The cultivator army of Yi Xinghai had been a disorganized mess upon entering Huazhou, simply because the cultivators there hadn't organized an effective counterattack. Now, with Ning Cheng and Man Rang organizing a counterattack, it immediately formed a situation resembling a snowball gaining size and momentum.
Besides initially letting Yang Honghou fire a few shots, Ning Cheng had never again activated the spiritual stone cannons. Under such an advantage, there was no need for spiritual stone cannons, as they could entirely annihilate small pockets of Yi Xinghai cultivators and demon beasts in every encounter.
As Yi Xinghai cultivators were continuously being eradicated, the numbers of the Huazhou cultivator army were steadily increasing. Unlike the disorganized Yi Xinghai cultivators, Man Rang, after eliminating Yi Xinghai cultivators, immediately had the organized Huazhou cultivators establish a new base and then gathered the scattering forces from all directions.