The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

In the grassy park within the hospital, Zhang Beihai walked slowly with his hands behind his back, trying to relieve the slight soreness in his muscles after waking up from hibernation.

"Zhou Tak, I remember when you came to chase us, you told the Earth that you were there to bring us back and prevent us from getting lost in the universe."

But in reality, I know that you also believe that humanity will ultimately lose the war against the Celestial Gods.

Previously, we had agents who planned and cultivated the Song hexagram over a thousand years.

They only managed to defeat a few ordinary members of the Celestial God Clan.

Now, their more powerful and numerous regular army is coming; how can Earth possibly win?

So, you're actually preparing to join an interstellar civilization, not to try and catch up with us.

After Song Gua mended the heavens with his own body, the celestial beings and earthlings reconciled and were no longer separated.

Humanity began traveling back and forth between Mars and Earth, rebuilding the planet while simultaneously expanding towards colonizing the entire solar system and even more distant planets.

Decades later, the prophecy of the Celestial Race appeared in the skies above the Earth.

The thriving human world is once again shrouded in the shadow of a powerful enemy.

At that time, Zhoutak was already in hibernation.

In that era, hibernation was a luxury—and of course, it remained a luxury even in the Song Dynasty.

Zhou Tuk hibernated not to indirectly gain longevity, nor to see the future.

Rather, it was because the scientific fields he lived in had reached a bottleneck in their development.

Zhou Tak believes that there is a bottleneck in the scientific limits that humanity can reach on Earth and within the solar system.

So he decided to hibernate, and awaken when humanity truly ventures into the stars.

At that time, he will be able to conduct scientific experiments in various deep space environments, which may lead to new breakthroughs in the scientific field.

The new era that Zhou Tak had been hoping for had not yet arrived.

He was then awakened.

Because the prophecy of the Celestial Race has come true, humanity needs great scientists to guide them.

Also awakened were Yue Sheng, Miss Butterfly, and a group of others who participated in the battle to mend the heavens and survived, becoming important figures in that era.

Initially, the focus of everyone's discussion was on how to build effective solar system defenses to defend against possible aliens—namely, the Destiny Gods.

But as Zhou Tak studied some of the materials left behind, he became more and more convinced.

If this Celestial Race is an intelligent civilization, their level of civilization may have already surpassed that of the Travelers, a god-like civilization that can treat the harsh environment of space as its own backyard.

They are above the god level!

Yue Shengdao.

"Tucker wasn't the only one who made that decision; he was just sharing the results of his research with everyone."

Miss Butterfly said.

"This is a decision we all made together. Staying on Earth is tantamount to waiting for death. Developing interstellar civilization is the only solution to face the Tianming God Clan, because there is already a successful example before us."

Zhang Beihai nodded.

"Indeed, Traveler. Countless worlds corresponding to illusions have been destroyed by the methods of the Celestial Race. Only the Traveler has been wandering in the universe. Not only were they not destroyed, but they also gained new matter and new particles by entering deep space, and developed a more powerful civilization."

That was a period when many people were suppressing their feelings.

Some people have realized that someone has decided to leave.

But nobody says anything.

Because I can't say.

This is, after all, escapism.

No matter what reason you use to package it.

The problem is that those who see through the core of the problem all want to leave.

Call it escapism or a roundabout way of trying to save themselves.

It wasn't until Zhou Tak's massive object space wormhole jump technology was implemented and successfully tested in the Heng Starship that this technology was realized.

Zhou Tak believes that with this technology, they can catch up with Starlight Future and Gamma Fantasy, which left long ago and used outdated nuclear fusion acceleration technology.

For the society of the solar system at that time, this was an old case.

Zhang Beihai is still considered a fugitive among humans.

Ultimately, through the planning and efforts of a group of politically astute individuals, human society reached a consensus.

With a formidable enemy at hand, in order to let the people know that the higher-ups would not abandon them and to resolutely oppose escapism, it was decided to bring back Zhang Beihai and others who had already fled.

This decision also tells the public that the new space technology is faster, ridiculously fast, and has, to some extent, surpassed the speed of light—although the actual operating speed is not, but rather it has been achieved through spatial manipulation.

Therefore, even if one day the Earth cannot be saved, humanity will build enough Noah's Arks within a thousand years to lead everyone to escape.

Under the guise of this political conspiracy, Zhou Tak, Zhou Lisha, Yue Sheng, and other old acquaintances boarded a spaceship that allowed them to jump through space.

It is worth mentioning that.

Most of the people involved in this "fugitive pursuit" mission were former members of the "Return Faction" from the Heavenly People.

These people have a deeper affection for Earth and don't want to see it destroyed by the Destiny Gods who will arrive a thousand years later, so they want to find more ways to save it from this crisis.

On the contrary, the original interstellar faction has given up its plan to explore the stars.

Because deep in the starry sky, there is no new home, only ridiculously powerful super enemies capable of launching attacks across galaxies.

After Zhou Tak and his group left Earth, they caught up with Zhang Beihai in interstellar space in no time.

Because the nuclear fusion reaction process leaves traces in space, Zhou Tak followed these traces and continuously jumped, naturally catching up with them.

At that time, Zhang Beihai was already revered as the founding father of Starship International by the humans who survived on the two eternal interstellar spaceships, Gamma Fantasy and Starlight Future.

Because they received signals from Earth, they knew how devastating Earth's final battle was.

The barrier between the two dimensions was torn down.

Human resistance forces and civilians died one after another.

The mainland lost half its area.

Even Song Gua was sacrificed.

Winning was truly a stroke of luck.

Essentially, Zhang Beihai's assessment was not wrong.

They won, but only against a few members of the Destiny God Clan.

The true divine race of destiny did not come.

The people on both interstellar spaceships unanimously agreed that Zhang Beihai had saved them, and even more importantly, he had preserved humanity's flame in the universe.

Such a great undertaking is of immeasurable merit.

Starship International was established at that time. Zhang Beihai did not serve as the first president or governor, but chose to retire and not get involved in military and political affairs.

Starship International honored him as the Father of the Nation.

"Of course we have to go back! Otherwise, Dad, Sister, Captain Yue, you'll really be deserters. Besides, we can't let 'me' fight alone on Earth."

Song Gua walked over with his hands in his pockets, dressed in a refreshing casual outfit. He still looked young and had a smile on his face that was even more radiant than an artificial sun.