"Are you Yan Ying? What happened?" I asked with a frown. Even the expression on my mask looked uglier than a crying face, which left the woman startled and puzzled. Then she asked, "You didn't come here to take revenge on me?"
"What would I want revenge on you for? Ye Guxuan asked me to deliver a message to you." I transmitted indifferently. Seeing her look of bewilderment, I added, "At a critical moment, I wouldn't mind giving you a hand."
"What? Could it be that Alliance Leader Ye and you..." Yan Ying hurriedly tried to guess what was going on, but immediately shut her mouth. When she saw me sheath my sword, she quickly stood up, waved her hand, and dismissed everyone around her. Then she said, "I fell out with the Daoist who had always been relaying messages for me because I wanted to contact Alliance Leader Ye. Fortunately, that Daoist couldn't survive in the eastern region and defected to the Eastern Sea. Otherwise, I wouldn't have known what to do. So when Your Excellency arrived, I assumed he had sent you to kill me and mistakenly thought you had come for revenge."
I furrowed my brows slightly and said, "I see. That person actually defected to the Eastern Sea. What about you? Since he has betrayed the enemy, why haven't you left this place?"
"Alas, I want to leave too, but the other side has a hold over everything I've done these years. I'm afraid I won't even make it out of the eastern region and will instead bring disaster upon my disciples!" Yan Ying sighed.
I pondered and said, "Hesitating and looking backward is hardly the conduct of our kind. Aren't all the people from the eastern region going to the Eastern Sea right now? This