During the three months Ye Xiwen had been unconscious, the Ancient Barrens Continent had already been thrown into an uproar over this matter. Only after Ye Xiwen emerged did he learn that the expedition to Wind King Star had inflicted grievous losses upon all the major powers. Of the several thousand top young prodigies, not even half had survived.
It might have seemed as though only half had been lost, merely several hundred people, but those several hundred had been the cream of the crop among every major power's younger generation.
Especially when the Abyssal Demon Lord went berserk and slaughtered without restraint, more than half of the young experts' losses had been caused by his rampage.
When news of this reached the outside world, it unsurprisingly set off a monstrous wave. Every one of those young experts had been a treasure, raised at the cost of untold resources. Now, more than half had fallen in one stroke. When the major powers received the news, their hearts ached so badly they twitched.
How many resources and how much effort had it taken to cultivate those experts? Yet they had all been lost in one fell swoop. Such immense losses made people's teeth ache just to behold them!
Because of this, Baixiaosheng also came under enormous pressure. A group of forces with nowhere to vent their fury directed all their anger at Baixiaosheng. If Baixiaosheng had not created those rankings, how could things have ended up like this?
Yet in the face of such pressure, Baixiaosheng remained exceptionally resolute. No one had wanted the Devil Race to suddenly appear, nor could anyone have prevented it. Therefore, they would continue publishing the Hidden Dragon List, Soaring Dragon List, and Wind and Cloud Rankings.
Those rankings were the foundation upon which Baixiaosheng stood,