Their roles had reversed. Those who had been fleeing were now giving chase...
And when the pursuing humans were faster than the fleeing demons, the outcome was entirely different...
Wu Shaozhen and the others caught and killed one slow Otherworldly Demon after another. Left with no choice, the demons finally left two hundred of their number behind as a rearguard while the rest fled...
Wu Shaozhen and the others cleared out the two hundred Otherworldly Demons blocking them as quickly as possible. Rather than continuing the pursuit, they flew off in another direction...
Elsewhere, the Otherworldly Demons pursuing Fate Begins and the others suddenly abandoned the chase and flew back at full speed...
Seeing the demons leave, Fate Begins and the others finally breathed a sigh of relief...
Giant Kun was in terrible shape. Even with two Priests healing it, it had been up against a full five hundred God-tier Otherworldly Demons. How could they be easy to withstand? If Yuan Mie and the others hadn't kept harassing them, and Xiao Bei and Defender hadn't occasionally shared some of the damage, Giant Kun would probably have been done for by now...
"Why did they leave?" Xiao Bei asked in confusion.
"Boss probably won on his end. Let's recover and hurry to the meeting point."
"Okay!"
The two groups of Otherworldly Demons soon reunited, only to discover, to their dismay, that fewer than a thousand of their original two thousand God-tier Otherworldly Demons remained...
They hadn't even reached Vermilion Bird City, yet they had already lost more than half their forces. They had set out brimming with swagger, intent on razing the city. Now, every one of them looked utterly wilted, with none of their original bravado left...
"How did you get beaten this badly?!" one of the returning Otherworldly Demons