Of course, over the past thousand years, the number of Ninth-Rank powerhouses in the Spirit God Realm had recovered to fifteen.
But compared with the Star Alliance's growth, that was still far from enough.
During the thousand-year war in which the God Realm, Spirit Realm, and demonic cultivators had joined forces to attack the Star Alliance, the Alliance had been at a disadvantage, constantly attacked, suppressed, and sabotaged by its enemies. Yet even under those conditions, three new Ninth-Rank Star Lords—Liang Ji, Immortal Lord Tian Hun, and Immortal Lord Tianhong—had emerged during the war.
As for the numbers of new Eighth-Tier Star Lords and Eighth-Tier Earth Immortals, they were even greater, totaling dozens. If the full-scale war had not also caused casualties, the Star Alliance's Eighth-Tier forces would have doubled in number by then.
That was the benefit of the Star Alliance obtaining the "light of the Creation Star," opening up the subsequent path of the Earth Immortal Orthodox, and fully supporting high-tier Star Lords, immortals, and others in their attempts to reach the Ninth Rank or become Eighth-Tier Earth Immortals.
Now, the thousand years that had passed had been a thousand years in which the Star Alliance had completely suppressed the Spirit God Realm, and held the upper hand.
Throughout those thousand years, the Star Alliance's territory had suffered no attacks or destruction. The low-intensity wars had caused no deaths or injuries among Eighth- or Ninth-Rank powerhouses.
Yet the benefits and policies brought by the "light of the Creation Star" and the opening up of the subsequent path of the Earth Immortal Orthodox continued to bear fruit within the Star Alliance. In fact, their effect was far greater than it had been in the previous millennium.
That was why, over the past thousand years, the Star Alliance had seen