Though everyone had launched a sneak attack according to Ling Tian's tactics, they had only killed four or five experts near the Sage level, which fell somewhat short of their expectations. More importantly, most of the other experts near the Sage level had escaped, including the cultivators who had been badly wounded in their earlier ambush. This left Ling Tian and the others deeply disappointed.
Even so, what was done was done, and they didn't dwell on it. The most important thing was that one or two thousand ninth-stage cultivators were still right in front of them. Naturally, they wouldn't hold back, and they launched attacks one after another. The experts near the Sage level whom Ling Tian and the others had killed earlier had taken quite a few of their clansmen into their Small Worlds. Now that those experts were dead, the cultivators inside the collapsing Small Worlds had emerged, and naturally became Ling Tian and the others' next targets.
Fortunately, the experts near the Sage level hadn't taken many clansmen into their Small Worlds—only one or two thousand. That made their losses all the worse.
Even so, during the battle that followed, Ling Tian and the others killed most of those one or two thousand cultivators. Counting their earlier kills, they had taken down one or two thousand ninth-stage experts in total, along with five experts near the Sage level. That was a heavy blow to this major force, even greater than the losses suffered by the force Ling Tian and the others had attacked earlier.
Of course, most importantly, the cultivators of this major force had realized how powerful Ling Tian and the others were. With Hua Min'er and the others all taking part in the battle, in particular, they felt utterly powerless to resist. Quite a