The Azure Empire was a cultivation civilization, but that did not mean it had no need for resources.
On the contrary, the people of the Azure Empire needed even greater quantities of resources.
In a technological civilization, many resources could actually be reused, whereas a cultivation civilization consumed many of its resources once and for all.
The Azure Empire therefore had an intense hunger for resources.
Shortly after occupying Coral Star, it began sending out resource exploration teams on a massive scale, searching the entire planet for mineral deposits valuable to Azureans.
As the search progressed, Dead Spirit grew increasingly excited. They had indeed found a great deal of precious materials.
But before that excitement had lasted long, trouble arose.
In just a few days, more than ten thousand people had lost contact. What was going on?
Naturally, Dead Spirit did not believe his subordinates had simply gotten lost. Although the Azure Civilization had not taken the technological route, real-time communication was no problem for them.
Now that these people had gone silent, something must have happened.
They had either been killed or captured.
Either possibility meant that a group of enemies was hiding in the shadows on Coral Star. This place was no longer safe.
Dead Spirit was stumped. How could there still be enemies here? Could some Corgi Empire People have escaped the purge?
That was not impossible. Although they had already begun modifying this world's dark matter structure, and such modifications were lethal to a planet's species, intelligent life had ways to shield itself from the effects—the Earthlings operating in the Corgi Star System relied on precisely such methods.
From what Dead Spirit knew of the Corgi Civilization, its people were indeed exceptionally skilled at shielding themselves from external influences. After all, they had reduced their biological