Elder Zhu Li's emotions seemed to return to the battlefield of that day. His voice trembled slightly as he said, "In that great battle, both sides had slaughtered until their eyes were red. Countless experts attacked each other like mad. At the most brutal point, both sides even abandoned Dou Qi attacks and rushed directly into the enemy's ranks to self-destruct."
"In the end, although our Ancient Void Dragon Clan successfully annihilated them by relying on a sneak attack and taking advantage of the fact that many of their men were away, leaving them at a numerical disadvantage, only a small handful of us from that operation escaped by sheer luck. Everyone else perished together with a Dou Sheng elder of the Heavenly Phoenix Clan, who successfully activated the clan-protecting formation and vanished forever from this world along with the Phoenix Realm."
By the end, a trace of lingering fear flashed through Elder Zhu Li's aged eyes.
Clearly, that battle had left an extremely deep impression on him.
After all, if they had not been inexplicably fortunate enough for the enemy clan's experts to have disappeared as well,
and if the enemy's forces had not been scattered when they launched their sneak attack, allowing them to defeat them one by one,
then the Taixu Ancient Dragon Clan's fate would likely have been exactly the same as that of the Heavenly Phoenix Clan now, perhaps even worse.
Upon hearing this, Lin Feng finally understood what Qing Yan had meant earlier when he said that the Phoenix Realm had been completely destroyed several thousand years ago by the remaining Dou Sheng experts of his clan through self-destruction. The surviving elderly, weak, sick, and disabled members of the Heavenly Phoenix Clan within it had also been utterly erased in the endless void.
Presumably,