Within Liang Ji's Natal Star, his Star Spirit Vein currently stood at the ninth rank (24%). This was the result of over a millennium of dedicated cultivation and the accelerated flow of time upon his Natal Star.
However, the advancement of a Ninth Rank Star Lord's Natal Star was inherently slow, far slower than the progression through any of the previous Star Lord stages.
After all, even during his days as an Eighth-Tier Star Lord, Liang Ji could elevate the growth rate of his Natal Star's Star Spirit Vein by at least 50% or more over a span of a millennium.
Yet now, at the level of a Ninth Rank Star Lord, even with his means of accelerating time on his Natal Star, a millennium had only increased the growth rate of the Star Spirit Vein by around 20%!
From this, one could clearly see the sheer difficulty of improving and growing a Natal Star's Star Spirit Vein during the Ninth Rank Star Lord stage!
It was little wonder that among the over three hundred thousand years of the Star Alliance's history, while several thousand Ninth Rank Star Lords had been born, fewer than one in ten actually succeeded in ascending and becoming a sage.
Among them, some Ninth Rank Star Lords possessed insufficient or incomplete power of the Dao Path they practiced and mastered, rendering them unable to ascend and become sages.
Take Immortal Lord Tianhe of the past, for example; the power of the Creation Dao Path he practiced and mastered himself was severely deficient in many aspects, making it difficult to support his ascension into a sage.
Had it not been for the subsequent opening of the Heavenly Demon Star Domain and the seizure of the Dao Path power from the ninth-rank heavenly demon Xuan Qi, which