The decisive battle at Great Long Mountain between the Divine Lords and Divine King Realm experts of the Devil Race and Great Zhou ended in a resounding victory for Great Zhou.
Of the Devil Race's four Primordial Demon Gods, only the One-Eyed Demon Race's Primordial Demon God, Amiqi, successfully withdrew under Great Prophet Jiu Xi's life-sacrificing rescue, becoming the Devil Race's sole surviving Primordial Demon God.
Ji Gui, the Three-Eyed Demon Race's Primordial Demon God; Yi Ye, the Yi Demon Race's Primordial Demon God; Yue Zhong, the Moon Demon Race's Primordial Demon God; and Great Prophet Jiu Xi, who had merged himself with the Primordial Demon God, all fell on the spot.
Not only had they fallen, but the three fallen Primordial Demon Gods had not even left corpses behind. There was no longer any possibility of resurrection.
On Great Zhou's side, Founding Chancellor Wang Meng was severely wounded and would find it difficult to fight again in the short term. The Great Zhou Ancestral God's true body had also suffered considerable injuries. It could still fight, but its power had been weakened.
Empress Xiaoman, wielding the Heaven Punishing Axe, appeared completely unscathed.
Founding Ancestor Ji Bang had suffered considerable injuries under Great Prophet Jiu Xi's desperate final counterattack, but his wounds were not severe.
After killing Ji Gui, the Heaven Temple's Sun Moon Divine Lord, who had participated in the battle, was himself completely unharmed.
With five against four, these were the visible costs Great Zhou had paid to secure victory in this battle at Great Long Mountain.
As for the invisible costs, those were harder to assess.
Yet one invisible cost was exceptionally clear—among Great Zhou's three nation-suppressing Xiantian Spiritual Treasures, the Nation-Suppressing Qiankun Seal had only been used to threaten and suppress, so its expenditure had not