698: Chapter 216_2 698: Chapter 216_2 One by one, the disciples of the Hundred Peaks Sect, their eyes red with madness, charged frenziedly toward the front, chasing the enemy thousands of miles before they gradually came to their senses from their fury.
And from a distance, the voice of Nie Jie also travelled over.
“Disciples of the Hundred Peaks Sect, stop the pursuit, clean up the battlefield, and attend to the wounded!”
He really couldn’t let the disciples of the Hundred Peaks Sect continue the chase any longer, if they did, they would be too far from the sect gates.
What if it was the enemy’s strategy to lure the tiger away from the mountain?
What if the enemy had more ambushes?
He had to be careful and cautious.
Moreover, if the pursuit continued and they drove the enemy to desperation, the enemy would fight desperately too.
In the end, it would be the disciples of the Hundred Peaks Sect who would suffer losses!
Besides, many of their disciples were wounded and needed assistance, they needed to tend to the injuries of their fellow disciples, and, they needed to retrieve the bodies of those who had died—the bodies of those elders.
But…
The battle was over, and the Hundred Peaks Sect had emerged victorious, but as everyone began to clean up the battlefield, the disciples of the Hundred Peaks Sect fell silent once more, plunging back into grief.
Their masters, their senior uncles, or perhaps some elder, a whole host of the sect’s seniors, had even chosen to self-destruct.
As a result, they were unable to gather even the bodies of their predecessors.
Cao Zhen indeed passed out, but this time it was merely due to overexertion from casting a secret technique.
As the disciples of the Hundred Peaks Sect finished cleaning up the battlefield, Cao Zhen gradually came to his senses.
Although he had never exercised the rights of the sect leader, he was after all the Sect Leader of the Hundred Peaks Sect during the Reversal Mini Epoch Period.
As he awoke, the losses—the experts of the Hundred Peaks Sect and the current leadership—arrived one after another.
After Ling Xi returned to the Hundred Peaks Sect, he immediately took his master back to Four Treasures Peak.
Now, Four Treasures Peak was just as simple as before, with so many people, it was impossible to cram everyone inside the rooms.
Feeling weak, Cao Zhen got up from his bed, pushed open the door, stepped out into the courtyard, and looked around at the people of the Hundred Peaks Sect, asking, “Did we win?
Did they all retreat?”
Hearing his master’s question, Ling Xi quickly responded, “Master, we won, and we even pursued them for a thousand miles before stopping.”
There was no sign of joy on Cao Zhen’s face.
Upon their arrival, both he and Xiang Ziyu had used secret techniques, so victory for the Hundred Peaks Sect was within reason.
The real issue, however, was the loss suffered by the Hundred Peaks Sect.
“We…
How many disciples of the Hundred Peaks Sect died, how many elders died…” Cao Zhen turned his head to look at Nie Jie.
As soon as he spoke, the faces of the people around him darkened.
Nie Jie sighed and spoke softly, “Sect Leader, in this battle, we lost a total of one hundred and three people.
Among them, seven were in the Wind Fire Tribulation, and thirty-one were in the Core Formation Stage; the rest were in the Golden Core Stage.”
“One hundred and three people, our Hundred Peaks Sect actually lost so many as one hundred and three people!” Hearing the numbers from Nie Jie, Cao Zhen painfully placed his hands over his head.
Those were people of the Hundred Peaks Sect.
All this was because of himself.
Would the Sun and Moon Demon Sect dare to join forces with the three Immortal Sects of the Great Lai Dynasty to attack the Hundred Peaks Sect if he had not left?
Even if he had left but had left Ling Xi and Li Ke behind, things would have been different.
He had never thought of all this before; he was even anxious about hurrying Tu Zhuque to marry.
Listening to the people around him recount how the eldery of the Hundred Peaks Sect chose to self-destruct for the sake of the sect, hearing about the deaths of people like the old ones from Little Zen Peak and Deng Qixing from Seven Star Peak, Cao Zhen was filled with endless regret in his heart!
After a while, he suddenly raised his head, bowed deeply to the crowd, and said, “I have to apologize to everyone.”
Around him, people saw Cao Zhen’s gesture and quickly dodged to the side, Nie Jie even hurriedly exclaimed, “Sect Leader, what are you doing?
You are our Sect Leader of the Hundred Peaks Sect; we do not deserve such a gesture from you.”
“No!” Cao Zhen shook his head in self-blame and said, “This was my fault, if I hadn’t taken Ling Xi, Yi Sheng, and Li Ke away from the Hundred Peaks Sect, none of this might have happened, and they might not have died.
It can be said, I caused their deaths!”
Cao Zhen sighed again and looked at the people, saying, “I’ve realized I’m really not suited to be the Sect Leader of the Hundred Peaks Sect.”
Upon hearing Cao Zhen’s claim of unsuitability, the crowd became frantic.
“Sect Leader, you were chosen when the Vice Sect Leader and all the Peak Masters were present; such a decision should not be taken lightly.”
“Yes, Sect Leader, if you do not lead us, there is no one else suitable to be Sect Leader!”
Cao Zhen gently shook his head but looked at Nie Jie and said, “However, I think Nie Jie is very good; he is very suitable to be the Sect Leader of the Hundred Peaks Sect.”
He genuinely thought Nie Jie was fit to be Sect Leader.
Yan Yourong had also told him that in his absence Nie Jie managed the Hundred Peaks Sect very well.
Moreover, today, when everyone was filled with rage, pursuing the Sun Moon Demon Sect and the forces of the Great Lai Dynasty, Nie Jie managed to stay calm and timely called everyone back.
He truly believed that Nie Jie was very suitable to be the Sect Leader of the Hundred Peaks Sect, at least more so than himself.