1481: A Rare Heroic Spirit, the Hardest Kindness to Bear from Beauties (Monthly Ticket Request)

Supreme Alliance.

Faced with the Comprehensive Martial World's disastrous situation of suffering a full-scale blow in an instant, twenty-three elders from the Ten Great Clans gathered once more for a grave and solemn discussion.

Although the Ten Great Clans' think tank had analyzed every possible severe situation they might face before carrying out their plan against Black Wind Stronghold, including this very terrifying scenario,

even the think tank had not expected this dire situation to arrive so quickly, leaving the Ten Great Clans with no chance to react at all.

Or rather, the Black Wind Stronghold Master's counterattack had come too swiftly and fiercely, as though he had long prepared to launch an all-out strike against them. And that preparation might not have begun recently, but long ago—at least two or three years earlier.

The head of the Le Family, one of the newly appointed Four Great Leaders, said solemnly, "Only the Black Wind Stronghold Master possesses the influence to make so many Vassal States—Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Mongolia, and others—simultaneously seal off our families' businesses. This must also have been planned long ago. Otherwise, the reactions of so many Vassal States and Black Wind Stronghold's natives could not have been so coordinated, nor could they have acted with such astonishing speed."

The head of the Hu Family nodded. "Among the Vassal States, only these nations are powerful enough to suit our families' development, so the businesses of our Ten Great Clans are mainly distributed throughout these countries.

"Our decision-making group had previously decided that, after becoming enemies with the Black Wind Stronghold Master, we needed to shift the focus of our development toward countries less influenced by him, such as the Sacred Dynasty and Ying Kingdom.

"But many businesses rely upon local connections and resources. They are foundations our