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Chapter 1507: Chapter 585 Steadfast Walls, Scorched Earth_3 Chapter 1507: Chapter 585 Steadfast Walls, Scorched Earth_3 But a truce is vastly different for the attacking side and the defensive side.

In the Nine Provinces, a truce meant there were no more forces to use, making it difficult to maintain the offensive; they were unable to continue the fight.

However, being unable to continue did not mean they had to relinquish the territory they had previously conquered.

It simply meant the other side could not advance any further.

So, the territories lost previously also meant that after the truce, the Changqing Immortal Sect would not be able to reclaim them.

Since the Nine Provinces had exhausted themselves, they were similarly depleted.

Being barely able to block the enemy and struggling to continue surviving to maintain their inheritance was already considered quite an achievement.

Thinking about counter-attacking also depended on whether they had the strength to do so.

And with the current strength of the Nine Provinces, for the Changqing Immortal Sect to exhaust the enemy’s forces, they would have to lose at least half their territories to achieve that goal.

What’s left of their territory in the end, who knew if they could even retain three to five countries?

The Changqing Immortal Sect was far too weak at this point, causing Zhang Xiuzhu, who proposed this plan, to have very little confidence in his heart, not daring to claim how much heritage they could preserve.

Now, he did not harbor too many hopes; everything focused on guarding their heritage and keeping the sect alive.

Everything else could be discussed after weathering this calamity.

“Alright, then as Uncle-Master has said, if the Nine Provinces want to destroy us, then before we die, we must also knock out a tooth from their mouth.”

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Hearing Zhang Xiuzhu’s suggestion, he gritted his teeth and said, “I want to see, with the great foundation of my Changqing Immortal Sect laid out here, if they have the teeth to chew it down.”

Just like that.

In response to the Nine Provinces’ renewed Northern Expedition, the Changqing Immortal Sect was ready for a scorched-earth defense, a desperate resistance, risking mutual destruction.

Then, they allocated responsibility for areas based on the different strengths and resolve of the enemy’s two main forces.

Since the troops of the Western Territory of the Nine Provinces were disunited and one of the three leading Earth Immortals, Huang Yuanxiu, was seriously injured and relatively weaker in strength,

Yang Jihua, an Earth Immortal who had just broken through and still bore some injuries, was assigned to resist this force.

While the complete and forceful Taiping Tao Sect, from the same Immortal Sect as their army, would be opposed by the veteran Earth Immortal, Zhang Xiuzhu.

Though the two were responsible for different directions, their goal and strategy were the same, to delay as long as possible.

Following this strategy, the Changqing Immortal Sect’s forces were quickly deployed in both the northern and eastern territories.

At the same time, on the side of the Nine Provinces, after three days of brief adjustments, the two-pronged Northern Expedition forces officially declared their campaign.

The decisive battle determining the fate and ownership of the Changqing Domain then commenced.

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Su Yun Country.

When Zhang Xiuzhu led the main forces of the Changqing Domain to this country to set up defenses against the army of the Taiping Tao Sect,

On the other side, leading all the main forces of the Taiping Tao Sect, Lu Yuan was making the final arrangements before the battle.

Or rather, he was arranging for his Avatars.

In this Northern Expedition battle, the Taiping Tao Sect had mobilized three Earth Immortals, ten Human Immortals, and tens of thousands of cultivators on the surface.

Let’s not discuss those cultivators, who were merely cannon fodder.

But among the Human Immortals, apart from six nurtured by the Taiping Tao Sect, the remaining four were avatars masquerading as Earth Immortals, all Lu Yuan’s.

As for vassals like the Jintai Gate?

They had been consumed on the battlefield during the previous thirty years of war.

Now, in the Southern Domain, besides the Qingyu Country occupied by the Giant Spirit Sect, there were no more small Immortal Sects left—only the vastly dominant Taiping Tao Sect.

In times of war, everything becomes cruel.

Those weaker smaller Immortal Sects were often the ones to perish first.

Even without Lu Yuan’s deliberate targeting, merely fulfilling the obligations of a vassal became intolerable for them, and they perished in the war.

This common pattern of chaos warrants no further mention.

Without those affiliated True Persons, the Taiping Tao Sect’s own direct line of True Persons were already sufficient.

Although during the previous battles, the True Persons within the Tao Sect had suffered many casualties, undergoing several replacements, now there were only six left.

Such a small number was obviously not enough for a significant campaign.

And Lu Yuan didn’t plan to rely on them to win this war.

Hence, he did not call these individuals to the meeting but gathered his Avatars for a small internal conference.

“Now that my Taiping Tao Sect has unified the Nine Provinces, the Immortal Sects of the Western Territory have been weakened to the extreme and can no longer pose a threat.

The external provinces of the Nine Provinces also support us, and we no longer have internal concerns.

Therefore, in this northern assault, we need not think about reducing the strength of these allies anymore; it’s completely unnecessary.

Retaining their forces also leave us a fallback position.

Put bluntly, we have extra shields before our death.

The Changqing Immortal Sect has profound heritage, unknown to anyone what secret weapons they have hidden.

After all, the Changqing Immortal only died over ten thousand years ago.

Facing the unknown, the best method is to leave the unknown utterly unknown, never seeing the light of day or being declared to the world.”

Lu Yuan looked at his multiple Avatars, laying out his offensive plans, “Therefore, this offensive must be swift.

So swift that before the Changqing Immortal Sect can react, we will have breached their sect, destroyed their Tao inheritance, and killed all their disciples.

That way, everything becomes a fait accompli; without people, no matter how many secret moves they have, they cannot be executed.

Some hidden dangers are thus eliminated without battle.”

Facing the potential hidden strengths of the Changqing Immortal Sect, Lu Yuan’s approach was to make sure their hidden moves remained hidden forever.

All troubles and issues ultimately stem from those who raise them.

Eliminate the people, and those issues and troubles cease to be issues and troubles.

Barbarians invade, plundering everywhere, causing great suffering to the frontier citizens, and increasing the pressure on border defenses.

Then relocate all those frontier people, leaving a thousand miles desolate; let the Barbarians have no one to kill, nothing to plunder.

Calamities descend, and the local citizens face both fire and flood.

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Then relocate the citizens from the areas afflicted by calamity; then no matter how dire those places become, they won’t affect the citizens who have already moved.

This was Lu Yuan’s method when he was the Chu Emperor, facing the appearance of the Four-pole Heavenly Catastrophe; it was his solution to deal with a series of barbarian migrations and disasters.

Now the situation was different, and the enemy was different.

But the principle remained the same.

With a slight adjustment, in this place, it would fit perfectly as a countermeasure against the Changqing Immortal Sect.

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