Global Era of Star trekking Chapter 1857 - 902: Star Sea·South Pole

In Expedition Calendar Year 570, as the ultimate mother planet stronghold of the "Ghost Shadow Songstress" civilization crumbled, the turmoil across the Beiji Sea River System Cluster had mostly subsided.

Meanwhile, uplifting updates arrived from the Black Abyss Star Core River System Cluster region, where the joint armada of the Shenxia Dynasty and Chi Yu Divine Dynasty obliterated the defiant "Dark Star Devourer" civilization in a swift and overwhelming assault, signaling the close of the warfare expansion era for these two river system clusters.

Over the coming centuries, the Five Great Empires along with their allied factions will focus on assimilating, merging, and developing these freshly acquired domains.

Massive construction armadas and settler convoys took over from the battle fleets, racing through the subjugated river systems, while uniform colossal interstellar Star Gates were rapidly set up, linking the expanded lands to the vital transport network of the Torch Civilization.

Survey vessels for resources plunged into desolate stellar zones, asteroid rings, and even the cores of Drifting Continents, charting precise maps of available assets.

Myriad colonization craft carried waves of top-tier settlers from the Five Great Empires to worlds that had been ecologically reshaped and deemed livable.

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Ancestral Domain, Torch Humanity Galaxy Cluster.

A summit after the battles, organized by the five Torch Ancestral Courts of the Torch Civilization, was promptly assembled, and following a collective decision, the enormous expanse of the Beiji Sea River System Cluster (around 760 river systems) and the Black Abyss Star Core River System Cluster (about 850 river systems), adding up to more than 1,600 river systems in total, got distinctly allocated.

As the core supports of the civilization, the Five Great Empires each claimed 300 river systems for their own control, amounting to 1,500 river systems overall, typically the ones brimming with the richest resources and highest strategic value.

The leftover roughly hundred river systems turned into domains for the entrenched inner groups that shone in the campaign through major combat feats, encompassing prominent factions, Immortal Clans, mega enterprises, and standout personal scouting squads along with alliances.

In a flash, the whole Torch Civilization plunged into a wave of discovery and bounty, as rare ores, power gems, lifeform genetic blueprints, Starry Sea Wonders, and Advanced Drifting Continent Sources poured back into the heartlands, vastly bolstering the asset stockpiles and tactical reserves of the civilization.

Every visionary figure understood that absorbing these two fresh galaxy clusters would spark boundless expansion in strength and roots for the Torch Civilization.

Across the subsequent thousands of years, the full society will enter a never-before-seen boom in power surge, spawning droves of fresh Annihilation Starship Captains, Galaxy Captains, Superdimensional Captains, and even legendary bound species beneath diverse entities, springing up like sprouts in the rain, building deeper groundwork to tackle the unavoidable savage "Heaven-Fighting Ruins" final clash.

Yet, while the entire society concentrated on building up the new lands and reveled in the thrill of rising might, Song Chi gradually awoke his gaze in the All-Attributes Cultivation Room inside Zhu Tian Ruins Market.

His gaze held profound depths, mirroring the Vast Star Ocean, showing scant interest in the society's expanded realms, but instead a spark of adventure and gravity.

"1,600 river systems... they can surely bolster the society's base immensely, yet against that, the legendary 'South Pole' stirs my interest far more."

He whispered to himself, his sight as if piercing multiple layers of cosmos, fixing on a spot far off in the remote cosmos.

Through his senses, the Heavenly Destiny Compass, seized from the former Overlord Immortal Domain civilization and boasting a seven-colored grade, steadily and firmly directed southward across the star ocean, targeting the enigmatic "Star Sea·South Pole."

Regarding this fabled "Star Sea·South Pole," he had long nursed intense intrigue, though he could never break away before. Now, seizing the last peace prior to the Heaven-Fighting Ruins' downfall, he pondered attempting it.

An intuition told him that the enigmas concealed in that place could tie into surpassing the present legendary level, touching on the notion of genuine ascension.

With a mere notion, distant across endless billions of light-years, a colossal vessel with a deep crimson glow coursing over its frame, concealed in the void's depths—the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong—silently wrapped up one more ultra-vast leap, materializing in an utterly alien empty stellar zone.

For close to a millennium, the bulk of Song Chi’s mental force had bonded with the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong, steering it steadily southward, embarking on this apparently boundless lone trek.

He was thoroughly geared up for this venture.

The leap mechanisms at the warship's heart had lately undergone refinement via two fresh Tenth Rank Golden Apples, upgraded to three-colored level, bolstered by the Lesser Color Grade Red Vault Leap Apparatus and Space Leap Apparatus, allowing the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong’s standard single bound to stretch astonishingly far.

Moreover, the Mirror Space Wormhole Creator part, likewise raised to three-colored grade through the Golden Apple, could forge passages exceeding trillions of light-years in one activation, propelling the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong’s travel pace to unimaginable heights.

Thanks to these three elements, hailed as stellar ocean traversal marvels, the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong pressed onward southward without falter, at velocities defying the grasp of typical legendary beings, outstripping the epic voyages that standard societies couldn't span in billions of years.

Right then, Song Chi positioned his Ethereal Form in the Heavenly Ruins Cang Qiong’s command center, staring into the almost total blackness of the void barren of any stellar specks, then checked the adjacent domain chart on the Heavenly Destiny Compass, where the territorial overlay still hadn't fully matched the "Extreme South" marker, its needle quivering faintly. He couldn't resist shaking his head with a soft exhale.