If all-out slaughter had initially left the Qitian Clan and the Hellfiend Clan evenly matched, then the Elder Matriarch being torn to pieces now meant that the Hellfiend Clan had lost its right to speak within this black-and-white sphere.
"Run! Escape back to Hellfiend Hollow!"
"The Qitian Clan has violated the ancestral precepts and broken the Myriad Path Sacred Canon! Their crimes are unforgivable! Go back and join forces with the Sui Shen Clan..."
At this final moment, the Elder Matriarch had long passed the stage of disbelief. Her voice was shrill and desolate, her fury soaring to the heavens, as she cried out those two sentences in her most miserable hour!
Clearly, before her death, she understood.
It had already happened.
She was doomed to die!
The Valley Master could not possibly stop now.
Only two possibilities remained.
Fight!
Or flee!
If they chose to fight, with the Elder Matriarch gone, their battle strength had already been thrown out of balance. Moreover, the Valley Master had shown them just how terrifying he was!
Then it was highly likely that all eight Hellfiend Clan experts above Minor Consummation would die here.
That would be a horrifying outcome, because no one would know that they had died by the Valley Master's hand. Once the Valley Master took the resources here and returned, the Hellfiend Clan would forever become the Qitian Clan's slaves!
If they chose to flee, then according to what the Elder Matriarch had thought in her haste, the Valley Master's actions were already a grave sin that would destroy the ancestral precepts of the three Daoyu families. It was an act of betraying his master and annihilating his ancestors. The Hellfiend Clan could absolutely join forces with the Sui Shen Clan, then unite all Myriad Path Valley cultivators to