Soaring to the Ninth Heaven, Ascending as a Dao Ancestor

Warning! Curvature bubble stability below critical threshold! Spatial rift forming! Emergency engine shutdown... failed! Captain, we're... doomed!”

The shrill alarm and the navigator's desperate scream were the last sounds in the mind of Ling Xiao, captain of the interstellar exploration ship Eye of the Firmament. He had been commanding this flagship, which carried humanity's dream of exploring the unknown universe, on an unprecedented long-distance curvature voyage, trying to reach a mysterious star region rumored to harbor a transcendent civilization. But just as they were about to break through an unknown spatial barrier, a terrifying, unpredictable temporal and spatial turbulence, as if from a higher dimension, swept in like an invisible giant hand. It tore through the sturdy hull of the Eye of the Firmament in an instant and dragged him, along with the wreckage of the cockpit, into a bottomless... vortex of chaos.