The smoke and dust dissipated, the Xuan Realm was full of devastation, the wreckage of the flying ship in the basin was scattered, corpses were everywhere, mutilated corpses were everywhere, the ground had been stained red with blood, and there were many seriously injured cultivators lying in pools of blood and wailing.

It was as if it had become a living hell.

There were only seven flying ships left in the air, including the Shenwei ship, and two of them were quite dilapidated and could barely fly.

The losses of Emei can be described as extremely heavy, more than ten flying ships, all the carrier flying ships have been destroyed, three of the ten war flying ships have been scrapped, and two of the remaining seven flying ships have almost no combat effectiveness, and only five flying ships are relatively intact.

There were also 123,000 cultivators who died due to explosions and collisions with airships, and more than 5,000 cultivators were injured and lost their combat effectiveness, and there were 50,000 when the troops were dispatched, and now there are only 27,000 strong people left who can fight, almost half of their combat strength has been lost.

When has Emei suffered such a huge loss in the past 100 years?

Tianyou Sword Venerable and other Emei high-level officials looked at everything in front of them, furious, and never dreamed that such a powerful offensive would be hit hard before it approached Yunxiao City, with more than half of the dead and wounded, which was a great shame for Emei.

Tianyou Sword Venerable's whole body trembled slightly, his teeth were clenched, and his eyes were terrifying, as if he wanted to eat people.

At this time, he really wanted to devour Xiao Cheng alive, skin his blood and devour his bones!

I thought that Xiao Cheng had no way to escape this time, who would have thought that Xiao Cheng's sudden appearance was a plan arranged in advance, and they had already fallen into a trap when they pursued Xiao Cheng, but they didn't know it.

Xiao Cheng led them into this treacherous trap, and when they thought that Xiao Cheng would definitely die, Xiao Cheng suddenly triggered the trap, causing them extremely heavy losses.

This plan can be described as seamless, there is no flaw at all, they thought it was an excellent opportunity, Xiao Cheng dug the pit, and they rushed in without hesitation.

The most infuriating thing is that Xiao Cheng was never touched from beginning to end, Xiao Cheng caused huge losses to Emei, and he retreated.

Tianyou Sword Venerable was about to vomit blood, he had practiced for hundreds of thousands of years, when had he ever planted such a big heel, but today it was planted in the hands of a cultivator like Xiao Cheng, who was only in his twenties, and his reputation was ruined.

Tianyou Sword Venerable suppressed the monstrous anger in his heart, and ordered the left and right deacons: "You quickly organize people to clean up the mess, take the people who can be rescued to the flying ship, and cremate the bodies of the dead on the spot!"

At this time, everyone could feel the anger of Tianyou Sword Venerable, and the deacon nodded tremblingly, and hurriedly organized people.

"Master, what should we do now?" asked Cao Jingluo, the Combined Venerable next to the Heavenly Blessing Sword Venerable, cautiously.

"What should I do, what can I do? Of course, it is to smash his Cloud City! Kill a chicken and dog without leaving behind!" Tianyou Sword Venerable said coldly.

At this time, Tianyou Sword Venerable was furious, where did he care about the identity of the Venerable, let alone kill too many living beings and hurt Tianhe.

Tianyou Sword Venerable glanced at the four of them, and snorted coldly: "Hmph, you are really capable, the four Combined Venerables actually pursued him all the way to this place before stopping him, and that's it, but they watched him detonate the ambush in the Xuan Realm......

Can't you have subdued him earlier? You've been practicing for hundreds of years, and you can't deal with a kid in his twenties, ...... You guys are really rice buckets!"

The faces of the four Combined Venerables were extremely ugly, and the Heavenly Blessing Sword Venerable rebuked them in public, and the words were ugly, making them lose face in front of the Emei disciples, but could they be blamed for this? They were just following the orders of the Heavenly Blessed Sword Venerable.

If Tianyou Jianzun had expected that there was fraud in this matter earlier, Emei would not have suffered such a huge loss, and it was also Tianyou Jianzun who asked them to stop Xiao Cheng, if they had let them kill Xiao Cheng on the spot, maybe there would be no such thing.

But this is not necessarily, Xiao Cheng is too cunning, everything has been arranged, even if they kill Xiao Cheng directly, they may not have this ability, Xiao Cheng must have other means to deal with it.

"I'll wait for the guilt to be recognized, and the next time I see Xiao Cheng, I will definitely kill him with all my might, and I will never give him a chance to play tricks again! I will not let my master down!" Cao Jingluo hurriedly confessed.

"I think Cloud City has been prepared for a long time, otherwise we will go back to Emei and gather some strong people to come again, now we have suffered heavy losses and our morale is extremely low, so we may not be able to please Cloud City like this!" the other Venerable suggested weakly.

"Return to Emei? We took 50,000 troops to conquer Yunxiao City, and we suffered heavy losses before we reached the Yunxiao Xuan Realm, and now we return to Emei, how can we explain to Emei? Where will our old faces go in the future?

Don't worry, Cloud City uses this kind of despicable trick against us, obviously they know that they are not our opponents, so they have no choice but to take a sneak attack, although we have suffered heavy losses without sufficient vigilance, but with our current strength, there is no problem in stepping on Cloud City!"

After all, he is a Mahayana Sword Venerable, and his absolute strength is the source of his confidence, Xiao Cheng's strength is the strongest in Yunxiao City, and others are not enough to see at all, even if the Emei army is lost, he will not be afraid of Yunxiao City.

After venting his scolding, Tianyou Sword Venerable's anger was soothed a lot, and he adjusted his tone and said: "You go to see the overall situation of the army in person, stabilize the morale of the army, supervise the cleaning of the battlefield and clean up the mess, and after resting for an hour, we will go straight to Cloud City!"

After this heavy blow, the strong people up and down Emei were a little frustrated, and they were afraid of Yunxiao City, and at the same time they had some resentment towards Tianyou Jianzun and others.

Ordinary cultivators naturally didn't understand the thoughts of the Venerable figures, in their opinion, tomorrow Mingyou Sword Venerable and the Four Great Combined Venerables could easily solve Xiao Cheng by taking action in person, why did they want to lead the army to hunt down Xiao Cheng and fall into the trap, this was obviously a decision-making mistake by Tianyou Sword Venerable and others.

The height of the station is different, and the angle of looking at the problem is of course also different, ordinary cultivators are not as comprehensive as the Heavenly Blessing Sword Venerable and others, before the incident happens, who knows that there are traps here?

If the five Venerables of the Heavenly Blessing Sword Venerable all left the fleet to hunt down Xiao Cheng, what if Xiao Cheng originally wanted to divert the tiger from the mountain to deal with the entire fleet? Before the incident happened, everything was possible, and the decision of the Heavenly Blessed Sword Venerable was actually correct, but Xiao Cheng was one step higher.

Many cultivators' thoughts were just afterthoughts, and when they were chasing Xiao Cheng, weren't they also very excited?

At the same time, because of the breeding of fear, many cultivators also had doubts about the significance of this crusade against Cloud City.

The cultivators of Emei are also flesh-and-blood people, and they all have their own joys, sorrows, and sorrows, and they are saddened by the fall of their fellow brothers and even masters, and they will subconsciously consider whether these people's deaths are worth it.

The reason for sending troops to attack Yunxiao City this time was that Xiao Cheng broke into Emei, killed Canglan Jianjun and others, and leveled the golden roof, but the fundamental reason was actually that Canglan Jianjun wanted to marry Ning Qianxi, and Xiao Cheng wanted to take back his lover.

Xiao Cheng and Ning Qianxi were originally in love with each other, and Canglan Sword Monarch naturally violated morality with a sideways kick.

If Canglan Sword Monarch had been open-minded at that time, Ning Qianxi and Xiao Cheng would not only have become a good story, but also would not have given up their lives in vain to cause disputes, and there would be no such thing as now.

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~(To be continued.) )