Scale Clan!
This was a fairly powerful civilization. Measured by the stars, it was relatively close to the Great Xia Empire, but measured by the known Interstellar Passages, it was extremely distant.
They would have to cross the territories of more than a dozen civilizations to reach the Scale Clan's domain.
The vast distance made it nearly impossible for the two civilizations to intersect unless a new Interstellar Passage entrance was discovered.
At the very least, the Great Xia Empire had obtained little intelligence on the Scale Clan. All they knew was that this civilization had emerged from the oceans and quickly transitioned into the age of space.
Its leapfrog development had left the Scale Clan with some traits of oceanic life.
But there was little further understanding of them, nor had anyone deliberately sought it.
Until... a new passage was blasted open.
Preliminary scouting revealed that a powerful civilization lay beyond the passage, so the exploration team did not continue expanding it.
Compared to the enormous entrances of Interstellar Passages, this kind of artificially blasted breach needed to be continuously widened.
As long as they did not further expand the entrance, the chance of being discovered was extremely low.
Everyone had developed a fixed way of thinking. When searching for Interstellar Passages, no one thought to look small.
Besides, although this exit was some distance from the planetary system, it had surely been inspected repeatedly.
Without a special reason, not a single ship might pass by for centuries or even millennia.
Elf was currently on the inner side of the Interstellar Passage entrance.
"After comparing the data, we immediately confirmed that this was Scale Clan territory, so we did not act rashly. Outside the entrance, we randomly deployed several supernatural devices. The Scale Clan knows nothing about us and