For the moment, however, Rahu had gained the upper hand.
The great war had already lasted three hundred years, with the eastern and western forces locked in the Dao-Devil War on the main front.
At first, the Demon Sect had kept the Dao Sect firmly suppressed through sheer numerical superiority. But as time passed, the balance of the war gradually evened out.
Wars ultimately came down to logistics and resources, and the Three Pure Ones were experts in that regard. After all, refining pills, forging artifacts, and crafting formation disks were all ways to amass wealth.
The Dao Sect disciples had the home advantage, especially the Jie Sect disciples, every one of whom was a formation master. They laid down formation after formation, linking countless arrays into one world-shaking formation. Formation patterns flashing with all manner of divine light flickered in and out of sight in the void.
This was Tongtian's specialty, already demonstrated in the Ten Ultimates Formation: ten different formations could be combined to create it.
The Ten Thousand Immortals Formation was the crowning achievement of this approach to formations.
The Yuqing lineage constantly forged restricted artifacts—essentially single-use spiritual treasures—and repaired all manner of spiritual treasures.
Aside from sword immortals pursuing the ultimate power of attack, every disciple of the Three Teachings was armed to the teeth.
The Yuqing disciples were the most extreme. Anyone who did not have more than a dozen spiritual treasures hanging from their body would be embarrassed to call themselves a disciple of the Yuqing lineage.
The Taiqing lineage was different. Its disciples were divided into two groups. One practiced the golden core method, treating themselves as pills, spiritual objects and materials as pills, and even heaven and earth as a furnace.
They specialized in refining all manner of pills to ensure