Chapter 1577: Chapter 590: The Tribe Returns, An Aggressive Arrival (Part 3)

A large number of planets in the Nanxiang Star Cluster have returned to their rightful owners.

When the Red Blade Clan evacuated, they removed many newly built important production lines from these planets, but still left behind the existing factories and numerous locals who had lived closely with the Red Blade Clan.

After returning to the planets, the landlords were pleasantly surprised to find that the average comprehensive quality of their population had increased by at least fifty base points.

These people transformed from mere numbers representing the population into fresh and vibrant new productive forces.

Those dispatched by the Red Peak Earl Mansion to manage the planets seemed like magicians with the magic power of turning stone into gold.

They transformed decay into magic, raising the value of these planets by at least half in a very short time.

But soon, the claws of Nanxiang’s Earldom reached out again.

A skinny camel is larger than a horse, and the Liu Family easily took over the influence abandoned by the Red Peak Earl Mansion, relying on its lingering prestige.

The former landlords of the planets were not surprised by this, nor were they too angry; rather, they welcomed it.

Anyway, their planets became more valuable, and if Nanxiang’s Earldom wanted to infiltrate, it had to pay more.

As a result, Liu An and his Nanxiang’s Earldom naturally became the biggest beneficiaries after the strategic contraction strategy of the Red Blade Clan.

Liu An finally swept away the past decline and saw the hope of revival.

However, no matter how noisy the outside world was and no matter how much others ridiculed, Ren Zhong and his people strictly executed the planned strategy.

The world thought that the development of the Red Blade Clan was stagnating, but only insiders knew that they were transforming, or in a sense, returning.

Initially, when the fleet left Source Star, heading towards the Nanxiang Star Cluster, Ren Zhong and the former Source Star humans experienced the painful transition from surface civilization to space civilization.

At the beginning of the voyage, despite the extensive training done in advance, people often seemed at a loss, and unexpected situations frequently occurred during space travel.

Only years later did Source Star humans slowly adapt to that kind of life and restore productivity and creativity.

Afterward, Source Star humans rooted themselves on Red Blade Star, slowly reverting from space wanderer civilization back to surface civilization and becoming the Red Blade Clan.

After two hundred years of breeding and development, the Red Blade Clan quickly reached the peak level of surface civilization in the Nanxiang Star Cluster.

In the past four years, Ren Zhong has allowed the Red Blade Clan to rediscover the unique quality of the space wanderer civilization.

After initial confusion, people quickly adapted to the relatively cramped and crowded living space in the ships within just a few years, as well as adjusted to differences between space laboratories and planet surface laboratories.

The population of the Red Blade Clan began to increase slowly but steadily once again.

The sound of children reading resonated in one ship’s cabin after another, regardless of size.

Different planet ships began to form diverse cultures, each with its own characteristics, due to differing positions and origins.

The very close-fitting and durable space vacuum environment suits, which were also extremely low in manufacturing cost, became increasingly popular. Even children would wear space suits during holidays to explore the vacuum surface outside the ships as a form of adventure tourism.

The growth rate of Ascendant warriors, after months of stagnation, began to recover.

Many branches under the banner of the Red Blade Science Academy completed equipment replacement and mindset transformation over the years.

The Red Blade Clan reverted back to being the courageous wanderer tribe that ventured into the unknown starry sky with the power of their entire clan for the continuity of civilization.

Meanwhile, there were always people externally who believed that Ren Zhong’s brainless decisions would surely damage his prestige, thinking that someone within the Red Blade Clan would become annoyed with him and even want to rebel.

No one has defected up to now, which is said to be only due to Ren Zhong’s execution of a harsh authoritarian suppression.

However, the fact is that they underestimated Ren Zhong’s prestige within the clan.

Under the continuous promotion by the diplomacy and culture department led by Xiao Xingyue, and inspired by the miracles sometimes personally showcased by Ren Zhong, his personal authority has always been at its peak, never diminishing.

Within the clan, no one would ever truly question his decisions.

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One day, a shocking news spread intensely and noisily within the Empire, creating a huge uproar.

A small reconnaissance ship, active tens of light-years outside the Long River Star Domain boundary, unexpectedly collided with something.

The Captain of the reconnaissance ship managed to hit the "last wave" activation button before dying, sending a warning to the Empire’s rear.

According to the star map, that area is an absolute cosmic vacuum, with no space meteoroids or similar objects present.

Therefore, what destroyed the reconnaissance ship must have been some artificial object moved here.

Just as the Empire’s Intelligence Bureau was frantically gathering information, trying to deduce what exactly that artificial object was, more and more similar reports returned from multiple regions outside the Far Border Star Domain, Long River Star Domain, and Jade Plate Star Domain.

At this point, there was no need for judgment.

Anyone with some brains knew.

After hundreds of years of dormancy, the Ascendants indeed launched another war without declaration, and came fiercely.

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