Heavy casualties!
Lin Bai's words plunged all the elders into deep thought.
In just a few days of war with the Heaven and Earth Gate, more than five hundred thousand sect disciples had already fallen.
Around a million warriors from the Tianshui Sect had joined the battle. Later, many more disciples had rushed back from all directions to provide support.
In other words, the total number of participants was around one and a half million.
Yet now, five hundred thousand disciples had already fallen.
Nearly one-third of their forces had become casualties.
If this continued, the Tianshui Sect would be left with only two possible outcomes.
The first outcome was that the casualties would become too severe, leaving every disciple terrified for their lives, with no one daring to return to the battlefield. Some disciples might even desert in order to avoid being forced to self-detonate.
If large numbers of sect disciples began fleeing, then even if the Tianshui Sect wanted to defend itself, it would have no one left to use.
The second outcome was that the casualties would continue mounting until the Tianshui Sect was utterly trapped in a desperate defense. The Heaven and Earth Gate would send out the Demon Subduing Warships every few days to unleash a barrage of bombardment. Within five days, the Tianshui Sect's remaining million-plus disciples would all be killed or wounded to the last.
If that truly happened, the Tianshui Sect would be completely destroyed.
In short, both outcomes were extremely disadvantageous to the Tianshui Sect.
Either way, the final result would be the Tianshui Sect's destruction.
If the sect still could not think of a better way to deal with the situation, then the Tianshui Sect would have only one road left: annihilation.
Sect Master Chu Xi asked, "Do any of