Postwar Recovery and Restoration
In the Divine Realm, as the Spirit Realm staged a major retreat, the Star Alliance's Ninth Rank Star Lords joined forces to hunt down the Ninth Rank Heavenly Demon. No matter how many tricks or trump cards it had, they were useless; the gathered Ninth Rank Star Lords swiftly slaughtered it on the spot.
The uncontrolled source of the demonic path, Demonic Energy, and the like rapidly eroded and warped the surrounding void, twisting vast stretches of void, stars, and chaos into a demonic domain.
By this point, compared with the Ninth Rank forces of the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm, the Star Alliance had secured a victory of fourteen to thirteen. The Star Alliance had fourteen Ninth Rank Star Lords, while the Divine Realm's Ninth Rank Sovereigns and the Spirit Realm's Ninth Rank Spirit Lords numbered only thirteen combined.
For the first time in this nearly thousand-year-long total war, the Star Alliance's number of Ninth Rank combatants had finally surpassed that of its enemies.
This undoubtedly proved all the more that the time had come for the Star Alliance to launch a full-scale counterattack against the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm.
However, after successfully eliminating the Ninth Rank Heavenly Demon, the Star Alliance's Ninth Rank Star Lords did not immediately pursue the retreating armies of the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm, nor did they immediately cross who knew how many light-years to counterattack the realms themselves.
Instead, they first secured the battlefield, treated the wounded, and recovered their own strength.
After all, the armies of the Divine Realm and the Spirit Realm had each used a supreme treasure—the Myriad God Hall and the Elemental Sea—to protect their retreat. Their protective might was powerful, and they were moving at tremendous speed. Given the