Of course, over the past thousand years, Liang Ji's cultivation and strength had grown only a little, and he had gained almost no additional Ninth Rank combat power.
But the Star Alliance as a whole had grown tremendously over those thousand years.
First, during the thousand-year war in which the God Realm, Spirit Realm, and demonic forces joined hands to attack, the Star Alliance had suffered heavy losses among its Star Lords, immortals, and cultivators. As a result, its population and the numbers of its cultivators and Star Lords had all dwindled. Over the past thousand years, most of that damage had been repaired.
A thousand years was enough for ordinary people to pass through hundreds of generations, multiplying the population several hundredfold.
Even though the Star Alliance had long since embarked on the path of cultivation for all, and even ordinary people could often reach the low cultivation ranks of one to three, its common folk and civilians tended to marry and have children many years later.
Still, a thousand years had been more than enough for most civilian cultivators in the Star Alliance to pass through dozens of generations.
As for the population and the number of cultivators—especially those at the middle and lower ranks—even if they had not returned to the Star Alliance's peak before the full-scale war broke out, they had at least recovered most of the way.
Although the widespread recovery and growth of the population and middle- and lower-ranked cultivators did little to strengthen the Star Alliance's leadership or its top combat forces, and could play only a limited role in the high-level and top-tier battles of its war with the "Spirit God Realm,"
these restored numbers of people and middle- and lower-ranked cultivators represented the Star Alliance's reserves and its future. They could