Ye Xuan's gaze flickered, and he said gravely, "That would be me."
"I am Tai Wei," the cultivator of the Ancient Immortal Clan said, cupping her hands. Her brows drew together slightly. "Why did the Ye Family send you into this battlefield? You still have a future. How could they let your life be cut short here...!"
A trace of anxiety actually flashed through Tai Wei's eyes. How could she save him?
This junior of the Ye Family had only just become a one tribulation immortal.
Yet Ye Xuan merely chuckled, utterly unconcerned. "Senior, back then, my Ye Family never imagined things would come to this. The entire Ancient Immortal Domain fell, and the Ten Thousand Clans retreated without attacking, so... we stayed."
His Ye Family had fought bloody battles on the front lines alongside countless experts from the Three Thousand Immortal Territories. When the war effort collapsed, it happened too quickly for even immortals to react. He had no time to withdraw, much less when the Ye Family's elite had been all but wiped out.
Many of his older clan brothers, younger clan sisters, and elders had died in this war.
Even if he wanted to flee, he had no face to return to the ancestral lands.
Better to burn away his last lingering light here and be buried on the battlefield with his clansmen. As for the future... he had regrets, but such thoughts had vanished like smoke the moment countless clansmen died before his eyes.
Tai Wei gave him a long, searching look, then nodded gently. "...I understand."
Rumble...
Heavenly thunder blotted out the sky, and the Great Dao spread everywhere.
Experts from the Outer Domain descended one after another, their appearances and builds all different, numbering well over a hundred. Yet faced with these mere two