Liu Yun's wish

Everyone in the courtroom had complex emotions stirring within them. Even the sect master of the Yellow Lotus Sect, despite his stoic expression, had his eyes flicker imperceptibly.

Despite the cultivation world being brutal at its core, they were still human. They couldn't help but sympathize with the torment endured by the citizens of what was now the Green Bud Kingdom.

"We three brothers decided to start the Mountain Springs Pavilion forty years ago. With our borders finally opened, we wanted to see and experience the outside world, which was something we not many in our kingdom ever had a chance at doing," Liu Yun continued, speaking as if all of this had nothing to do with him, like he was just an impartial narrator recounting someone else's story.

However, he wasn't as composed as he tried to appear. Yang Qing detected sorrow in his voice, and his hands twitched, as if he were holding himself back from clenching them into fists.