Outside is too chaotic, the Independent Immortals have gone mad, they are unscrupulously suppressing all races to consolidate their own racial forces.
Even if I successfully ascend, even if I become an immortal, I don't know if I'll ever have the chance to return to the Underground Immortal Realm.
At least, those who ascended before haven't returned.
Perhaps this is a one-way path; once you go, you can't come back.
Or perhaps you can return, but it takes a very, very long time.
Years pass unnoticed in cultivation, a millennium in the world; we've all experienced such things, more or less.
I don't want to return someday to find the Baihua Clan reduced to only me.
I want to entrust the entire Baihua Clan to you, join the Confucian Divine Country, and seek protection."
Yi Zheng smacked his lips together and said, "Hey? That's not right!
We agreed you'd give something in return, and I'd protect you during your tribulation.
