The images continued.
Tang Yan left Spirit Flame Peak and returned to Clear Sky Peak, utterly despondent. Instead of going back to his courtyard, he sat on the stone steps halfway up the mountain, staring blankly into the distance.
In the dusk, his solitary figure seemed incomparably small beneath the heavens.
Tang Yan sat in a daze for a long time, then slammed a fist into the stone steps and murmured, "Born to a mother, but never raised by one...
"You son of a bitch, you really did get that right. I've never seen my parents since I was little. I had no mother to raise me.
"I've come all this way and joined the Pill Alliance, yet I still have no one to rely on."
Hearing Tang Yan's words, everyone was shaken to their core, and their gazes grew even more sympathetic.
Having grown up without parents, it truly could not have been easy for him to get this far.
Rao Baoyue's heart clenched sharply, and even breathing felt especially painful.
He's had no one to rely on since childhood, and even after coming to the Pill Alliance, he suffered such humiliation... I really have been somewhat remiss in my duties!
In the images, Tang Yan collected himself and returned to his courtyard. He invited his two senior brothers over to practice alchemy while he read by candlelight.
Ji Xingsi said, "The next stretch is rather long. I'll speed up the images and see whether Junior Brother Tang did anything."
With that, the images began to accelerate.
Tang Yan read quietly until the next morning, doing nothing unusual. He had not even communicated with anyone outside from beginning to end.
"Everyone, do we still need to examine his memories from the night of the third?" Ji Xingsi paused his