After the man from the main lineage left, Shui Tian wanted to ask Shen Fan why he had stopped him from refusing.
But the words reached his lips, and he swallowed them back down.
As he gradually calmed, Shui Tian understood why Shen Fan had so readily agreed on his behalf.
There was no reason beyond this: from the very beginning, he had never had the right to refuse!
Not going to the Black Abyss Marsh would only give Kui Bing an excuse to punish them. If they went, at least there would be a sliver of room to turn things around.
After all, with their strength, as long as they didn't do anything reckless once inside the Black Abyss Marsh, their chances of returning safely were still fairly high.
But it was a forbidden land, after all. Who would willingly enter such a hellish place unless they had nowhere else to turn?
One way or another, Kui Bing's move had been ruthless. Without shedding a drop of blood, he had created a serious crisis for Shui Tian!
On the day Shui Tian and Shen Fan set out, the atmosphere in the Tian He Lineage's residence was so oppressive it was hard to breathe.
Nearly all the Tian He Lineage members still at the residence had gathered outside the palace where Shui Tian lived, waiting for him to give them orders.
But even at the last moment, Shui Tian and Shen Fan took very few people with them.
Apart from a few members with special talents or abilities, they brought no one else.
After all, on this journey, anyone who wasn't at the True Ancestor level would face almost certain death.
Even for a True Ancestor, the odds of being lost in the Black Abyss Marsh were over fifty percent!