"At the end of the day, the throne belonged to the Zhao Family. That woman wanted to seize that power.
The Zhao Family's main branch would never agree to it.
So they joined forces with Six Gates and struck on the day that woman intended to ascend the throne.
That battle was earth-shattering. Even Heavenly Realm Experts took action, and some even fell.
My Yang Family was one of Six Gates' legacy families at the time.
One of our Yang Family's Grandmasters also took part in that battle.
I remember that battle being incredibly fierce. In the end, the imperial family suffered devastating losses.
Other than those without the Direct Bloodline, only two members of the Zhao imperial family's direct line survived.
One prince and one princess!
That Grandmaster of our Yang Family was either lucky, or perhaps unlucky.
Despite suffering severe injuries, he forcibly protected those two direct descendants of the imperial family from the hands of a Heavenly Realm Expert!"
Upon hearing this, Yang Yao's eyes widened in disbelief as he said,
"Wait, something's not right, Great-Grandfather. If what you said is true,
and our family's Grandmaster protected those two direct descendants of the imperial family,
how could our Yang Family have fallen to such a state?"
At this, the little old man gave a bitter smile, shook his head helplessly, and said,
"What else could it have been for? It was because of those two direct descendants.
Though both of them were of the direct line,
they were the children of that emperor and that woman... Sigh...
And at the time, they were the only two direct descendants left.
If both of them had died, then an emperor would have had to be selected from the Collateral Branches.
So although our ancestor saved those two, he also