Viewers in the livestream began piecing the information together.
"Wait. Let me sort this out."
"The World-Breaking Pearl. Single-use. The patriarch gave it to his granddaughter."
"The patriarch didn't believe the Venerable existed at all! So he wasn't sending her to find someone."
"He was sending her away to survive."
"God... that World-Breaking Pearl wasn't for fetching reinforcements. It was for escaping."
"The patriarch knew the Sushen Tribe was finished."
"So he gave his granddaughter their only chance of survival."
"That whole 'go to the Nine Provinces and find the Venerable' thing was just an excuse. Something to make her willing to leave."
"If he'd told her outright to run, she never would've left."
"Right. She'd only leave if it was to get help."
"Holy shit."
"The patriarch really had given up on his own life and the lives of his entire tribe."
"He only wanted to save her."
The man spoke.
"You're the youngest of the Yun line. Your grandfather... your brothers... your uncles..."
He paused.
"Over these past thousand years, fewer and fewer daughters have been born to the Yun line. In your generation, you're the only daughter."
His tone changed when he said "the only daughter."
"Your grandfather and I are both old. Your eldest brother, in that three-years-ago Heavenly Demon tide..."
He didn't finish.
But his meaning was already clear.
"Your second brother and I discussed it. Whatever happens to the Sushen Tribe, you cannot stay here."
Yun Wanlan's tears finally fell. Silently. They simply streamed down her face.
"But I found him." She wiped her face. "Father. The Venerable is real."
The man looked toward Chen Hao.
The young man sat on a rock while his father told him about the Heavenly Demons, his expression calm. As though none of this concerned him.
But earlier,