Broadly speaking, the Saint Race had indeed gained the upper hand.
But the Human Race's strategy still had its merits!
After sacrificing the Human Race Alliance's territory, the Saint Race had fallen into a quagmire. They could no longer advance even an inch into the depths of the cosmos, and to this day, they had been lingering around the border realms where the Human Dao Alliance and Gods Without Thought converged!
Whenever the Saint Race wanted to continue expanding, Gods Without Thought and the Ten Thousand Buddhas Holy Domain would dispatch hundreds of Realm Lords to launch surprise attacks on the great realms occupied by the Saint Race.
Most crucially, there seemed to be a Celestial Venerable among the Human Race who bore the destiny of a Space Law divine ability! This destiny could deploy martial artists into any great realm. They often appeared and vanished like ghosts...
Thus, things like this happened frequently. One moment, the Saint Race had just occupied two great realms and dispatched several Saint Race Realm Lords to guard them; the next, just after the Saint Race's Celestial Venerables had left, those Saint Race Realm Lords would be slaughtered to the last by Human Race Realm Lords who suddenly appeared!
In fact, this Celestial Venerable was Illusory Sea Celestial Venerable of the Human Dao Alliance.
The destiny he bore was indeed one of the destinies within the Space Law, and this destiny contained a divine ability known as the "Empty Yearning Lock." Martial artists connected to the Empty Yearning Lock could be sent by Cloud Fox Celestial Venerable to any corner of the cosmos, and that martial artist could also be instantly "pulled back" to his side!
After the Human Dao Alliance was defeated by the Saint Race, they withdrew into the territory of Gods