A Windfall and Some Companionship!

Titanium Crystals: 4,013!

High-grade Energy Crystals: 18!

Both had exceeded expectations!

There was no denying it: a windfall felt incredible!

A hard trip mining in Otherworldly Space might yield only a little over a thousand Titanium Crystals, even with good luck.

But all it took was a little shamelessness and one big score.

It was the equivalent of several months' worth of mining in Otherworldly Space!

And nearly twenty High-grade Energy Crystals—something that couldn't be obtained through mining in Otherworldly Space at all!

On top of that, during this period, Black Stone Territory's "levies" on its newly conquered lands had provided Dark Peng with another thousand or so Titanium Crystals and nearly ten High-grade Energy Crystals.

Dark Peng's current resource reserves had reached a truly heartening level!

Source Points remaining: 77,524,188.

High-grade Energy Crystal reserves: 33 units.

Titanium Crystal reserves: 8,216 units.

For the next evolution,

Source Points had long been more than sufficient.

Titanium Crystal reserves had also passed eight thousand!

They had already made it more than a third of the way toward the required twenty thousand!

And all of that had taken less than two months!

Wang Dong was naturally delighted.

Although advancing to the Star Destroyer rank was a formidable hurdle for every Kindling Warship,

with efforts coming from all sides,

Dark Peng was still making progress at a very encouraging pace!

In the end, Blazing Ice Mountain was returned to Zhong Shenxiu.

It happened when the remnants of the Revolutionary Army had completely left the former Golden Snapdragon Federation's territory.

Not another word was said.

Still, Dark Peng had gone there in person to see them off on their final leg.

The remnants of the Revolutionary Army did not pass through Star Gate 18 into the Purple Thorn Kingdom.

Instead, they ventured into the vast