After Wen Zishu and Hong Yao, Qiu Ran and Feng Lan also received orders from Yang Lingqing.
The place they were sent to reinforce was where Xiao Yize's elite squad was battling a Demon Child.
In this war, both Daoyuan Mountain and the Feng Family had lost the ancestors who stood guard over them, as well as those who ran their affairs.
Under such circumstances, Qiu Ran and Feng Lan should not have been sent to the battlefield.
But when they learned of the situation at the front and read the reports of those who had fallen, they resolutely chose to go.
And they did not go alone. Nearly every cultivator remaining in Daoyuan Mountain and the Feng Family, along with cultivators from countless forces large and small across the Northwest, had arrived at the front aboard the great immortal ships.
These many Origin Condensation and Qi Gathering Cultivators might have been lower-tier fighters on this vast battlefield against the demons, but their resolve to fight bravely, slay their enemies, and defend the Dao was no weaker than that of cultivators at higher realms.
They knew how weak they were. They also knew that, with their abilities, they might never change the course of the war on a strategic level.
But that did not mean they could turn a blind eye to their elders' sacrifices or to the suffering unfolding across their homeland.
At this critical moment, when the Northwest's Daoist lineages faced extinction, its countless ordinary cultivators had given their answer through their actions.
Zhao Che, a cultivator of the Yang Clan who was not related by blood, led the clan's cultivators and a group from the Tiger Chasing Dynasty to the Eastern Region front.
The Yang Clan's blood relatives, led by Yang Yuancheng and Yang Yuanfei, were dispatched