"Don't rush to explain. Let's head back first."
The moment Qin Shaofeng saw their expressions, his heart sank.
After hurriedly urging them on, he had Ke Jiuxiao lead the way.
They fought their way back to where the alliance was currently stationed.
Only then did he finally understand why everyone had been moved to tears just now.
When he had left several months ago,
the alliance had still numbered over twenty thousand people. With the two great powers no longer hanging over their heads, everything had naturally been flourishing.
After these months of battle,
the alliance members who had once followed him into battle numbered only a few thousand.
Even including the people he had brought out from Endless Prison,
and the forces from every side that had retreated here to huddle together, there were still fewer than twenty thousand people.
The crowd now seemed to be divided into three groups.
One group held weapons, seemingly resisting the Ghost Corpse Slaves that charged at them without end.
Another group had simply collapsed onto the ground, sleeping like logs.
The last group was frantically digging into the earth beneath their feet.
After several months of excavation, they had actually dug out a gigantic pit beneath them, so deep that its bottom could not be seen.
"Alliance Leader Qin, you've finally returned."
While Qin Shaofeng was still observing the situation, a somewhat unfamiliar voice came from within the crowd.
Immediately afterward, several people dressed in luxurious robes, looking utterly out of place among everyone else, shoved aside the surrounding crowd and ran over.
They were actually acquaintances.
As for why they seemed unfamiliar to him, that was perfectly normal.
The people squeezing over were Lei Dongtian and the others from the Thunder Sect. He simply did not know how they had ended