Therefore, for the small and mid-sized forces in the Dihuan Realm that now lacked high-level cultivators to hold the fort,
their foremost priority was not to seize as much territory as possible.
It was to outpace the surrounding forces of the same level at the fastest possible speed and nurture more high-level cultivators.
They might even support the rise of a single high-level cultivator.
Only once their overall strength had risen would they be guaranteed a share of the many new resource lands emerging in the Dihuan Realm in the future.
If their strength did not improve first, then even if these forces spread their strength thin to occupy those regions ahead of time,
they would not only squander their own vital strength for nothing, but also occupy vast amounts of resources they could not consume, inviting covetous eyes.
When that happened, they would only end up handing everything over to other forces that had been quietly accumulating strength all along.
As for the great forces scattered across the Dihuan Realm that possessed only a small number of high-level cultivators,
although the Realm Gates condensed by their Blessed Cultivator Disciples could cope with the Dihuan Realm's current situation,
allowing them to use the Realm Gates condensed by their few New Blessed Cultivator Disciples to occupy some distant resource lands,
for forces of this caliber,
they did not lack mid- and low-tier resources.
As the Dihuan Realm ascended and transformed,
the many resource lands within the territories they had originally occupied were also gradually expanding.
The resources produced by those resource lands each year were likewise increasing day by day.
As for resource lands that produced high-tier resources, they did not have enough high-level cultivators to station there.
After all, a mere thousand years was not enough to bring any obvious