For ordinary Star Sea lifeforms that had not entered the ranks, a hundred years was already a long lifetime. Yet on the Abyss battlefield that engulfed the entire Myriad Heavens Star Sea, it was merely a fleeting segment of the brutal war.
After Song Chi used the power of the Myriad Heavens Market projection to forcibly drive back the demonic tide and secure a century of recuperation for the Kindling Expeditionary Army, the remaining Kindling Fleet completely withdrew from the front lines and retreated to the safe zone designated behind the allied forces to rest and rebuild.
Over those hundred years, the Kindling Expeditionary Fleet had almost completely ceased all proactive offensive missions.
The avatars of several Human Emperors, including Jiang Yuan, Ying Yi, Ji Heng, and Ferdinand, devoted nearly all their energy to reorganizing and restoring the fleet.
Using resources provided by the allied forces along with Kindling Civilization's own reserves, they did everything possible to repair damaged warships, replenish their forces, and stabilize morale.
The three sunken Mythic Immortal Warship avatars were also resummoned after being cooled down with resources such as Temporal Origin Crystals. Though they could not recover their peak combat strength anytime soon, they at least stabilized the framework of the civilization's top-tier power.
However, the situation across the entire Abyss battlefield did not ease because of the Kindling Fleet's withdrawal. Instead, it became ever more brutal.
Perhaps provoked by Song Chi's transcendent strike that day, the Abyss Demon Clan's counterattack became increasingly frenzied.
Even more chillingly, clashes at the Transcendent level began to emerge from behind the scenes and move into the open.
Wielding a projection of the Heaven-Opening Axe, the Heaven-Splitting God King clashed head-on with an Abyss Demon God wielding the Chaos Bell deep within the Molten Prison Abyss. The aftershocks shattered