Yixiao Duzang stared at the video recordings that his subordinates had sent over, his expression growing heavier by the moment.
It would have been one thing if Zero Wing had produced a handful of Perfection-realm experts.
Given Zero Wing's resources, that wouldn't have been impossible. But according to the intelligence they'd gathered, the number of Perfection-realm experts that had been spotted was a full one hundred…
It felt like something out of a dream — completely impossible to accept. Yet the battle footage spoke for itself, and the staggering number of fallen Heavenly Burial experts only corroborated the truth. No matter how reluctant one might be to believe it, the facts were right there.
If Zero Wing suddenly producing ten Perfection-realm experts would have given Yixiao Duzang a headache and forced him to order his people to tread carefully, then over a hundred was no longer a matter of headaches. It was pure terror.
In the Divine Realm to date, even top-tier first-rate guilds only had a handful of Perfection-realm experts each. Even after aggressively recruiting from renowned studios and elite players — with Lei Jingyang's faction joining them as well — they still had fewer than twenty who had reached the Perfection realm.
That had been the main reason he dared to hunt Zero Wing's members.
But now…
Zero Wing had suddenly produced a hundred Perfection-realm experts that no one had ever even heard of before. How could anyone not be shaken?
"Guild Master, what… what do we do now?" Wuxia said, her face a shade paler as she stared at the footage.
They had theorized before that some superpower might send experts to aid Zero Wing.
But they hadn't received any news of a superpower lending a hand. Instead, Zero Wing had suddenly fielded a hundred Perfection-realm experts in this open-world hunting campaign — a development that was entirely beyond their expectations.
A hundred Perfection-realm experts!
Only a superguild or an ultra-first-rate guild could field such a staggering number. She simply could not fathom where Zero Wing had conjured so many Perfection-realm experts from, or whether there was some hidden superpower backing them that they knew nothing about.
But regardless of which it was, the situation was dire.
If the combined forces of Heavenly Burial and Blackwater — over eight thousand experts — were to face a hundred Perfection-realm experts in a straight-up fight, there would be no problem whatsoever. But this was the open world, and in a guerrilla war like this, a coordinated team of Perfection-realm experts had the entire field as their hunting ground.
"Pass the order immediately — everyone falls back!" Yixiao Duzang hesitated for a long while before finally gritting his teeth and speaking. "And you — find out who is secretly backing Zero Wing."
Zero Wing suddenly producing a hundred Perfection-realm experts and claiming they were all self-trained? Not even a ghost would buy that. The only possibility was that a superpower was operating behind the scenes.
"Understood." Wuxia moved at once, beginning to contact the Heavenly Burial teams still out hunting, one by one.
Members of both Heavenly Burial and Blackwater stationed across the high-level resource maps received the news in turn, and they began withdrawing from the various leveling zones in droves.
And the news of Heavenly Burial's sudden retreat spread like wildfire, sweeping across the entire Star Moon Kingdom in no time.
"What's gotten into Heavenly Burial? The battle just started — how can they pull back already?"