"So that was it."
Chen Beiwu understood that, to the sect, the alliance between Western Expansion and Yellow Expansion was no more than an itch on the skin. The real threat came from the covetous Eight Desolations Sect.
In his view, however, the sect's higher-ups were far too conservative in choosing to stretch out the front and focus on attrition and a protracted war.
Throw one punch to ward off a hundred more.
Even if the sect could hold the upper hand against three opponents, failing to secure a decisive victory would only make other cultivation powers see an opening. Once wolves surrounded them on every side, the situation would collapse instead.
They would be better off drawing on the sect's reserves to crush the three allied forces with thunderous force, building Mirror Moon's prestige on the corpses of enemy cultivators. Only then could they intimidate all sides and make the other cultivation powers wary.
Of course, Chen Beiwu also understood the caution of the sect's higher-ups.
What an existence a Spirit Transformation Venerable was!
If they revealed too much of the sect's reserves and allowed the Eight Desolations Sect's Spirit Transformation Venerable to devise countermeasures, even successfully annihilating the three armies would come at a devastating loss. Sensing the Dao Child's thoughts, True Lord Xin said calmly, "This war is primarily a test. If it drags on, it won't be our sect that grows anxious, but the Scarlet Sun Sect and the Azure Spirit Sect."
The Blood Fortune Sect could collect vast quantities of cultivators' blood essence and corpses in the Third Realm War, using them to refine special demonic artifacts and formations and rapidly expand its power. It would like nothing better than for the Third Realm War to continue forever.
But the Scarlet Sun Sect and the