The man beside him sighed and picked up the thread. "Captain, it seems you don't know. At first, we too had charged onto the battlefield full of zeal, hoping to accomplish some grand, earth-shaking feat and become a renowned hero like the Demon Slayer Hero Yang Xilin. But what happened?"
"Our dreams were all strangled by this harsh environment." The yellow-haired old man said viciously, "Captain, any place chosen as a battlefield is a place abandoned by both the Forbidden Demon Clan and humanity. Without exception, they are places with extremely terrible environments. Natural disasters and calamities are simply commonplace. And where we are stationed is the region where such disasters are most active. Tell me, could the Forbidden Demon Clan possibly appear here? What benefit would they gain from attacking through this place?"
Yang Chen rubbed his chin and began to understand.
If that was the case, then he could not entirely blame these people for lacking motivation.
He gradually understood, then said, "Are the natural disasters and calamities here dangerous?"
"Dangerous? If they were ordinary natural disasters and calamities, martial artists would have long since subdued them. During the Ancient Era, there were countless places plagued by such disasters, but hadn't humanity overcome them all and changed the landscape? Hadn't they gradually evolved into what they are today? This place was abandoned precisely because the disasters here cannot be overcome. Captain, you can imagine how perilous they are. Even Earth Martial Realm cultivators like us could easily lose our lives if we handled them improperly!"
Yang Chen narrowed his eyes. "Then the previous captain died to one of these disasters?"
"Exactly. Our previous captain was greatly respected by all of us. Even though we had been stationed in such a remote region, he still wanted to lead us