The Strongest Prodigy Doctor

Chapter 794 - 894: The Final Battle Approaches

In the following days, Ye Tianfan has been continuously improving his state of mind.Although the enhancement of the state of mind is only noticeable on the first day, and the effects in the following days are minimal, even the smallest improvement is still progress, so Ye Tianfan doesn't dismiss these small gains.

Because for others, even a tiny bit of progress is extremely difficult, but for Ye Tianfan, as long as there is improvement, no matter how small, over time it adds up to a significant effect!

On this particular day, Ye Tianfan heard someone say that a team had returned, so he headed towards the Taichu Hall to check on the situation of the team's mission.

When Ye Tianfan arrived at Taichu Hall, he noticed something amiss; there were only three people standing in the center of the hall!

Immediately, Ye Tianfan sensed something was wrong. Apart from his own team, every other team consisted of five people. The fact that only three stood there meant that something had happened to the other two.

Ye Tianfan quietly asked the person standing next to him, "Senior Brother, could you tell me what's happened? Where are the other two senior brothers?"

The person next to Ye Tianfan, recognizing him, quickly returned the courtesy and said, "Salutations, Senior Brother! As for the other two senior brothers, sigh!"

The person sighed, shook his head, and said, "Those two, they didn't make it back!"

Upon hearing this, Ye Tianfan nodded knowingly. Indeed, something had happened to those two brothers. Looking at the state of the three brothers present, they were quite injured, suggesting they had undergone a fierce battle.

Moreover, the most pressing issue is that as other teams start returning, there will likely be more casualties!

Ye Tianfan gazed at the people in the hall and sighed. That organization isn't easily deceived; even when he reached the outskirts of their base, they almost caught him. If they hadn't wanted to cooperate with his side, Ye Tianfan could have been dead long ago!

Then Ye Tianfan heard the three people on the platform begin to weep.

From what Ye Tianfan understood, they weren't discovered immediately upon entering the base. They were discovered because they made a fatal mistake by asking too many questions.

While gathering information about the base, they were too conspicuous, which alerted the people inside the base and led to them being discovered.

They fought desperately to escape but were pursued for a long time. They lost one person during the escape from the base, and another while being chased. Only when one person stayed behind sacrificially to cover their retreat did they manage to escape; otherwise, there would have been no hope for all three of them!

Ye Tianfan sighed once more. Without strength, no matter how well-coordinated you are, it's futile, because the enemy can work together even better than you, and they outnumber you.

Their formation could only handle formations of similar numbers. Once outnumbered significantly, it's worthless.

After all, the difference in numbers was so great that even diverting one opponent could mean their entire team of five would be overrun!

Just as Ye Tianfan expected, before the three finished reporting, three more groups flew in. Why three groups, you might ask? Because of their landing sequence: first, two people landed, followed by another two, and then one more.

These five might have been a team, but Ye Tianfan was certain they weren't, because they didn't communicate after landing, and their gazes held unfamiliarity. Thus, Ye Tianfan determined they weren't from the same team!

Looking at these five, Ye Tianfan sighed again. A total of fifteen people should have returned from those three teams, yet only five did, meaning ten were lost!

After hearing their report, it was as Ye Tianfan had suspected. The five were indeed from three teams, and all three failed. They only succeeded because team members sacrificed themselves to hold back the enemy.

Taichu Master viewed the scene with a twinge of heartache. With Taichu Sect's Stargazing Mirror, finding the bases of those organizations would have been easy.

Yet, for two reasons, Taichu Master didn't reveal this and instead let many fall into deadly peril.

The first reason is to protect the existence of the Stargazing Mirror. If this secret got out, then when the threat to the world is resolved, Taichu Sect would face crisis. The second is to toughen these fledging disciples—you cannot become veteran without taking flight at all.

So, to make them face life and death's trial, Taichu Master didn't stop them from undertaking missions!

Moreover, these missions weren't particularly useful to Taichu Master, because anything he wanted to know, he could easily find out.

To be truthful, upon seeing four teams return—where there should have been twenty people returned, yet only eight did—Taichu Master felt some regret.

For those were living lives!

Realize that the disciples sent by Taichu Sect were all elite disciples. Sending over a thousand, with this count, only over four hundred would survive.

This was yet another heavy blow to Taichu Sect, following previous battles!

But without a trial, Taichu Master feared that during a large-scale invasion, even more would die!

As more teams returned, Taichu Master breathed easier, for these subsequent teams did not bear as many casualties as the previous four.

Most had only lost one or two, and among nearly three thousand teams, around eighteen hundred had each lost one person, and five hundred lost two!

Instances where only one could not return were most common. Taichu Master finally exhaled in relief, as did other sect leaders, since such losses were within acceptable bounds!