After completing his first Celestial Star Pivot assessment as a Ninth Rank Star Lord, Liang Ji did not stay long at Taihao Star Palace. He returned straight to the front lines in Gemini Star Domain.
The Star Alliance's counteroffensive was imminent. As one of its fourteen Ninth Rank Star Lords and a top combatant, he would undoubtedly be among the main forces leading the assault.
So he needed to make more preparations for the coming battle.
After returning to the front-line battlefield in Gemini Star Domain, Liang Ji tried drawing upon the power of the star maps in the twenty star domains he controlled, experiencing how it differed from channeling the star-domain power of the Celestial Star Array Diagram as an Eighth-Tier Star Lord.
As an Eighth-Tier Star Lord, a Star Lord could only refine and control the star-domain power within the Celestial Star Array Diagram through the Celestial Star Pivot. That was why it was known as "authority" power.
Only with the authority granted by the Celestial Star Pivot could a Star Lord draw upon the power of those star-domain star maps.
Every time they drew upon it, the power had to pass through the Celestial Star Pivot. The many twists and turns along the way caused losses, so they often could not draw upon the star-domain star map's full power.
Now, after advancing to Ninth Rank, a Star Lord could refine and control the Celestial Star Array Diagram on their own. Likewise, when drawing upon the power of a star-domain star map, they no longer needed to rely on the Celestial Star Pivot's authority or its intermediary. Instead, they could directly use their own power to draw upon the portion of the Celestial Star Array Diagram they controlled.
Liang Ji carefully compared the two methods. Drawing upon a