Ye Yun did not concern himself with how Zhou Ningdong deployed these alien legions. Professional matters were best left to professionals; he only needed to grasp the overall strategic direction.
In less than two days, these armies from alien star domains were divided into several temporary legions, each led by two Monarch Realm powerhouses and hundreds of True God Realm experts. Under the command of Zhou Ningdong and others, they were deployed to various corners of Blue Star.
None of the countries or forces on Blue Star discovered any of this. Even Hua Yi Nation remained unaware that over twenty million alien troops had suddenly appeared on Blue Star.
Late on the night of the fourteenth day of the seventh lunar month in Hua Yi Nation, a rare celestial phenomenon of a sun eclipse occurred in the Western Hemisphere, plunging the entire Blue Star into darkness. A layer of hazy, gray gas suddenly surged across Blue Star, making all living beings on the planet feel a sense of drowsiness under this oppressive atmosphere.
In a dilapidated temple on the outskirts of the capital of Hua Yi Nation, a faint, eerie cyan light suddenly illuminated behind a broken Buddha statue. Within it, a bronze portal about two meters high was visible.
"Captain Zhao, I see a bronze portal here. It's carved with many strange figures and emits an unsettling cyan glow. Could this be the Ghost Gate they told us to find?" a soldier in camouflage lay quietly in a corner, speaking into his headset. He wore a special helmet equipped with night-vision goggles and a walkie-talkie, and carried a silver longbow on his back.
"It should be. I'm feeling a chill, Captain. Do you think ghosts are real?" another team member, also concealed within the temple, asked, having also spotted the bronze door.
"Found one? Report the coordinates. The rest of the team, converge immediately towards directions four and five. I'll report to command first!" a steady voice rang out – the voice of the five-man squad leader.
To deal with this stellar domain fusion, Hua Yi Nation's Ministry of Defense had dispatched almost all its soldiers. They were organized into teams of five, dispersed across various regions of Hua Yi Nation. Their objective was simple: to accurately pinpoint the locations of the Ghost Gates when they opened. Little did they know that the Ghost Gates on Blue Star were the simplest and least numerous entry points for the Ghost Race during stellar domain fusion.
"No need to report. Effective immediately, this Ghost Gate is under our team's jurisdiction." Just as Captain Zhao was taking out a special phone to contact command, a person appeared, descending from the sky. Following him were nine strange beings.
"Who are you!" Captain Zhao expertly drew the dagger at his waist, staring tensely at the newcomers. The aura radiating from these ten individuals was terrifying, and all of them had arrived by air, their strength far surpassing their own.
"Dragon Palace, Third Legion, Seventieth Squad, Long Ao. We received notification that a Ghost Gate has appeared here." The only human among the ten smiled kindly at Captain Zhao and his team, who were stunned into silence.
"I need to confirm with command!" Captain Zhao said cautiously, then directly dialed the number. A minute later, he received a reply. He then turned to his four approaching teammates, saluted Long Ao, and quickly departed.
Their strength was only at the Golden Core realm, barely capable of dealing with the Ghost Race. Their team's purpose was merely to confirm the location of the Ghost Gate and report it, after which command would dispatch Void Refinement realm powerhouses. Now that powerhouses from the Dragon Palace had arrived, command was naturally pleased.
The Dragon Palace's Third Legion, comprising over two thousand True God Realm experts from the seven races and five thousand Dragon Palace members, was divided into over three hundred squads, led by Yue Xia to oversee the destruction of all Ghost Gates on Blue Star.
Less than a kilometer after the Ministry of Defense's five-man team withdrew, they heard a deafening impact from behind. Through their night-vision goggles, they saw the temple, previously on the mountainside, reduced to rubble.
The bronze door had been violently destroyed! And the ten individuals from the Dragon Palace had vanished without a trace.
"They said they would take over, and I thought they meant they would guard it and kill the ghosts that emerged. So this is how they take over?" one soldier looked back, speaking with a sense of inferiority.
"Enough. Destruction is better than constantly worrying about ghosts emerging from here. Let's head back to the nearest camp and await further orders. Be ready for combat at any time," Captain Zhao admonished. The group moved to a patch of grass, and soon a camouflaged off-road vehicle emerged, taking them away.
Similar situations were unfolding across Blue Star. Several Monarch Realm powerhouses from the seven races used their divine senses to locate Ghost Gates and then notified the nearest temporary squads to handle them.
Meanwhile, Ye Yun had left Blue Star and appeared in its outer space. Behind him followed over twenty Monarch Realm experts and twenty million alien troops!
"Is this stellar domain fusion?" Ye Yun exclaimed in awe, looking at the space beyond Blue Star.
At a distance of over two million kilometers from Blue Star, a cosmic vortex with a diameter exceeding seven million kilometers had appeared. This vortex was not a black hole that sucked things in, but more like a fountain, continuously spewing forth waves of ghost energy, and occasionally spitting out entire planets.
"Boss, our star domain's boundaries are expanding rapidly. At this rate, after this event, our star domain's territory will be about twice as large as before!" Liu Langchen's divine sense swept through the entire star domain frantically, quickly discovering the anomaly. Even the ruling family of the former Second Universe was encountering stellar domain fusion for the first time.
Stellar domain fusion was a rare event, occurring perhaps once every million or ten million years.
"General, do we need to bombard the planets being ejected by that nebula?"
Tiny planets, the size of marbles, were being expelled from the nebula. They then rapidly expanded to become planets comparable in size to Blue Star. Wang Chen's eyes were filled with a fighting spirit.
"Brother Wang, these planets have not yet reached their predetermined trajectories. Our attacks would not be able to harm them," Feng Xi said to Wang Chen, a newly appointed human Monarch whose face was full of murderous intent.
"Heh heh, destroy? Why would we destroy them? What I want is conquest. I want them to kneel!" If we want to embark on an interstellar journey, then let it begin with this stellar domain fusion!