Meanwhile, at the newly born Bei Luo Shi Men.
Although the star Wulie Heavenly King Ming Qianqiu was condensing was not yet complete, its starlight already shone in every direction, illuminating the entire battlefield before and behind Bei Luo Shi Men.
Hundreds of thousands of warships and vessels of every kind could be seen densely scattered across the starry sky.
Forests of spears and groves of blades bristled aboard the vessels, along with thousands of helmeted, armored Giant Spirit soldiers.
They were fighting around Bei Luo Shi Men, the two stars Heavenly Righteousness and Heavenly Arts less than two hundred li away on either side, and the three iron cities built around those stars, each less than fifteen li long and wide.
Some of those countless Giant Spirit warriors operated enormous crossbows to bombard the iron cities; others approached from every angle, pouring through the breaches blasted open by the crossbows to destroy the stars condensing within.
Thirteen million years ago, after the Ninth Generation Heavenly Emperor had driven and tricked all the Eternity Giant Gods into the outer starry expanse of the Outer Realm, they had continued reproducing in great numbers.
Those among them living in harsh conditions, without the means to raise offspring, either found ways to send their descendants into the Mortal Realm or abandoned them in the Demon Realm's three thousand lesser worlds to live or die on their own.
The Star Gods with better circumstances raised some blood descendants within their stars to serve as generals in their divine armies.
But only the most gifted Blood Descendants were permitted by the Gods to live upon their stars after birth.
Likewise, among the Giant Spirits from the Mortal Realm, only the strongest could join their ancestral Star Gods' divine armies after entering the astral realm, becoming