Fifty cavalrymen were left behind to gather up the Rong Di warhorses.
Sheng Huai'an led his men onward, continuing to pin down the Rong Di army and ease the pressure of their assault on Hexi County.
The Rong Di cavalrymen who fled back were beside themselves with panic.
"Bad news, Little Prince! Bad news!"
"What happened?"
"There are experts among the enemy forces. Lord Xianyou has fallen!" the fleeing soldier said in terror.
"What?"
Yu Danjun rose from his tiger-skin chair again, his face filled with shock.
Xianyou was a Xiantian mid-stage expert. To kill him, one would at least need a Xiantian late-stage peak expert, would they not?
And Xianyou had been his personal guard, yet he had actually died?
For a moment, Yu Danjun could not accept it.
Looking at the five hundred defeated soldiers who had fled back, Yu Danjun was somewhat dazed.
"Little Prince, whoever could kill Brother Xianyou is likely a Xiantian Grand Completion expert. We must prepare to retreat at once," You Lin said gravely.
He was one of the three Xiantian experts on this expedition, so he naturally knew Xianyou's strength. At the peak of Xiantian mid-stage, even ordinary Xiantian late-stage experts would find it difficult to kill him.
Even if he could not win, escaping should have been no problem at all.
Yet now Xianyou was dead. That could only mean that this Xiantian mid-stage expert had not even been able to flee.
Yu Danjun's heart jolted upon hearing this. There was no one here who could stand against a Xiantian Grand Completion expert. Even an army of twenty thousand would struggle to stop a Xiantian Grand Completion expert leading troops in a charge.
"Rumble..."
Thunderous hoofbeats rolled in from the distant wilderness, vast and overwhelming.
"Not good. That expert is leading