Victory and defeat were decided in a single battle. After this campaign, though the Demon Calamity could not be said to have been completely resolved—after all, many Ancient Demons still remained in the Twelve Heavenly Cloud Provinces, and even of the ten million Ancient Demons just now, at most around forty percent had been lost; in terms of numbers alone, though the Ancient Demons had been wounded to the bone, they were still far from being wiped out entirely.
However, numbers could not decide victory or defeat. The leaders of the Ancient Demons had all had their souls return to the underworld, and the rest had been beaten in this battle until they had no temper left.
Their morale had sunk to the extreme!
In this way, the damage they could cause was extremely limited. Like a pan of scattered sand, they plainly could not accomplish anything. From this perspective, it was not wrong to say the Demon Calamity had already been resolved. What remained was the work of hunting down and purging the Ancient Demons.
This reasoning was not something every cultivator necessarily understood, but as long as one's head was a little quick, even if one's cultivation was not very high, one could think it through. Joy could not help but bloom on everyone's face.
Thinking of how they had endured these years under the threat of the Ancient Demons, everyone felt as if a lifetime had passed.
Toward Lin Xuan, they felt even more gratitude. After all, everyone knew in their hearts that if Senior Lin had not held the fort here, single-handedly wiped out the Ancient Demon leaders, and contributed greatly in the magical duel, then what awaited them now would have been another result entirely. The positions of the victorious and defeated sides would likely