The operation to infiltrate the Ten Thousand Weapon Mansion was very successful. Along the way, Xiao Chen's group did not encounter any danger and successfully entered the territory of the Ten Thousand Weapon Mansion. This could be considered a good start. The operation to infiltrate the Ten Thousand Weapon Mansion was very successful. Along the way, Xiao Chen's group did not encounter any danger and successfully entered the territory of the Ten Thousand Weapon Mansion. This could be considered a good start.
Of course, the reason why they were able to infiltrate the territory of the Ten Thousand Weapon Mansion so easily and did not encounter any Heavenly Yin Tower's cultivators was because of the current situation.
At this moment, the Heavenly Yin Tower had placed all of their attention on the battle with the Heavenly Policy Mansion. Naturally, their rear was defenseless. Furthermore, the Heavenly Yin Tower was very clear that the Sword Sect, who was currently fighting with the Heavenly Sect, did not have any extra energy to do anything to the Heavenly Yin Tower. As such, they naturally relaxed their defense against the Sword Sect and transferred all of the experts who were originally guarding against the Sword Sect to the front line. This gave Xiao Chen's group this opportunity.
However, infiltrating the Ten Thousand Weapon Mansion was only the beginning. Next, because they needed to avoid being noticed, Xiao Chen's group definitely could not use the transportation array to directly enter the territory of the Heavenly Sect. This was because they would definitely be discovered by the Heavenly Yin Tower.
Therefore, Xiao Chen's group could only use their own two feet to rush to the Heavenly Sect. As such, they naturally wasted a lot of time. However, there was no other way. Furthermore, in order to make the best use of time, Xiao Chen did not leave much time for rest along the way. They would only stop to take elixirs and rest when their Spiritual Energy was exhausted.
Along the way, they avoided the various large cities in the Ten Thousand Weapon Mansion. Xiao Chen's group headed straight towards the direction of the Heavenly Sect. At the same time, while they were rushing, Xiao Chen was constantly thinking about this sneak attack. He wanted to see if there were any loopholes in his plan that needed to be fixed.
Xiao Chen had already thought of the target of the sneak attack. It was the Spiritual Vein Plains within the Heavenly Sect.
The Spirit Vein Plain was similar to Tong City in Sword Mansion. It was where more than half of the Spirit Veins in Hetian Prefecture gathered. It was also an important source of income for Hetian Sect.
It could be said that more than half of the Heavenly Gate's spirit stones were produced from the spirit vein plains. Once the spirit vein plains were destroyed, it was equivalent to cutting off the economic lifeline of the Heavenly Gate. As a result, the Heavenly Gate would gradually be at a disadvantage in the following battles.
Don't think that just a few spirit veins would be enough to change the outcome of a battle between two great sects. One had to know that this was absolutely not an exaggeration.
First of all, in a war between two major powers, especially two major powers like the Sword Sect and the Heavenly Sect, it was almost impossible to decide the victor in a single battle.
In a situation where there was no way to decide the victor in one battle, both sides were likely to turn into a war of attrition, just like the current situation.
And what did a war of attrition consume? It was nothing more than the warriors on both sides and their respective financial resources.
Warriors were easy to understand. Whoever had more warriors dying in battle would naturally be at a disadvantage in the end. As for financial resources, it was medicinal pills, all kinds of healing herbs, and so on.
And these things, to put it bluntly, had to be bought with spirit stones. So without spirit stones, it was equivalent to not having medicinal pills for healing.
And in a situation where there were no medicinal pills, just imagine what would happen.
The simplest example was that if two people had the same injuries, the one who had healing medicinal pills was likely to survive, while the one without healing medicinal pills was undoubtedly going to die in the end.
In this way, in a fierce battle, the Sword Sect had healing medicinal pills, so the injured people could quickly recover. On the other hand, the Heavenly Gate had no healing medicinal pills, so the seriously injured people could only wait for death.
Under such a situation, one could imagine what the final result would be.
And even if the Heavenly Gate's warriors didn't die, the frequency of the battles between the two sides was getting higher and higher. Sometimes, before their injuries were healed, they had to participate in the next battle.
If this kind of consumption happened a few times, the drawbacks caused by the difference in the number of medicinal pills would be infinitely magnified.
Therefore, a war between two major forces was different from a battle between two warriors. In addition to hard power, there was also a contest of soft power.
This was also why Yang Chen chose Tong City as the location of the surprise attack. Obviously, he was also very clear about the importance of Tong City to the Sword Sect. Once the spirit stone veins around Tong City were destroyed, it would definitely be a devastating blow to the Sword Sect.
Yang Chen was very clear about the importance of the spirit stone veins to a major force, and so was Xiao Chen. Therefore, Xiao Chen didn't directly attack the Heavenly Gate, but chose to target the spirit stone plain instead.
Cang Xing was very supportive of Xiao Chen's choice. In his opinion, attacking the spirit stone plain was far more cost-effective than attacking the Heavenly Gate directly.
While rushing, he thought about the various details of attacking the spirit stone plain in order to make sure nothing went wrong.
While Xiao Chen and the others were stealthily making their way toward the Hetian Prefecture, Yang Chen, who was in Yu City, was also paying close attention to everything that was happening in Tong City.
Just as Xiao Chen thought, until now, Yang Chen had always thought that Xiao Chen was still in Tong City. Moreover, the reason why Yang Chen hadn't retreated until now was that he was unwilling to give up and wanted to attack Tong City again.
However, after the fierce battle with Xiao Chen last time, Yang Chen was very clear that as long as Xiao Chen was in Tong City, it would be very difficult for him to succeed. At most, the result would be the same as the last time, where he and Xiao Chen would both suffer.
On one hand, he was unwilling to give up, and on the other hand, he couldn't do anything to Xiao Chen. Therefore, Yang Chen had been staying in Yu City to wait for the right opportunity.
In the garden, Yang Chen sat in the pavilion with a thoughtful expression. His injuries were almost healed. Although the speed of recovery was not as fast as Xiao Chen's, it was not much slower. From this, it could be seen that Yang Chen's physical body was actually very strong.
He had been considering whether to continue attacking Tong City, but after thinking about it, Yang Chen felt that launching a second attack on Tong City at this time was not worth the loss.
Because with the failure of the first attack, the surprise effect had completely disappeared. Moreover, after so many days, Xiao Chen still stayed in Tong City. Obviously, he was deliberately guarding against Yang Chen and guessed that Yang Chen might attack Tong City a second time.
Now that Xiao Chen had taken precautions, given Yang Chen's character, it was obvious that he would not go through the trouble of attacking Tong City.
Not to mention whether he could succeed or not, even if he succeeded, the price he would have to pay would be very high. Moreover, with Xiao Chen around, Yang Chen didn't think that he could succeed.
While thinking about the next plan, Yang Chen secretly thought to himself, Do I really have to fight Xiao Chen head-on? Do I have to return to the battlefield and force Xiao Chen to fight head-on? But even so, Yang Chen didn't have the slightest confidence of winning.
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