Spring passed and autumn came, and sixty years went by.
The Seven Stars Mountain Range, Heaven River Hall.
Heavenly River Sword Sovereign sat in the seat of honor, while more than a dozen Body Integration Cultivators, including Xu Xiang, stood solemnly on either side.
The Lizard Race had dispatched experts to harass the rear, with Body Integration Cultivators leading the teams. They had made things unbearably troublesome for the Human Race. The Lizard Race focused on harassment, and as soon as Human Race reinforcements arrived, their cultivators quickly withdrew.
Unlike before, this time the Lizard Race had drawn experts from its affiliated races and organized multiple teams. Their divine abilities varied widely, and with experts from the Blood Frog Race, Thunder Mantis Race, Sable Race, Golden Crow Race, and Ice Silkworm Race among them, they were extremely difficult to deal with.
The Human Race organized High-Level Cultivators to exterminate the Lizard Race cultivators, but the latter broke up into smaller groups and scattered into hiding. Once the Human Race experts withdrew, they would regroup and attack the strongholds occupied by the Human Race.
The Human Race had gone to great lengths to occupy such a vast territory, so it was naturally impossible to abandon those strongholds. If they concentrated all their forces at the eighteen strongholds, transporting supplies would become highly inconvenient. Besides, the eighteen strongholds could not control a territory spanning hundreds of millions of miles. Having advanced this far, the various major forces had already lost many High-Level Cultivators, and they were unwilling to retreat into the larger strongholds.
For now, both sides were still following the rules: soldiers fought soldiers, generals fought generals. The Lizard Race's Body Integration Cultivators attacked strongholds guarded by Body Integration Cultivators, while its Void Refinement Cultivators attacked strongholds with Void Refinement Cultivators