"Launch the all-out assault... immediately?"
The assembled mighty cultivators were taken aback by these words.
As Li Ling considered the chain of events behind this matter, he too sighed softly.
"The Nether King Palace won't be so easy to breach!"
It all began with the earlier wounding of the Nether King Palace Master. Back then, Li Ling had severed off his Pure Land Great Incense Buddha avatar and wounded the palace master. Believing victory was already in its grasp, the Heavenly Court had immediately seized the opportunity to launch a fierce offensive against the Netherworld Soil.
Sure enough, the early stages had gone extremely smoothly. They had captured cities and territory all along the way, even killing several mighty cultivators and promising rising talents from the Netherworld Sect.
But only then had one disadvantage begun to reveal itself.
The Netherworld Soil was simply too vast. In terms of the number of cities and ghost monsters alone, its scale far exceeded the mortal world of the Yang Realm.
If this world were likened to a great pond, the Netherworld Soil would be its bottom. Countless things imbued with spirit resonance had settled there, and newborn ghost spirits, ancient cultivators, and all manner of other beings... had gathered together, a veritable jumble of fish and dragons.
Most of them were indeed filthy, corrupt, and wicked, but spirit resonance was still spirit resonance. The demons and spirit monsters it nurtured were far more densely concentrated than in the mortal world of the Yang Realm, and their quality was impressive as well.
This had slowed the Heavenly Court's armies to a crawl. Only recently had they finally occupied half of the Netherworld Soil.
It was through this campaign that the words "strategic depth" on paper had become a tangible reality to everyone, allowing them