Immortal King Xuanling wavered between advancing and retreating, while the people of the Immortal Alliance and the Creation Sect each had their own calculations, leaving the war at a stalemate. Materialized Heaven, however, never stopped its advance, nor did its citizens cease their conquests.
They continued emotionlessly harvesting cultivation provisions and ore veins everywhere, occupying one celestial body and blessed land after another.
The Immortal Alliance should originally have profited most from this spiritual energy revival, yet unexpectedly, Materialized Heaven ended up reaping the benefits instead.
Materialized Heaven's system was simply too intelligent. Its industrial foundations and transportation technology had also reached the pinnacle of the Puppet Dao, making expansion and colonization easier for it than for other sky cities and powers.
The assistance of the Insect Race supplied it with vast quantities of ready-made resources. The Insect Race was a foreign race and received no protection under the Puppet Dao Faction's laws, so there were no moral or legal burdens whatsoever.
By contrast, if the various sky cities, workshops, and production yards wanted to cooperate in developing a spirit mine, they had to wait for their respective systems to respond, negotiate regulations, establish profit-sharing contracts, and accommodate every party's interests. This was nowhere near as quick and convenient as using the Insect Race as slave workers.
Faced with such handsome profits, however, they soon reacted, dispatching large numbers of intelligent machinery and various mechanism puppets to the newly formed lands rich in spiritual essence. They copied Materialized Heaven's model, racing to stake their claims.
Although these newly formed lands rich in spiritual essence had some native inhabitants, most were demon beasts that had gained sentience or transformed into monsters, along with scattered demons. Where the inhabitants were truly too powerful, the newcomers could avoid their sharp edge for the