Chen Jiawei had fled, and the Beast King Devouring Gold Beast had vanished as well, allowing the Phoenix Spirit Guards to breathe a little easier.
No matter why Chen Jiawei, the Fifth Guard's commander, had appeared here by such coincidence, he had at least drawn away the Beast King Devouring Gold Beast.
The exhausted Phoenix Spirit Guards carried their fallen comrades' bodies as they staggered out of Chiwu Mountain and returned to the camp at its foot.
At once, in his capacity as acting Millennial Commander, Ye Zhen, together with Qing Zhao and the other captains, reported the beast tide and the casualties to the Military Affairs Department, Huang Tianhuo, commander of the Seventh Guard, and Jiang Qianyi, the deputy commander overseeing the Seventh Guard.
This included Fifth Guard commander Chen Jiawei's appearance here and his flight without fighting after encountering the Beast King Devouring Gold Beast.
The entire account was thoroughly objective, without the slightest embellishment.
Soon afterward, urgent orders arrived from the Military Affairs Department and Deputy Commander Jiang Qianyi. They ordered Di Kuohai, the Millennial Commander of the Seventh Guard Second Brigade, and the captains of every squad to each write an individual report on the matter and submit it immediately.
Thirty-four Phoenix Spirit Guards had fallen in this battle. Among the Phoenix Spirit Guards, this was an exceptionally grievous loss.
Within the Phoenix Spirit Realm, the Phoenix Spirit Guards had never suffered such heavy casualties except during beast tides.
Yet within a beast tide, such losses were also exceedingly, exceedingly small.
Ye Zhen had assumed that after encountering a beast tide and suffering so many casualties, the Phoenix Spirit Race's Military Affairs Department would surely order them to return.
But shortly afterward, Ye Zhen received an official document from the Military Affairs Department whose wording carried