All along the way, the human scholars had been discussing the casualties suffered while entering the Ice Emperor Palace. Nearly ten thousand had died in the Icebound Wasteland, almost exactly as everyone had predicted. But their estimates for casualties against the Ice Emperor Guards ranged from a minimum of two hundred thousand to as many as five hundred thousand!
Three hundred years ago, two hundred thousand humans had reached this place, but only a mere forty thousand had broken through the Ice Emperor Guards and entered the Ice Vein Mountains.
When some of the elderly learned this, they brought their entire families to find Fang Yun. Without taking up his time, they knelt, kowtowed, and left as soon as they finished. If they were not allowed near him, they kowtowed from afar.
Fang Yun did not know whether to laugh or cry, but he truly could not stop them, so he let them be.
Some of the elderly were still not satisfied after kowtowing to Fang Yun. They even took a detour to where the Zong Family was staying, spat at its members without the slightest courtesy, and then cursed them out.
The line everyone shouted most often was, "Even sitting in a wheelchair, Void Sage Fang is better than you standing piles of Zong Family trash!"
Since all those who came to curse them were elderly, and every last one was brimming with righteous conviction, the Zong Family members actually dared not argue back.
Although Xiao Yetian and the others were full of grievances, they dared not utter a single word now. Previously, the Zong Family members had received no direct benefits from Fang Yun, so they could criticize him without restraint. Now, however, Fang Yun had opened the gates of the Ice Emperor Palace and discovered the Ice