I immediately took out the jade letter tablet from Di Yiqin and handed it to her. "I wouldn't dare refuse your younger sister's request. Please take a look, Miss Di. I'm not actually the Di Household's captain of the guards—I'm sure you've already guessed that. However, since I've come here, you can just treat me as a guard. I'll protect you until you leave this place."
"Heh, you're trying to persuade me to leave again? I've already told the Di Household that since I've decided to stay here, there's absolutely no room for reconsideration. I imagine you have things of your own to do as well, Miss Xia. Why waste your time on me?" Di Yifei refused without hesitation.
That was within my expectations. If she had agreed to leave with me simply because I came, then that would have been something worth wondering about.
Although the Original Immortal Realm was engulfed in war, with battles raging everywhere, and even my disciples had ventured deep into the Transcendent Immortal Realm's hinterlands, while Sister-in-Law, Xue Qingcheng, Li Guxian, and the others each stood on their own battlefields, my being here now was not actually a waste of time. The overall situation of the war was already laid out. Once the strategy had been set, it could not produce decisive results overnight. Time was needed to let everything ferment. By now, I was no longer the most crucial link, and remaining there would instead prevent me from making the greatest possible contribution.
On the contrary, I had spent the least time cultivating the Transcendent Immortal Realm, and had pitifully few pieces on the board there. Now that the place was in utter chaos, while major rear areas like the Heaven One Realm, the Northern Fox Household, and the Jiufang Household were facing