But in the end…
No one had anticipated the arrangements Zhou Tian had made, so when the explosions in Zhou Tian's Territory occurred, they clinically extinguished the ambitions of many.
The NPCs suffered the severest damage. Believing that Zhou Tian could no longer hold out, they had dispatched their elite forces deep into his territory. As they had ventured too far, when Zhou Tian ordered his Beastmen to detonate the crystal bombs, the losses for the NPCs significantly exceeded their acceptable threshold.
Originally, the NPCs had a threshold for loss; if losses reached a certain standard, they were no longer to continue combatting Zhou Tian. For if they did, they feared it might lead to their annihilation.