In just a few short minutes, when the green curtain of light dispersed before everyone's eyes, Cloud Dragon Divine Lord, deputy sect master of the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion, Hundred Sword Divine Lord, deputy sect master of the Taiyi Mystical Sect, and the several hundred knights from the two sects who had arrived with them—including several Phantoms—had all vanished without a trace, reduced to ash...
At this moment, everyone had long since tossed aside any thoughts of seizing treasure and making a fortune. All they could think about was how to stay alive.
Everyone knew that things had truly blown up this time—completely and utterly. Over the past several centuries, when had sects like the Taiyi Mystical Sect and the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion ever suffered such losses? Even in the battle that shook the world, when Demon Refiner Zhao Yuan single-handedly slaughtered Stranger River City in Pine Province, the Taiyi Mystical Sect and the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion had both suffered losses. Yet in that incident, the Taiyi Mystical Sect had only lost one Sky Knight-level deputy sect master, while the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion had lost one young sect master, along with five other knights. Between the two sects, only seven knights had died, and only one of them had been a Sky Knight.
But this time, even excluding Moon-Reflecting Divine Lord, who had died at the Jade Tower, each of the Taiyi Mystical Sect and the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion had lost over a hundred knights. From Sky Knights to Phantoms, then Earth Knights and Black Iron Knights, every rank had been wiped out in neat rows. Even though the Taiyi Mystical Sect and the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion were among the six great sects, such losses were enough to leave both sects battered to the bone. From now on, the Taiyi Mystical Sect and the Heaven-Wielding Pavilion would