After Ning Fa and Heavenly Treasure Immortal Merchant, the two powerful reinforcements, arrived, the Sea Monster and Beast Races forces that had come in pursuit left behind a sea of corpses after more than half a day of fighting and fled in disarray.
It could be said that Ning Fa had arrived at precisely the right time. Otherwise, facing two Spirit Transformation Demon Cultivators, of the retreating army—tens of thousands of cultivators and over a million mortals—probably only a pitiful few would have escaped.
At this moment, within a hundred-zhang Spiritual Ship in the middle of the fleet, Hermit Wuxin and the other two, who had spoken with Ning Fa for several hours, rose to take their leave.
Ning Fa tapped the tabletop, his face thoughtful.
Through the accounts of these three firsthand witnesses, he had also learned more detailed information about Skywatch City.
The overall situation was indeed as Wen Yuchen had previously described. The Sea Monster and Beast Races had suddenly dispatched two Spirit Transformation Cultivators to attack the city and brought out terrifyingly powerful siege spiritual materials.
But there was another important reason why Skywatch City had fallen so quickly—high-ranking Human cultivators within the city had betrayed them.
This traitor was none other than True Lord Huiyang, a renowned Nascent Soul Late Stage Great Cultivator of the Five Spirits Sea.
Not only was he the sect master of the Muyang Sect, the foremost sect of the Fengyang Sea Domain in the Five Spirits Sea, he was also the fourth Great Cultivator in the Five Spirits Sea apart from the Heavenly Evolution Sect.
Yet such an important pillar of Human strength had defected to the Sea Race at the critical moment.
And it had clearly been premeditated. Apart from him, four other Nascent Soul Cultivators from the Muyang