The fall of the Ice Wolf Royal Lineage Leader's three sons sent shock waves through the yokai of the Western Country.
News traveled swiftly in the Demon World, and word soon spread throughout the Western Country.
Almost every discontented yokai finally understood the Demon Wolf Tribe's true might.
Quite a few yokai had encountered the Ice Wolf Royal Lineage after its arrival in the Western Country. They knew something of the three sons' strength, and those three had been genuinely powerful.
They had expected to see the Demon Wolf Tribe tear itself apart, leaving both sides crippled, or perhaps witness Demon Wolf Mingye's death.
But none of that had happened. Instead, the Ice Wolf Lineage had lost.
Its forces had been almost completely annihilated. Faced with such power, these yokai had no choice but to reassess the strength of the entire Demon Wolf Tribe of Bluestone Mountain.
More importantly, just how powerful had Mingye become, this overlord of the Western Country who stood alongside Tōga?
When news spread that Sesshomaru had fallen to Mingye, it frightened many yokai even more.
After the war between the cats and dogs, the Trembling Noble had slaughtered many powerful tribes that resisted the Dog Tribe. Yet even someone like him had fallen before Mingye's sword.
Sesshomaru's talent and reputation were known throughout the Western Country. After all, he was the son of its overlord, and Tōga himself had said that Sesshomaru's talent surpassed his own.
Sesshomaru's record as he grew had also shown the yokai of the Western Country just how terrifying his talent and strength truly were.
He had never suffered a defeat. Yet now he had lost, and his opponent was none other than Mingye, who had slain the Ice Wolf Royal Lineage Leader's three sons.
For a time, Mingye's reputation rose