Even though he hadn't been there to witness it, seeing the anguish Xia Fang showed at that moment was more than enough for Yang Qing to understand what it must have been like for the other clan members. One could argue it might have been even worse for those who had lived during the clan's glory days. They had both the fortune and misfortune of experiencing firsthand what it was like when their clan stood at its peak.
For them, those memories were a double-edged sword—proof that such days once existed, but also a cruel reminder of how far they'd fallen. Meanwhile, those of Xia Fang's generation had no such memories to cling to. All they knew were stories passed down and their own imaginations trying to piece together a time when their clan stood tall.
Yang Qing couldn't decide whose fate was worse—those who had seen everything they built crumble to dust, or those who had only known the darkness that came after.