"The Zheng family is finished." Seeing this, Bei family head Bei Caochuan let out a sigh.
"Who would have thought that Chang Shan Yin still had a third Ten Thousand Wolf King!" an elder exclaimed, voicing everyone's thoughts.
They had all underestimated Fang Yuan's hidden strength. In the attack on the Bei family, this Ten Thousand Wolf King had been kept hidden and never deployed.
"With three Ten Thousand Wolf Kings, the Zheng family is just a medium-sized family; even with the Lightning Spear Legion, it's only natural that they were broken."
"But Chang Shan Yin is truly cunning, able to hold back until this point. Such a disposition is fearsome!"
"Heh, so what? The Zheng family patriarch killed the Night Wolf Myriad Beast King with his dying blow. Now Chang Shan Yin only has two Ten Thousand Wolf Kings left."
The remaining Bei family elders made their remarks, some sighing, some sneering.
Capturing a Myriad Beast King is no easy feat. In their eyes, Fang Yuan's loss was severe.
But in truth, with his Blessed Land and access to Treasure Yellow Heaven, Fang Yuan could replenish a Ten Thousand Wolf King in an instant.
"This Chang Shan Yin is crazy and ruthless. He could have temporarily withdrawn the Night Wolf Myriad Beast King from the battlefield, but instead he drove it so hard that it got killed." An elder said, a chill running down his spine.
Bei family head squinted, recalling the battle clearly. "If not for such a fierce assault, the battle wouldn't have been decided so quickly. The Ge family, a smaller force attacking a larger one, could not afford to drag it out. Chang Shan Yin's move was very wise."
"A pity the Zheng family patriarch died too. He was at the fourth rank high stage, a strong fighter. If he could have survived..." The Bei family head sighed again.
This was because the Zheng family patriarch had been too engrossed in the fight, giving it his all and fighting too fiercely. After a prolonged battle, his true essence was severely depleted, and when he tried to flee, he was surrounded and pursued by the Night Wolf Myriad Beast King, ultimately failing to escape.
And the Zheng family's Lightning Spear Legion was almost completely slaughtered, leaving only a handful.
Both these events were fatal blows to the morale of the entire Zheng family.
With the patriarch dead and the legion decimated, the Zheng family lost its means to resist immediately showing signs of total collapse.
The Ge family charged into the camp, launching a wanton massacre. The Zheng family had no will to fight, and the survivors fled desperately, cries and pleas for mercy filling the air.
Sometimes, a single first-turn Gu Master would be seen chasing after two or three second-turn Gu Masters.
These second-turn Gu Masters weren't unwilling to fight, but they had exhausted their true essence dealing with the wolf pack...
Without true essence, a Gu Master's combat power would plummet to rock bottom.
Witnessing the miserable state of the Zheng family camp, the Bei family members fell into silence.
They couldn't help but recall the fall of their own camp, gnashing their teeth and clenching their fists, filled with anger and a sense of desolation.
Troubled times were coming!
Every ten years, the blizzard disaster in the Northern Plains would set off a great upheaval as powers contended for supremacy.
At that time, the turmoil would spread across the entire Northern Plains, and today's scene was but a prelude.
Human life was cheap as grass, uprooted and displaced. Small and medium-sized tribes were like duckweed, swept into the vortex of war, unable to control their fate, and with one mistake, they would be annihilated.
Even large families had to tread carefully, walking on thin ice. Only super families, whose ancestors had produced Gu Immortals and possessed Blessed Lands, could stand unshakeable for generations.
"Patriarch, we have fully recovered our true essence and were planning to reinforce the Zheng family, but now the Zheng family has fallen. How about we launch a counterattack and save our clansmen?" At this moment, an elder proposed.
"Right, Chang Shan Yin's appetite is too big. He broke through our camp and then attacked the Zheng family. With this insane momentum, he might even go after the Pei family. We can take this opportunity to strike back."
"The Ge family members left there, though far more numerous, are mostly first-turn and second-turn Gu Masters, only one elder at third-turn."
The elders were tempted, looking at their patriarch.
They were few in number, but all at least third-turn, and the patriarch was at fourth-turn, making them formidable. They had a good chance of rescuing their family.
But the young Bei family head shook his head, rejecting decisively. "No! Although the Ge family left few defenders, and we can indeed recapture the camp, what then? We are too few, and news will inevitably leak. Once Chang Shan Yin hears and returns, can we hold the camp? Can we lead our people to safety?"
All elders fell silent.
Bei Caochuan was right.
They had been at full strength during the first defense, and still had been broken by the wolf tide. What about now?
"Let them be taken prisoner. Don't worry, you see, after the battle, the Ge family restrained their people and didn't slaughter the prisoners. They want to expand their strength, huh, they have big appetites!"
Bei Caochuan sneered and continued, "Our clansmen will be temporarily kept by them. In the short term, this will deplete their supplies and force them to allocate more manpower and attention."
An elder's eyes suddenly gleamed. "Then why don't we directly attack their headquarters? The Ge family is now just a medium-sized family. They have mobilized almost all their forces, so their main base must be weakly defended. We can burn, kill, and loot, raze their supplies, increase their burden, and let them taste the pain of being attacked!"