Everyone's gazes fell on Yan Zhaoge.
Surveying their surroundings, Yan Zhaoge smiled slightly, as Ah Hu who was following behind him handed over a Shadow Shrinking Pouch.
After the Shadow Shrinking Pouch was opened, a corpse appeared in front of everyone. It was precisely the old man of the Shenling Nine Swords who had carried the Bearing Heaven Ceremonial Incense and other treasures in a low-profile manner.
He was a Martial Saint. Although he had been dead for a long time and his Qi and blood had deteriorated, his body had not rotted.
Apart from the slight greenish hue of his skin, there wasn't much difference from when he was alive.
After seeing the old man's face clearly, some of the people present narrowed their eyes slightly. "Liao Zheng, one of the Shenling Nine Swords."
Yan Zhaoge said, "Through a fortuitous coincidence, I discovered this person and killed him, unexpectedly obtaining the Heaven Bearing Ceremonial Fragrance, Earth Ocean Lung Crystals, Prime Chaos Soil and other treasures that he was carrying."
"These treasures are all used to set up the Heaven Bearing Efficate Formation. This Yan just happened to recognize them and thus saw through their hidden scheme."
The corners of Yan Zhaoge's mouth arched lightly, "Afterwards, when I encountered the lineage of the Southeastern Exalt, I mentioned it in passing."
The surrounding people looked at the corpse in front of them and fell silent.
Copper Men Island's Chief Gongsun Wu swivelled his head to look at a longtime Elder of Copper Men Island beside him, asking via sound transmission, "I heard that this Yan Zhaoge possesses a Heaven Spying Orb?"
The other party replied, "Correct."
Gongsun Wu nodded imperceptibly and exchanged glances with Gu Hong, Zhou Haosheng, Luo Zhiyuan, and the others.
The leaders of the other families also fell silent.
Luo Zhiyuan's gaze remained focused on Yan Zhaoge, his gaze growing deeper and deeper.
Yan Zhaoge smiled inwardly. The earlier conversation between Luo Zhiyuan, Gu Hong and the others had revealed that they already knew about the matter of Nong Yuxuan stealing the credit back then.
From the looks of it, in the great battles of the Heavenly Inheritance Region and the Suffering River Region earlier, Qi Wei and Madame Kang had indeed primarily targeted him, Yan Zhaoge, ignoring Zhang Chao, Elder Qi, Yue Baoqi and the others.
Back then, the people of the various sects and clans had all survived. The Radiant Light Sect had not been able to suppress the news, and it was no longer a secret who had broken the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Thunder Formation.
Hearing the reports of Elder Qi and the others, bigwigs like Gu Hong all knew that Yan Zhaoge possessed a Heaven Spying Orb.
Therefore, even those of the Radiant Light Sect would not waste their breath questioning Yan Zhaoge now.
Actually, however … Yan Zhaoge had not used the Heaven Spying Orb to record the scene in the valley where he had previously set up the Heaven Bearing Efficate Formation.
Firstly, Kang Ping was strong, and his methods were strange and tyrannical. Under the detection of his aura, he released his Quintessential Essence and could block the Heaven Spying Pearl's prying.
Secondly, in order to guard against Kang Ping, Zheng Ming, Chen Zhiliang and the others had activated the defensive restrictions of the Riding Wind Heavenly Vessel to the maximum.
The Heaven Spying Pearl was unable to record anything under the dense multicolored light.
Kang Ping would be able to detect a single bead if it was placed outside, and he could directly shatter it through the air.
It was just that Yan Zhaoge naturally wouldn't explain this to Gongsun Wu and the others.
However the other side wanted to guess, he could just let them guess. This was even more beneficial to Yan Zhaoge.
Anyway, Zheng Ming and the others were still in the Royal Reed Sea. It was not like Yan Zhaoge had no way of verifying it.
Gu Hong was silent for a moment before he solemnly cupped his hands towards Yan Zhaoge, "Speaking of this, my North Sea Sword Pavilion has to owe Little Friend Yan a favour regarding the matter of the Heavenly Fire Tribulation Thunder Formation back then."
"Now, Little Friend Yan has even discovered a secret of the Grand Xuan Dynasty, causing the Southeastern Exalt's lineage to make a move and deal a great blow to the Grand Xuan Dynasty's arrogance. This Gu first thanks you here."
Before this, the overall course of the battle had unquestionably been that the Grand Xuan Dynasty was stronger, holding the upper hand as they held the initiative.
The anti-Xuan coalition had only been forced to deal with their moves as they came.
The Grand Xuan Dynasty had switched targets and attacked the headquarters of the Radiant Light Sect, inevitably placing the anti-Xuan coalition in a tough spot.
Gu Hong, Luo Zhiyuan and the others could only just barely manage to deal with it. It should be said that if there were no major unforeseen circumstances, their goal would just be to minimise their losses as much as possible.
They would most likely suffer a loss. It was just that how great of a loss they would suffer at the end would be.
Now, however, Yan Zhaoge had brought a major surprise to them and the Grand Xuan Dynasty.
Not just that, due to the intervention of the Southeastern Exalt's lineage, the entire battle situation in the Royal Reed Sea had been completely reversed.
The anti-Xuan coalition had virtually won without a fight, the Grand Xuan Dynasty virtually losing without a fight.
This even caused Gu Hong, Luo Zhiyuan and the others to feel rather lost as well as defeated.
The one who had caused all this was precisely this youth who had stepped into the Martial Saint realm not long ago.
The Radiant Light Sect felt especially awkward. If the Grand Xuan Dynasty had not retreated, the final outcome would most likely have been their headquarters being broken through by the Grand Xuan Dynasty.
The gazes with which Luo Zhiyuan and the others were currently looking at Yan Zhaoge definitely could not be called friendly at all.
They would not think that Yan Zhaoge was trying to befriend them and mend their relationship.
Looking at the expressions of the surrounding people, let alone the North Sea Sword Pavilion and the Dim Darkness Sect, even those of Copper Men Island were currently looking at Yan Zhaoge with admiration.
Luo Zhiyuan and the other experts of the Radiant Light Sect all vaguely felt a sense of danger arise within their hearts.
The Chief of the Dim Darkness Sect, Zhou Haosheng, now sighed, "Little Friend Yan is truly extraordinary in turning the tides. It is just a pity that we were still a step too late at the end of the day when we received the news."
"Our earlier hesitation caused us to lose the chance to pursue the Grand Xuan Dynasty. It is already too late for us to do so now."
Yan Zhaoge instead smiled, "Perhaps there is still a chance."
Hearing his words, everyone's gazes simultaneously fell on Yan Zhaoge.
Yan Zhaoge said, "Just now, when I saw the Grand Xuan Dynasty launch their attack and retreat from afar, I discovered a problem."
"From what I know of the peak experts of the Grand Xuan Dynasty who attacked the main altar of the Dim Darkness Sect before attacking the sword domain of the Grinding Hut Region, there are roughly three of them."
"Two of the Shenling Nine Swords are early Immortal Bridge Martial Saints. One of them even possesses the high-grade Sacred Artifact, the Cloud Circulating Heavenly Light Sword. The other is the current ruler of the Grand Xuan Dynasty, King Xuanmu. While he himself is a late Seeing Divinity Martial Saint, he also possesses the high-grade Sacred Artifact, the King Xuan Spear."
Yan Zhaoge's gaze flickered, "There seemed to only be two of them who attacked just now. It would still be fine if the one who was missing was holding the fort from the shadows. But if not, having already left earlier, where could he have gone?"
Before his words had landed, a shocking light erupted from the eyes of Gu Hong, Luo Zhiyuan, Zhou Haosheng, Gongsun Wu and the others.
Zhou Haosheng said slowly, "If the Southeastern Exalt's lineage had not discovered the Heaven Bearing Efficate Formation, what would the Grand Xuan Dynasty do when facing us normally?"
Gu Hong said, "There will definitely be an end to our constant tug-of-war. While it would be hard for the Radiant Light Sect if we pursued them to a certain point, there would still be a time when we would have to stop and return to the Grinding Hut Region. Otherwise, our losses would only be greater. Being weaker than them, it would be a comparatively better result for us to retain our people while losing our territory."
Luo Zhiyuan was silent. Glancing at him, Gongsun Wu also said, "However, the Grand Xuan Dynasty might not be willing to do so. Their goal is still to defeat or even destroy our main force in a single stroke."
Zhou Haosheng said slowly, "The other side has an Immortal Bridge Martial Saint. It is very likely that they will attempt to circle behind us, cutting off our path of retreat!"
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