Chapter 960: Cosmic Rift
From the time Heaven and Penglai Realm's powerful beings attacked Yunwu Mountain's Base, to the disintegration of the alliance camp and the end of the war, it took less than ten minutes in total.
Of course, the pursuit and bombing of the fleeing Heaven and Penglai Realm's powerful beings by the drone swarm cannot be counted in this time.
Members of the Military Department pursued the enemies by helicopter, although it was not very effective.
The frenzied bombings and strafings only inflicted certain injuries on the vast majority of enemies, while instilling immense fear in their hearts, making them appear utterly embarrassed. In reality, the damage caused wasn't very considerable.
In this battle, six enemies were killed within the Cloud Mist Mountain Array, and four to five were seriously injured.
After escaping the array's range, during the pursuit by the drone swarm and the Military Department's experts, another four were killed, and eight injured.
Among them, three were seriously injured. If not for the support of their comrades, these three would also have died in the frenzied bombings and strafings.
When everything ended, as Heaven and Penglai Realm's powerful beings tallied their numbers, their hearts grew cold.
Heaven was relatively better off, with only two dead in total, five wounded, and one seriously injured.
However, the betrayal of Chris and other Blood Clan powerful beings was even more painful for Heaven's people than the deaths in battle.
Because this meant that Heaven lost seven top-tier powerful beings who might even become enemies.
This was truly a terrifying thing.
As for Penglai Realm, it was even more tragic.
Eight were killed in action, two seriously injured, and out of the remaining ten, apart from Sun Xingyu and two powerful beings by his side, seven were injured, though not fatally or seriously.
For Penglai Realm, today's battle was a devastating heavy blow.
Among Penglai Realm's top-tier powerful beings, the Hawks numbered over thirty, yet twenty joined forces with Heaven to attack Divine Continent, only to suffer such a devastating blow, which was fatal for the Hawks.
Since ancient times, Penglai Realm's Dove Faction was always at an absolute disadvantage and couldn't rival the Hawks, only slightly influencing the Hawks' series of decisions to a certain extent.
After this battle, the power disparity between Penglai Realm's Hawks and Doves was not considerable anymore.
Moreover, such a huge failure would certainly become an excuse for the Dove Faction to attack, and after returning, the stability of the entire Penglai Realm group, and which side would lead future actions would become the biggest problem.
Internal strife was already evident.
Similarly, Heaven would also face this dilemma, but compared to Penglai Realm, Heaven's Hawks were still confident in stabilizing the overall situation.
However, whether it was Heaven or Penglai Realm, they both suffered enormous losses in this battle, and it was now impossible for them to unite again against the Divine Continent.
Although the number of powerful beings the Divine Continent showed today was not enough to scare them, relying on the treasure land that is the Cloud Mist Mountain Array, the future development of the Divine Continent was bound to surpass Heaven and Penglai Realm. As time passed, Heaven and Penglai Realm would be suppressed and continuously weakened and eliminated by the Divine Continent's powerful beings; it was already a foregone conclusion.
Despite the strong reluctance and anger, neither Heaven nor Penglai Realm could deny that they lost miserably in this battle and had no choice but to withdraw indignantly.
Not to mention the alliance had broken again, but both sides had also formed a grudge because of it.
Penglai Realm bore a grudge against Heaven Blood Clan's forces for turning on them at a critical moment, blaming Heaven's internal instability for making Penglai Realm suffer massive losses.
After all, if Chris and others hadn't suddenly turned on them, and Keigo Higashino wasn't killed on the spot, with Ookamura Hirokazu and the other two powerful beings severely injured in a surprise attack, the Penglai Realm team wouldn't have been so thrown off guard, worried about Heaven's traitors' surprise attack, while also having to deal with the Divine Continent's powerful beings' counterattack, becoming the side with the greatest loss in this war.
It can be said that after this battle, the hypocritical friendship between Heaven and Penglai Realm officially declared broken.
The sky gradually brightened.
In Yunwu Mountain Valley, as the final battle report came back, everyone showed the joy of victory, cheers rang continuously.
Including Keigo Higashino, who was killed by Chris, a total of ten corpses of Heaven and Penglai Realm's coalition forces were left here this time.
These were ten top-tier powerful beings whose individual combat strength had reached the current Earth cultivators' pinnacle.
Ten top-tier powerful beings gathered, enough to suppress any sect or aristocratic family of the former Hidden Sect.
Yet in less than half an hour, they were annihilated in the deep mountains of Shennongjia.
Most importantly, this time the total number of powerful beings deployed by the enemy reached forty, excluding the four who suddenly rebelled like Chris, there were still as many as thirty-six.
Such a lineup was enough to engage directly with the Hidden Sect before any internal strife occurred.
Yet such a lineup suffered a devastating blow when attacking the Divine Continent's secular powers, both sides of the battle found it immensely surprising.
Especially those older generation powerful beings from the Three Realms who looked down on secular powers, the result of this battle brought a huge shock to their hearts.
It turned out that their proud, powerful individual combat strength was so vulnerable under the large-scale strafing and bombing of modern weapons.
Moreover, Yang Fei and Qin Yanyang, who had grown up in the secular world, could become so strong with the support of the Cloud Mist Mountain Array.
Especially Yang Fei's strength displayed during this battle instilled fear in everyone.
At the beginning, if Yang Fei hadn't used the array to launch a group attack, disturbing more than half of the powerful beings, once the Divine Continent's powerful beings fell into a two-on-one siege, life and death would be uncertain, even with Chris and other Blood Clans' betrayal first, the result of this battle would have been the destruction of the Divine Continent's Yunwu Mountain Base.
Qi Yan, Mo Yunhai, and other Hidden Sect powerful beings looked at Yang Fei with newfound respect.
At least in their hearts, in this Cloud Mist Mountain Array, absolutely they could not clash with Yang Fei.
Here, that kid was an invincible existence.
"Thank you, everyone, for going all out and helping Divine Continent through its most dangerous calamity. After this battle, the alliance between Heaven and Penglai Realm has been dissolved, and they have suffered such great losses, with their strength greatly reduced. Soon, our increasing strength over theirs will make Divine Continent the true strongest on Earth." Qin Yanyang's face beamed with a brilliant smile, sincerely joyful, bowing in gratitude to all the powerful beings who fought today.
Everyone returned the gesture, quickly saying not to dare, that everyone being descendants of Yanhuang, defending Divine Continent was their duty, which they could not shirk. Catch the formatted version at M|V|LEM_PYR.
Even so, Qin Yanyang and the Divine Continent officials still sincerely thanked these powerful beings.
Ever since learning that Heaven and Penglai Realm were going to massively attack Yunwu Mountain's Base, Qin Yanyang had been in a state of worry.
The disparity was too great, and she really feared they wouldn't withstand this wave.
Now that the dust has settled, her mood was the most beautiful.
Certainly, the Hidden Sect people were also in a very good mood.
This time, helping Divine Continent traverse a calamity, they also felt a sense of pride in defending it, and establishing good relations with Yang Fei and Qin Yanyang was of tremendous benefit to the families they belonged to.
The entire Yunwu Mountain Base was in a state of excitement and joy.
However, just as Yunwu Mountain Base was throwing a grand banquet, celebrating the decisive victory of this battle, a sudden mutation descended from the sky.
Above the dome, a terrifying, tearing roar spread out.
It was as if the entire Earth Plane was suddenly torn open with a huge chasm, everyone looked up to see a huge black vortex appear in the atmosphere, like a cosmic giant beast opening its bloody maw, glaring at the whole Earth, ready to swallow it up at any moment...