"? Naming you?" Yuan's eyes widened slightly at the young girl's request.
The young girl nodded in confirmation.
"..."
Yuan fell silent for a good mont before speaking again, "In that case, how does Lingyue sound?"
A weird light flickered within Yuan's eyes as he spoke the na.
"Lingyue…" The young girl mumbled.
"Do you want a different na?" Yuan asked after seeing her reaction.
"No!" she hastily responded. "Lingyue is good!"
"It's a pleasure to et you, Lingyue."
"Un!" Lingyue nodded with a bright smile on her face.
"Ugh…" A grunt suddenly resounded, causing Yuan and the others to look at Xiao Hua, who was starting to wake up from her daze.
A few more monts later, Xiao Hua no longer had a blank look on her face, and she started looking around with a sowhat confused expression.
"Xiao Hua," Yuan called softly.
She turned to face him but remained silent. Then, her expression began to contort with sorrow, and monts later, tears stread down her face as she broke into a heart-wrenching cry.
"Waaah! I'm so sorry!" she started apologizing.
"What are you apologizing for?" Yuan said with a smile. "If this is about what happened just now, it's not your fault. Your mories were ssed up, after all."
"That doesn't change the fact that I pointed my blade at you! I even seriously tried to kill you! If she hadn't stopped in ti, I would've likely killed you!" Xiao Hua said as she looked at Lingyue.
"Kill ?" Yuan chuckled. "You should know well enough to know that I won't die to sothing like that."
"Regardless of what you say, I deserve to be punished! Please, punish , Brother Yu—Master Tian!" Xiao Hua said. "I won't complain even if you decide to kill !"
"What would I gain from killing you?" Yuan shook his head. "As for punishing you…"
He pondered for a mont before speaking, "Alright, I have decided your punishnt. You are forbidden from calling Master Tian."
"That's…" Xiao Hua wore a dumbfounded look on her face.
"What? Don't tell you're not going to accept the punishnt?"
"But what else am I supposed to call you…?" she asked.
"That's sothing for you to decide. You can continue to call Brother Yuan, but now that you have regained all of your mories, I understand that it might be difficult for you, so I'll let you decide."
"..."
Xiao Hua fell silent for a good minute before responding, "Master Yu—"
"Rejected," Yuan instantly interrupted her from finishing.
"I won't accept anything that starts with 'master' or 'lord' or anything similar," he continued.
Xiao Hua sighed and said, "In that case, I'll just call you Yuan."
Yuan nodded.
"Now then, we've wasted enough ti here. Let's go out and help the Asura Clan with the intruders. We'll continue this afterward."
"Okay."
They quickly left the Asura Clan's world and appeared outside shortly after.
However, by the ti they arrived, Xiao Cangming and the others had already cleaned up half of the intruders.
"My lord," Xiao Cangming, who was still guarding the portal, greeted him the mont they appeared. "Sorry it took so long. Sothing ca up." Yuan said, his eyes pointing at Xiao Hua and Lingyue.
"They're already awake?" Xiao Cangming was surprised by how quickly they woke up, as he had anticipated it would take several days, if not weeks.
"I'll explain everything later. What happened here?" Yuan asked, though the answer was already clear to him.
The ground was strewn with mangled corpses and soaked in blood—a sight eerily reminiscent of the Primordial Era, when he himself had painted countless battlefields in crimson as Tian Xian.
Xiao Cangming turned toward Xiao ilin and the others, who were still fighting off the intruders, and said calmly, "We gave them a chance to turn back and leave, but as you can see, they chose otherwise."
"..."
Without a word, Yuan suddenly approached the battlefield.
"All of you, stop."
His calm voice rippled across the battlefield, imbued with quiet authority, and in an instant, all movent ca to a halt.
"If you ca here for the Spirit Tree, you're too late, as it no longer exists. So you can either leave now with your life or die a pointless death."
"The Spirit Tree no longer exists? You're lying!" one of them shouted.
Yuan rely shrugged. "Go see for yourself if you don't believe . Even if I were lying, it changes nothing—you still won't get the Spirit Tree, and trying will only get you killed."
The cultivators gritted their teeth in frustration, yet none could refute Yuan's words. With most of their comrades already defeated, continuing the battle was aningless. Still, none bothered to flee since they knew that even if they turned their backs now, the Asura Clan would hunt them down without rcy.
Yuan could see their concerns and said, "If you leave now, I promise you that we won't chase after you later. We'll even pretend none of this happened."
Yuan was willing to show them rcy, for he found little fault in their actions. Deprived of spiritual energy and driven by desperation, these cultivators had turned their blades against the Asura Clan, who had long monopolized the Spirit Tree, sothing that would solve their problem, even if only temporarily. Moreover, these cultivators had no clue about the origin of the Spirit Tree or that the Asura Clan had grown it. In their eyes, the Asura Clan was doing sothing the first Celestial Emperor had done, and if Yuan had been in their shoes, he would've likely done the sa.
"How… How do we know that you won't go back on your word?" One of the cultivators suddenly questioned, his face full of skepticism.
Yuan shrugged, "You will have to take my word for it. Or would you rather continue this aningless battle and die for certain? The choice is up to you."
When no one moved after a full minute, Yuan spoke again—this ti to the Asura Clan.
"If any of them remain by the ti I finish counting to three, kill them all."
"As you wish, Master!"
Xiao ilin was the first to acknowledge Yuan's command, showing the cultivators that Yuan truly held so authority over the Asura Clan.
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