"It's over... It's over... It's all over..."
Qi Lian wandered through the mountains and valleys in a daze, like a walking corpse.
"Ring-ring!"
After quite some time, he seemed to finally hear the Satellite Phone ringing on him. He jolted and answered it.
Bai Su Gui's stern voice quickly came from the other end: "Qi Lian!? You finally answered! How are things on your side? Were you attacked by a Legendary Lifeform? We need the exact intelligence!"
"The situation..."
Qi Lian's mouth was bitter as if he had been chewing on the root of the Chinese goldthread. "We lost. The enemy dispatched an elite squad led by a Saint, supported by four Half-Step Legends and twenty-one supreme experts. They launched a lightning attack on Blood Orchid Town, and we had no time to resist... Xu Heng used the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art to hold back that Saint, You Ying, so I could escape. Chi Hun, Wei Zhang... all of them sacrificed themselves. Even among the Heavenly Human and Dominator-level elders, fewer than one in ten may have escaped..."
"Xu Heng..."
Bai Su Gui was deeply shaken, and his voice carried a trace of grief. "Blood Orchid Town has fallen?"
"Yes..."
Qi Lian inhaled deeply. "I'm heading to Hill of Light, the capital of the Xia Kingdom. I'll have Prime Minister Yasso of Xia Country take us to Xia City so we can retrieve the Divine Punishment Weapon from Baili Qingfeng's laboratory. Only Baili Qingfeng's Divine Punishment Weapon can deal with a Saint!"
Bai Su Gui was silent for a moment before saying, "Even Xu Heng couldn't do anything to that Saint after using our improved version of the Heavenly Demon Disintegration Art... The power possessed by a Saint is far more terrifying than we imagined... Indeed, only the Divine Punishment