Aside from the corpses littering the streets and alleys of the Pass, some civilians had been lucky enough to survive the chaos, but the bandits had slashed them with sharp weapons all over their bodies.
Wails and groans rose one after another, and the once-vibrant Demon Suppression Pass had turned lifeless.
What was more, when everything finally settled down, that was often when things had only just begun.
Pursuing the remaining evil demons and heretics in the Pass, treating the wounded who had luckily survived, gathering the bodies of those who had been dead for some time, assessing losses to the shops and markets, and rebuilding the Pass—so much remained to be done.
The losses in this upheaval had been so severe that calling it merely disastrous could hardly do it justice.
Demon Suppression Pass stood on the front line where demons and the Human Race met. It was the bedrock protecting the lives of hundreds of millions of people behind it.
After suffering such immense losses, this was no longer merely a matter for Demon Suppression Pass. It concerned the hundreds of millions of people in the rear, the Dao Alliance, the kingdoms, and the reputation of the sects.
The severity of the incident far surpassed the upheaval at the Demon Suppression Pass auction half a year ago.
Afterward, the Dao Alliance would presumably step in and rally the various forces, making the Devil Race and such demonic cults as the Extreme Demon Dao, Ascension Dao, and White Lotus Sect pay a sufficient price.
But with the Dao Alliance now facing the threat of the Ten Thousand Demon Lair, whether it truly had the power to organize a counterattack that would make all those evil demons and heretics feel the pain was a huge question mark in everyone's mind.