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Led by Yuan Zhengfeng, Broad Creed Mountain launched an all-out counterattack, regaining their lost territory.
Making use of Huang Guanglie's loss of the Great Sun Heaven Measuring Ruler and his own injuries, Broad Creed Mountain was unforgiving as they invaded the Fire Domain once more.
The Sacred Sun Clan martial practitioners felt that this development was rather familiar …
Back in the war of the Eastern Tang, it seemed to have been like this, first winning, then losing.
Not only had they lost all that they had won previously, they had even lost all that they had won previously.
A familiar process, a familiar posture, all over again …
Therefore, even that feeling of vexation to the point of wanting to vomit blood was exactly the same, perhaps even surpassing it.
Knowing that their Sacred Artifact, the Great Sun Heaven Measuring Ruler, had actually been lost in this battle, the entire Sacred Sun Clan was rendered speechless for a time.
On the World Illuminating Peak, sunlight no longer shone brilliantly, instead appearing rather gloomy and gloomy.
The Grand Elder Pan Botai and the head of the Seven Reigning Suns, the World Illuminating Lord, had both perished at the foot of Broad Creed Mountain.
Seated in the great hall, the Sunset Lord's expression was incomparably ugly.
He had also gone to the Heaven Domain, having remained in the South Heaven Region to suppress it, not following Broad Creed Mountain any further.
Otherwise, it would be very hard to imagine that with everyone else other than Huang Guanglie having been wiped out, he had still managed to survive.
However, even as the Sunset Lord felt slightly fortunate, he also felt indescribably ashamed and embarrassed.
The Sacred Sun Clan's conquest of the Heaven Domain's Plaza Mountain this time could no longer be described as having come in high spirits and returned in low spirits. They had basically smashed their heads and bled, nearly dying at the foot of Broad Creed Mountain.
Their high spirits and satisfaction before setting off now seemed to have completely become a joke.
The current Chief Huang Xu's face was sunken as water as he gazed at the room before him.
After returning to the Mountain, Huang Guanglie had entered the room to recuperate, recovering from the injuries Yuan Zhengfeng had inflicted on him.
After recovering from his injuries, if he met Yuan Zhengfeng and the Clear Qi Robe outside of Broad Creed Mountain, Huang Guanglie would still have the strength to battle them.
If Yuan Zhengfeng rushed over to trample the World Illuminating Peak, the situation would be completely reversed. Even injured, Huang Guanglie would not fear him.
It was just that even so, the momentum he had felt when he had first emerged from seclusion, wanting to sweep through the entire world came to an abrupt halt, broken at the middle.
Losing the Great Sun Heaven Measuring Ruler was an unbearable pain.
After looking at the room for a while, Huang Xu retracted his gaze, swivelling his head, his gaze sweeping past the higher echelons of the Sacred Sun Clan before him.
His voice was low and deep. "Defend and wait for reinforcements. Step by step. After my father recovers, the Fire Field will still belong to the Holy Clan. The boundary between the two sides will still be the boundary between the Heaven Field and the Fire Field."
The bigwigs of the Sacred Sun Clan all nodded.
Huang Guanglie's grandson and Huang Xu's son, Huang Jie, stood at the back of the crowd without any sense of presence.
Huang Jie was calm and collected about this, but his face revealed an expression of deep thought.
Huang Xu glanced at Huang Jie. At this moment, Huang Jie had completely returned to normal.
When Huang Guanglie had just returned to the mountain and received the exact news, Huang Jie's shocked expression was still fresh in his memory.
Even his father, Huang Xu, rarely saw Huang Jie like this. To be exact, he hadn't seen him like this for a very long time.
Even when the Sacred Sun Clan had suffered a great loss in the Battle of the Eastern Tang back then, after Huang Jie had learnt of it, he had only mildly commented, "Not being secretive in our actions, the other side saw through us and backstabbed us instead."
As the others dispersed, Huang Xu's gaze fell on Huang Jie.
Huang Jie stopped pondering, raising his head and saying, "Yuan Zhengfeng leaving seclusion early is actually not much. While we don't know how exactly he managed to recover from his injuries, this is still within the plan."
Huang Xu nodded.
In their original projections, the worst case scenario had been for Yuan Zhengfeng to leave seclusion earlier than Huang Guanglie.
In that case, the Sacred Sun Clan would have to defend the World Illuminating Peak to the death. With the Great Sun Heaven Measuring Ruler still present, it would not be so easy for Broad Creed Mountain and the other powers to trample on the Sacred Sun Clan.
In the end, Huang Guanglie had left seclusion a step earlier. Even if Yuan Zhengfeng had managed to catch up and left seclusion earlier than under normal circumstances, it would not have mattered.
At the very most, they would not have been able to completely destroy Broad Creed Mountain. However, under the pressure of Huang Guanglie and the Great Sun Heaven Measuring Ruler, they would have been able to suppress Yuan Zhengfeng and the Clear Qi Robe to the point that they were unable to leave the Clear Qi Grand Formation. This way, the Sacred Sun Clan would have been able to easily devour the Heaven Domain, strengthening themselves further.
As the strong grew stronger, victory would ultimately belong to the Sacred Sun Clan.
This was the immense, tangible advantage brought about by Huang Guanglie having left seclusion successfully, his strength having improved a step further.
Using an upright force to suppress others was bullying them for not being able to defeat them in a head-on clash.
Huang Jie said, "The greatest surprise was Broad Creed Mountain's Clear Qi Grand Formation. That sudden and unexpected change almost made me suspect that Broad Creed Mountain and the Nine Underworlds had really joined hands."
While in order to have a good reason to attack, they had pinned a huge blame on Broad Creed Mountain, Huang Xu and Huang Jie naturally knew what was going on.
Of the six great Sacred Grounds, the one that hated the Decimating Abyss the most would probably be Broad Creed Mountain.
Hearing his words, Huang Xu's face instantly darkened, "The Great Sun Heaven Measuring Ruler …"
Huang Jie said, "The current situation is roughly equivalent to when Grandfather had not entered seclusion and Yuan Zhengfeng had not become a Martial Saint. It is slightly worse than it was then. Our Sacred Sun Clan no longer has the advantage over Broad Creed Mountain, both sides returning to an equilibrium of power. En, looking at the course of the battle of Broad Creed Mountain this time, we might still be at a slight disadvantage."
"However, as compared to the other four Sacred Grounds, the advantage our two clans have is even greater."
Huang Jie said, "What comes next is a crucial period for our Sacred Sun Clan. We need to look at the overall situation."
He paused for a moment before saying, "Our previous understanding of Broad Creed Mountain still seems insufficient now."
Huang Jie lowered his head, looking at the ground, "… the Broad Creed Young Master Yan Zhaoge deserves further attention, greater effort, more detailed observation. Before, I always felt that I had already taken him sufficiently seriously, but now, I feel that I have still underestimated him a little."
"In this great tribulation of Broad Creed Mountain this time, the various unexpected changes, I always feel that the shadow of this person is behind us. This person's personality has many flaws, and there are many areas that we can make use of, but he always has shocking methods that are beyond our expectations."
Huang Xu said, "You were not able to leave behind anything to commemorate your second natal year ah."
Hearing his words, Huang Jie raised his head, a rare smile appearing on his face, "On the contrary, the first miscalculation in my life leaves an extremely deep impression on me."
Swivelling his head to look in the direction of the northern Heaven Domain, he muttered to himself, "At the same time, it is also the first time I have felt such an intense desire to kill someone, and someone of the same age at that …"
… …
In the Central Heaven Region of the Heaven Domain, on Broad Creed Mountain, Yan Zhaoge looked at the silently circulating Clear Qi Grand Formation above his head, his expression calm.
After a while, he gazed towards the south, then the northeast, "The enemy's desire to kill me has not died ah. With just the slightest hint of movement, they pounce over like sharks that have seen blood."
Yan Zhaoge narrowed his eyes into slits, "There has always been the principle of catching a thief for a thousand days, but never the principle of guarding against a thief for a thousand days."
"Sacred Sun Clan, Heavenly Thunder Hall, it can't be that you think that we will just let this go like this, right?"
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