Before Huo Hai made his move, the Vast Earth Empire's army had already acted. After all, the Vast Earth Empire was still fighting the Medicine King Sect, and the battle was incomparably fierce. A few unusual developments were nothing strange.
Both sides had a tacit understanding. The Vast Earth Empire defended, while the Medicine King Sect launched an attack at intervals. This had originally been one of the Medicine King Sect's methods of drawing attention. For the Vast Earth Empire, dragging things out like this was not bad either. It gave the major forces within the empire a sense of urgency without truly damaging the empire's foundations.
Huo Hai's Skeletons were extremely cheap. As long as the Vast Earth Empire spent enough time, it could acquire them from other factions at a higher price. Though the army was still suffering constant losses, it had also cultivated more elites. That was a good thing.
The Medicine King Sect had originally believed that the Vast Earth Empire would remain locked in this stalemate until the Medicine King Sect completed its plans. But no one had expected the Medicine King Sect's plan to leak because of an accident, bringing disaster down upon them.
Starting several days earlier, the Medicine King Sect had secretly transported some troops out and hidden them in the areas surrounding the army of Exotic Beasts stationed by the Medicine King Sect. After several days of effort, the Medicine King Sect had finally concealed more than a million Spirit Masters.
Gathering more than a million Spirit Masters at once was already no easy task. Moreover, every one of these Spirit Masters had reached at least the Spirit Practitioner Realm. There was absolutely no Yellow Grade trash among them. Most of these people had not been part of the Vast Earth