Having more nova sources would greatly benefit the generations to come. It was a crucial resource, without which cultivators would go extinct. The reason Gladeus was situated where it was, rather than being near Ebonia, was because it needed to settle somewhere with other star clusters in the vicinity.

The Sun was currently really hard to find. Other nova source worlds shone brightly in the void of the astralscape to advanced races like the ebons. While the Sun itself wasn’t easy to detect, the movement of a sanctuary-class world like it would leave waves of nova source consumption that ebonian fiendbats could pick up on. More and more, Tianming felt the encroachment of the bats. The optimum scenario he’d envisioned before had been...