"So that's it. As long as they drag all living beings under heaven into the mire, even the Heavenly Court won't be able to bring its strengths to bear, no matter how overwhelming its advantage. That will achieve their goal of a strategic stalemate."
Seeing this, everyone understood the Netherworld Sect's intentions.
But things had already reached this point, and there was nothing they could do to change them.
Their opponents had probably been aiming for this from the very beginning. As long as the demonic corruption grew severe enough, both sides in the war would be affected.
The Heavenly Court's advantage would instead become a disadvantage.
The Netherworld Sect, however, had always dwelled in the lower Impure Land and was accustomed to all manner of foul, turbid energies. Its cultivators possessed a natural resistance to them, and might not even care.
"Is there any way to counter this? As I see it, the Netherworld Sect is making full use of the various filthy energies within the Great Dao of heaven and earth to turn this entire region into purgatory."
"Probably not. Such is the human heart."
"Even with powers that reach the heavens, we can hardly overcome the seven emotions and six desires of the mortal world."
Someone put it bluntly. "If sentient beings had no greed, wrath, obsession, and grievance, they would no longer be sentient beings."
"The Netherworld Sect's power comes from these things in the first place. Throughout the wars of successive eras, the power of the demonic path has risen from hatred and murderous feuds among mortals. Poverty and wealth clash like fire and water, while famine and disease run rampant. These are the true reasons demons and ghosts can never be slaughtered to extinction.
"No matter how much we do here, we are merely