Chen Nan was startled by his thoughts.
The Righteous Alliance and the Demon Sect have been fighting and competing for years, but these conflicts were relatively minor; if they were to fight over an island, not many cultivators would be involved.
On one hand, they don't want significant losses; as long as the growth rate of the cultivators matches the casualty rate, it's acceptable. On the other hand, they've been simultaneously competing for numerous resource-rich areas, making the cultivators insufficient to cover them all.
Moreover, both sides are always very restrained, never deploying Nascent Soul Realm cultivators, and always controlling casualties to an acceptable level, unwilling to fight to the death with each other.
Ultimately, their final goal is just to obtain resources, not to decide life and death.
