"War, in the end, still came down to resources. Apart from heaven-defying individuals who transcended the rules, like Primordial Spirit Great Powers and Nascent Soul Experts, the vast majority of cultivators could be built up with resources. Of course, they could just as easily be buried under resources!"
"From beginning to end, the only enemies Puppet Masters had were Primordial Spirit Realm Great Powers who had mastered Root Dao Arts. The rest were beneath notice."
"But now I already have the ability to counterbalance the Immortal Alliance's Primordial Spirit cultivators. I can keep the Bone Kun Warship within Cloud Province as a deterrent, with the Creation Sect's Grandmasters ready to support me at any moment."
"If the Immortal Alliance's Great Powers dare to attack, we'll crush them right here."
"If they don't, the plan will proceed smoothly. No one else can stop it!"
In late May, inside the Main Nest Hall of Materialized Heaven, Li Chen's avatar remained seated in the Mechanized Flying Chair, monitoring every scene on the front lines without setting foot outside.
Projected before his eyes by video feed was a frontline location adjacent to Divine Mist Mountain: the ancestral grounds of an aristocratic clan surnamed Mu, formerly a vassal of the Cloudthunder Sect.
It was a secondary mountain peak ruled by a Foundation Establishment Cultivator, classified as a lesser blessed land. It possessed spirit fields yielding over a thousand spirit stones a day, along with a purple rock mine whose reserves were above average.
Within a little over a hundred li around it lay a fire copper mine with below-average reserves, a mica mine, and a spirit iron ore mine. Together, they amounted to a considerable haul.
This was the depth of the Immortal Alliance's resources. For a million years, they had occupied resources far superior