Far away in his little courtyard in the Azure Elixir Sect, Lin Fan quietly practiced alchemy and cultivated. Every high-grade pill he refined was handed over to the sect, transported to the nearby Commandery City Office, and then sent along the supply routes to this blood-soaked frontier, supporting the Zhao Kingdom's soldiers in their bloody fighting on the gold mine front.
After several earth-shaking decisive battles, the fighting around the great gold mine gradually turned into raids, standoffs, and a war of tug-of-war.
Over the following months, the fighting between the two kingdoms was no longer confined to the border near this mineral vein.
Along the border stretching nearly ten thousand li between the Zhao Kingdom and the Wei Kingdom, the flames of war spread like a prairie fire, igniting one place after another as countless battles erupted in succession.
The gold mine was no longer the sole point of contention. War drums and battle cries rang out everywhere along the entire border.
More armies and martial artists began joining the fighting between the two kingdoms.
Both kingdoms had populations numbering in the billions. Naturally, their armies numbered in the tens of millions. They had stationed only a few million troops near the gold mine not because that was all the soldiers they had, but because the area was small and could accommodate only that many.
The battlefields between the two sides spread along the long border. Mountain passes, crossings, river valleys, and plains all became places where flesh and blood clashed.
In many places, numerous Zhao legions defeated the Wei border armies. They broke through the Wei Kingdom's border defenses with overwhelming force and entered its territory, plundering resources everywhere and killing enemy martial artists in exchange for military merit.
Thus, staying out of the fighting did not mean