The Star Alliance slowly regained its strength amid a strange atmosphere where celebration and grief mingled, gathering its power as it prepared to break through the stalemate in the all-out war to come.
After attending the funerals and memorial services of many classmates, colleagues, comrades-in-arms, and friends and family, Liang Ji and Peng Yue also gathered their thoughts and began building up their cultivation and strength.
At one funeral and memorial service after another, they watched as familiar and unfamiliar old friends, comrades-in-arms, and loved ones passed away. Some could not even be found, leaving only these funerals and memorial services to prove they had once been here, lived and cultivated in the Star Alliance, and fought for it.
Amid their grief, Liang Ji and his wife, Peng Yue, naturally felt an ever more urgent desire to pursue cultivation and greater strength.
They did not want the next funeral or memorial service to be held for them.
They wanted to cultivate all the way to Ninth Rank Star Lord, or even ascend beyond the cosmic sea of stars. To do that, they had to make the most of this temporary ceasefire and build up their foundations, cultivation, and strength.
So Liang Ji began taking on the missions assigned by the Star Alliance's Frontline Command, traveling through its thirty-four starfields. With the power of the Celestial Star Pivot of Taihao Star Palace, he repaired places across the starfields that had suffered heavy damage, destruction, or ruin through Creation Rebirth.
After several clashes in which both sides had fought to the bitter end, many places in the Star Alliance's thirty-four internal starfields had been caught in the crossfire and suffered backlash, leaving them damaged, ruined, or destroyed.
Though these sites were nowhere near as severely damaged as the places along the Star