Once that Star Colossus was released, it would likely bring about a towering calamity. The True Martial Realm itself might even be destroyed.
"But this is the only way!" Ye Mo said. "With your current strength and status, if you went to guard the Outer Territory Battlefield, you would surely hold absolute authority and command great power. Then you would have an opportunity!"
The Outer Territory Battlefield had never been a particularly vital place. Abandoning it would have been no great matter. Yet a colossal beast capable of destroying the world was sealed within it, leaving them caught in a dilemma—guarding it was wrong, yet abandoning it was wrong as well.
If Ye Xiwen requested to be sent there now, the people in the sect might not agree. There was no other reason: Ye Xiwen's importance was vastly different from what it had been in the past.
When he had first entered the True Martial School and gone to the Outer Territory Battlefield, death had simply been death. People like him numbered not a million, then eight hundred thousand in the True Martial School. No one would have cared if one died, or even if a whole heap of them died.
But now, he had displayed sufficient potential. In the future, he might even contend against Huang Wuji and Mu Shengjie. With such potential, he could very likely become another Transcendent Realm expert. The True Martial School could bear the deaths of a million legends, but it could not afford to lose even one Transcendent Realm expert.
Although Ye Xiwen merely had the potential to become a Transcendent Realm supreme expert, he was still someone they could not afford to lose.
Thus, once the application was submitted, it would likely be difficult to get it approved. This was what Ye