In this battle, Yizhi Temple could be said to have won a great victory, but not a complete one.
Two temple protectors of Yizhi Temple had been seriously injured. Had Sand Sea Divine Sacrifice Gui Gu not come to their rescue in time, those two temple protectors might have been dragged down with the Heaven Temple High Divine Priests before their deaths.
Seven had suffered minor injuries, including Sand Sea Divine Sacrifice Weng Lide.
One Grand Divine Master, driven to despair, had burned his primal spirit and injured Sand Sea Divine Sacrifice Weng Lide.
Originally, following Ye Zhen's suggestion, the Heaven Temple legion of more than three thousand men that Xuan Sheng had stationed at the edge of the Yizhi Sand Sea was also to be wiped out.
However, High Priest Nahar had removed this part of Ye Zhen's plan and explained the reason to him.
If they merely ambushed and besieged Xuan Sheng, Yizhi Temple had cause enough, because Xuan Sheng had used a Heavenly Domain Myriad Void Divine Mirror avatar to seal off the void around the Yizhi Sand Sea.
But if they carefully arranged to rashly annihilate the Blazing Legion Heaven Temple had deployed along the Sand Sea border, that would amount to a declaration of war.
If the Blazing Legion were completely wiped out, then whether for the sake of face or other reasons, Heaven Temple would certainly retaliate and might even launch another war.
"We of Yizhi Temple fear neither Heaven Temple nor war. But at a time of such great calamity, a war would absolutely make the Sand Clan's plight worse upon worse."
Those were High Priest Nahar's exact words, and they immediately persuaded Ye Zhen.
To be honest, Ye Zhen was satisfied with the outcome of this battle.
Not only had they conveniently