The two men saw that the newcomer was overwhelmingly powerful and entirely beyond their ability to resist, so they tried to flee.
But Fang Xiao spotted something amiss and immediately acted, suppressing them where they stood.
Behind him, the spatial gateway rippled.
Yao Ling flashed into view at Fang Xiao's side.
Yet upon seeing the scene before her, she froze for a moment and could not help asking,
"Senior, what happened here?"
Fang Xiao shook his head.
"I don't know. It was already like this when I came in."
Clearly, they were not referring to the two people Fang Xiao had subdued, but to the Secret Realm before them.
The Secret Realm that the Yao Clan had painstakingly maintained should have been a cultivation sanctuary brimming with spiritual energy and vitality.
Yet now—
As far as the eye could see, it was a scene of utter ruin.
It looked as though it had endured an incomparably brutal battle.
"Oh, right. When I entered just now, these two tried to ambush me.
See whether they are members of your clan. They should know the full story."
But when Fang Xiao drew the two men over, Yao Ling, standing beside him, reacted violently.
Her eyes gradually reddened, and her face instantly twisted with fury.
"Senior... there is only one God-Seeing Realm cultivator in my clan—me."
Though Yao Ling possessed cultivation at the peak of the God-Seeing Realm, aside from her, the strongest member of the Yao Clan was merely at the Fifth Order Clarity Realm.
It was obvious that these two God-Seeing Realm cultivators were not members of the Yao Clan.
And under these circumstances, strangers had suddenly appeared within their Secret Realm.
Looking again at the devastated Secret Realm—
The Yao Clan's fate was not difficult to imagine.
Yao Ling was