The new Human Sovereign

Though the news spread like wildfire, Chen Xia and the others paid it no mind.

Great Zhou had been a first-rate power in Azure Province, yet they had destroyed it. Their Starship still had energy reserves, so they were now plundering the palace's resources on a massive scale.

Chen Xia, Ouyang Shuo, Xu Lanxin, and the others blasted through a section of ground and stood deep inside Great Zhou's imperial treasury, once heavily guarded but now freely accessible.

The instant the treasury doors opened, the glitter of jewels and the rich fragrance of medicinal herbs rushed toward them, almost solid enough to touch.

"This—"

Even the worldly Ouyang Shuo could not help drawing a sharp breath.

Star Essence Stones lay piled like mountains before them. There were so many that their number was impossible to estimate at a glance, like winding heaps of glittering rivers, radiating vast amounts of pure Primal Qi.

On the other side, countless jade bottles and boxes were neatly arranged on medicinal shelves made of ten-thousand-year frost jade.

They contained the imperial family's secret stockpile of top-grade pills, used to nurture its inner circle of experts and the imperial guards.

Dragonblood Body-Tempering Pills, Nine-Turn Marrow-Cleansing Pills, Astral Bone-Tempering Paste—every one was a treasure capable of greatly strengthening the body and solidifying its foundations.

"With these resources, we can improve the overall physical fitness of our Federation soldiers!" Ouyang Shuo's eyes burned with excitement.

Yet something even more astonishing awaited them.

Xu Lanxin had already activated the Starship's deep geological spiritual vein scanning system to survey the vast lands stretching across the entire Great Zhou Territory, with the Great Zhou Imperial Capital at their center.

When densely packed lights of different colors, each representing a different type of mineral vein, lit up on the holographic projection map