Following Chen Jingtian's lead, as he took his cultivators and retreated back to the Qingshui Market to stand guard, Song Hanchun also gathered some cultivators and fell back to guard the Shaoyang Market under the Golden Sword Sect.
Between the two sides, there were several mountain ranges, with each side acting as a nail, stationing themselves on territories that had never experienced the scourge of war.
During this time, a vast area spanning over twenty mountain ranges, which had witnessed the mutual assaults of the two sects of cultivators, had become a wasteland.
Moreover, the various larger and smaller family powers within had suffered devastating losses, with almost no intact familes existing outside of the markets.
Apart from the tremendous loss of cultivators, the primary issue was that all sorts of cultivation resources had been plundered by the enemy, leaving the place picked clean.
