Alex and the rest roamed around the secret realm for the next decade, finding one group after another, targeting everyone. Day after day, their stars dwindled at a steady pace, but they had enough that they could continue for another decade or two at least, so they weren't worried.
Alex began winning a few more battles as well, so he could stay there for a bit longer. He even began earning stars some days, although that was still quite rare.
As time passed, the weaker cultivators and the ones who hadn't gathered many stars were thrown out of the secret realm. Those who remained were now much harder to defeat.
One of those days, they arrived at the South End Marker.
The Marker still stood, accepting everyone's star as always, ready to hand over 500 stars should they continuously come here for 300 days. Since every time they came here, it gave them one star, that was 800 stars in total for 300 days.
