I just suddenly thought. I’ve have been mixing the broad meaning of apocalypse to world catastrophy which is the extinction of a civilization. But the apocalypse in this story is the death of the world itself. It’s not because people are dying, it’s because their laws/rules/system/heavenly Dao got damage and can’t repair so the world is dying.

I’m always thinking that Dark Star went 8 extinction, which means 8 apocalyptic event for the 8 civilization and MC didn’t even see a corner of safe city saving her other 7 children. And as Aether explain, his safe city has already been there before MC.

So Dark star is a dead planet where it’s rule/laws/heavenly dao is gone. It experienced the safe cities but still didn’t survive.

But when MC took over, she replace the world’s consciousness, it’s law, it’s rule, it’s system and therefore, no matter how much civilizations die and renew in Dark star, it never trigger the safe city system. Because Dark star is alive. A living world will always be able to give birth to new life regardless of how much catastrophy it civilization encountered.

(Sorry for rumbling. I just had to leave my thoughts cause I’m reading this in pausing. I tend to forget the settings.)