Lu Yin intended to replace the crippled defenders of the fourth array base with the surviving vassals of the Lu family, as well as the Fifth Mainland’s cultivators who focused on battle force or domains. Their overall power was barely enough to protect a single array base, but there should be no problems, as long as enough Semi-Progenitors were present. After all, the array bases were no longer a battlefield. The final traces of war were being fought down below, in the New World.

Having Wan Zhiyi and Hen Xin present was enough.

Bai Wangyuan and the other three Progenitors from the four ruling powers spent half a month thoroughly combing through the New World, eliminating every Semi-Progenitor Aeternal who was capable of giving the weaker cultivators a hard time.

“What did Lu Xiaoxuan say?” Xia Shenji asked Bai Wangyuan.

Bai Wangyuan replied, “He says that he has the manpower to take care of it. He wants us to continue to allow the Fifth Mainland to protect the fourth array base.”

“The Fifth Mainland has already been crippled. He simply knows that there won’t be another battle fought on the array bases. He’s just going to send a bunch of people to put on a facade.” Xia Shenji snorted contemptuously.

Bai Wangyuan turned to stare at the men behind him. "Regardless, the terms that we agreed to never specified that the array base had to maintain a constant state of being ready for war. We only asked the Fifth Mainland...