Ye Chen left with the Kusagakure experts willing to "surrender."
Meanwhile, the players had recovered after resting and recuperating.
There was little credible resistance left in all of Kusagakure.
Even against powerful opponents, the players could display the tenacity of "ants biting an elephant to death" and wear those tough enemies down.
Ye Chen could not eliminate all of Kusagakure's high-level combatants, or the players would lose all their fun.
Leaving a few boss-level ninja for the players to farm as "dungeons" would also give full play to their enthusiasm.
More importantly, the players could take the opportunity to gain combat experience while earning generous Contribution Point rewards.
Of course, this was a living, breathing world. Those boss-level ninja could not drop rare items.
Fortunately, the expansion update had introduced a battlefield quartermaster.
The treasures this "NPC" held were incredibly plentiful.
Once the battle ended and the Contribution Points were tallied, they could spend to their hearts' content.
The player army advanced slowly, clearing out every living thing they could see along the way.
What did "Third Catastrophe" mean?
The Hidden Jun Village players gave that title its fullest expression.
Anything along the way that could yield Contribution Point rewards, whether items or people, was completely cleared out.
Buildings were demolished outright, and living things were killed on sight.
The player army took the art of stripping everything bare to the extreme.
Ye Chen felt no heartache whatsoever over the destruction of Kusagakure's buildings.
After all, Kusagakure's central area had already been almost completely destroyed in the two earlier battles.
They might as well tear down every building.
As long as Kusagakure was successfully incorporated into Hidden Jun Village's territory, Ye Chen would gain "planning" permissions.
With the system's assistance, replanning the place would take Ye Chen no effort at