Lin Mo murmured, "It seems the Evil Spirit invasion of the Dry Jade Continent is nearing its final stage."
After dealing with Evil Spirits for so long, he had pieced together the Netherworld's strategy for conquering the lower planes.
The Netherworld's method of conquest, centered on the Netherworld Soul Seal, was essentially divided into three stages.
The first stage involved using Evil Soul Seals to control some of a continent's powerful cultivators, then having these soul slaves fight the native cultivators to weaken the continent's strength.
That was precisely the situation the Divine Land had faced when the Evil Soul Seals first erupted.
Had Lin Mo not refined the Nine-Turn Demon-Cleansing Pill in time and spread it across the entire continent through Xuanyuan Hong, Hai Dafu, and the others, halting the rampage of the Evil Soul Seals as swiftly as possible...
The casualties by now would likely have been beyond counting.
The second stage was what had happened on the Spirit Origin Continent.
Most of the continent's territory had been occupied by soul slaves, and most native cultivators had been reduced to slaves and living fodder.
Only a small number of cultivators remained hidden somewhere, persisting in their resistance against the Netherworld's atrocities and invasion.
The third stage was complete assimilation.
Just like the Nine Netherworlds Continent, which had now been transformed into the Nine Netherworlds Abyss.
Across the entire continent, not a single native resistance fighter could be found. It had become Netherworld territory outright.
From the scenes within the city, Lin Mo could tell that the Netherworld's conquest of the Dry Jade Continent had already reached the final step of the second stage.
Before long, it would likely follow in the footsteps of the Nine Netherworlds Abyss and become the Netherworld's second major stronghold in the lower planes.