After the Human-Demon Defense Line collapsed, the Wa Ling Race acquired the territory of three commanderies through cooperation with the Devil Race.
These three commanderies lay in Xiang Prefecture, behind Jiangnan's fourteen prefectures, with a single prefecture separating them from Feng Prefecture, where the Phoenix Spirit Race resided.
Given the Wa Ling Race's population, even digesting the three commanderies they had initially occupied had been immensely difficult.
However, much like the Phoenix Spirit Race, the Wa Ling Race had occupied those three commanderies because of their population problem, and had barely expanded over the past few years.
But as the Demon Race launched its massive invasion, the Wa Ling Race, having digested part of its occupied territory, began expanding once more. Recently, without spilling a drop of blood, they occupied another two commanderies, bringing their total to five and effectively taking half of Xiang Prefecture into their pocket.
In truth, the Wa Ling Race's expansion had always been extremely conservative mainly because their own population was too small.
With too much territory, not only would they be unable to defend it, but their clansmen could also easily be divided and slaughtered.
However, like the Phoenix Spirit Race, because of their population issues, the Wa Ling Race treated the people of Great Zhou relatively well compared to the Devil Race.
Thus, under the threat of the Devil Race's military calamity, most of Xiang Prefecture's populace fled into the five commanderies ruled by the relatively stable Wa Ling Race, making those five commanderies rather prosperous.
Lingxiang Commandery in particular, which the Wa Ling Race had designated as their holy city, had already become as prosperous as Xiang Prefecture's provincial capital.
Yet today, the newly established holy city of the Wa Ling Race, Lingxiang Commandery City, was draped from end to end in