"If we're talking about increasing our strength, we can't rush it for the time being." Sun Yuling suddenly said, "Perhaps while improving our own strength, we can also seek outside aid."
"Junior Sister, what do you mean by that?" Daoist Lingguan asked.
"Though most great divine sages in this world are attached to either the Demon Race or the human race, some still remain detached from both.
"If we can enlist their help, the human race will surely gain another measure of victory."
Zhu Guang shook his head. "Those who presently refuse to join the Demon Race Heavenly Court and are unwilling to integrate into the human race to cultivate witchcraft will likely be difficult to persuade."
"Not so. We are not asking them to integrate into the human race or cultivate witchcraft." Sun Yuling waved her hand. "Senior Brothers, do not forget.
"We do not spread the Mystic Sect's methods among the human race because we fear disrupting this world and thereby affecting our mission.
"But things are different now.
"Those neutral great divine sages may be unwilling to cultivate demon arts or witchcraft, but that does not mean they would be unwilling to cultivate the Mystic Sect's methods.
"If we can pass the Mystic Sect's Dao on to them, then ask them to act to protect the human race rather than the witches.
"Surely some of them will be willing."
"Junior Sister speaks reasonably." After considering it, Daoist Lingguan nodded in praise. "In that case, we shall follow Junior Sister Dao Ling's method."
Seeing that the human race had gradually assembled the Twelve Ancestral Witches and was drilling the All-Heavens Godfiend Baleful Array—
—and that the array was becoming increasingly proficient—
Daoist Lingguan and the others bid farewell to Great Nest, preparing to make a trip to the