Within the core space of Heavenly Ruins Continent, Song Chi felt the new changes brought by the Eight Mysteries Derivation Art and the steady aura of the Heaven-Earth Beidou Floating Continent Grand Formation, and his heart settled.
He reinstalled the upgraded Miracle Cloning Pod aboard the Sky Ruins Firmament, while the Soul-Devouring Altar was temporarily entrusted to Song Yan.
Not long afterward, the supreme council resolution of the five great Kindling empires was passed, and a new round of external expansion wars officially began.
The horn of war did not resound through any single stretch of starry sky. Instead, through the Kindling Network spanning the entire civilization's territory, its will was conveyed to every corner of the four major Kindling galaxy clusters.
Jiang Yi of the Divine Xia Imperial Dynasty, Ji Qing of the Red Yu Divine Dynasty, Wilson of the Holy Hall Federation, Ying Wei of the Xianqin Divine Dynasty, and Song Yan representing the Heavenly Ruins Divine Court—five transdimensional motherships radiating vast power, like five mobile fortresses of stellar warfare, were the first to assemble along the northern edge of the Second Kindling Galaxy Cluster, formerly the Eight-Armed Serpent Demon Galaxy Cluster.
Behind them stood more than a hundred slightly smaller Galaxy Warships, each equally capable of destroying worlds. Beyond those came a massive fleet of over ten thousand planet-destroyer warships, with Dreadnoughts, battleships, Supremacy Chasers, and more packed densely together, filling the entire starry sky by the billions.
The void energy flames spewed from the warships' engines illuminated this once dark and desolate interstellar wasteland as brightly as day.
The expedition's overall command was jointly held by the rotating supreme commanders of the five great empires. Yet the true ultimate deterrent came from the colossal creature quietly concealed in the depths of space above the fleet, a