Volume One, Chapter 34
"Should we keep chasing?" a man asked.
Another said, "No. We can't catch them anyway, and we might walk into an ambush from those two factions. Besides, we didn't come here to attack them in the first place."
The various factions had originally intended for Great Qin and the Dragon King Kingdom to wound each other badly, allowing them to join forces and destroy Great Qin and Apocalypse. But they had never expected the Dragon King Kingdom to be completely countered by Great Qin and suffer an almost total defeat, forcing them to intervene.
Because the victory of either faction would pose a tremendous threat to them, they did not want either side to perish.
If Great Qin had lost this time, they would have intervened as well. Of course, they would not have truly fought; they mainly intended to intimidate the other side. They knew that if battle broke out, they would suffer heavy losses too—and such losses would be inflicted by an enemy.
Great Qin returned to its temporary encampment. With time so pressing, Great Qin did not tally how many Dragon King soldiers they had killed. In any case, the number was enormous.
They had captured over three billion prisoners, which was a decent haul. What pleased Zhao Fu even more was that Great Qin had gained ten million Dragon Cavalry. If not for the interference of those factions, Great Qin would certainly have gained even more.
Longshen Yan and the others fled back in disarray. Though they had escaped, their losses this time were devastating, leaving them with less than half their former strength.
All the people of the Dragon King Kingdom learned of its crushing defeat. Countless families had been destroyed, wives separated from husbands and children from parents. The entire