A Thousand Years Pass

The advance continued much as it had before. The Eleventh Advance Fleet still occasionally joined forces with several nearby advance fleets for a time, but whenever there was no pressure, it maintained its rule of operating independently.

However, one point needed to be emphasized. After Song Chi reclaimed the Miracle Cloning Pod, the Song Family's covert scavenging team was reduced from five ships to three.

As for the specific participants, before Song Yan officially became a Star-Annihilator Captain, Song Shiyuan, Song Shixing, Song Xingru, Song Xuancang, Song Tianhao, and the others essentially rotated shifts, while Song Chi's Sky Ruins Firmament and Song Wujiang's Calm Sea Dragonrider did not take part in the rotation.

No one in the Song Family had the slightest objection to this.

In fact, after officially entering the central territory of the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Galaxy Cluster, the scavenging fleet's operations became severely restricted.

Aside from the fact that the Eight-Armed Serpent Demons in the central region's various galaxies had already taken targeted precautions after what happened in the eastern region, another key factor was that the number of Serpent Demon Overlords stationed on the advanced floating continents throughout the central region far exceeded that of before.

Over the past century or so, the Song Family's five warship clones had not been idle. They had begun their scavenging operations long ago, yet their final gains had been pitifully few.

This was because every infiltration into an advanced floating continent behind the Eight-Armed Serpent Demons' lines inevitably led to one battle or even several. Among them, the Sky Ruins Firmament's mirror battleship and the Calm Sea Dragonrider's warship clone were manageable, as they at least possessed the strength to fight. The other three Dreadnought clones were different. Even if they did not deliberately take part in battle, they