Silence fell all around. The place seemed dead, so still that a falling needle could have been heard.
Yet in that deathly silence, Zhou Wuming and the others felt utterly at ease.
They all sank to the ground and let out long breaths. The pressure that had weighed on their hearts for so long vanished without a trace.
They had won. This time, they had won completely.
None of them had expected the Heavenly Demon Envoy to actually die.
When the Heavenly Demon Envoy appeared, he had placed enormous pressure on Zhou Wuming and the others.
They knew they could not muster the slightest resistance against him.
Not only was the Heavenly Demon Envoy immensely powerful, but from his arrival until now, he had fought countless battles. Nearly every time, he had crushed the Holdouts.
Deep down, Zhou Wuming and the others had held little hope, even though Qin An possessed the Annihilation Divine Spear.
And in his battle with the Heavenly Demon Envoy, Qin An had indeed held no advantage. At times, he had even seemed on the verge of defeat.
So Zhou Wuming and the others had prepared themselves. If Qin An truly fell to the Heavenly Demon Envoy, they would not cling to life. They would fight him to their last drop of blood.
But no one had expected Qin An, at the most desperate moment, to use the Annihilation Divine Spear to destroy the passages between the Forbidden Lands first, rather than attack the Heavenly Demon Envoy.
The instant the passages were destroyed, the rules of the Holdouts' Forbidden Land took effect on the Heavenly Demon Envoy, who had crossed over by exploiting certain loopholes. His strength was weakened, and he ultimately died at Qin An's hands.
Neither the course of the battle nor its outcome