They had thought that everyone would inevitably have to endure another fierce battle before they could wrest Baimeng Mountain back from the Tianhai Alliance.
Yet when Song Qingming and the others led the army back to Baimeng Mountain, they did not see a single enemy cultivator nearby.
The Tianhai Alliance army seemed to have withdrawn of its own accord long ago, leaving behind only an empty Spirit Mountain with chaotic Spiritual Energy.
Though this came as something of a surprise, Bai Yuxian and the others' earlier decision to destroy the spirit vein had indeed played a role, indirectly making the enemy abandon their plans to entrench themselves here.
Otherwise, had the spirit vein remained unscathed, the Tianhai Alliance would only have needed to repair the Mountain Protection Array and defend from behind it.
Song Qingming and the others would have had to pay no small price to retake the place anytime soon.
Gazing at the Spirit Mountain beneath their feet, now battered into ruins, Chen Yunxiao and the many Lu State cultivators felt miserable as well.
They hurriedly directed the cultivators below to clear away the rubble and set up formations to plug the Spiritual Energy that was continuously leaking away in every direction.
Baimeng Mountain had originally possessed a Grade 4 Middle-rank Spirit Vein. Now that the foundation of its underground spirit vein had been blown apart, it had suffered severe damage, and the grade of Spiritual Energy on the mountain had long since fallen far below what it had once been.
Even if the Yunxiao Sect could restore it in the future, the spirit vein would inevitably fall to Grade 3. As for recovering its original grade, no one knew how many Spirit Stones and how much time that would consume.
After successfully retaking Baimeng Mountain, everyone began