The planet was dreaming of the past again.

His name was Xi Yujin, and he lived on a planet called Earth. His race was human.

He was plotted against in the past, and even his organs became treasures coveted by his relatives. Surrounded by wolves, he used most of his savings to buy the popular "Earth-Moon Travel" flight, hoping to escape the heavy gravity of reality. Unexpectedly, the aircraft exploded in space, and he lost consciousness...

"I have now truly become a remaining ember in the universe..."

The planet, or Xi Yujin's soul, wakes up and continues to worry about a new "day". In the vast universe, he cannot confirm the passage of time, and he can't even record time based on the revolution of the stars.

The universe was so vast that there were only floating dust and rotten metal spinning in all directions. And he was a star shining and emitting heat all by himself.

It is also because of this that he was targeted by a special profession in this universe - the star pirate.

Xi Yujin had just woken up. This small star, which was only one percent of the mass of the sun, began to wander unconsciously. The star's gravity attracted a bunch of space junk. He wanted to get rid of the junk, and a force suddenly burst out from his sphere of gas and dust, like an invisible hand, brushing away the large junk 0.77 astronomical units away.

It took Xi Yujin several tries before he realized that he had come to a new place: a universe where mental power could be used!

In an instant, he was trapped by several dark matter gravity beams.

Several spaceships appeared within Xi Yujin's perception range. The following dialogue was translated by him after he learned Nomadic language:

"Don't let this star run away! You just saw it! It can use mental power!"

"Haha, it's true! You've really done a great job this time. This place is indeed the edge of the universe. There are even planets that can use spiritual power! When we capture it, we will definitely be able to sell it for a good price at the auction."

"The 'primordial dust' produced by stars with souls may be able to completely solve mental confusion. Why don't we keep it for ourselves?"

The pirates laughed and shouted, and used dark matter gravity bundles to pull and drag the stars, and came to a strange place.

This place is similar to an open-air cinema, but much larger. Objectively speaking, it is almost as big as a solar system. Xi Yujin was trapped in the middle, and densely packed spaceships were parked in orbit like small boxes. Strange cosmic creatures competed for the auction;

"What good stuff did you bring? You captured a small star from the mine? What's the use of it? Blast it and take out the 'primordial dust' inside!"

"It can't be blown up. This is a star with a soul? You're not lying to us, are you?"

In fact, this group of cosmic creatures were several astronomical units away from Xi Yujin, but Xi Yujin had mental power, so he could feel those malicious noises coming from nearby, and he was instantly chilled.

Fortunately, a guy in full armor came in to mess things up. He not only scared away the bidders, but also let the living auction items go. He was even kind enough to help him cut off the core of the dark matter generator.

Xi Yujin finally regained his freedom and escaped. He used to be a fan of extreme sports, so he quickly adapted to the use of various gravity in space. Now he is hiding in a super huge space garbage dump. He uses gravity to surround himself with all the broken copper and iron, treating them as his own satellite.

After doing all this, Xi Yujin finally felt a sense of security and began to sort out his current situation:

First, this is a universe where mental power can be used, and the level of technology is far beyond imagination.

Second, this place is located at the "edge of the universe" and is very dangerous.

Third, he is rare and doubly dangerous!

"When I was on Earth, I couldn't fully control my own destiny, so I could only take a spaceship to the universe to relax..."

After Xi Yujin became a planet, he couldn't help but spin. As he spun, he thought:

"The universe has given me a chance to start over. This time, I want to live my life truly unfettered. Even if I am in the form of a star, I want to be the freest star in the universe."

Xi Yujin continued to control his mental power, searching for items in the garbage pile around him, and learning as much knowledge as possible about this universe. Strangely enough, perhaps because of his rebirth, his learning ability doubled, and his mental power could also extend to a very long distance.

After what felt to him to be a relatively short period of time, he had learned the local common language - Nomadic language - from the garbage dump. The cosmic creatures that explored, traded, and settled on the edge of the universe were collectively called Nomads.

He also picked up a "Universe Travel Guide" and read it with great effort using his mental power. The veil of this universe finally lifted a corner to him.

…

“Welcome to read this guide to traveling in the universe. No matter what kind of creature you are, what your appearance is, or how chaotic your lifestyle is, you’d better read this guide. It will help you avoid some tragedies that will shatter you to pieces, and it will also make your journey a little more fun.”

“This universe is so great that creatures with souls possess spiritual power.

Yet, every soul, for as long as they can remember, suffers from a disease: mental confusion.

The stronger the mental power, the more serious the mental confusion will be, until the soul is torn apart. Some creatures even spend their entire lives searching for ways to reduce mental confusion.

When the expansion rate of the universe dropped to 424,242 galaxies, a profession emerged that miraculously cured mental confusion.

That is! Great literary and artistic workers! Novelists!

The words of a novelist are the most magical prescription! "

Xi Yujin paused when he read this. His fear of space pirates gradually faded, replaced by a strong interest in the universe. The door to a new world seemed to slowly open in front of him. Perhaps because his life was too depressing, he liked extreme sports very much and was always quick to accept and understand new things.

The text at the back of the cosmic travel guide made him even more interested.

"Novelists create works and use normal channels for others to read. After repairing the chaos of others, they can also gain spiritual power in return."

Xi Yujin was already itching to make some moves. He liked this way of increasing his spiritual power. If his spiritual power was strong enough, he would no longer be afraid of those cosmic creatures. Maybe he could try to be a novelist?

"So when the expansion rate of the universe slowed to 424,241.99 galactic constants, the war for novelists began.

Some novelists are unwilling to work for forces they despise, and simply die. The mortality rate of novelists in their youth is as high as 98%, and it has since become a high-risk profession..."

Xi Yujin: ...

He continued to flip through the pages without giving up.

"Because mental power can do so many things, there is even a manual on how to use mental power to shape stars into human form at the edge of the universe. The creatures all killed novelists with the idea that 'if you can't cure me, others can't either'. The situation was not alleviated until the expansion rate of the universe dropped to 424241.98 galaxy constants and novelists were on the verge of death. Even though it was only alleviated, the creatures still killed them if they wanted to."

When Xi Yujin saw the method of "molding stars into human shape", he was immediately excited. After some hesitation, he still wanted to be a novelist.

He needs mental strength!

Xi Yujin quickly flipped through the table of contents to the article on how to become a novelist, and then found the "Special Offer from the Edge of the Universe".

It reads:

"The edge of the expanding universe? Are there really creatures that go here to be novelists?

Well, I am a well-informed traveler, and I have seen it. Those greedy space pirates have several novelists in their captivity... In order to satisfy the special preferences of some readers and for the rigor of this guide, I am willing to describe it in detail.

The signal from the black box at the edge of the universe is not very good, so the novelist submitted his work via the radio station..."

There were too many proper nouns involved in the latter part, and Xi Yujin had only been learning Nomadic language for a short time, so he could only understand it superficially. He used his mental power to pull the travel guide to the side of the ball and continued to search in the garbage dump.

His hard work paid off, and he fished out a machine that might be a radio, and an extra-long black box that was a hundred meters long.

He learned from the guide that this black box is the signal base station of the universe and an important prop for communicating cosmic signals. After the mechanical galaxy invented the black box, it made the entire technology public, and creatures with the conditions could build it by themselves, so that the universe could become a place where communication could be smooth.

To activate the black box, one needs to bind the ultraviolet radiation and infrared radiation of a star. Xi Yujin didn't quite understand the principle, but after some manipulation, he successfully activated the black box with himself.

The signal transmission capability of the black box is very strong. Often 10 black boxes can cover an entire galaxy.

The black box is like a router in the universe, with two channels: input and output. Xi Yujin fiddled with the small radio again, dividing his mental power into very fine parts, and carefully tapped left and right. After an unknown amount of time, the radio finally successfully received the output signal from the black box.

The radio made a faint noise, and a strange tone came out of its speaker. The universe is not completely vacuum, but rather uneven, just like the expanding edge of the universe where Xi Yujin was located. Its medium is continuous, so it can transmit sound.

"Shasha, this is Magnetic Storm Radio, now broadcasting the hottest news from the edge of the universe. Shasha, the auction that everyone is looking forward to was attacked by Zerg..."

"This is the Harmony Office at the Edge of the Universe. Currently, the main ship needs more gray steel, sand, and dust. We hope that people who have the conditions will take the initiative to donate. Sand..."

"This is Good Dream Radio. Your favorite gentle hypnotic voice reader will now recite for you the popular novel that is being updated simultaneously in multiple galaxies. Rustle, rustle...

By the way, we sincerely invite all talented people from the edge of the universe to submit manuscripts! Professional editors will review, accept a large number of manuscripts, pay generously, and pass the manuscripts very quickly! "

Now let's switch to the audience exchange channel. Hi! Lucky! Do you have any embarrassing stories that you want to tell for everyone to laugh? "

"Get lost! I want to severely criticize your radio station. The articles you read have been repeated hundreds of times! Is there anything new? You are tired of listening to old articles. They are of no use to relieve your spirit! This is a rubbish radio station. Sooner or later, it will collapse-"

"Haha, the signal of this lucky listener is not very good. We can't hear it here. Let's play some music first, and then welcome the next lucky listener..."

At this moment, Xi Yujin was surrounded by only dumb rubbish, which made the new universe on the radio seem even more lively. He felt his soul being lit up little by little, and he couldn't help but yearn for it: he must see the whole picture of this universe!

He must become a novelist, train his mental strength, and escape from this garbage dump!

As for the extremely low survival rate of novelists, he has also figured out a way to solve it.

That is: open a vest.

As long as he creates pseudonyms quickly enough and produces very few works under each pseudonym, his pseudonyms will naturally be ordinary in the eyes of others, and the risk level will be greatly reduced. He can even do some tricks. Who would want to catch a novelist who has dug a hole for ten years without filling it?

The author has something to say:

①1 astronomical unit = 150 million kilometers. All descriptions of "next to the planet" are actually very far away, but seem very close to the protagonist.

② This is written by the author. Don’t believe any serious popular science in this book.

Quote from the title page of "Space Travel Guide": Welcome everyone to read!