Everlasting Light.
As one of the Federation's fastest shuttlecraft, its captain was Chen Lin, Deputy Chief of Staff of the Ninth Fleet.
After receiving the highest-priority transmission from Big Dipper Star Ring, Chen Lin's emotions went through several twists and turns.
At first, he thought those aliens were about to make a major move.
Taking advantage of the Hundred Cities Tournament being held on Big Dipper Star Ring, they wanted to use the opportunity to stir up trouble.
The very thought made Chen Lin lose his composure for an instant.
However.
He quickly remembered that, with its firepower fully unleashed, the habitable megastructure known as Big Dipper Star Ring could even hold off a Titled Martial General for forty-eight hours!
And the aliens' Titled Martial Generals in this star system had long since become dust drifting through the stars.
After learning the full course of events, Chen Lin began thinking rapidly.
Waves rose in his heart as well, and he found it somewhat unbelievable.
"Shenxiu Star's Fortune was bound to revive sooner or later, but how could it happen so quickly?"
At his position, he already had access to some of the Federation's high-level secrets.
For example.
Just how extraordinary his home planet, Shenxiu Star, truly was.
The Great Expedition had not been launched at random either. Every target selected had been among the most valuable star systems.
"The Prophet Slate first appeared in Martial Ancestor's research."
"The slate came from an extraordinarily brilliant civilization that existed long ago in the stars."
According to the research records left behind by Martial Ancestor, that civilization had controlled more than a hundred star systems!
The Federation's territory now encompassed only five star systems.
Compared to that glorious ancient civilization, the Federation was like an "infant civilization" that had only just learned to