Sensing the auras shatter, the expressions of every Twelfth-Order Primal Fiend present changed.
If they could still comfort themselves just now, thinking it might have been an accident, then the situation now had already smashed every trace of luck to pieces.
The Earth God Realm cultivators inside Cold Mountain Domain had found some kind of pattern in the "anomaly" and were killing Eleventh-Order Primal Fiends inside Secluded Valley City.
At first it had been Eleventh-Order Initial Stage, then Eleventh-Order Middle Stage, and now it had become Eleventh-Order Late Stage.
If it followed the previous pattern of the Eleventh-Order Initial Stage and Middle Stage, then that Earth God Realm cultivator would have to kill at least a full forty-five Eleventh-Order Late Stage Primal Fiends.
Forty-five Eleventh-Order Initial Stage and Middle Stage Primal Fiends each suffering Dao Dissipation—in the eyes of the Twelfth-Order Primal Fiends, this kind of loss was actually completely acceptable, or rather, it counted as normal attrition.
But once it reached the Eleventh-Order Late Stage, if forty-five were lost, it would be a massive blow to the strength of the Eleventh-Order Primal Fiends inside Secluded Valley City.
Their original arrangement had been to have the Eleventh-Order Primal Fiends first kill large numbers of Cold Mountain Domain's Earth God Realm Initial Stage and Middle Stage cultivators, then gather all the strength of the Eleventh-Order Primal Fiends to encircle and kill Cold Mountain Domain's Earth God Realm Late Stage and Peak cultivators.
This was a bottom-up process. The final goal was to slay Cold Mountain Domain's Earth God Realm Late Stage and Peak cultivators, and ultimately complete the total destruction of nearly a thousand Earth God Realm cultivators.
But now, if the Eleventh-Order Late Stage Primal Fiends lost forty-five first, then the Primal Fiends' strength, compared with Cold Mountain Domain's Earth