After everyone else dispersed, about three hundred people remained.
Tangyu looked at them and asked, "Why haven't you left?"
An elderly man with white hair shook his head and said, "I, Gu Yao, am just a loose cultivator, without sect or clan, wandering the world and calling the four seas my home, with nowhere to go. Though I've been proud and solitary all my life, I understand gratitude. I can't repay the life-saving grace I received, so I can only follow my benefactor to repay the great kindness. If it weren't for my pursuit of the Great Dao, I'm afraid I would have perished under the torment of Hongchen Palace long ago."
