While Song Chi was making intensive preparations in the Kindling Ancestral Domain to advance to an eleventh-rank Mythic Origin Ship, the Allied Fleet of the Myriad Heavens Star Sea, countless light-years away, reached the most critical and bloodiest moment since the war began thousands of years ago.
After advancing step by step for millennia and paying the price of countless civilization fleets being reduced to ashes, the vast army led by the four transcendent civilizations finally tore through the Abyssal monsters' layered defenses with great difficulty. Their spearhead now pointed directly at the entrance to the enormous passage the Bottomless Abyss had opened in the Shattered Star Sea.
It was a massive rift stretching across the starry sky. Thick, dark-red walls of flesh writhed along its edges, while its depths were an unfathomable darkness that radiated an aura capable of making souls tremble. Endless demonic energy erupted from within like tangible tides, contaminating everything around it.
Facing the entrance to this final demon den, the four rulers barely hesitated. After a brief tactical discussion, a cold compulsory order spread through the entire allied army:
"Full army assault! Break into the Abyss!"
There were no cheers of impending victory, only the heaviness and resolve weighing upon countless captains' hearts.
Like moths rushing into flame, like a flood bursting through a broken dam, the enormous allied fleet charged fiercely into that Abyssal passage leading toward the unknown and death.
Yet what awaited them was not the chaotic Abyssal interior they had expected after the front lines collapsed.
The deepest layers of the Bottomless Abyss had long been prepared. Countless main force legions of the Abyss Demon Clan, warped war behemoths, and high-ranking demon lords radiating terrifying auras filled every inch of visible space like a black forest of steel.
Rested and waiting,