According to Yan Hengchuan's account.
None of the other sects in the Defender Alliance had mobilized. The Academy alone had mustered its cultivators, taken Donghua Mountain with the force of ten thousand thunderbolts, then driven straight onward to reclaim the Yuan Kingdom and four other kingdoms previously occupied by the Four Demonic Sects.
Li Ping was absolutely certain that the Four Demonic Sects' Core Formation cultivators had not intervened in this war. Even if they had, it could only have been one or two of them.
After all, although the Academy had more Core Formation cultivators than any individual demonic sect, it would have faced certain defeat if all four sects joined forces.
"Did the Four Demonic Sects' Core Formation cultivators hide themselves away, or did they leave the Western Wasteland?" A thoughtful look appeared in Li Ping's eyes.
When he first saw that fewer than one in ten humans in the Azure Dusk Kingdom and the Nine Chariots Kingdom had survived, he had assumed the Four Demonic Sects were devising some bloody, sinister scheme for a fight to the death against the Defender Alliance.
Instead, they had surrendered the Yuan Kingdom and the other four kingdoms with almost no resistance, allowing the Academy's cultivators to occupy their entire territories without so much as the effort of blowing away dust.
Just like that, they had accomplished a great undertaking that centuries of war and countless cultivator casualties had failed to achieve.
The gap in strength between the two sides clearly was not that great. Why had the Four Demonic Sects' Core Formation cultivators chosen to give up so easily?
"Unless they believed they had no chance whatsoever of winning!" Li Ping's gaze sharpened.
The Four Demonic Sects had spent centuries building such an extensive foundation. As long as there was