Because of Yu Ci's active movements, he brought about a large number of calamity demons and the deployment of dependents to and fro.
Moreover, several of his assaults were well-timed and ruthlessly executed. His individual battle achievements might not compare to the northern sects' massive wars of resistance against the demon tide, but through gathering sand to make a tower and turning small victories into a major one, a single line stretched out, and nearly ten outer realm calamity demons—the backbone of the demon tide—died alone.
Because of the chaos over the past two months, the trend of the demon tide's impacts in the northwest direction of Xi Yu Lake coming back upstream abruptly halted.
The Yin Mountain Sect and Thirteen Water Mansions rarely missed no opportunities due to internal friction; seizing this once-in-a-decade opportunity, they broke right through the middle and rear of the demon tide, rendezvousing with the Pure Void Virtue Sect's reinforcements, which had been stalled for half a year.
Regardless of whatever twists and turns remained within it, a "Northwest Defense Line" connecting Xi Yu Lake and the Blackwater River began to take shape.
The pressure on the Cangjiang Defense Line decreased greatly, and under the expectant gazes of the southern realms' thousands of sects, the Eight Sceneries Palace and the Xiyu Alliance reached a final agreement regarding matters of the Pingdu Xuanyang Realm, completing the territorial handover for that single location of the Pingdu Xuanyang Realm for the time being.
To safeguard this sensitive region, the Xiyu Alliance's Four Heavens, Eight Earths, and Fifteen Human Sects set up layers of prohibitions west of the Five Chain Lake, which was precisely behind the newly taking-shape "Northwest Defense Line", and built a second line of defense, directly severing the demon tide winding west of Xi Yu Lake