In just one single close-quarters clash, they had lost nearly half of their 60,000 cavalry and 70% of their warhorses. Xu Zhongxing’s heart bled as he looked upon the scattered remnants of his troops!

Wei Yuan’s heart was also bleeding. In that brief clash, over 5,000 soldiers of the realm of Qingming had fallen in battle. They were all elites at the blood-tempering stage or above, and nearly 100 of them were Dao Foundation stage cultivators!

Of all the casualties, over 3,000 had been killed by Xu Zhongxing alone. In fact, nearly all the Dao Foundation stage cultivators had fallen by his hand. Xu Zhongxing’s killing move was truly terrifying, ignoring armor, virtually ignoring defense, and irresistible even with fortune. He had cost Wei Yuan over 3,000 wisps of blue fortune for nothing!

Had it not been the massive amount of fortune contributed by the 100,000 plus human sacrifices—he currently had over 15,000 wisps of fortune in his sea of consciousness—Wei Yuan...