The Filth Clan swept across the four directions, coming without a shadow and going without a trace. What they relied on was none other than the Starry Sky Supreme Treasure, the Heavenly Frost Mirror. This treasure could randomly deploy Sky Frost Cold Qi somewhere in the starry sky, freezing shattered space and thereby creating traversable Insect Paths.
However, the Insect Paths frozen out by Sky Frost Cold Qi were basically unstable. At most, they could support passage by Moonlight Realm cultivators, and even then carried certain risks.
Thus, the Filth Clan's usual mode of conquest was to first dispatch a group of Moon Jade cultivators to stabilize the situation at the Insect Path's exit and seize the favorable terrain. They would then employ methods to reinforce the Insect Path. Once it was stabilized enough to allow Sunlight cultivators through, the overall situation would be settled.
This was also why, despite initially holding the advantage, the Filth Clan had remained within that filth-choked region rather than pursuing them. They did not know which star system this was, nor whether Sunlight cultivators were stationed here. To be safe, they naturally had to guard the Insect Path and set up methods to stabilize it.
Lu Ye had actually been somewhat puzzled before. Although the number of Moon Jade cultivators the Filth Clan had deployed here was not small, a dozen or so Moon Jade cultivators was absolutely not much.
Even though Ma Shangsi had said that this was not the only battlefield the Filth Clan had opened up in the starry sky, and that they only needed to face a tiny fraction of the Filth Clan's forces, the Filth Clan's sheer scale was enormous. Setting aside several hundred Moon Jade cultivators, sending out a few dozen should have been effortless.
It was not