The Art Academy and Bitter Sea were not to be easily provoked within Four Sages Mountain, but that was really only because their ways of doing things were rather distinctive.
Even the Art Academy's Sword Cultivator elders, famous for being one-track minded, understood ordinary social conventions perfectly well.
The leader of Bitter Sea was the same. People said there were many madmen there, but really, he was "Schrödinger's Madman."
He even enthusiastically suggested, "How about our warships take turns joining the attacks in moderation?" Thus, one month after Qu Jianlei's team arrived in West Ox Embrace Province, more than thirty warships were actively participating in the assault.
There were still only five Battalion-Class Ships. The rest were company-level and battalion-level vessels, including the warships Red Leaf Ridge had added later.
Yet even as the pressure steadily increased, the Heavenly Devil Domain before them remained completely unmoved.
Even Hall Master Jiang was beginning to struggle under that pressure, so she sought out Ridge Lord Qu.
"How about attacking somewhere else... or opening a second battlefield? Perhaps the cultivators inside could break out and report on the situation."
The point they had chosen to attack had been barren land even before the Heavenly Devil Domain formed.
In theory, a place with such impoverished Spirit Veins was not somewhere the Heavenly Demons would necessarily be willing to defend at great cost.
Unfortunately, now that the Heavenly Devil Domain had formed, the entirety of West Ox Embrace Province had become one whole. The effect of attacking here was not much different from attacking elsewhere.
However, Qu Jianlei had another reason for choosing this location: to prevent accidentally harming any cultivators who might have survived nearby.
Jiang Hui's suggestion, meanwhile, was intended to contact the Survivors inside so they could formulate a more suitable battle