Strictly speaking, the Nine Provinces Cultivation World's expedition against the Blood Refining World had not been a fair war. Nine Provinces had planned and prepared long in advance, while the Blood Refining World had been caught utterly unprepared.
Thus, although the two great realms differed little in scale or in the cultivation levels of their cultivators, once the war began, the Blood Refining World collapsed like a mountain in defeat.
Whether in the Divine Palace Sea Battle or in the clashes between cultivators of the two races across the Blood Refining World, the Blood Race remained at an absolute disadvantage.
At the end of the day, what fairness could there be in war? This was a collision between two great realms, a contest between two races. The Human Race held every advantage in intelligence and had the many supports of the Nine Provinces Heavenly Mechanism, allowing them to sweep forward with irresistible force, with no one capable of stopping them.
Only a month had passed since the expedition began, yet the grotto heavens, blessed lands, and cave abodes throughout the Blood Refining World—wherever the Blood Race gathered—had basically been razed. Across the entire Blood Refining World, the Blood Race's numbers had plummeted by more than seventy percent.
Every surviving member of the Blood Race fled and hid in panic like dogs that had lost their homes. The more arrogantly they had once held their heads high before the Human Race, the more bedraggled and miserable they now appeared.
The entire Blood Refining World had been turned upside down!
The Blood Race's flight and concealment undoubtedly made it harder for the Human Race to purge the Blood Refining World, but this situation had long been anticipated. All Nine Provinces cultivators needed to do was search in every direction for traces of