On the third day after Xiang Yang and Nan Fenglan opened their hearts to one another, the Bai family began making frequent moves.
First, Bai Tiansong, the Northern Domain Divine Sword, returned from another province and took over authority from Bai Tianxiong. He also changed the Bai family's formerly overbearing ways, beginning to contract the Lineage's businesses and influence. He recalled nearly all of the Bai family's upper-level combat forces from outside Lianchuan City, prompting much speculation from the outside world.
According to the news Huang Shaoxiong had sent, these forces included two Heavenly Beings of outside surnames, drawn into the Bai family through marriages with its descendants. Aside from the Bai family's four siblings, they were its strongest combatants. With six Heavenly Beings joining hands, they could run rampant across Dingzhou; apart from Zhou Tong, none could contend with them.
There were also twenty Xiantian Experts and nine Great Success in Primordial Spirit powerhouses. All had been accumulated by the Bai family over many years, their strength exceedingly formidable—enough to sweep aside every force within Lianchuan City.
From this, the Bai family's title as Dingzhou's foremost aristocratic family was clearly no empty boast; it truly had the qualifications to bear it.
Moreover, Bai Tianxiong had not been idle. He spent his time personally writing twelve letters, then dispatched them one after another within two hours, sending them in twelve different directions.
After Xiang Yang intercepted the twelve expert messengers with his peerless martial art of bewitching minds and souls, opened the letters, and read them, he discovered that they had been addressed to renowned craftsmen and Formation Masters in Dingzhou. Their contents invited these people to gather at Lingya Mountain.
Judging from what the letters said, these people had no shallow ties to the Bai family and might have