But a truce is vastly different for the attacking side and the defensive side.
In the Nine Provinces, a truce meant there were no more forces to use, making it difficult to maintain the offensive; they were unable to continue the fight.
However, being unable to continue did not mean they had to relinquish the territory they had previously conquered.
It simply meant the other side could not advance any further.
So, the territories lost previously also meant that after the truce, the Changqing Immortal Sect would not be able to reclaim them.
Since the Nine Provinces had exhausted themselves, they were similarly depleted.
Being barely able to block the enemy and struggling to continue surviving to maintain their inheritance was already considered quite an achievement.
Thinking about counter-attacking also depended on whether they had the strength to do so.
