He looks back over the battlefield at all of the dead and injured men in gold and white. There were a number of Jiang clan members assisting now to bandage wounds and find some kind of order, but it was still a nightmare. He didn't understand how the guard could've gone from the upstanding group he'd left his nephew with to this mess.

Jin Ling's face twists in pain as the arrow is drawn out and lets out a shout. Luckily as soon as it's clear, he's sinking completely into unconsciousness and doesn't feel it when Wuxian has to burn him. It rips Wanyin's heart out to watch his child-by-heart suffer like this. He then too helps give some sustaining energy to keep the boy from sinking too far.

At that point, Song Lan steps back and asks through writing if they need him to travel for a while with them or if he should depart.