Star Alliance's Ninth-Tier Demon Core Shortage: Peng Yue Is About to Break Through to the Ninth Tier

Over the past thousand years, the Star Alliance had gained five new Ninth Rank Star Lords. Some had successfully advanced from among the old guard of peak Eighth-Tier Star Lords, while others, like Star Lord Xie Lingxu, had risen from behind.

On average, one Star Lord advanced to the ninth tier every two hundred years or so. That might not seem like much, but this many was unprecedented in the Star Alliance's history of more than three hundred thousand years.

In the tens of thousands of years before that, the Star Alliance had never mind raising five Ninth Rank Star Lords in a thousand years; producing even one in that time was considered an excellent result.

Otherwise, the Star Alliance would not have spent so long with around ten Ninth Rank Star Lords. Even when it opened up the Heavenly Demon Star Domain, it had twelve Ninth Rank Star Lords, and that already counted as a golden age for the Star Alliance's top-tier strength.

Now, however, the Star Alliance had twenty Ninth Rank Star Lords at once—a glorious height unseen in the more than three hundred thousand years of its history.

It could be said that although the Star Alliance had recently suffered a devastating, full-scale joint assault from the God Realm, the Spirit Realm, and the demonic path, and was still locked in a fierce war with the Spirit God Realm, its strength now—especially among its upper and top ranks—surpassed that of any period in its past. It was at the very height of its power.

One important reason for this was the power of the Creation Stars that the Star Alliance had seized and gained control of when it opened up the Heavenly Demon Star Domain.

That power had not only opened up the path forward for the