Human Emperor City, Heaven-Mixing City, Split-Mountain Ancestral City, Shilao City, Battle-Soul City, Sky-Li City...
(PS: There have been some revisions earlier. Heaven-Piercing Chaos City was not among the cities taken in the counteroffensive. Rather, it was Heaven-Mixing City, one of the top Chaos Cities formerly under the Chaos Demon Ape Clan's jurisdiction. Heaven-Piercing Chaos City was jointly occupied by several transcendent factions, and the Kindling Civilization was not yet capable of coveting it.)
As the Kindling counteroffensive fleet successively occupied the six Chaos Cities above and set Wheel Formation coordinates using components of the Cosmic Six-Direction Wheel Formation, the Kindling Civilization took the initiative to halt its outward expansion.
Although the Kindling Civilization could no longer be considered weak, it was certainly not strong either. After all, it did not even possess a true level-eleven Mythic combatant. Knowing when to stop was the best choice.
There was also one crucial point. Other than Human Emperor City, the other five cities had all been conquered by the Mythic allied forces of the Blade Clan and four other races. This did not involve the other alien factions now gathered in the Heavenly Ape Star Realm, minimizing the possibility of direct conflicts with them and preventing Human Emperor City from incurring public wrath.
Of course, the fundamental reason was still the Chaos Oath jointly signed by the Transcendents. The Transcendents would not personally enter the fray, while rumors that the Kindling Civilization had successively slain several level-eleven Mythics had already spread through nearly half of the Heavenly Ape Star Realm. So long as the Kindling Civilization did not become excessively arrogant, no alien race with a death wish would take the initiative to provoke them.
In the fiftieth year after the defensive battle of Human Emperor City ended, Human Emperor City of