Chapter 448: Vice President Tao Wen appears

The skies above the mist trembled and turned with unstoppable momentum at the flick of the scholarly man's finger.

He faced a particular direction like his gaze could pierce through space and void.

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Ruins of the Ice Emerald Sect

Yang Qing and the rest used whatever strength they had left to move their heads and smile at each other as a form of reassurance and comfort that at least they wouldn't be dying alone. They would have each other for company.

Yang Qing was oddly surprised by his sense of calmness with death almost upon him and unavoidable. 

He had spent all his life trying to avoid it, drove himself half mad thinking all sorts of ways he could die, and painfully at that, which led him to the doors of the Order and later to the courtrooms as a judge, which ensured he would be under the protection of the sturdy walls of the Order, and he would never meet any danger with powerful seniors above him to hold up the skies should it fall.