The Medicine King Sect deliberately left a gap in their defenses so they could make Weak Water Puppets designed for demons and monsters. As a result, more and more fiends escaped through their ranks.
After centuries of battling the demons, Medicine King Valley had long since developed medicines that could directly counter them. So although the escaped fiends still inflicted considerable losses on Medicine King Valley, not a single one managed to escape alive.
Three years passed in the blink of an eye. Thanks to the tireless efforts of the various immortal sects, they had conquered thirty percent of the land within the abyss.
The immortal sects advanced steadily, continually using formations to dispel the demonic energy from the land they had occupied. This allowed their members to move freely through the conquered territory.
Of all the sects, Chiyan Sect had made the fastest progress over those three years. They had taken a third of the land that had been conquered.
Medicine King Valley, meanwhile, had spent those three years amassing a large number of Weak Water Puppets. At last, they were ready to make their move.
Just as everyone thought Hengyang Sect's beauty trap had failed and Chiyan Sect would win the contest, Medicine King Valley suddenly sprang into action. In only a month, they seized another ten percent of the land, bringing them level with Chiyan Sect!
After all, the farther they advanced into the abyss, the harder it became, thanks to the demonic energy blanketing the area.
That made the land Medicine King Valley had taken far more valuable than Chiyan Sect's. Medicine King Valley had officially taken the lead.
This campaign had also turned Medicine King Valley, a mid-sized immortal sect, into an idol for the entire immortal world!
Sect Master Cen of Chiyan Sect simply