Through the Netherworld End Times 2: Stardust

Lu Chuan passes through a star gate and arrives on a planet covered in Chinese characters. Those characters are road signs left two thousand years ago, pointing to an underground 'Civilization Archive'—a legacy left to Earth by the ancients. Opening it requires a key, hidden within the Juyan Han bamboo slips and the Houmuwu Ding. The moment the key turns, guardians who have slept for a thousand years begin to awaken—Sha Seng, Zhu Bajie, Sun Wukong, and Tang Seng, standing anew as forms of civilizational memory. On the other side of the archive lies the 'Underworld,' which devours memories. The Shadow Council watches from the shadows, the Mechanical Tribunal declares the archive 'unqualified,' and the Void Remnants are drawing near. He does not grasp a weapon. He walks into the depths of the archive, sits down, and begins to transcribe the things that are about to be forgotten. Zhuge Liang's star charts pieced together over three hundred years, Du Fu's logs written over three hundred years, Zheng He's records of thirty thousand li of voyages—they have not disappeared, only been forgotten for too long. As the galaxy is about to be devoured, he makes the memories shine again. The spark of civilization does not lie in stone tablets, but where someone remembers. Remembering the way back is harder to write than the path already traveled. ☞ Click to read 'Stardust' and see how the guardians rekindle the flame of civilization across the galaxy. — Description from novelcodex.org