Some people vow to the heavens and earth, yet will often just say it’s a thing of a past, the promise nowhere in sight.

Some people will only quietly say a line, yet they will guard it with their lives.

The affection developed between life and death will always be the more sincere, the strongest affection.

On a worn-out house less than a hundred steps from where Lin Xi and the others were, there was a petite body that was calmly concealed. The black robes she wore were too big, but because it sucked away all of the aura around her body, moreover acting like the skin of some lizards in this world, blending into the surroundings, the Yunqin soldiers next to a blade cart less than twenty steps in front of her didn’t notice her existence at all.

She remained in the darkness alone.

No one noticed her existence.

However, she instead didn’t feel like she was alone… especially after seeing those ordinary Yunqin soldiers calmly and heroically face death.

Right now, her ears were moving slightly. When she heard the last few words Lin Xi, Gao Yanan and Jiang Xiaoyi exchanged that weren’t all that quiet, even though she couldn’t join in their conversation, she knew that if this city couldn’t be defended,...