"Word came from the Zhou Clan ancestral shrine: two Grandmasters suddenly emerged, one of them Zhou Daqian from the Western Sect."
"The opportunity is here—one ladleful, two pots of dishes."
"Once the Eastern Sect is destroyed and the Western Sect falls after it, the Zhou Clan will never have any chance to rise from the ashes again!"
Xiang Qiankun, head of the Xiang Clan, was the prefectural governor of Feiyun Prefecture, one of the Eight Direct Prefectures, and an Earth Grandmaster.
Originally, when the Sealed Lord had lost virtue and all under heaven denounced him, he had remained neutral and taken no part. Later, when the Imperial Palace of Heaven Worship incident erupted, he swiftly joined the Royal Family's camp, broke with the Primordial Noble Families faction, and swore to avenge the Sealed Lord.
Whether it came from loyalty or self-interest, that decisiveness alone proved he was no ordinary man.
When his subordinate reported that the Grandmasters came from the Western Sect, he paid it no mind. "Oh?"
Though the Eastern and Western Sects appeared evenly matched on the surface, the Western Sect had ultimately split off to establish its own branch. Its foundations were shallow. When the family had divided back then, he had personally been present as a witness.
It was no exaggeration to say that Zhou Nanwang had taken little more than pots and pans with him. The Zhou Clan's true heritage remained in the Eastern Sect.
Not to mention anything else—the Zhou Family's Ninth Generation Ancestor, one of the two Heaven Grandmasters fighting overhead, guarded the Zhou Clan Eastern Sect. As for the Western Sect, it had only an Earth Grandmaster as withered as dead wood.
Xiang Qiankun nodded. "Back when the family split, it looked as though the Sealed Lord's scheme to divide and dismantle