After reaching an agreement with Profound Bone Old Devil, Xiao Yu once again asked Han Li his earlier question.
"Are you saying the Yue Kingdom wasn't defeated?" Xiao Yu was astonished by Han Li's answer. This was vastly different from what he had expected.
"That's right. At least, it hadn't been defeated before I teleported here. At the time, the Yue Kingdom had joined forces with many countries to the north, forming an alliance called the Heavenly Dao Alliance. A married couple at the mid-Nascent Soul stage led it, commanding dozens of small and medium-sized countries against both the righteous and demonic paths.
"Still, although it wasn't defeated, it remained at the junction of the three powers. All three fought fiercely within the Yue Kingdom, destroying several sects, including the Blade Transforming Dock, Spirit Beast Mountain, Qingxu Sect, and your Giant Sword Sect, senior brother."
"Ah, this..." Xiao Yu had never expected things to turn out this way.
"What happened afterward?" he continued asking.
"I don't know. I left a year after the three-way war began," Han Li said.
Xiao Yu took a moment to digest the news, then fell silent.
Over the next several days, more people arrived in a steady trickle. After seven or eight days, there were over a hundred people in the hall.
The tops of the jade pillars in the center had long since been occupied by the cultivators who arrived first. Latecomers could only find somewhere on the hall's floor to rest for the time being.
That day, several more Nascent Soul cultivators arrived amid a commotion.
The first to appear were two men: an elderly Daoist with white hair, a youthful face, and a ruddy complexion, and a dark, thin old man dressed like a farmer, his face etched with bitterness.
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