Chapter 325

The news of the surrender of the two great empires instantly swept across the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

Those rebel alliance fleets still awaiting disposition had already surrendered their weapons at the first moment.

Their flagship had shut down all systems, like a cold corpse, silently drifting in space, awaiting the next arrangements.

Qin Hao's holographic image appeared once again on the public channel, his voice becoming the sole law of the Milky Way Galaxy at this moment.

He first announced the disposition of these rebellious civilizations.

The Sirius Alliance, the Giant Rock Union, and the other five civilizations— making seven in total— their leaders and fleets are to be executed immediately.

Their civil institutions are to be forcibly dissolved, all peoples and territories annexed into the Interstellar Civilization Community as labor units, to undergo five hundred years of ideological and labor reformation.

The cold, merciless verdict made countless civilizations draw a sharp breath.

This means that these seven once-glorious high-tier Third-level Civilizations will be completely erased from history.

The remaining accomplices, having been deceived, may be dealt with leniently.

Qin Hao's voice softened: "All civilizations that participated in this rebellion must pay the Yanhuang Civilization 80% of their total civilizational output for the next hundred years as war reparations."

At the same time, they must surrender all military command authority, to be taken over completely by Yanhuang Civilization's stationed 'inspectors' who will assume full responsibility for their defense.

Although this disposition preserves their civilizational structure, it effectively reduces them to economic vassals of the Yanhuang Civilization for tens of thousands of years to come, with no chance of recovery.

Having dealt with these petty clowns, Qin Hao's gaze swept across the entire Milky Way Galaxy as he began to announce a new galactic order.

From today onward, the Milky Way Galaxy will no longer have the Biteen Empire nor the Keluo Empire.

His voice was firm and unyielding.

Only the 'First Galactic Administrative District' and the 'Second Galactic Administrative District' subordinate to the Yanhuang Civilization will exist.

This announcement shocked countless people!

The two great empires that had ruled the Milky Way Galaxy for millions of years are now mere historical terms!

Bigele and Kehuang will continue to serve as the 'governors' of the two administrative districts, responsible for managing the administrative affairs of their original territories.

But all of their actions must unconditionally obey every order issued by the Yanhuang Civilization's Supreme Command.

From today onward, the 'Interstellar Civilization Community' will become the sole official and legal alliance organization in the Milky Way Galaxy.

All civilizations within the Milky Way Galaxy, regardless of rank, must unconditionally join and strictly adhere to the 'Milky Way Basic Law' formulated by the Yanhuang Civilization.

The new 'Basic Law' has only one core provision:

'Civilizations are born equal; all forms of aggressive war and enslavement are prohibited. Any disputes between civilizations must be submitted to the Community Arbitration Committee for peaceful resolution.'

'Anyone who violates this law and launches war without authorization……'

Qin Hao's holographic image grew a gaze of extreme sharpness.

'The Yanhuang Fleet shall exercise the right of 'purification'!'

As his words fell, the two‑dimensional scroll made from stars, deliberately enlarged, was projected onto the screens of all civilizations, serving as the most direct and terrifying warning.

This proclamation amounted to a complete legal unification of the entire Milky Way Galaxy.

A new order, with the Yanhuang Civilization as its absolute core and peace and development as its foundation, has been established.

After a brief silence, countless lower‑level civilizations that had suffered under the hegemony and war of the two great empires burst into ecstatic cheers!

'Peace! True peace has finally arrived!'

'Thank you, Yanhuang Civilization!'

'We no longer need to fear conquest or enslavement!'

They saw the genuine dawn of peace guaranteed by absolute force.

While those powerful civilizations that had grown accustomed to the law of the jungle, thriving by oppressing weaker ones, now faced the absolute might of Yanhuang,

fell silent like cicadas in winter, daring not to voice the slightest objection.

It's a joke— if even a star system can be turned into a picture, who would dare cause trouble?

At the headquarters, Lao Luo and Zhang Yunfeng watched all this, their hearts filled with myriad emotions.

Back then, the Yanhuang Civilization was merely an infant in the Solar System, constantly at risk of being swallowed whole by an external predator.

How long ago was that?

In the blink of an finger‑snap, the entire Milky Way Galaxy lay prostrate at Yanhuang's feet.

This is a truly new era for the Yanhuang people, vast and tumultuous, officially inaugurated today.

After completing these proclamations, Qin Hao handed over all the tedious follow‑up work— fleet reception, district reorganization, inspector deployment, and so on— to Zhang Xianzhong, Zhou Shaoqing, and others.

He believed that with those two governors implanted with ideological steel stamps cooperating, these matters would proceed very smoothly.

His holographic image slowly faded from the starry sky.

His gaze had already turned toward a more distant place.

That region at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, a Fifth‑level Civilization ruin that has lain dead for hundreds of millions of years.

And beyond those ruins lies an even vaster, more perilous region where horrific entities that 'feed on civilizations' exist.

……

The war ended in a sweeping, unstoppable fashion, and the Yanhuang Civilization ushered in an unprecedented great harvest.

A comprehensive inventory of the spoils of war is now underway in a blaze of activity at the Highest Science Academy.

The two great empires, together with those dozens of Third‑level Civilizations, have had their entire technological databases— accumulated over hundreds of thousands to millions of years—

been fully and without reservation copied into the Yanhuang Civilization's central database.

The sheer volume of that data is staggering, almost unbelievable to hear.

Academician Qian Bowen and his entire research team have barely slept these past few days, yet every individual is spirited, eyes gleaming.

They are like a bunch of mice that have fallen into a granary, caught in a dilemma of extreme happiness.

The massive amounts of data need to be sorted, organized, analyzed, and compared and merged with the Yanhuang Civilization's existing technology tree.

'Report, Qin Consultant! Major discovery!'

A materials science expert from the Science Academy rushed into Qin Hao's temporary office, so excited he forgot to knock.

"We have discovered that the Ke Luo Empire has already touched the threshold of a Fifth-level Civilization in dark matter research!"

Their latest-generation dark matter reactor, although extremely inefficient due to materials limitations, has a core theory that is highly advanced!

"If we optimize using the material technology we obtained from the Stellar Language Civilization, the energy conversion efficiency can be increased by at least five hundred times!"

"This means that the warships of the Yanhuang Civilization will have virtually limitless energy!"

Before Qin Hao could nod, another academician in charge of energy weapon research also burst in.

"Qin Consultant! The Biteen Empire's 'String Vibration Membrane' technology! We've figured it out! This technology is simply a stroke of genius!"

"It can, through high-frequency vibration, form a subspace membrane on the shield's surface; although it cannot block a regular-level strike like two-dimensional foil, theoretically it can effectively deflect and weaken part of the damage from dimensional weapons."