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The invasion of Yue Country and Wood Kingdom by Yiling Valley ended in an anti-climactic fashion.
This was something cultivators from all three nations had not anticipated.
Initially, the cultivators of Yiling Valley had burst into the two countries, capturing cities and territories with unstoppable momentum, but suddenly, without any warning, they retreated, as if at any cost, abandoning the Spirit Mountains and mines they had captured without hesitation.
This resolute withdrawal left individual cultivators dumbfounded, and significantly undercut the local clans of the two countries who had attached themselves to Yiling Valley, acting as guides.
Many resolute clan and sect leaders had no choice but to bite the bullet, take their clansmen, abandon their homes, and likewise flee into Martial Kingdom.
Those who were more indecisive were caught between pleading with the Upper Sects and arranging their affairs with trepidation...
