The Seventh-Tier Pinnacle and an Eighth-Tier Demon Core
Cultivation as a Star Lord—or, for that matter, cultivation in any lineage—always brought longer lifespans with each step upward, while the time required kept increasing as well.
At the high tiers, Star Lords and Third Rank Immortals alike lived for at least several thousand years. Their sense of time often changed, too; spending hundreds of years engrossed in a single task was commonplace.
After Liang Ji advanced to Seventh-Tier Star Lord, his perception of time shifted noticeably. He often barely noticed the passage of several hundred years.
Back then, he had spent more than a century traveling through the Outer Domain Star Sea to perfect his Natal Star System's Void Refinement and formation research, and to gather treasures such as stars and resources.
Now, to earn enough merit for the cultivation and growth he needed at the Seventh-Tier Star Lord stage, he had spent three hundred years shuttling between the Void Sea battlefield and the Chaos Sea battlefield, taking charge and fighting there.
Three hundred years would have been enough for Liang Ji to complete the cultivation and advancement of one or two Star Lord tiers back when he was at the low or middle tiers.
But for Liang Ji now, it was merely the time he had spent occupied with a single task.
Still, three hundred years had been enough for Liang Ji to accomplish a great deal in his cultivation and growth.
With the help of his Natal Star System, the Nine Suns Star System, Liang Ji controlled the flow of time on his Natal Star, speeding up its absorption of resources such as Demon Cores, Spirit Roots, and Spirit Seeds, and accelerating the growth of both his Natal Star and his Vassals.
Over those three hundred years, he had