The Finale and the Wait!
As Chen Yule and Huang Qingyun had said... Neither the Chen Family nor the Sacred Lotus Palace had been the main force in this operation, and neither of their battlefields had been the frontal battlefield.
They had merely stepped forward to block the reinforcements for Lin Bai when he succeeded and withdrew.
Moreover, the so-called "reinforcements" had been low on fighting spirit—a rabble of disorganized soldiers. Their lineages and sects naturally could not have suffered heavy losses.
Chen Yule and Huang Qingyun did not ask further about Tianshui Sect's casualties, because they had already guessed that Tianshui Sect's losses must have been exceedingly tragic.
After all, Tianshui Sect and the Heavenly Guard Battalion had been the main forces, and they had been on the frontal battlefield.
Chen Yule hesitated again and again before asking, "Brother Lin, how is Xia Jingzhi?"
"He's not dead." Lin Bai answered calmly, "Prince Chen, Lord Zhu Mo, the Blood Dragon Legion, and I brought Xia Jingzhi into Purgatory together and handed him over to Prince Yu."
"Prince Yu..." Chen Yule furrowed his brows as he murmured the name. "So all these years, Prince Yu has been guarding Purgatory?"
Immediately, Chen Yule's brows relaxed. "Since Prince Yu has taken over Xia Jingzhi, then this matter is set in stone. We'll just have to see how much Prince Yu can pry out of Xia Jingzhi's mouth."
Once the banquet was ready, Lin Bai raised his wine cup and said to Chen Yule and Huang Qingyun, "Thank you both for the assistance from the Chen Family and the Sacred Lotus Palace this time. Otherwise, I'm afraid I would have lost my life in the forest outside the eastern suburbs."
This had not been a victory banquet. Lin Bai had merely called them over