintegrated under the catastrophe, and the few survivors embarked on an "Ark", fleeing their homeworld. In the Star River, they could only watch the planet being thoroughly corrupted.
In the eternal darkness and solitude, the brilliance of the Sun guided their way forward.
