Liang Ji and Peng Yue joined the Special Operations Team. Following the missions assigned by the Star Alliance's higher-ups, they repeatedly teleported through the Void Star Sea surrounding the Star Alliance, holding the line and slaughtering the stragglers who slipped past the defenses.
The missions were difficult, but the stragglers who managed to cross the forward line were few and far between. After killing each one, the two could enjoy a fairly long stretch of rest.
During those breaks, they could use the various resources and benefits provided by the Star Alliance, including unlimited Three Lights Heavenly Dew, to recuperate and restore the strength their Natal Star System and Natal Star had expended.
The Star Alliance's higher-ups had arranged things this way on purpose. After all, those in the Special Operations Team were all top Seventh-Tier Star Lords. Even if they could intercept and kill Eighth-Tier stragglers across a tier, doing so often left them with injuries and serious damage that needed prompt treatment and recovery.
When Liang Ji and Peng Yue joined forces, the projections of their Nine Suns Star System and Nine Moons Star System descended, and under the Connected Star Contract they formed the Yin-Yang Millstone. This made it much easier to hold back and kill some Eighth-Tier stragglers, while minimizing their injuries and the damage they suffered.
Even so, neither of them would pass up such a chance to rest and recover.
Liang Ji could make even greater use of the resources supplied by the Star Alliance to intensify and speed up the workings of his Natal Star System, the Nine Suns Star System.
Whenever they had time to rest, Liang Ji seized the opportunity to control and operate his Nine Suns Star System, adjusting the passage of time on his Natal Star. This let his