After repelling Long Jun's forces, Shen Xiaobai's team remained where they were for a day.
They interrogated prisoners, tallied their losses, repaired damaged combat puppets and cloud skiffs, replenished weapons and ammunition, and recovered their strength and mental energy... Only after resting and reorganizing did they continue deeper into the underground ruins.
Over the following days, they encountered several well-equipped exploration teams. Some belonged to different factions within the Heavenly Dao regime, some had been sent by hostile forces from other worlds, some were mercenaries hired by major organizations and resistance groups, and they even encountered elite troops under the native regime of the Crimson Moon Realm. The situation was a tangled mess!
However, every team that entered the ruins ultimately sought to find and take away the Sacred One. To avoid having the snipe and clam battle while the fisherman reaped the profit, most teams would disengage after a brief probing encounter in order to preserve their strength. Few would fight others to the death at any cost like Long Jun's forces.
Even so, Shen Xiaobai's team suffered considerable losses of personnel, combat puppets, cloud skiffs, and other weapons and equipment in battle after battle.
On the seventh day after entering the ruins, they had already descended more than ten thousand meters underground when the signal originating from the Sacred One suddenly grew stronger.
Shen Xiaobai's team was not the only one. Teams from other factions and forces also hurried nonstop toward the source of the signal.
Two days later, Shen Xiaobai and the others reached the source of the signal and witnessed an incomparably magnificent sight.
At the center of the dead star's native civilization ruins stood a nearly flawless cubic structure, like a towering mountain hidden beneath the earth.
Every wall was smooth as a mirror, as