Galaxy Domination Guide

For thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of years, numerous treasure hunters had tried to enter the Golden Great Sail Ship, but they never found the entrance to this massive ship, as large as a small asteroid. Countless people, like Yuan, may have been influential figures, but driven by greed, they followed the Golden Great Sail Ship into the Void and were ultimately erased from existence.

It was a true obliteration; not to mention bodies, not even any carried items were left behind. For they were matter, and within the Void, no material could exist.

So, Bai Zhongqi sometimes wondered if, after entering the Void, he was no longer a material entity, though of course, he couldn't verify his speculation.

After stowing away the Soul Destroyer Mech, Bai Zhongqi landed on the Golden Great Sail Ship. The hull of the ship was spotless, naturally because any dirt was matter, which would be eliminated upon entering the Void—this was indeed the strongest cleaning method.

The moment he stepped onto the Golden Deck, a door opened in the superstructure of the Golden Great Sail Ship.

It seemed only members of the Elder Race could cause the mother ship to open its doors.

Bai Zhongqi also, driven by curiosity, walked toward the door. Fortunately, his landing spot was not far from the door; otherwise, if he had landed just anywhere, it might have taken him tens or hundreds of kilometers to reach it.

By the standards of many interstellar civilizations, the Golden Great Sail Ship was an unreasonable spacecraft. Though massive in size, it bore the appearance of a maritime-era sail ship, entirely covered in gold that shone bright enough to blind, and it was only because of the artistically filled engraving throughout its structure that it appeared more streamlined and simple, making it somewhat more pleasing to the eye. Otherwise, just the construction from gold would already seem vulgar.

Bai Zhongqi knew well that this ship wasn't actually made of gold, but covered with a layer of gold, composed partly of a special material. It resembled gold in appearance, yet it was unimaginably sturdy.

The interior of the Golden Great Sail Ship, however, was even more nonsensical. Its structure differed from that of a real sail ship, bearing more resemblance to a huge prison-type building. After entering through the outer door, Bai Zhongqi saw a long corridor that seemed endless. The hallway appeared rather simple, with milky white walls that radiated light, void of any other lighting systems. On both sides of the white walls were room after room.

Bai Zhongqi followed this route and did not enter any room. After walking for an unknown duration, he turned into another corridor and walked even more, then went down one level.

This experience made Bai Zhongqi worry that if the entire interior of the Golden Great Sail Ship was like this, he might have to walk for decades. However, time was a meaningless variable in the Void; he could keep walking here indefinitely.

Finally, following his own senses, Bai Zhongqi arrived at a room at the end of a corridor on one of the levels.

Pushing the door open, the room's interior was reminiscent of a European-style noble room as seen on Earth, not particularly spacious—at least compared with the luxurious villa-style captain's suite on the Iridium Star Ship, it was less than a hundred square meters.

In the center of the room, there was a set of imposing dark brown sofas, beside which stood a small table with a thick hardcover book seemingly placed there casually.

This was certainly not a useless book, a heavy-looking hardcover with a small lock that locked the book.

Bai Zhongqi shook his head, "Not this again."

He took out his key from around his neck, inserted it into the lock of the hardcover book, and gently turned it.

With a soft click, the book opened.

"I'm starting to wonder if every member of the Elder Race has one of these keys and can open anyone's ship with it?"

That was of course not possible, Bai Zhongqi still couldn't quite understand how the relationship between the Elder Race and the mother ship was formed. No one had told him about this, and he planned to ask the fellows in the senior activity room next time, if anyone would listen to him.

Once the hardcover book was opened, hundreds of images immediately emerged from its pages, the effect looking somewhat similar to holographic influence, but appeared even more realistic.

Bai Zhongqi soon understood what these things were.

"This… whoever was the previous owner of this ship, played too much against the rules."

This hardcover book was actually the user interface and display of the Golden Great Sail Ship, showing Bai Zhongqi the most important thing carried by the ship.

Every image suspended in the air was a projected map of a planet. If Bai Zhongqi zoomed in, he could see what was happening in corners of these planets. These planets were not merely habitable ones; many were ordinary and desolate icy, desert, and volcanic planets, as well as asteroid belts, gas planets, nebulae, and stars.

The previous owner of the Golden Great Sail Ship was simply a celestial body collector. He had sealed planets from different universes in his subspace and then converted them into tiny glass bead-like objects, stored in various cabins aboard the spacecraft.

Bai Zhongqi could not fathom what kind of power and level it required to encase a planet into a glass bead, a feat so unthinkable even for the Elder Race.

He then entered a cabin filled with glass beads. Before him were several rows of very ordinary glass display cabinets, with eight rows and columns each, making a total of 64 compartments. Each compartment contained a tiny glass bead, resembling amber, through which Bai Zhongqi could see beautifully colored planets inside.

The cabinets were labeled with the names of each planet, and if Bai Zhongqi checked the hardcover book he held, he could access even more detailed information.

What astonished him more was that many of these planets harbored life and even interstellar civilizations. The celestial body collector had collected not only a great number of habitable or resource-rich planets he deemed worth collecting but also many civilizations.

"Even high-level civilizations..." Bai Zhongqi was at a loss for words.

At the display cabinet labeled with the Meilemila Star's glass bead, using the hardcover book, Bai Zhongqi saw detailed explanations. It clearly stated, Civilization level: High. This rating was different from that of the Galactic Council, but evidently, being categorized as a high-level civilization by the Elder Race couldn't be insignificant.

This planet, named Meilemila, was also the home world of the Meilemila Civilization. Bai Zhongqi even saw that there were tens of thousands of warships on the planet, but in the tiny glass bead, time had stopped. The inhabitants didn't know what had happened; their lives were frozen, and even though they were a powerful high-level civilization, they were now merely display items for the Elder Race, meant to be viewed and admired.

Bai Zhongqi could not understand why the Elder Race would do such a thing. Although the inhabitants didn't suffer any pain and were even unaware of what had occurred, their lives had essentially been ended in another form.

"Perhaps the Elder Race does this simply because they can?" Bai Zhongqi found it somewhat terrifying.

He was nowhere near capable of encapsulating a planet into a glass bead. Naturally, these glass beads were not real glass beads but rather an extremely complex and powerful subspace device.

This Meilemila Civilization also came from a civilization of the Second Universe, active during the Ancient Universe, which was also the second flourishing period of civilizations. Maybe it was then that the celestial body collector who traveled to the Second Universe took an interest in it and turned it into one of his exhibits.

Bai Zhongqi felt a chill down his spine in this spacious room, which, like a server room on Earth, held rows upon rows of display cabinets, each with 64 compartments. In just this cabin alone, there were thousands of planets.

However, Bai Zhongqi soon realized he had miscalculated.

In a corner of the room, Bai Zhongqi opened something resembling a moving box and then saw densely packed glass beads inside...

"Damn it," Bai Zhongqi's eyes nearly popped out. He looked at his feet where several cardboard boxes lay discarded, seemingly of no importance.

"These are planets!" Bai Zhongqi completely freaked out, even though he found that half of the boxes contained only plain glass beads without planets inside. But considering that one-third of the cabins on the Golden Great Sail Ship were used as display rooms by the celestial body collector, Bai Zhongqi even started to suspect that perhaps the number of planets in the entire Galaxy might not exceed the number stored on this ship.

Originally, when Bai Zhongqi was the Chancellor of the Star Alliance, he had an obsessive fixation on land and planets, wishing to acquire as many planets as possible to make the civilization bigger and stronger.

But after entering the Golden Great Sail Ship, he felt that compared to the celestial body collector, his small hobby of expanding territories was nothing.

What slightly made Bai Zhongqi self-deprecating was that such "collectibles" as the Meilemila Civilization, if Bai Zhongqi were to kindly release them, he wouldn't even be able to handle them himself, aside from boarding the Golden Great Sail Ship and fleeing into the void, as his power was no match for those high-level civilization fleets.

As Bai Zhongqi read more content from the hardcover book, he even discovered that because time didn't exist in the glass beads, the celestial body collector found it very uninteresting. He devised a setup where he placed a glass bead into a device that subjected it to a pseudo-time and universe environment, causing the planet to operate automatically, and then he visited the planet as a tourist to live and adventure.

It turned out that many of these planets were his own private playgrounds...