The Yuqing Sect's dharma assembly lasted seven days and seven nights. No further accidents occurred. Through this assembly, the Vajra Temple, Earth Cave Sect, Taiyan Sect, and Yuqing Sect formed a temporary alliance. After Ao Yi left, Rongyang and Gong Wu departed as well.
The alliance's purpose was naturally to blockade Linshui Prefecture. After all, both sides had already agreed that Central Province belonged to whoever was capable enough to claim it.
Another month passed. Spring Festival was drawing near, and winter had arrived. Wars between the regional lords across Central Province gradually came to a halt as they prepared to celebrate the new year properly. Yet the cultivation world grew active instead. First, Daoist temples everywhere cleared away Ao Yi's golden body statues; then they organized cultivators to besiege Linshui Prefecture's temples and monasteries throughout the coastal regions.
At first, it was merely Qi practitioners fighting one another. After Spring Festival, it escalated into spell battles between Immortal Realm cultivators. Linshui Prefecture had only one sect of cultivators, after all, and it soon fell into a disadvantage.
Time unknowingly reached October of the New Calendar year 193. The conflicts in Central Province were now mainly concentrated along Yunjiang Road in the south and Qingpu Road in the north, while the Yuqing Sect of Hushan Kingdom took the initiative to nibble away at the island chains west of Linshui Prefecture.
The conflict in West Continent had long since ended. Zi Luan fulfilled his promise, settling the Taiyan Sect traitors in West Continent within a month of tearing off all pretenses with Linshui Prefecture. Yet Linshui Prefecture did not organize a corresponding counterattack, which instead greatly increased the pressure on the Vajra Temple.
Wang Ping was still cultivating quietly within Thousand Wood Temple. He could not involve himself in the specific