Ever since the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect's sect master had recovered his sanity five years ago, the broad strategy he set had been to defeat the strange with the orthodox: no matter how crafty you were, slippery as a fox, he would crush you with hard power.
It was a thoroughly brute-force way of fighting. The premise for victory was that the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect truly could withstand the siege of multiple forces and win fair and square.
If all the experts from the various forces were counted, then continuing along this path would fail ninety-nine times out of a hundred.
But looking only at the experts who had appeared on the two battlefields of Maple Province and Cloud Ridge Province, the experts dispatched afterward were enough to form an overwhelming advantage.
Even if Yellow Springs Temple and Nether Mountain Sect dispatched one or two Great Cultivators, it would not change the situation. Their strategy was Boiling Frog Slowly, gradually nibbling away at the Inverse Spirit Blood Sect's territory.
And it had already been carried out for more than thirty years.
As for the Saint Sect's side, besides crushing them head-on, it also had the intent of exploiting an intelligence gap.
That was to say, at a point when the enemy could not possibly erupt with full strength, they would suddenly strike, settling the battlefield with the momentum of an autumn wind sweeping away fallen leaves. What they were fighting was a lightning war at the level of high-end combat strength.
Unfortunately.
There was a problem here.
Although the Young Sect Master had been brought back by Wang Yu, he himself had ties to Yellow Springs Temple, and back in Maple Province City, Wang Yu had also openly and honorably seized him away.
This meant that the suddenness of