The third-ring mission was not difficult for Xu Jingming.
What was difficult was dealing with the aftermath.
After all, destroying an Alien Race fortress would undoubtedly alert the Alien Race.
Thus, for some time afterward,
Xu Jingming remained extremely cautious. After destroying a Planetary Fortress, he immediately departed.
There had to be at least half a month or a month between each operation.
Moreover, the distance between any two Planetary Fortresses had to be at least 50 light-years.
Of course,
he did not spend that time doing nothing.
Haili had already established herself in the Insect Race headquarters, supplying him with a great deal of crucial intelligence.
Based on that intelligence, Xu Jingming chose Insect Race strongholds across the Seven Star Continent to strike.
In this way, he carried out operations on two fronts.
He was either destroying Planetary Fortresses or killing Insect Race members on the Seven Star Continent.
He acted alone in the former, while he brought Lin Qianxue along for the latter.
Time swiftly passed. A year later.
In a desolate stretch of the Universe Realm's starry sky.
This had originally been an empty starfield, containing only a few aging red dwarf stars and countless drifting asteroids.
Yet today, the space within this starfield underwent a bizarre distortion.
Bzzzz—!!!
Space rippled like the surface of water.
A vast, colossal continent spanning a full 30 light-years slowly drifted out from the void's interlayer!
The entire continent was dark gray, its surface covered in crisscrossing massive ravines and bottomless gorges.
Countless ruined buildings, broken mountain ranges, and dried-up riverbeds lay scattered across it.
The entire continent exuded an ancient, desolate, dilapidated aura.
It was as though it had existed for countless eons, witnessing the rise and fall of innumerable civilizations.
"This is..."
A Demon Race spacecraft happened to