Hunting Realm.
At the island serving as the Eastern Region's stronghold, the Eastern Region martial artists gradually returned after Huang Qingyun came back.
Finally, led by Wang Zhengyang and Qi Lingyu, all the Eastern Region martial artists who were still alive returned to the island.
Seeing Wang Zhengyang and Qi Lingyu return, Lin Bai knew that the battle ahead had ended. Judging from the excitement and joy on the Eastern Region martial artists' faces, he faintly guessed that they had probably won and the Northern Region had lost.
But... had the Northern Region really lost?
Lin Bai swept his gaze around the island and spread his divine sense, probing every Eastern Region martial artist on it.
Yet he discovered that of the six or seven hundred Eastern Region martial artists who had originally surged forth, only two or three hundred remained on the island.
Lin Bai did not dare say that the Northern Region's casualties were lighter than the Eastern Region's, but the Eastern Region had suffered devastating losses.
Aside from the outstanding disciples of the Flourishing Sects and top sects, the prodigies of nearly all the medium and small Lineages had been wiped out. Some Lineages had only managed to keep figures at the level of Holy Sons and Holy Daughters alive by sheer luck—and even they were gravely wounded, with severed hands and feet.
"The Northern Region has withdrawn."
Before the sects gave their orders, no one went into the battlefield to search for the remains of their fellow disciples and friends. Even when they happened to encounter Northern Region martial artists, they tacitly chose not to strike again. After gathering their respective remains, they left.
The heaviest casualties had undoubtedly been suffered by the outstanding disciples of the Flourishing Sects. Their methods and cultivation far surpassed those