Rest and Seclusion: The Eighth "Cosmic Creation"
More than a hundred years had passed since Liang Ji completed his sixth "Cosmic Creation" in seclusion and was reassigned to the Chaos Sea battlefield to join the Star Alliance's war against the Spirit Realm.
Over those hundred years, aside from a period of seclusion midway through to carry out the seventh "Cosmic Creation" of his Natal Star System, he had hardly rested at all.
He had spent nearly the entire time taking part in the war. Things had been especially dire after the armies of the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm joined forces. Liang Ji and the Star Alliance forces had fled all the way back into Star Alliance territory, suffering not only enormous losses but repeated, grievous blows.
When they had retreated into Star Alliance territory, they had thought they could rely on the defenses along the Star Alliance's borders and the protective power of the Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, the Celestial Star Array Diagram, to hold back the enemy forces from the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm. That would give them ample time to rest and recover.
But the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm had gone all in. At the cost of mutual destruction, they had triggered their supreme treasures, the Myriad God Hall and the Elemental Sea, to crash into the Star Alliance's Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, the Celestial Star Array Diagram. Then they had unleashed the power of both realms to batter the Star Alliance's borders!
This not only pinned down most of the power of the Star Alliance's Xiantian Spiritual Treasure, the Celestial Star Array Diagram, but also completely destroyed the many layers of defenses and other measures established along the Star Alliance's borders. The Star Alliance Army suffered heavy losses, its border defenses were breached,