Galaxy Domination Guide

Bai Zhongqi had planted a super fusion bomb inside the Benefactor's flying saucer, which directly destroyed the Benefactor's base, as well as four warships of the Benefactors that were docked at the base. These warships could have possessed very strong defensive capabilities, but since they were docked, their shields were not activated. When attacked by the super fusion bomb, most of their hulls and internal equipment were destroyed. Most importantly, all the personnel manning the warships perished.

This attack allowed Bai Zhongqi to eliminate the Benefactors on Taoran Star without any cost. After the annihilation of the Benefactors, even if their vassal species survived, these vassals could not independently command or combat.

Two warships that were not at the base during the attack luckily escaped destruction. Even though Bai Zhongqi only had three people and a landing craft on Taoran Star at that time, the weak force of the Benefactor's vassal species did not dare to continue their search mission. After the attack, these two warships immediately took off, leaving Taoran Star and escaped the planet at warp speed.

Thanks to Bai Zhongqi's intuitively strategic deployment beforehand, the Yinglong Cruiser had left a camouflaged reconnaissance robot on the second satellite of Taoran before leaving. The departure of the two Benefactor warships didn't escape Bai Zhongqi's notice; he knew that Taoran Star had been abandoned by the Benefactors, and the short guerrilla warfare he persisted in had ultimately been victorious.

A day later, Xu Lanzhou, leading the 33rd Fleet of the Universe Army, arrived at Taoran Star and picked up Nan Ma and Hu to return them to the Star Alliance's home planet, Earth. Once Nan Ma was freed from the communication black hole interference of Taoran Star, he immediately started making calls, as many affairs at Flashpoint Company awaited the attention of this Star Warrior who aspired to be a major figure in the entertainment industry. When Hu left Taoran Star, he did not give it a second glance, nor did he make any demands to Bai Zhongqi about the future of Taoran Star. He was quiet and reserved, preferring to read books, always seeming to stay out of worldly conflicts.

As for Bai Zhongqi's agent, Bai Zhongqi had left Agent Number Five there. Xu Lanzhou did not need to talk with the agent, as Bai Zhongqi's live video communication from Earth appeared on her screen.

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"...Your Majesty, as per your instructions, we carried a plethora of engineering equipment and as many as one hundred thousand bionic warriors, ready to commence subsequent construction work on Taoran Star. Considering the communication difficulties on Taoran Star, we planned to construct an extensive network of superconducting fiber cables for intra-planetary communication. The Star Alliance Scientific Research Institute also proposed a superconducting communication balloon scheme, which would ensure that communications from Taoran Star could be transmitted externally."

Bai Zhongqi had some knowledge about this communication balloon scheme proposed by the Scientific Research Institute. Researchers from Earth had suggested launching a large communication balloon, using superconducting fibers as physical transmission mediums, allowing signals on the surface of Taoran Star to travel via these fibers to the balloon in outer space, which would then convert and transmit these as quantum signals to other planets or fleets of the Star Alliance.

The feasibility of this idea was quite high. Despite the potential presence of billions of Nianyu on Taoran Star—creatures highly aggressive towards any aerial entities—there remained areas like the Great Snow Mountain where Nianyu could not settle. Alternatively, in the future, the Star Alliance might eradicate all Nianyu from the planet or attempt to alter their aggressive tendencies.

"Hmm, the future of Taoran Star may indeed turn into a battleground. Anything our enemies desire, we must deny them, regardless of the hundreds of light years separating Taoran Star from the Star Alliance's home planet, even though we still do not understand the effects of Eternal Crystal Stone. But since we are now standing on the soil of Taoran Star, this place is the land of the Star Alliance," Bai Zhongqi declared resolutely.

These simple words inspired Xu Lanzhou, filling her with fervor. She had often fantasized about fighting under the Chancellor's banner like her ancestors. She fought for the glory of the Iridium Star United Empire, relishing the honors she earned firsthand. Now, although she had relinquished the high rank of Universe Army Commander, she was still content to continue fighting for the Chancellor.

"Yes, Your Majesty, your will shall be accomplished."

Bai Zhongqi was satisfied with his loyal and brave soldiers, but he was not a leader without a mind. The situation on Taoran Star had caused him some hesitation. Even though the Benefactors and Controllers were just allies of the Teizene people and had not officially declared war on the Star Alliance, Bai Zhongqi's disruption of the Eternal Crystal Stone supply on Taoran Star would inevitably anger the Controllers, which could lead to warfare between the two civilizations against the Star Alliance.

Yet Bai Zhongqi could not bring himself to bow and scrape to the Controllers and the Benefactors. Despite not comprehending the unique properties of Taoran Star, now that it was within his reach, Bai Zhongqi saw no reason to concede it to his enemies.

This war was inevitably escalating.

Previously, he had defended the Danlu Interstellar Cloud under relatively favorable conditions. Even though his enemies were stronger, he still managed to leverage his advantages. Now, as the war expanded into the local Bubble Star Region and the Xunyi Star Zone, with the expanding influence of the Star Alliance, Bai Zhongqi also had a larger area to defend.

Beyond the Danlu Interstellar Cloud, Lingge Star, Gigite Star, and now Taoran Star were all territories the Star Alliance needed to protect. Continuously dividing his forces naturally weakened the military power of the Star Alliance, and if the worst-case scenario occurred—the simultaneous assault by the three slave-master civilizations—the Star Alliance would face its most severe crisis.

Fortunately, the Star Alliance was rapidly growing stronger. Just like Teizene, which had seen a third of its military power diminished by the Star Alliance, if they continued the war, the Star Alliance had nothing to fear. The biggest reliance of the Teizene people, their Shield Array, had been broken. Without activating the Shield Array, their technology was vastly inferior to that of Star Alliance warships, making any exchange ratio unbearable to witness.

The Benefactors, being larger in civilization scale than Teizene, could deploy a larger fleet. However, the military prowess of the Benefactors was not highly regarded within the Galaxy; they relied mainly on their vassal species and had various weaknesses in their military force, with experience only in bullying lower civilizations. This led to a general perception that the Benefactors were large but weak.

The Controllers, however, were entirely different.

The Controllers had not undertaken any major external operations for hundreds of years, but no civilization's spacecraft that entered their Element Star Domain had ever escaped. The Controllers had defeated several powerful mid-level civilizations and even repelled a high-level civilization once. Although the exact military capability of the Controllers remained unknown, they were generally considered to be very strong.