Half a month later, in the southwestern corner of the Chaotic Star Sea, a dazzling azure streak suddenly appeared in the sky above the waters near Kuixing Island. One moment it was far in the distance; the next, it was already close at hand.
The azure light faded, revealing Xiao Yu. After traveling nonstop for half a month, he had finally arrived.
He had encountered quite a few cultivators along the way. After stopping a group of panicked Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators, Xiao Yu learned from them that the Inverse Star Alliance had indeed launched a war against the Star Palace, just as it had in the original timeline.
Once the Inverse Star Alliance rose up, its forces swept forward like a blade splitting bamboo, easily capturing seven or eight outer islands. Such effortless victories sent their morale soaring. The Star Palace, which had loomed over their heads for ten thousand years, was nothing special after all!
But just as the Inverse Star Alliance cultivators were riding high and preparing to swallow up all the outer islands in one push, the Star Palace dealt them a crushing head-on blow.
When the Inverse Star Alliance attacked Morning Star Island, Emperor Star Island, and several other islands, the Star Palace ambushed them with elite forces, wiping out every cultivator involved in those assaults.
Even two of the Nascent Soul cultivators leading the attacks were killed, while another lost his physical body and escaped with only his nascent soul.
Over a hundred Core Formation cultivators died outright, and the casualties among Foundation Establishment cultivators and those of lower cultivation were beyond counting.
As it turned out, the Star Palace's intelligence department had detected the Inverse Star Alliance's movements long beforehand. It had withdrawn most of its forces in advance, deliberately yielding several islands