Chapter 266: A Clever Stratagem Defeats The Enemy
The Myriad Immortals Alliance's announcement did not specify how many of the Five Elders Council's nine Dao Unity powerhouses had perished. But the losses were undoubtedly severe.
Otherwise, the Five Elders Council, that was acting so arrogantly just moments before, would not have withdrawn their forces like a tiger with its fangs pulled, shifting from offense to defense in the blink of an eye.
The only Dao Unity cultivator publicly known to have fallen in this incident was ironically from the Myriad Immortals Alliance.
Yet he did not die in battle; he was executed.
For he was a spy.
A Five Elders Council spy who had hidden within the Myriad Immortals Alliance for nearly a thousand years, completely undetected.
With his esteemed status, no one would have ever suspected him before his identity was exposed.
Immortal Venerable Ziqiong of Tianyu Province.
He presided over the Martial Hall of the Myriad Immortals Alliance's headquarters, a figure of immense prestige and authority.
It was precisely because Immortal Venerable Ziqiong had secretly relayed the information, and the Five Elders Council verified it through probes, that they became utterly convinced of the intelligence stating that a Dao Unity powerhouse was on the verge of advancing to Eternal Heavenly Venerable.
This led them to adopt the extremely high-risk strategy of dispatching nine Dao Unity powerhouses deep into enemy territory.
This was not the first time they had done so.