The battle line was advancing.
In the war between dead souls and yin souls, the yin souls had always held the greater advantage, even though the Third Battlefield had remained at roughly a sixty-forty split.
The sudden disadvantage came mainly because some cultivators—more precisely, people from the Black Mountain Sect—had suddenly carried out large-scale self-detonations within yin soul territory. Not only did they destroy numerous key strongholds and sever the yin souls' coordination, they also left behind corruptive pollution that would take considerable time to clear away.
Then the dead souls concentrated all their forces into a massive assault on the Third Battlefield, catching the yin souls off guard. That was how the current situation had formed: the yin souls had nearly been pushed away from the central location of the Fengdu Emperor Palace. The Ten Yama Kings, the Five Ghost Emperors, and the Eastern Peak Great Emperor Palace had almost all been lost. Less than two-thirds of the eastern front of the entire Fengdu battlefield remained.
It could be said that in the first month alone, the yin souls lost over sixty-five percent of their territory.
After their initial shock, the yin souls reacted swiftly, dispatching troops in great numbers and fighting the dead souls to the death.
Following two long months of unceasing day-and-night warfare, two major battle lines were successfully pushed forward, steadily returning to their original positions.
Especially on the southeastern front, they were no longer far from the Yama Palace. Once they captured the dragon corpse at the foremost line, the tug-of-war between the two sides would basically return to the vicinity of the Yama Palace, allowing the battlefield to advance several hundred—perhaps even over a thousand—kilometers in one stroke.
As the key point contested by both sides, the dragon corpse actually possessed immense strategic