"Lord Di Lin, did this operation count as a failure?" someone asked.
"Victory and defeat are commonplace in war. There's no need for any of you to lose heart or blame yourselves." Di Lin comforted them. "After all, there are only twenty-seven of us in Arid Dragon City. We're badly outnumbered, yet we still managed to stir up such a storm. That was already extremely difficult!"
Someone said, "It's truly infuriating! Those martial artists were almost driven into a dead end and forced to destroy themselves. They were just a hair's breadth away from opening the City Protection Formation themselves, but who could have expected a disciple of the Eternal Devil Sect to interfere and ruin everything!"
"His name is Qing Luo. He's an inner disciple of the Eternal Devil Sect, the new master of the Sword Hiding Hermitage, and the most sought-after prodigy in the Eternal Devil Sect today. Even the higher-ups of the Eternal Devil Sect hold him in exceptionally high regard," someone added.
"Qing Luo once said that the experts of the Eternal Devil Sect would arrive in Shan Province within a month to support Arid Dragon City. Is that true?"
"That can't be, can it? The Alliance has already instructed the Three Great Demon Clans of Shan Province to send a large amount of cultivation resources into the Eternal Devil Sect, asking it to turn a blind eye to Shan Province's affairs. Since the Eternal Devil Sect accepted those treasures, it shouldn't go back on its word, should it?"
"That's right. Elder Wu also explicitly said that the Eternal Devil Sect wouldn't interfere in the battle for Shan Province and told us to act without restraint!"
"Even so, we have elders serving as our informants within the Eternal Devil Sect. But don't forget, the Eternal Devil