Chapter 626 - 357: Where is the Ancient Land?

"It seems this Ancient Land was sealed by some mysterious power. It must be the work of an ancient civilization far beyond what our era can comprehend."

The leaders came to a sudden realization, and the same thought simultaneously surfaced in all their minds.

’If they’re not here for the Milky Way Galaxy, then why are we fighting to the death? Why let the galaxy be torn apart and all this life be destroyed?’

"Retreat! An orderly retreat! The main fleet will fall back to the Magellan Star System. There’s a space portal there that will allow us to make a temporary escape."

As the leaders’ orders were issued, countless warships began to accelerate in retreat. The trails of their plasma engines lit up the starry sky.

The entire galaxy was instantly thrown into chaos.

"Oh no, why are the Galactic Alliance forces retreating?"

"Are they going to abandon us?"

"Run! The army is fleeing! What’s the point of this useless resistance?"

"Where can we run to?"

"We might as well stay on our planets and let happen what may!"

As the military withdrew, the High Level planets inhabited by intelligent life began a similar mass evacuation. Countless civilian and military spacecraft started fleeing toward the edge of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Meanwhile, the inhabitants of planets whose technological Level was too low for interstellar travel could only gaze helplessly at the stars, awaiting the arrival of the alien invaders.

Chaos, violence, slaughter, betrayal.

In an instant, this scene played out across the entire Milky Way Galaxy. The military’s retreat path was littered with the wreckage of starships, and tens of thousands of Mecha lay disabled in asteroid belts.

None of this was caused by the cultivator invaders; it was entirely the result of infighting among the galaxy’s intelligent species.

The entire galaxy was a scene of utter chaos.

Outside the galaxy, the cultivators, who had been preparing to summon a Great Cultivator to join the fray, suddenly noticed the Milky Way Galaxy’s forces in a full-scale retreat, dutifully clearing a path for them to enter.

"Have they... given up?"

The Mahayana Cultivators of the cultivator race were inwardly delighted. ’Cultivation is a path of defying heaven and altering one’s fate,’ they thought. ’It takes countless years to achieve mastery.’

They had no desire for their own extraordinarily gifted disciples to perish alongside the mechanical lifeforms and lowly, uncultivated mortals of this technological world.

Since the enemy was already retreating, they naturally saw no reason to press the attack.

The two sides, with a surprising and unspoken understanding, reached a ceasefire.

In just over a month, news of the ceasefire had spread throughout the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

The fleets that had already fled halted their retreat to regroup and await new orders.

"Where exactly is the Ancient Land?"

Among the cultivators, a Mahayana Cultivator performed a quick divination with his fingers but came up with nothing. He couldn’t help but frown and ask the question aloud.

A venerable elder from the Celestial Secret Pavilion, who had spent many years studying the Celestial Secrets and whose Power was profound, also performed a divination. Yet, he too could only perceive chaos.

"Track the energy dissipation back to its source. And get me a line to the Milky Way Galaxy’s high command. I want to hear what they’re saying."

Soon, a message was quietly exchanged between the high commands of both factions.

The plan was to use the supercomputers of the technological worlds to Support the cultivators’ efforts in locking onto the seal, thereby deducing the location of the Ancient Star.

If this course of action was agreed upon, the cultivators would offer the leaders of the Milky Way’s intelligent species certain concessions. All they asked in return was permission to use their supercomputers for the analysis.

The negotiations were surprisingly simple. Without much deliberation, both sides signed a cooperation agreement.

And so, strange waves of Energy signals began to sweep across the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

Every race, in every corner of the galaxy, was blanketed by this Energy. All complex and unusual signals were being analyzed, one by one.