As the war dragged on, all manner of spiritual resources were being consumed at an alarming rate!
The Scarlet Flame Sect brought out the reserves it had accumulated over many years while accelerating the harvesting of resources from places such as the Azure Cloud Grotto-Heaven and Five Dragons Mountain. Vast quantities of raw materials were refined into finished medicinal pills, magical artifacts, talismans, and other items, then supplied without interruption to the cultivators fighting at the front.
Not long after the fourteen Demon Caves descended upon the Corpse Tuo Mountain Range, Zhao Lingyin stopped cultivating and returned from the lower realm to Five Dragons Mountain.
Although she possessed a sixth-grade puppet immortal maiden capable of displaying combat strength comparable to an early-stage Formless Realm cultivator, she herself was not skilled in battle. Moreover, the Corpse Tuo Mountain Range was now gathered with countless great cultivators of the Formless Realm. One more of her would not make much difference.
Thus, neither Shen Mo nor the temporary decision-making council formed by the True Immortals approved her request to join the battle. They merely assigned her the task of refining high-grade medicinal pills...
Over the years, Zhao Lingyin had never ceased her cultivation in the Alchemy Dao. She was now not far from the sixth grade. Among all the Alchemy Masters of Five Dragons Mountain's factions—the Scarlet Flame Sect, Mount Li Alchemy Sect, Heavenly Phoenix Palace, and others—her attainments in the Alchemy Dao could be called second to none. Compared to personally taking the battlefield to slay Heavenly Demons, refining pills in the rear allowed her to make full use of her strengths and play a greater role in the development of the situation.
After all, low-grade pills had negligible effects on cultivators of higher realms, who required spiritual pills of greater grade.