Once they realized Ling Tian and the others had laid a trap and were waiting for them to walk right into it, Si Kong Xuan and the others dared not act rashly. They kept waiting for Ling Tian's side to slip up, hoping to learn what scheme he was up to.
But more than a thousand years passed, and nothing significant happened. As the days went by and the inter-realm struggle neared its end, the people of the Heaven, Earth, and Yellow Alliances grew increasingly restless.
Compared with the Heaven, Earth, and Yellow Alliances, the North Xuan and Xuan Realms were only a little better off. Everyone had something to gain. Dong Ye, Bei Ming, and the others especially wanted to eliminate people from the three alliances and make it into the top five—or, during the great battle, ensure that more people from North Yellow died than from their own realms.
Although Ling Tian said he wasn't in a hurry to capture people from the three alliances and obtain the secret arts known as the Heaven Qian Spear and Earth Kun Shield, he was quite anxious deep down. He was confident he could acquire the two secret arts after the realms merged, but that would be a long time from now. The sooner one mastered such powerful arts, the better.
Yet the people of the three alliances weren't attacking, and without the Immortal Artifact plate and Immortal Artifact pillar to stop the enemy from forming up, Ling Tian and the others didn't dare launch an attack either. After all, Lei Zhan and his people could form a battle formation and use their secret arts, giving them far greater combat strength.
And so the two sides remained locked in a stalemate, neither daring to make a move.
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