Five hundred years passed in the blink of an eye. For the Angel Civilization, which had already broken free of the shackles of lifespan and possessed extraordinarily long prime years, time was truly nothing more than a string of numbers.
Ideas like age making people old or time being squandered scarcely existed among other angels, apart from ancient relics like the Old Angel King and the Left and Right Wing Kings.
Many things could happen in five hundred years—things expected and unexpected alike, whether they unfolded naturally or came as sudden upheavals.
The west had now taken on an entirely new appearance. Centered around Silver Wing Star, it had expanded outward beyond the Angel Nebula in a fan-shaped formation, bringing numerous factions and civilizations into angel territory.
The Angel Civilization's territory continued to expand, but this region belonged exclusively under Hua Zhen's Sixth Legion. It was exceedingly difficult for the Heavenly Palace's inner circles to interfere, even for the Old Angel King.
The Sixth Legion's numbers had grown from two hundred thousand to a massive three hundred thousand, with men and women making up half each. Their traditional standard-issue weapons had all been replaced with Flame-Class Longswords developed by Li Du's research team. Their strength and sharpness rivaled Dark Sacred Silver, and their mass deployment throughout the army had raised the legion's overall combat power by more than a single level.
That did not even include their connection to the Tiangong Cloud Cluster and the fully upgraded Heavenly Blade Series Battleships.
When a general was stationed far from the capital, he need not obey every imperial command. Once their own strength grew, their confidence naturally grew with it. They no longer needed to be led around by the nose or act according to others' moods.
The Western Territory's tremendous transformation