After thinking it over carefully, Luo Chen realized that the war between the righteous and devilish forces in the Northern Sea had already dragged on for nearly a century, from its earliest skirmishes to the full-scale war that followed. Once war was officially declared, the two sides had spent fifty years locked in a relentless struggle. At first, the Penglai Immortal Sect and Devil's Snare had joined forces and launched a sudden assault on the Blue Sea Alliance, relying on their overwhelming advantage to seize half of the Northern Sea's human territories. Yet after that initial surge, neither side could push the other anymore, and the war gradually sank into a tense stalemate.

That stalemate was the closest thing the Northern Sea cultivation world had known to peace since the destruction of the devil sect. The so-called Immortal-Devil Coalition held roughly half of the human territories, while the Blue Sea Alliance controlled a substantial portion of what remained. Although the Alliance possessed less land overall, it still held the inner sea, the richest region of the Northern Sea and the heartland...