After Liu Changxu led the human army in wiping out the swarm at the second Insect Race gathering site, he discovered a large spirit gold vein deep beneath the underground nest.
The eighty-million-strong human army immediately became miners and set to work. With so many people, each possessing divine abilities, they exhausted the entire spirit gold vein in just three days.
Liu Changxu then led the human Expeditionary Army away, heading for the next Insect Race gathering site.
On the fifth day of the third month in the year 2385 of Great Han, the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship slowly appeared above the vast gold-and-stone plaza on Nine Splendors Mountain, carrying Liu Changxu and thirty million soldiers of the Great Han Immortal Dynasty's Expeditionary Army.
As dazzling light blossomed, over thirty million expeditionary soldiers appeared on the plaza in an instant. The crowds gathered around it to welcome them erupted into fervent cheers.
After releasing the expeditionary soldiers, Liu Changxu stored the Ruyi Sky-Patrolling Battleship in his dantian, then appeared on the plaza's raised platform with Murong Yuyao, Xiao Zier, and the others to receive the crowd's cheers.
Fifty years had flowed by. He had led the human Expeditionary Army across more than half of Taibai Star, clearing hundreds of Insect Race gathering sites, large and small. They had slain over nine hundred Ninth-Tier Insect Emperors and countless lower-tier insects, reaping an astronomical number of high-tier spirit treasures.
Around the plaza on Nine Splendors Mountain, a dense sea of people stretched from the foot of the mountain to halfway up its slopes. The Liu Household Members wore matching clan robes, while the Immortal Dynasty's citizens held flowers, their faces filled with undisguised anticipation and excitement.
When Liu Changxu appeared on the raised platform, a brief silence fell before cheers erupted with