The Heavenly Secret Sect had severely underestimated the number of demon beasts in the Western Sea. They had thought there would only be six or seven Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts.
The Heavenly Secret Sect's holdings within three thousand li to the east had all been abandoned in advance, so there had been little loss there.
Many holdings farther east had not evacuated their personnel because they were too far away.
The formations at these holdings had all been breached. Resources such as Spirit Fields and mines had been ravaged into a complete mess.
There were many broken magical artifacts and bloodstains on the ground, but no cultivators' corpses were seen.
The flying vessel continued eastward and soon found traces of Fourth-order Demonic Beasts.
These demon beasts had not gathered in groups to attack the various holdings. Instead, they were fleeing in all directions, so Wang Daoyuan conveniently killed every fourth-order demonic beast he encountered.
The Mysterious Ice Turtle avatar had been following True Man Lei Yan. Through his panoramic perception of the Mysterious Ice Turtle, he learned that they were pursuing demon beasts to the southeast.
Four Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts and more than half of the Fourth-order Demonic Beasts continued fleeing eastward. The remaining demon beasts fled north and south, attempting to return to the Western Sea.
The cultivators who had gone after them had no mind to bother with those fleeing back to the Western Sea. They were fully focused on hunting down the demon beasts fleeing east.
Once these creatures escaped into the heartland of the human race, the casualties they caused would be enormous.
Other than the four great top powers and the kingdoms of Zhou and Qin, no other force had the ability to resist dozens of Fourth-order Demonic Beasts, much less Fifth-tier Demonic Beasts.
These demon