I will make Qin Shi Huang immortal in the Great Qin Dynasty.

For 580 years, the Orion Arm was peaceful throughout the entire territory of the Qin Dynasty.

More than ten years have passed since Ying Zheng, Qin Tian, ​​and Meng Tian disappeared during the Star Gate experiment.

The Qin Empire did not fall into any turmoil due to the disappearance of its three key figures.

In the imperial court, Fusu had become adept at handling state affairs, and more than ten years of experience had transformed him from a composed successor into a mature ruler.

The Qiyuan Palace was managed by Ying Yinman, who took over the duties of the palace master after Qin Tian disappeared. She managed the Qiyuan Palace in a well-organized manner, and the operation of the cultivation system never stopped.

Meng Yi continued to oversee the imperial administration, while Li Si returned to his core position in the civil service system after the secret edict was lifted, contributing his more than 500 years of experience to the normal operation of the empire.

The entire Qin Empire was like a sophisticated machine, operating smoothly on its predetermined track.

But the empire never stopped searching for those three people.

From the day the Star Gate incident occurred in the 568th year of the Qin Dynasty, finding Ying Zheng, Qin Tian, ​​and Meng Tian became the highest priority for the Qin Empire.

This matter cannot be made public. The people of the empire are unaware that His Majesty and the Imperial Preceptor have disappeared. To the outside world, they are still said to be "in seclusion for cultivation."

But every researcher at the Stargate Institute knows the truth.

They bore a heavy responsibility; the disappearance of His Majesty and the other two was directly related to their experiments.

Although a rigorous review confirmed that no one was at fault and no one was punished as a result.

But that sense of responsibility and guilt was deeply etched in the hearts of every researcher.

For more than a decade, they have had almost no days off, devoting all their time to data analysis of that accident.

They need to find that spacetime anchor point, and where the stargate teleported His Majesty and the other two to.

Only by finding those coordinates can the empire reunite with their emperor.

The Stargate Research Institute is not the only one conducting research.

The Qin Empire also mobilized all the top theoretical physicists, space scientists, elemental cultivators, and engineers within its empire to form a massive peripheral research team.

These scientists were unaware of the disappearance of His Majesty and his two companions.

However, they regularly receive technical challenges from the Stargate Research Institute.

Some theoretical questions that have been desensitized are disguised as basic scientific research topics and put forward to gather ideas.

Unbeknownst to them, these scientists contributed their wisdom to the search for Ying Zheng and the other two.

The entire empire's scientific research efforts are serving this goal in various ways.

At the same time, a special fleet was formed.

The first phase of the Qin Empire's comprehensive strategic ship construction plan has been completed, with 666 brand-new comprehensive strategic ships assembled at the spaceport near the Stargate Research Institute.

These warships are 80 kilometers long, each one a sharp sword suspended in space, covered with super alloy armor tempered by elemental energy, and equipped with the most advanced space weapon systems and conventional weapon systems.

The purpose of this fleet is not to wage war.

It has only one mission.

Find His Majesty and the other two, and bring them back to Qin.

The fleet commander was Zhang Han, the deputy commander was Han Xin, and Xiao He and Chen Ping were in charge of staff and logistics.

Zhang Han needs no introduction; he was a general whom the First Emperor trusted greatly.

Han Xin and his two companions joined the ranks of cultivators in the early stages of the promotion of the Yuanli Guiding Technique in the Qin Dynasty.

Han Xin's military talent goes without saying. He studied at the Qin military academy for hundreds of years, mastering all forms of warfare from ground to space, and his understanding of fleet tactics reached an astonishing level.

Xiao He and Chen Ping each excelled in their respective fields of strategy and logistics; one was adept at overall planning and coordination, while the other was skilled in strategic planning.

All four were at the mid or early stage of the Yuanzhu realm. After hundreds of years of cultivation and experience, their abilities had long surpassed their historical status.

Unwilling to remain idle, they yearned to make greater contributions to the empire, and the disappearance of His Majesty and his two companions gave them a clear mission.

The fleet's more than 30 million crew members are all elites among elites.

Even ordinary crew members are at least at the Yuanzhu realm.

This standard was considered extremely stringent throughout the entire Qin Empire.

It should be understood that although the Qin Empire had countless Yuanzhu-level experts, concentrating more than 30 million Yuanzhu-level cultivators into a single fleet was still a huge investment.

The personnel of this fleet mainly come from these areas.

The dedicated cultivators of Qiyuan Hall.

The elite troops of the Yuan Dynasty in the Emperor's Imperial Guard.

Core members of Qin Tian's four guardian families.

Members of the royal Ying clan.

Members of the Meng family.

And members of the Qin Tian family.

Everyone who joins this fleet undergoes rigorous screening and vetting.

Loyalty, competence, and willpower are all indispensable.

For members of the Emperor's Imperial Guard and the four guard families, joining this fleet was a form of atonement.

When Ying Zheng, Qin Tian, ​​and Meng Tian disappeared, although they were not by his side, from the perspective of duty, it was still a dereliction of duty to some extent.

These people volunteered to join the fleet, hoping to make up for their guilt by finding His Majesty and the other two.

For those who cultivate in seclusion at Qiyuan Palace, joining this fleet is a mission.

They had cultivated their Yuan power for hundreds of years, diligently practicing in the Qiyuan Palace. Now that the empire needed them, they stepped forward without hesitation.

Commander Yang and his sister were also in this fleet.

More than 500 years ago, during a decisive battle on the grasslands, Commander Yang rescued his sister, who had been held captive for six years, from the Xiongnu's prison camp.

After that, the brother and sister left the army and joined Qiyuan Palace with Meng Tian's approval.

Over five hundred years of cultivation have transformed Commander Yang from a grief-stricken young general into a composed mid-stage Yuanzhu cultivator.

The halberd in his hand has been replaced with a super alloy halberd tempered with Yuan energy, making it far more powerful than it was back then.

His younger sister gradually recovered from her psychological trauma in the peaceful environment of Qiyuan Palace. With her exceptional talent for cultivation, she later broke through to the early stage of the Yuanzhu realm.

Both siblings volunteered to join the fleet this time.

In their view, Qin Tian gave them, brother and sister, a chance to be reborn more than 500 years ago, allowing them to start a new life in Qiyuan Palace.

Now that Qin Tian has disappeared into an unknown space-time, they are willing to pay any price to find him, even if there are space-time turbulence ahead, even if the final result is death and annihilation, they will not hesitate.

This fleet is stationed in a spaceport near the Stargate Research Institute, ready to be deployed at any time.

All 666 comprehensive strategic ships are in a state of hot standby, with their space wave generators, railguns, and particle beam main guns all in an active state.

The crew members conduct daily training at the spaceport, while also regularly carrying out simulation exercises to simulate various possible time-space travel scenarios and combat scenarios.

They waited, waiting for the Stargate Research Institute to find the spacetime anchor point.

Once that crucial coordinate is found, the fleet will immediately cross the stargate and head to the spacetime where His Majesty and the other two are located.

They didn't know what the environment was like over there, whether there were enemies, or whether they could successfully return.

But they didn't care.

Their mission is singular: to find His Majesty and bring him home.

The tens of millions of researchers at the Stargate Institute are under immense pressure.

For more than a decade, they have analyzed every set of data generated at the time of the accident and tried countless mathematical models to deduce the coordinates of the transmission exit.

The physical process of spatial folding is extremely complex, and the unexpected offset parameter has not yet been fully resolved.

But they did not give up, knowing that His Majesty and the other two were waiting for them in some unknown time and space.

The director of the Star Gate Research Institute once said at an internal meeting: "If we cannot find His Majesty, we are sinners of the Qin Empire. If we do find him, we are heroes of the Qin Empire. There is no middle ground."

This statement represents the sentiments of all researchers.

They worked day and night, calculating and experimenting.

Unbeknownst to them, in a distant time and space, their emperor, imperial advisor, and supreme general were leisurely sipping tea in a living room in Xi'an.

More than ten years is only more than ten years in that world, and more than ten years has also passed in the timeline of the Qin Empire.

The flow of time on both sides seems to be about the same.