Xia De said, "I can agree to let you take your people to the Tree Starry Sky and avoid this disaster."
"What about everyone else on the Fifth Continent?" Lu Yin asked.
Xia De sighed. "As fellow humans, we'd very much like to save them, but we can't. Being able to protect the Tree Starry Sky is already quite an achievement. You should know that there were once six continents in human history. Now, only this broken Fifth Continent remains. And now the Fifth Continent is going to disappear too. Humanity is no match for the Eternal Clan. We can't help you."
Lu Yin snapped, "People call you Xia Hero, yet you're more cowardly than anyone."
Xia De chuckled. "I can die protecting the Tree Starry Sky, but I won't die for this Abandoned Land. Lu Xiao Xuan, you think you can use those captured people to threaten us? That's too simplistic. Every few decades, or at most every few centuries, each Great Family has direct descendants born. They aren't that precious. Letting your people escape to the Tree Starry Sky is already our bottom line. Don't expect to drag us into this war."
"The Tree Starry Sky is humanity's last line of defense. Why did Ancestor Hui set up the Infinite Power Original Treasure Formation in the Tree Starry Sky back then, instead of on the Fifth Continent? Because he knew the Fifth Continent was doomed to fall sooner or later."
Lu Yin raised his head. "That's nonsense. Ancestor Hui didn't set up the Infinite Power Original Treasure Formation in the Tree Starry Sky; he set it up on the back of the Mother Tree. You're the ones who dragged the Mother Tree away."
Xia De said, "That's the Lu family's problem. It's your problem, not ours."
"Fine. You