In the battle at Sunset Town, the leaders serving Guan Feng and Han Chan's faction were almost completely wiped out.
Huang Shan, the leader of the Yuqilin Party and a Fourth Grade cultivator, died; Monk Peng lost an arm and was imprisoned alongside Madam Chishui in Li Yan's Primordial Golden Dipper; the other three Purple-Robed Old Monsters, along with the last two remaining sons of Nishan, were all killed on the spot or took their own lives in despair...
Of eight Fourth Grade cultivators in all, only the fortunate Li Baishou escaped by some unknown means and vanished from Lingnan.
Of the twenty thousand rebels Ba Wu led, more than seven thousand were killed or wounded. Most officers ranked Hundred-Household Commander or above were captured, and a smaller number were killed. Only a scattered few broke out of the encirclement, with no soldiers left following them. They saved only their own lives and disappeared without a trace.
Ba Wu himself was also cut down by Prince Huai's sword, utterly "dead and gone" in the eyes of outsiders.
About two hours after the battle ended, Rat Lord used the Southern Border's unique Spirit Inquiry Technique to extract Guan Feng and Han Chan's hiding place from the captured Supernatural Ability Users.
Thousands of soldiers and Supernatural Ability Users went up the mountain to arrest them, shattering the concealment Grand Formation outside the mountain god's temple. Yet when they entered, they found the place had long since been deserted. Only traces of daily life remained, without a single living person.
The two had fled... and there was no possibility they were still hiding in the Southern Border. They had most likely escaped back to Great Qian.
Still, Rat Lord did not lose his composure over the result. He merely said coldly, "Sooner or