A battle had ended!
Yet this battle, which had claimed the lives of several thousand people, had lasted only half the time it took to drink a cup of tea.
In that brief span, four thousand of the eight-thousand-strong Vanguard Army had fallen, and of the remaining four thousand, more than half had been wounded.
For the time being, they could not possibly unleash their full combat strength.
What Seven Killings found even harder to accept was that more than seventy percent of the Vanguard Army's mid-level cultivators had been killed or wounded.
In other words, his elite force of eight thousand had been completely crippled.
"Sound the gong and withdraw the troops!"
"Fall back three hundred li!"
Seven Killings gritted his teeth as he issued the orders.
Before he understood the reason for their defeat, he could not continue using his men's lives to probe the enemy.
Three thousand zhang below ground.
"We won!"
Seeing the army retreat through the Profound Light Mirror, everyone from Shui Po Liang Shan immediately erupted into cheers.
They had never imagined that a band of bandits like them could achieve such tremendous results without suffering a single casualty.
Those eight thousand men had been elite troops.
In the past, those eight thousand alone would have been enough to sweep through all Nine Caves and Eighteen Forts.
Yet now, they had been beaten by them until they fled in disarray, helmets and armor cast aside.
How could such a tremendous reversal not fill them with excitement?
"Truly breathtaking!"
"Such a victory is enough to be recorded in the annals of history."
Looking at the scene before him, even White-Faced Scholar could not suppress the surging emotions in his heart.
Yet Jiang Shan showed little excitement in the face of such results.
"It is