Outside Golden Maple Ridge, corpses lay strewn across the ground.
There were corpses belonging to the Five Great Cultivation Families, as well as corpses of Qi Yun Alliance cultivators, but most of the dead had been left behind by the latter.
The great battle had now ended, with the Five Great Cultivation Families emerging victorious.
However, although they had won this battle, it had been a hard-won victory!
Of the 173 cultivators from the Five Great Cultivation Families who had participated in the battle, as many as 35 had fallen on the spot. Another seven had suffered severed limbs or crippling injuries, while dozens more had sustained injuries of varying severity.
Even two Foundation Establishment cultivators had fallen, and many others had been injured.
"The final tally is in. Our side killed eleven Foundation Establishment cultivators from the Qi Yun Alliance and heavily injured three more. We killed 189 qi refining cultivators from the Qi Yun Alliance and injured countless others!"
"Of the enemy casualties from this battle, most of the spoils have already been seized by our cultivators, while a small portion was carried away by the fleeing enemies."
At the Sun Family's mountain gate on Golden Maple Ridge, Sun Family Patriarch Sun Zhongping, who had been responsible for clearing the battlefield and tallying the results, hurried into the hall and reported the figures to the people seated inside, who were meditating to heal their injuries.
The cultivator seated at the head of the hall had now become Zhou Mingde of the Zhou Family.
As for Sun Yaowu, the mid Violet Palace Stage cultivator, he had already returned to Green Lotus Temple overnight to seek help from his sect elders in treating his injuries.
It turned out that during the earlier battle, although Zhou Mingde had abandoned his advantage