The Huang Household was only four thousand li from Moonwatch City. Far too close.
Heading north from Qing Province, the only reliable route into Mirror Province passed through Moonwatch City. Everywhere else was either shrouded in poisonous miasma or infested with lurking demonic beasts. Even birds could scarcely cross, let alone other living creatures; anyone attempting it would face nine chances of death and one of survival.
The east, south, and west were simply too far away-so far that they were beyond reach at present.
Moreover, the Huang Household was trapped, and the predicament before them was still far from resolved.
The Primordial Yang Sect cultivators had come with hostile intent, killing every cultivator and mortal along their path. Their actions already betrayed an intention to wipe out the Huang Household completely.
Of course, most of the Huang Household's Qi Refining Period cultivators felt nothing but fear and unease. They could see only their immediate predicament, with no foresight concerning the future.
The Foundation Establishment cultivators were different. The Huang Household's Foundation Establishment elders and patriarch, Huang Yicheng, possessed knowledge far beyond that of the Qi Refining cultivators. They considered more possibilities and understood the Primordial Yang Sect's strength much more deeply.
Precisely because of that deep understanding, the elders felt darkness close in around them the moment Yan Hongyu and Li Butong attacked, and they began to fear for their lineage's future.
The actions of these Primordial Yang Sect disciples, after all, largely reflected the sect's stance.
Having placed themselves in opposition to the Primordial Yang Sect, where could their lineage find a future, even if they escaped today's calamity?
For a time, not only were the Qi Refining Period clansmen terrified, but even the Foundation Establishment elders' confidence wavered. On the surface, however, they forced themselves to remain