Yes, they must have heard wrong. How could two overlord-level powers possibly have been wiped out in one fell swoop?
Even taking ten thousand steps back, even if the human race had truly gone to war with the sea clans, it should have taken at least several decades to completely destroy an overlord power.
An overlord power was immensely vast, deeply rooted and firmly entrenched. Simply clearing out their strongholds one by one would take a great deal of time, let alone their ancestral lands, which were perilous Dragon's Pools, Tiger's Dens.
That was precisely why no one believed it. Even though both clans had lost large numbers of experts to Ye Xiwen, they still possessed their even more formidable clan soldier armies. As long as those armies remained, they would stand as steady as Mount Tai.
Thus, when they heard the news, no one believed it at all.
Even if the other human overlords had acted, everyone had seen the Dao Soldier Legions mobilize. Yet even at the fastest, it should have taken three to five years!
Who would have thought that it would be so easy, so simple... they had been wiped out!
Everyone was dumbfounded. At that moment, more detailed news began to spread. Rumor had it that Ye Xiwen had used the power of the heavenly tribulation to utterly destroy those clan soldier armies, then personally slaughtered the Dharma Idol Realm experts, stripping the two clans of their greatest support. Under such circumstances, the Dao Soldier Legions of the human overlords that arrived afterward had merely been tasked with cleaning up the aftermath.
This completely overturned everyone's imagination. In their eyes, only a full-force assault on the ancestral lands of the two clans, led by the three great human overlords, could have accomplished such a thing.