The Five Great Families' assessment began.
At the center of Danta's outer city, a massive bluestone square had long since been sealed off by formation patterns.
Tiered viewing stands rose around the square, and the various powers of the Dan Region, Alchemists, and Danta Deacons had all arrived. Countless medicinal lamps hung in midair, their flames and medicinal fragrance weaving into a thin mist that made the entire arena look like an enormous pill furnace.
The Ye Family's seats were at the very end.
The spot was not remote, yet it seemed especially deserted.
The Cao Family's seats were bustling with noise, and the Bai Family and Qiu Family each had their own clusters of supporters. Only on the Ye Family's side, aside from Ye Zhong, Ye Xinlan, and a few Ye Family clansmen, there were only Xiao Fan and the others left.
Ye Xinlan wore a pale cyan dress today, her hair arranged in an extremely proper bun. She worked hard to make herself look calm, but when those faint, barely concealed gazes from all around swept over, her fingertips still unconsciously tightened around her sleeve.
Those gazes were no longer only looking at the Ye Family.
More of them were looking at her.
At the Ye Family's "fiancé" who had suddenly appeared.
At this young lady of a declining clan, and how exactly she had tied a young Spirit Realm Alchemist to the Ye Family's war chariot.
Ye Xinlan could not hear what they were saying.
But she could guess.
Some words did not need to be heard to know they were ugly enough.
Just as her breathing tightened slightly, a Sugar Pill was quietly stuffed into her palm again.
Zi Yan sat beside her, one still in her mouth as she said indistinctly, "Don't be scared. Xiao