A wry smile appeared on that man's face as he said, "According to the intelligence brought back by our scouts, it seems a team led by that fellow called Bi Fan stopped the Devil Race from making a move. It appears the Devil Race members we faced chose to retreat for this very reason."
Jiang Guifan and the others' expressions changed drastically upon hearing these words, and they looked at him in shock, their faces full of disbelief. "Is this true?"
"Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, this matter should be correct," the man replied with a bitter smile. "After all, they didn't know we had spies watching in secret, so they wouldn't sing their own praises just to put a gloss on things."
Nangong Hongye's gloomy face looked as if it was about to drip water, and only after a long while did he say in a muffled voice, "Presumably, the strength of those Devil Race members who fought them wasn't much to speak of, right?"
He refused to believe that Bi Fan and his group had the strength to repel the main force of the Devil Race—or rather, he was unwilling to believe it!
Looking at him and knowing he was the Kirin Clan's chief disciple, the man maintained a rather respectful expression and sighed slightly in explanation, "According to the intelligence reports, the Devil Race forces garrisoned on the eastern side were several times stronger than those elsewhere, and every single member was at or above the Spirit Soul Realm."
"What's even more unbelievable is that that group not only defeated the Devil Race members, but completely slaughtered that large army. Several people with Spirit Lord Realm cultivation even died in battle on the spot."
"I heard that in the end, only three higher-level