This Sword Cultivator is Somewhat Dependable

All of this is caused by a multitude of factors.

Apart from the misjudgment regarding the Rinsing Spirit Sect, another crucial point is that the Giant Spirit Demon Clan has already led a massive army, launching a three-month-long siege battle against Yanlan Pass on the outer domain battlefield.

Although the Demon Race has yet to fully mobilize their entire forces, the mere presence of their army hovering outside the pass indeed brings a significant sense of crisis to the Great Xia and the Heavenly Secret Pavilion.

Because no one knows when the Giant Spirit Demon Clan might suddenly launch a full-scale attack.

Perhaps it will be a long time from now, or perhaps it will be tomorrow.

But one cannot afford the slightest bit of luck in such matters.

Moreover, in terms of direct strength comparison, the Human Race is already significantly weaker than the Demon Race.

The weaker side dividing their forces elsewhere?

The Human Race is not so arrogant, nor do they dare to be so.

Therefore, the Great Xia has nearly amassed all their energy and strength at Yanlan Pass.

No available manpower is the greatest plight currently faced by the Human Race.

Even the cultivators used now to ambush the Shui Yue Pavilion Master's reported "Rinsing Spirit Sect traitor" have been squeezed out forcefully from the gaps of Great Xia's fingers.

Moreover, large-scale mobilization of cultivators can easily attract attention and instead alert the enemy.

How did the Shui Yue Pavilion Master discover the Rinsing Spirit Sect's plan?

Wasn't it precisely because of the large-scale recall of cultivators to Dragon City Pass by the Rinsing Spirit Sect?

Since the Shui Yue Pavilion Master could discover the Rinsing Spirit Sect's moves, how could the traitors of the Rinsing Spirit Sect fail to notice if Great Xia mobilized a large batch of cultivators from Yanlan Pass into the Central Spirit Domain to "lie in ambush"?

Besides, in facing a Rinsing Spirit Sect cultivator whose strength is reported to be in the First Tribulation Realm, Great Xia's use of Second Tribulation Realm strength to capture them is in principle a certain victory, not lacking caution.

In fact, for an entity of Great Xia's magnitude, decisions and deployments are made from a rational and objective standpoint, adhering to strict system rules.

Official to official, king to king.

If there is a crossover mismatch, a king to official, when the opponent sends their king, what can our side deploy?

As for the opposing king sleeping by the bedside, yet sending our king elsewhere only to address the opponent's official, thereby placing the crucial frontline battlefield in jeopardy, it's altogether unreasonable.

However, the emergence of a beast pet comparable to the late Eighth Grade of the Third Tribulation Realm indeed broke all of Great Xia's preparations.

Just as Great Xia's use of Second Tribulation Realm cultivators to ambush a First Tribulation Realm cultivator seemed a certainty, a late Eighth Grade demon beast easily breaks free from a Second Tribulation Realm cultivator's ambush just as effortlessly.

——After reaching the Tribulation Crossing Realm, each time a cultivator overcomes a heavenly tribulation, the increase in strength is terrifying, growing exponentially.

A First Tribulation Realm cultivator is merely an initial entry to the Eighth Realm.

A Third Tribulation Realm cultivator can already attempt to find their own path within Heaven and Earth, merge with the Tao, and advance to the Ninth Realm.

The difference is obvious.

Nevertheless, Great Xia's response, at least from the process, is faultless, being the most accurate decision considering all intelligence and the current situation.

Even if future generations review this period of history and provide their insights and criticism of the decisions made by Great Xia at this time, saying something like "Great Xia's rulers were too foolish, more manpower should have been dispatched," it would merely be pointing fingers from a god-like perspective.

Who wouldn't be a backseat advisor?

The lack of manpower on the Human Race's side and the "why use a sledgehammer to crack a nut" mentality, combined with the Rinsing Spirit Sect cultivator's "playing dumb to catch the tiger," led to Great Xia being somewhat prepared, yet inadequately so.

But can this be attributed to the Demon Race's good fortune?

Absolutely not.

The lack of manpower on Great Xia's side wasn't due to the Demon Race's luck; it was because the Heart Demon Clan specifically joined forces with the Giant Spirit Demon Clan of the Heavenly Gate Realm, having them pose loaded and ready for battle upfront to divert the Human Race's attention, thus creating such a scenario.

As for the Rinsing Spirit Sect cultivator's "playing dumb to catch the tiger," it was even more their meticulous preparation.

One can only say that in this game in the Central Spirit Domain, the Heart Demon Clan was a cut above.

The lurking and preparation that began from the Chang'an Years finally bear fruit today.

Logically speaking, this time the Heart Demons had a flawless plan, with no possibility of failure.

Only, at the end of the Chang'an Epoch, a butterfly not belonging to this world quietly descended and has already flapped its wings many times.

Therefore, some things that wouldn't have happened have occurred, resulting in so-called variables.

......

Black Cloud Mountain.

Cloud Mystic Daoist, or rather the "soul" of a heart demon from the Heart Demon Clan, is gazing at the not-so-majestic defensive great formation set by the Heavenly Secret Pavilion within Black Cloud Mountain, a ripple of excitement crossing their heart.

This is a dream of the Heart Demon Clan spanning two thousand years, a joint effort across several generations.

Now, this dream is gradually becoming a reality under their hands.

Once they destroy all these cross-domain teleportation formations, the Central Spirit Domain will fall into a state of isolation and helplessness, becoming a possession of their Heart Demon Clan, allowing them to slowly erode it.

Their Heart Demon Clan will also undoubtedly leap from a middle-range position among the Eight Great Holy Demons of the Abyss to become the foremost of the Eight Great Holy Demon Clans.

And he will become one of the accomplishments in expanding the territory and achieving everlasting merits for the Heart Demon Clan.

For this day, the Heart Demon Clan made extensive preparations, enduring unimaginable patience and hardships.