Chapter 708 390: Ten Thousand Years of Development! (Part 2)

"Based on the current information, it is clear that the 'Source' did not achieve victory in this war, but neither did they lose." The interstellar world Shen Yu shared the intelligence gathered during this time once more, "After destroying many of the All Heavens Forces and heavily injuring the Five Major All Heavens Forces, both the Five Major Forces and the 'Source' disappeared almost simultaneously. We speculate that the Five Major Forces faced a massive crisis, unable to endure such intense levels of war, leading to their decision to flee, with the 'Source' pursuing them. As for why it wasn't the other way around... we can find causal traces related to the Source, but the causal traces of the Five Major Forces have been forcibly erased."

Clearly, the group that needed to flee was also the one that truly needed to erase their causal traces to avoid pursuit.

But this provided the Association with a great advantage.

After all, if not for this, the Association would have found it difficult to develop so safely to this extent, let alone gain such significant rewards from the remnants of these battlefields.

Some forces even left relatively complete technology and legacies before their destruction!

"If that's really the case..." Shen Yu murmured, "Then even if we don't find intelligence related to the Thirteenth Stage, we would have ample time to digest the remains of these forces!"

Indeed, this will be a relatively safe stage.

In fact, most of the Shen Yu have already guessed the Association's upcoming strategic decisions.

And the reality was indeed as they had predicted, Shen Yu made a decisive decision.

"We will first focus on full-scale development until we have fully absorbed all the legacies left by these forces, and then pursue them in their direction! No matter what, we must truly remove everything looming over us!"

"Understood!" All the Shen Yu responded in unison.

After this, the Association entered its fastest and longest period of development.

These newly discovered legacies continually repaired some previously obtained fragmented technological routes.

Meanwhile, the Association also began to cultivate new assets by leveraging these powerful worlds.

They even slightly accelerated the summoning of new Shen Yu.

Even if they discovered some powerful worlds, they managed to complete the rescue in the shortest time possible.

At the same time, they did not forget to fully develop the All Heavens World.

The Association had realized that while the All Heavens World might indeed be endless, the coordinates clearly divided them into distinct large areas.

And those five forces, carrying the pursuit of the 'Source', fled to another large area.

The current large area no longer has other powerful All Heavens Forces and has entirely become a one-man show for the Association.

Sufficient for them to fully absorb and improve!

Even so, no one dared to say not to pursue or explore further, but only to develop independently in this large area.

After all, everyone was well aware.

The 'Source' could return at any moment.

As for escaping, it was even less possible.

The power of the Five Major Forces is still obviously stronger than the current Association, and even their escape was pursued all the way.

Let alone the Association?

As long as the 'Source', which has always adhered to the destruction of the All Heavens Forces, is not completely gone, or unless the Association's power reaches a level capable of winning or even just resisting the 'Source', this danger will always exist.

Therefore, the core purpose of development remains for the potentially impending war.

Following this conference, the Association's development continued for over ten thousand years!

Not until the twenty-three thousand seven hundred and twenty-fourth year of the Association's founding did Shen Yu convene a crucial meeting with the Association's four hundred seventy-six members.

Before this meeting, many of the Shen Yu had already roughly guessed the meeting's agenda.

The majority among them were quite expectant.

And at this moment, within the Gray Mist Space, there had already been immense transformations.

Apart from each world of the Association, the Gray Mist Space had also created worlds, numbering over ten thousand.

Some were used to settle the Association's own forces, for example, largely erasing the Great Wind Empire's mark, transforming it into the 'Association's Main Base Civilization'.

This civilization integrated and assimilated members from various worlds.

Particularly various powerful beings from the explored All Heavens Worlds.

The Association's members enjoyed a supreme status within it, and the benefits of the entire civilization were essentially divided to form a core force that belonged collectively to all members of the Association.

Even new members could receive a small part of the support, becoming an important force for saving their worlds.

In addition, there are numerous core venues belonging to the members.

Such as the conference hall, discussion hall, production base, etc.

Compared to the very beginning, the numerous unrealized member benefits and privileges promised to the Shen Yu not only became reality but were significantly enhanced.

At this moment, all the Shen Yu gathered in the most core conference hall.

This was a void, with gentle light illuminating every corner of the void.

When the Main Body Shen Yu's form appeared in this void, the forms of the other Shen Yu followed one after another, appearing continuously.

Each form of Shen Yu was immense.

The collision of their thoughts received the purest enhancement in this spotless void.

In an instant, countless exchanges could be completed.

However, at crucial moments, many of the Shen Yu were still accustomed to using the language of their past life.

This was also their common hub of connection.

"Everyone." The Main Body Shen Yu took the lead to speak, "Our development to this point has enabled us to explore this entire area to over ninety percent. The remainder are nothing more than some low-level small worlds, even the number of our members has reduced to zero, and to summon more, we must expend more Gray Mist for cross-regional summoning."

Indeed, the Association had developed to such an extent.

The All Heavens are endless, but a region is finite.

At this time, the Association had essentially occupied all worlds within this area with high value.

Even all the Shen Yu in this region had been recruited.

All worlds that could be saved had been saved.

Even the speed of acquiring Gray Mist had begun to decline significantly.

In simple terms—the limits had been reached.

Further development could only be achieved by expanding to other regions.

However, the only coordinate of another region known by the Association was a path explored following the causality left by the 'Source'.

By this point, all the Shen Yu already understood the Association's next course of action.

"The time has come." Shen Yu looked at everyone and said solemnly, "Currently, we have seven hundred forty-three Twelfth Realm powerhouses, thirty-four thousand six hundred forty-two Eleven Saint Realms, almost ten million Daluo Golden Immortals, and countless other strong ones below that level—resources, technology, equipment, size, everything has reached an immense bottleneck. Even compared with those five powerful forces, only a gap in top-tier strength remains, while in overall size, we far exceed them!"

Indeed, this number already surpassed any one of the five forces.

After all, the ten-thousand-year development time the Association had not only occupied their legacies and all high-value worlds in this region but also consumed large amounts of Gray Mist!

This led to a development speed exceeding even a thousand-fold or ten-thousand-fold increase.

Some technical limitations and Extraordinary bottlenecks that might have persisted for millions of years could easily be reached by the Association, just relying on sufficient resources and some Gray Mist.

Without bottlenecks, without enemies, without resource shortages, and with countless established technologies, including technological directions.

This ten-thousand-year development was undoubtedly the fullest and fastest ten thousand years!