Half an hour later, the battlefield at Jade Dragon Pass gradually fell silent. The fierce slaughter had turned into wails and corpses.
The smoke-filled city streets were littered with the mutilated corpses of Divine Eagle Empire soldiers. Some had been blasted apart by Spider Main Battle Mechs, some had been decapitated by flying swords, some had been devoured by venomous insects, and others had been struck by the heavy offensive formations aboard flying warships, leaving not even bones behind.
The Great Xia cultivators patrolled back and forth, clearing the battlefield. They gathered and comforted the civilians who had been dragged here after being plundered, while putting the wailing Divine Eagle Empire soldiers on the ground out of their misery, severing the last thread of their life.
When the battle ended completely, it also meant that the Great Xia Dynasty had won its first victory, achieving a decisive triumph at Jade Dragon Pass and annihilating twenty thousand barbarian warriors of the Divine Eagle Empire in a single battle.
Every one of these barbarian warriors possessed cultivation, but against the Great Xia Dynasty army—which outnumbered them several times over and whose high-end combat power completely crushed theirs—they had been utterly defeated, scarcely able to fight back.
In the intact general's manor at Jade Dragon Pass, Su Jie sat in the seat of honor, with Zhang Junwei, Qin Yushang, Shen Baining, Wei Yushuang, and several others standing on either side.
In the center of the hall, two people were kneeling on the floor.
One was Zhu Tianyou, the commander of Jade Dragon Pass, whose acupoints and meridians had been sealed and who had been bound tightly.
The other was Batel, whose legs had been cut off. In the end, he had been unable to withstand the combined assault of three Purple Mansion cultivators