Because he had once been surrounded, Huo Hai believed in his own strength more firmly than ever. It was better to make more preparations in peacetime, so he could be safer in the future. He would no longer need to rely on bluffing tactics like before.
Over the following days, Huo Hai searched the canyon for many places suitable for concealment. He had members of the Huo Family and Huo Sect help dig underground caves there. Inside the caves, Huo Hai arranged bones and scattered high-grade insect eggs to hatch Skeletons. It did not matter if others learned of this.
Huo Hai wanted everyone to know that he had laid down countless high-grade Skeletons within Cross Canyon. Anyone who wanted to deal with him or the Huo Family in the future would have to think carefully about whether they could handle the Skeletons here.
Of course, the other major Sects did not care about Huo Hai's actions. The contract had already been signed. No matter how many Skeletons Huo Hai created, they would not threaten them. As long as they did not court death themselves, there would be no problem.
While the major forces of the Ink Lotus Domain were focusing most of their attention on Huo Hai, the Medicine King Sect was not sitting idle either. During this period, the allied forces had been advancing in triumphant song, reclaiming the Medicine King Sect's territory piece by piece. They uncovered and destroyed every method the Medicine King Sect had arranged, and annexed or annihilated the Sects that had once joined the Medicine King Sect one by one.
Along the way, the Medicine King Sect had basically lost all ability to resist. What puzzled everyone was that not a single Medicine King Sect expert in the Spirit Emperor Realm had appeared.