Days passed, and in the blink of an eye, two hundred days had gone by.
There was still no movement from the Ascension Ranking. It seemed no one held out much hope anymore.
Many powerful cultivators who had come to wait for the Yin Ruins to open could wait no longer and chose to leave.
Many believed this trial had failed once again, just like all those before it. The ninth level still could not be opened.
As attention faded away, the war between the Tianli Sect and the Mechanical Empire raged like wildfire. It gradually drew everyone's gaze, all of it focused on the great war against the Mechanical Empire, and people slowly forgot that there were still people inside the Yin Ruins.
After two or three months of small-scale clashes with the Mechanical Emperor, the Tianli Sect began launching battles on the scale of entire armies.
Once they truly began to take the Mechanical Empire seriously, the Mechanical Empire and the Thirteen Alliances Army clearly could no longer tend to wars on every front.
Golden Sun Continent was the first to be retaken by the Tianli Sect. The mechanical army stationed there was almost completely wiped out, with only a portion withdrawing. Yet when the Mechanical Empire retreated, it also destroyed Jinyang City and dozens of beginner Divine Halls across Golden Sun Continent.
This also caused the Tianli Sect grievous losses. Rebuilding the Divine Halls would require an enormous price.
The Tianli Sect's campaigns on Yunjing Continent and Lingxi Continent also proceeded smoothly. After half a year of warfare, they had basically subdued both. Only the two Beginner Trial Areas remained, and because of the great formation sealing them off, the Tianli Sect had yet to take them.
However, the war on Red Rock Continent had remained unsuccessful.