Although Liang Zhaohuang had glimpsed a few hopes of becoming immortal, that hope was like flowers in a mirror, the moon in water. How to bring it into reality and grasp it completely was not something that could be achieved in a short time; he still needed to slowly experiment and study.
In the blink of an eye, another seven years passed. Since the Immortal Dynasty had launched its counteroffensive against the demonic path and the barbarian clans, the great war had now lasted ten years.
Yet ten years of bloody battle had yielded little.
Seven years ago, only after suffering heavy casualties and the fall of True Lords did the Immortal Dynasty recover the entirety of lost Ping Province. Afterward, the dynasty's central government and imperial clan did not immediately regrant the positions of Ping Province's great families. Instead, they continued to hold them high as bait, drawing more aristocratic clans into the war between immortals and demons to win merit and earn contributions.
Over the following seven years, the Immortal Dynasty's counteroffensive forces had focused on only one thing: attempting to penetrate deep into the Barbarian Plateau of the north, seize the land of one province, and establish a new province in the Northern Wasteland.
Yet after seven years of war, the immortal and demonic sides, as well as the northern barbarians, had only suffered increasingly grievous casualties. The Dao-transformation phenomena became linked, and the resulting power of laws ran out of control; three more chaotic battlefields emerged. But the Immortal Dynasty had still failed to seize this new province in the Northern Wasteland.
From favorable timing to terrain to popular support, the Northern Wasteland could be said to be wholly unfavorable to the Immortal Dynasty. Over the past several thousand years, the dynasty had basically only maintained