Throughout the Nine Provinces, defectors like Dong Shuye who abandoned their sects are extremely rare, for erasing the brand of one's original sect requires the expenditure of a considerable amount of merit. But Dong Shuye had no other choice.
Years of hard-earned merit spent in its entirety, burdened with the reputation and identity of a traitor, with three spiritual orifices broken, the path ahead almost severed, Dong Shuye was practically at the end of his rope.
And all of this was simply because the mountain tiger named Yiye had killed the Young Master of the Nine Stars Sect.
Had it not been for this, the Nine Stars Sect would not have accepted Xuanmen's declaration of war, and had it not been for this, he would not have taken the risk to personally set out to pursue and kill the enemy, nor would the sect's stronghold have been so easily breached.