By then, The Great Voyage Organization was already two hundred million light-years from the Milky Way Galaxy. A journey of two hundred million light-years, factoring in all kinds of obstructions in the starry void and the detours they had to take, meant that humans had been away from Earth for a full 3.3 million years. In such a long span of time, if there had been no obstacles and no need to stop for repairs, if they had simply kept running, they could have covered seven hundred million light-years.
But a Level Six Civilization did not have that kind of ability. It could only move inch by inch, detouring around one Star System after another. Some of it was ordinary navigation, like when they left the Virtual Star System, and some of it was Star Gate traversal, like when they left the Andromeda Galaxy.
All told, The Great Voyage Organization had only traveled two hundred million light-years from the Milky Way Galaxy, while for humanity, 3.3 million years had passed.
That long passage of time had ultimately left heavy marks of age upon Human Civilization. Although humans themselves had all used the Negative Entropy Factor, the Negative Entropy Factor technology they had obtained from the Andromeda Galaxy back then could not grant eternal life. Even though they had repeatedly used the Daya Civilization's long-term Hibernation Technology during the voyage, they still could not avoid the erosion of time.
The Sacred Matter originally obtained from the Heavenly Maiden Civilization, which The Great Voyage Organization called Negative Entropy Factor technology, had initially been estimated by scientists to remain effective for five hundred thousand years. In the end, it performed better than expected. Its effects lasted one million years.
A million years was still too short for a long voyage. Human Civilization had