In fact, the nine universes had pulled back their forces for two reasons. One was that they were afraid that the sea exploration sect would use their puppets to fight them. The other reason was that they wanted to draw the sea exploration sect out. They pulled back their forces so that they could draw out all the forces of the sea exploration sect and then destroy them in one fell swoop.
However, the people of the nine Realms still underestimated the strength of the sea exploration sect. The Army of the sea exploration sect had exceeded 25 billion, while the Army of the nine Realms was about 35 billion, which was 10 billion more than the total Army of the sea exploration sect. The difference of 10 billion might seem huge, but the sea exploration sect still had Zhao Hai.
