War begins (The chapter I owe will be posted tomorrow during the day; it needs some polishing)

Aboard the Tribulation-Crossing Treasure Raft.

Wang Ba withdrew his palm, his brow creasing slightly.

The news that the Jade Pot Realm intended to launch a surprise attack on the Sacred Defilement Realm had genuinely surprised him.

According to the information Ghost King Tengmo had gathered outside, the Three Realms had remained quiet ever since the Great Sea Market collapsed. Outsiders, including Yan Zhi and the others, suspected that the Three Realms intended to sit on the mountain and watch the tigers fight, then sweep across the entire Sea of Boundary Turmoil like an autumn wind scattering fallen leaves after the outside factions had fought among themselves.

This was also the least strenuous approach for the Three Realms.

They had originally intended to forge alliances and balance competing powers, forming another offensive and defensive alliance to resist the Three Realms together.

Yet the successive disappearances of several factions had accelerated their mutual distrust. With no leader capable of compelling everyone's submission, the outside factions had ultimately failed to cooperate. Instead, friction arose between them, and their infighting continued unabated.

Some perceptive individuals had seen through the factions' disunity. Only by swiftly swallowing up their neighbors before the Three Realms reacted, then sweeping onward with snowballing momentum, would they have a chance of resisting the Three Realms. Thus, the covert struggles between the factions had not diminished during this period, but had increased considerably.

And all these actions rested on the premise that the Three Realms would choose to watch rather than participate.

Although everyone had secretly remained on guard, none had expected that, among the Three Realms, the Jade Pot Realm was already preparing to strike the Sacred Defilement Realm.

"The Demon-Seizing Dao isn't far from the Sacred Defilement Realm now, so the Jade Pot Realm presumably intends to first clear