Time passed day by day.
As his sphere of influence skyrocketed, the talent bonus Yi Chen received surged along with it.
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Even as his realm kept rising, his cultivation speed did not fall—it increased instead.
With the tenfold time-flow boost from Control Time, he took only two months to break through from Level 230 to Level 231.
By the time Yi Chen successfully broke through to Level 232, the Great Flame Empire had officially begun its fifth round of expansion.
Just like the previous four times, the targets of this round of expansion increased sharply all at once.
There were as many as five large races alone.
As for the small and medium-sized races, they added up to five or six hundred.
And the Great Flame Empire had the qualifications to do so.
After four rounds of expansion, the races conquered by the Great Flame Empire already included one large race, six medium-sized races, and more than fifty small races.
These races had provided the Great Flame Empire with trillions upon trillions of Elite Army troops, allowing the Great Flame Empire to conquer even more races and occupy even more Life Planets while still having the ability to control and manage them.
What was slightly different from the previous four rounds of expansion was that the fifth round no longer conquered all target races in one go.
Because there were more targets, the fifth round of expansion was divided into several stages.
The entire Expeditionary Force split into ten routes and advanced toward the surrounding areas.
The main reason lay in the shortage of manpower in the Assassination Team and the Human Army.
Although after the fourth round of expansion ended, the Assassination Team received a massive