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Chapter 1495 - Chapter 1495 Chapter 8 Malicious

Chapter 1495: Chapter 8: Malicious Chapter 1495: Chapter 8: Malicious Longzhou Calendar, year 1791, early September

The Justice Alliance, accompanied by six hundred warriors from the Fierce Realm, attacked Jiejiang City. Within just half a day, they captured Boma City. The evil Longxi Alliance failed to resist and kept retreating as they fought. After paying the price of nearly a hundred Fierce Realm warriors, they fell back to Andong City.

The situation on the battlefields of Longxi had deteriorated faster than anticipated. For Xiehe, of course, this was merely a battle where justice was destined to win. However, for Tang Sen of the Heavenly Phoenix Sword Saint family, this sudden defeat was simply counterintuitive.

Fortunately, the intelligence this time was supplied by the Xu Clan and wouldn’t be as vague as that from the neutral Wind Media Organization. Details and intelligence about the battle were piled up in wooden crates.

After reviewing the battle reports from various fronts, everyone’s face bore an expression of dejected loss.

But ultimately, someone had to collate the information and draw a conclusion, and there was no one more objective and neutral in the room than Yun Xiu, who had been trained in intelligence.

After summarizing the intelligence reports, the young madam spoke in an extremely calm tone, revealing the outcome for the Longxi Alliance:

“According to messages from the Dutian Heavenly King’s patrols, the reason the Longxi Alliance suffered such an abrupt defeat is because a large number of Martial Ancestor Level experts were stricken with severe poison during the battle, which disrupted the flow of their Spiritual Power. Furthermore, there are reports from Boma, stating that in early August, a powerful individual adept in using poison infiltrated Boma and, atop White Horse Mountain, engaged in combat with Tang Baichuan, Tang Yi, and Tang Zhenghao, defeating three Fierce Realm squads before retreating with serious injuries and disappearing without a trace.”

“After that, the poisoning among the warriors of the Longxi Alliance is very likely linked to this individual. But for now, the Longxi Alliance, lacking skilled healers, has yet to discover both the method of poisoning and the antidote, severely weakening their battle capabilities.”

“According to information from the Bounty Guild, the defeated remnants of the Longxi Alliance that retracted to Andong City have fewer than two hundred Fierce Realm warriors capable of fighting again.”

“On the other hand, the Justice Alliance, having captured Boma City, is surging with momentum. Many noble families and clans that were originally on standby to show support have now dispatched their elite forces to assist.”

“At the same time, at the far reaches of Lingjiang, the four camps led by the Liu, Nong, Mu, and He families pressed forward with their armies, dividing Lingjiang into two distinct eastern and western battlegrounds, with a posture always ready to attack, forcing the defending armies of Fuling and Mount Lan to remain immobilized.”

“Based on the current battle situation, predictions from the Dutian Heavenly King’s Wind Department suggest that by the end of this year at the latest, the Justice Alliance will be able to pacify the Lingjiang Seven Cities and completely eradicate the Longxi Alliance…”

As the wall falls, everyone lends a hand; whether numbers truly represent justice no longer matters. The numb faces of the people present can only reveal desolation.

The Longxi Alliance is finished, and the Tang Clan… is finished too.

Before the great war, how many noble families in Longzhou were in a wait-and-see state?

Eight hundred or a thousand?

If even just one Fierce Realm warrior was sent by each family to show their stance, the size of the Justice Alliance would double once again.

As for the less than two hundred Fierce Realm warriors remaining, all of them poisoned, how long could they last?

In Yun Xiu’s hands, there was another casualty list calculated by the Bounty Guild, but she didn’t dare to read it.

Because she knew, behind these cold names, there were once living, breathing lives, members of Tang Luo’s clan; hence after much contemplation, she only briefly mentioned the number of casualties using statistical figures.

After stating the predictions of the Dutian Heavenly King’s patrol, she obediently sat down next to Tang Luo and said no more.

The atmosphere inside the room was silent and oppressive; no one was willing to speak, just gazing blankly at a certain spot as if they could see through the floor and walls to the distant Longzhou.

“Choices are easy to talk about, but very few can actually make them, and even fewer can do so as decisively and nonchalantly as the Tang Clan Chieftain. Alas, the Tang Clan has taken the wrong path.”

These were the words of Xu Changge when delivering the battlefield information to an annex of the Heavenly Phoenix Sword Saint. If the Tang Sen household did not initially understand Tang Zhi’s intentions, by now, they had completely grasped them.

Right from the start, Tang Zhi had seen through this battle, one the Longxi Alliance could not win. What he aimed to do was to preserve the Tang Clan’s legacy to the greatest extent possible.

He entrusted this hope to Tang Sen, to Tang Luo, to the Secret Arts Pavilion dedicated to researching martial techniques, and to the clan sanctuaries devoted to protecting their kin.

After realizing this, the people of the third branch felt a sudden and heavy burden on their shoulders, pressing down so hard they could hardly breathe.

…

At the far west of Longzhou, in Long Valley,

Cao Ziqi, with bloodshot eyes, paced back and forth in the grand hall. His clenched fists, veins standing out on the back of his hands, were filled with anxiety and irritability.

“Damn it, that despicable Xu Lang old ghost actually used a sword formation to confine the Tang Sen lineage; it’s absurd!”

“After pulling so many strings and orchestrating so many plots, the main target still holed up in Yuanzhou and refused to come out!”

“Fine! Since you won’t come out, I’ll force you out!”

Cao Ziqi’s eyes flashed with a venomous resentment as he called over an officer, “Spread the word, the Tang Clan of Longxi has committed monstrous crimes and yet refuses to repent, stubbornly resisting to the end. Such a vile act is unprecedented in history, and must be eradicated completely. A family with such evil bloodline should be eternally condemned to Purgatory to atone for their sins.”

“List the Tang surname in Longzhou as a criminal and lowly lineage, where males will be slaves for generations, and females will be prostitutes forever!”

A surname is the most important identifier for a person or family, and the surnames themselves can be noble or base.

In the darkest ages of the Human Race, the most noble were the surnames that worshipped totems, such as: Dragon, Phoenix, Lion, Tiger, Chilin, Pixiu; as well as: Mountain, Water, Flower, Leaf, and so on.

Later, as the Human Race began to establish their own martial arts systems, their strength gradually grew, and some powerful tribes could even drive away demons and clear out beast tides.

To showcase their martial prowess, they named the territories they conquered and adopted these names as their surnames, considering them as marks of nobility.