After a day of fighting, the great battle finally began to wind down as night fell.
Aside from the elders overseeing the fortifications, all the remaining elders of Tianshui Sect had gathered inside Overturned Water Hall.
"How are the numbers?"
Sect Master Chu Xi sat in the seat of honor and asked in a clear voice.
Lin Bai stood below, listening in silence.
The Third Elder took a scroll from his voluminous sleeve. After unfurling it, he reported in detail, "Based on the numbers we've been able to tally so far, approximately one hundred and fifty thousand disciples died in today's battle. Of them, one hundred thousand were outer disciples, fifty thousand were inner disciples, and roughly five thousand Three Wonders Disciples perished."
"Approximately four hundred thousand others were wounded."
Hearing the casualty figures, Lin Bai's expression tightened slightly.
This was only the first day of the war, yet the losses were already so immense.
If the losses continued at today's rate, Tianshui Sect would certainly be slaughtered to the last man by Heaven and Earth Gate within half a month.
Sect Master Chu Xi furrowed her brow slightly and asked, "What about Heaven and Earth Gate? From what I saw, they suffered quite a few losses as well."
The Third Elder said, "According to the Heaven and Earth Gate identity tokens delivered by our disciples to Mission Hall in exchange for contribution points, Heaven and Earth Gate's losses number roughly seventy to eighty thousand. Mission Hall's records show fifty-seven thousand Identity Tokens belonging to outer disciples, twenty thousand belonging to inner disciples, and a number of Three Wonders Disciples' tokens."
The Sect Master's expression darkened slightly upon hearing this.
Once those comparative figures were announced, it was not only the Sect Master—every other elder in Overturned Water Hall looked