The fall of Hundred Eyes Settlement was no secret.
In fact, while the two sides had been fighting, who knew how many parties had been watching closely through demon eyes, water mirrors, divination, or other strange methods, following the course and outcome of the conflict.
Yet no one had expected that the moment they opened their eyes, it was already over.
Gone.
A clash of dragons and tigers? No.
A fight to the death? No.
There had only been Big Pot Stew and Boiled Cabbage in Clear Broth.
Foster's shot had made countless hearts tremble, and Huai Shi's methods that followed chilled them to the bone.
Death was death, but why did there have to be corpse desecration too?
Which side was supposed to be from hell here?
For a time, the terrifying threat brought by those two Current Realm people weighed heavily upon everyone's hearts.
That included the four Crowned Ones led by Skull Cluster... Sending out the Shadow Beast to attack had been the idea of all five Crowned Ones, yet such a huge Five-Eyes had simply vanished.
It had all been for nothing.
On the night Five-Eyes went cold, who knew how many settlements activated their rituals and stood on high alert, terrified that these people of unknown origin would press their advantage and wipe them out entirely.
Yet those dog-headed people had actually turned around and gone back.
They had even made several trips back and forth, hauling the mountain-like piles of Iron Ingots back to their base. As for everything else, they had not even bothered to look at it... It gave people the bitter feeling that not only had the wolf not come, it seemed to look down on their household as well.
Bitter or not, life still had to go on.
But life