Everything still came down to the upheaval in the Sky Rift.
From the old Daoist, Yu Ci learned that Li Chen Sect had already responded to the living creatures' unrest in the Sky Rift. Once the sect's formidable power was set in motion, the situation around the Sky Rift had basically been brought under control.
Reports of victory came without cease: every day, Core Restoration demons fell as trophies to Li Chen Sect cultivators; the "passageway" through which demons had invaded this realm had also been found, and no new demons could enter anymore; the fellow experts proficient in Void Divine Ability whom the sect had invited had begun working to control or seal the passageway; the cold tide of the Yin Prison weakened by the day and was expected to cease completely within half a month.
This was the astonishing strength of Li Chen Sect. Yet behind that display of power lay the sect's awkward shortage of manpower.
According to Yu Zhou, Li Chen Sect was not populous. Its direct disciples and outer disciples combined numbered no more than two thousand, and many disciples had traveled afar to cultivate and were absent from the mountain gate. What they faced, meanwhile, was a vast region spanning tens of thousands of miles under the cold tide's influence. Hunting demons, sealing the passageway between the two realms, cleaning up the ecological circle—every one of these matters required manpower. Even with Sunset Sect's forces crossing over from the far side of the Sky Rift to assist, they were still stretched thin, unable to attend to many places.
Under such circumstances, "outsiders" like Jin Chuan and Kuang Yanqi, who had only recently entered the sect to cultivate, had also been pulled in to help. Nominally, they were assisting old Daoist Yu Zhou with matters