That night, Fang Qianyuan arrived in the Pinyi Mountains, on the border between the two regions.
More than a hundred thousand li to the north lay Central Province, while a hundred thousand li to the south lay the Southern Wilds.
Normally, this was an uninhabited wilderness of deep mountains and dense forests, with little in the way of resources-at most, a few barren blessed lands and deposits of common ore.
But now, war had broken out between the two regions, and the Spirit Taming Sect members had launched their invasion through this mountain range.
This once-overlooked frontier swiftly became a battlefield.
Warfare in the Spirit-Taming World resembled that of mortals: transporting troops and supplying provisions were crucial operations.
Unlike mortal warfare, however, Spirit Tamers could use spirit creatures such as the Thousand-League Soaring Cloud Roc to deploy hundreds or even thousands of troops at once, along with their supplies, greatly expanding the tactics available in small-scale engagements.
Spirit creatures were exceptionally capable of fighting independently. The stronger side could often deploy large numbers of troops along its route, opening fronts everywhere before ultimately storming cities and seizing territory at designated locations to capture formation arrays capable of large-scale teleportation. Once that succeeded, victory was usually close at hand.
Thus, before either side gained a sufficient advantage, warfare generally consisted of small forces infiltrating one another's borders and engaging in combat, chiefly to plunder resources and inflict casualties.
Fang Qianyuan had heard that even before the war began, the Azure Cloud Sect had deliberately started assembling transport-type spirit creatures such as the Thousand-League Soaring Cloud Roc, while recruiting Spirit Tamers skilled in their use from both within the sect and elsewhere. Now that war had broken out, those preparations had indeed proved immediately useful.
The clearest result was the establishment of