Chapter 326: A Hundred Years of Silence, the Civilization's Metamorphosis

This discovery made Qin Hao look askance.

It's as if you fall asleep and someone hands you a pillow.

He was fretting over how to counter unknown enemies beyond the Milky Way Galaxy, and the Bitern Empire presented a possible solution.

"And their spatial folding technology…"

"Their genetic coding…"

One delightful report after another kept being delivered before Qin Hao.

These technologies, even taken individually, cannot be compared with the complete legacy left by the Star Language Civilization.

But they are the results that the two great Empires, after millions of years of crawling and stumbling through the dark forest, have painstakingly explored step by step.

They greatly fill the gaps and shortcomings that Yanhuang Civilization developed, due to its overly rapid progress, in various fundamental disciplines.

Qin Hao felt very satisfied with this.

He deeply knows that lofty castles in the air cannot go far. Only by laying a solid foundation can Yanhuang Civilization truly assimilate the towering technology tree of the Star Language Civilization, rather than be crushed by its massive knowledge.

He immediately issued a new order.

"Order: Yanhuang Civilization, effective immediately, enters a hundred‑year 'Silent Development Period'."

"Suspend all external military expansion and nonessential diplomatic activities; all departments, all resources, must fully cooperate with the Academy to conduct technology integration and industrial upgrading!"

After handling the technological matters, Qin Hao began studying how to maximize the value of the two newly acquired 'servants'.

Through the thought‑steel‑imprinted Ko Huang and Bi Jiale, who are firmly controlled, he issued a series of bewildering orders to the two great administrative regions.

"First, the two great administrative regions shall immediately dissolve all remaining military research institutions, redirect all military industrial production lines to civilian use, and fully develop the economy and infrastructure."

"Second, the two great administrative regions must unconditionally allocate 50% of their annual total fiscal revenue, as well as all extracted rare strategic resources of grade A or higher, to Yanhuang Civilization."

These two orders caused the old aristocrats within the two great administrative regions to voice endless grievances,

but Ko Huang and Bi Jiale, with an unprecedented iron‑blooded grip, forced them through.

Any opponent was ruthlessly purged.

In their view, Qin Hao's order is the highest divine decree, tolerating no doubt.

Thus, the former two great dominions of the Milky Way Galaxy were reduced to Yanhuang Civilization's 'premium dairy cows' and 'resource mines',

continually supplying massive nutrients for Yanhuang Civilization's rapid development.

After Qin Hao arranged these affairs, he handed daily management to Lao Luo and Zhang Yunfeng.

He himself then boarded the Void Walker again.

He headed to the location of the nearest black hole.

He needed an absolutely quiet, energy‑rich place to digest his greatest gain from this trip—the complete fifth‑tier technology tree left by the Star Language Civilization, vast as a sea of smoke.

At the same time, he prepared to give his golden‑finger system an unprecedented 'major boost'.

"Void Walker" arrived at the destination silently.

Qin Hao sat cross‑legged in the center of the bridge, closed his eyes, and issued a command to the system.

"Begin absorption."

"Target: the small black hole ahead with a diameter of 950 km."

【Command confirmed, commencing energy absorption… will take one year.】

In the next instant, an invisible suction emanated from the Void Walker, spanning the great distance and precisely enveloping the small black holes hidden in the dark depths.

The colossal energy, enough to warp spacetime, began to turn into the purest data torrent, flooding Qin Hao's system.

When that black hole was fully absorbed and vanished, Qin Hao immediately moved to the region of the next black hole. …

Time, on a cosmic scale, is the most meaningless thing.

A hundred years, for a fourth‑tier civilization that has already extended its lifespan to tens of thousands of years, is but a flick of the finger.

All civilizations of the Milky Way Galaxy entered the longest peace period in recorded history.

Under Yanhuang Civilization's absolute rule and the iron‑fisted constraints of the 'Milky Way Galaxy Basic Law', no large‑scale interstellar war has occurred since.

All civilizations, under the new order, develop steadily.

Yanhuang Civilization, like a colossal beast lurking in the deep sea, crazily absorbs the knowledge, resources, and nutrients of all civilizations, undergoing a metamorphosis akin to a rebirth.

Over a century, Yanhuang Civilization's technological level experienced a revolutionary, explosive leap.

With the two great administrative regions' cost‑free support and the trade backing of countless community member civilizations, Yanhuang's overall strength grows geometrically each day.

The first‑generation 'Star Gate' has long been phased out.

The brand‑new second‑generation Star Gate network now covers every major route and administrative star system of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Travel time between any two civilizations has been reduced to under a few minutes.

The entire Milky Way Galaxy, in the true sense, has become a 'Star River Village'.

Academician Qian Bowen's research team, with massive resources and the foundational disciplines of the two Empires, successfully mastered the Star Language Civilization's Dimensional Shield technology,

and flawlessly applied it to the upgraded 'Heaven Sword'-class—'Divine Vessel'-class series warships.

These brand‑new warships not only possess a preliminary ability to resist dimensional attacks,

their conventional weapons have also been upgraded to power‑adjustable 'Spatial Annihilation Cannon' arrays,

the firepower of a single Divine Vessel warship can match that of a Heaven Sword fleet from a hundred years ago.

And the nationwide psychokinetic development program led by Mao Xinyang also achieved unprecedented massive results.

Benefiting from the absorption of the two Empires' life‑science technologies, Yanhuang scientists successfully developed a stable, side‑effect‑free 'Psychic Guidance Fluid'.

Now, over 80% of Yanhuang citizens have psychic strength that meets the standards of higher lifeforms of a fourth‑tier civilization.

This means that the vast majority of them can, using their psychic power, perform short‑range spatial jumps or manually generate a Spatial Shield.

The average lifespan of the populace has officially surpassed the million‑year mark.

And the architect of all this—Qin Hao,

Over these hundred years, he hardly ever appeared in any public setting.

He was like a legend, a symbol, existing in the heart of every Yanhuang person, yet forever out of reach.

He piloted the Void Wanderer, scavenging unwanted black holes everywhere.

Using the System, he absorbed the full energy of exactly 45 black holes.

The System's energy unit, starting from over a hundred million, kept soaring,

Finally stopping at an astronomical figure that left one stunned—5,300,000,000,000!

With that much energy, he could freely use the heaven-defying function 'Concept Creation' to accelerate his understanding of Fifth-level Civilization technology.

He wanted to design another kind of dimensional weapon, as a trump card for the Yanhuang Civilization, even to be used as a regular weapon.

One day.

Inside the bridge of the Void Wanderer, Qin Hao, who had sat cross-legged for a hundred years, slowly opened his eyes.

His gaze seemed to have countless stars being born and dying within it, and countless dimensions intertwining.

On his body, there was no trace of human aura anymore; he was more like a collection of rules, a higher-dimensional existence.

【Ding!】

The System's notification sounded in his mind.

【Congratulations, Host, after a hundred years of development, the Yanhuang Civilization's comprehensive strength assessment has officially entered the Fifth-level Civilization.】