Colored Supreme-Grade Light of Order

Mineral Star Continent, northern exchange point.

Beep beep beep!

As Song Shiyuan oversaw the exchange of various resources, a string of communication alerts sounded by his ear. When he entered the Kindling Network and received the message, his expression immediately darkened.

The message had come from the family's Shadow Division, and it was far from good news.

Despite the Song Family's utmost efforts to conceal it, the Star Sea Giant Ape Civilization had finally noticed something was wrong after years of delay. They had now launched a full-scale advance. The remaining two ninth-rank Mechanical Overlords, who had long since slipped out of control, simply could not stop their advance.

"We don't have much time left. Pass down the order: from now on, spare no effort to increase the speed of mining and resource collection. We officially withdraw in one year!"

With this order issued, the Song Clan members gathered within the territory of the Truth Mechanical Civilization became even busier. Meanwhile, while they still had considerable stocks of intelligent chips, various grades of intelligent brains, dark-energy power sources, Truth Alloy components, and other resources, the Song Family further raised their purchasing offers.

The renewed increase in prices also stirred greater enthusiasm among many lower-level Mechanical Clan members in the Truth Mechanical Civilization's territory. For a time, the exchange points established by the Song Family were packed with crowds.

Yet neither the Song Family's lower-ranking members nor those Mechanical Clan members knew that after issuing this order, Song Shiyuan himself had already left Mineral Star Continent and the territory of the Truth Mechanical Civilization.

Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Galaxy Cluster, central starfield.

Although nearly two hundred years had passed along the way, at their normal rate of advance, none of the three advancing fleet groups could possibly have achieved such major results