Chapter 248: Turbulence In The Fish Betting Game
The true nature of the war remained beyond Li Fan's current understanding.
The dark clouds hanging over everyone gradually dispersed, and the conscripted cultivators returned to their homes.
Thus ended the great conflict that had raged for more than eight months, leaving behind an impression as faint and insubstantial as a dream. It was as though it had never happened at all.
Only when someone mentioned the names of cultivators who would never return did fleeting memories of that brutal war resurface.
Li Fan naturally had acquaintances who had fallen in battle as well, not to mention Chen Ying from the Medicine Hall, who had died early on in the Five Elders Council's surprise attack.
Jiang Zhengji and Du Xingchang of the Congyun Sea Martial Hall had both perished.
The Strategy Array Hall had suffered heavy losses. Of the three who had been conscripted, Gong Boyu and another Nascent Soul array master, Mu Bowen, were caught in the aftermath of a clash between Spirit Transformation powerhouses and failed to escape. Only Zhang Zhiliang survived.
As for the countless other cultivators stationed across Myriad Immortals Island, those Li Fan had perhaps met once before they vanished in this war, their number was beyond reckoning.
The savagery of the Tianling Province battle was plain to see.
And yet, this world had never lacked cultivators willing to gamble everything.
With a single announcement issued through the Tianxuan Mirror, the war and the deaths it had brought were swiftly cast aside.
For the next three years, every cultivator would be allowed to purchase techniques at a thirty-percent discount.