Desperate Five's Lifeline

Today's first update: Chapter 655!

The heads of the Five Great Families turned pale in shock. Seeing Jing and Ding about to act, they disregarded their status and hurried forward. "Senior, please show mercy!"

Tao Hongjing's words meant that, on behalf of the Forging Sect and the Pill Sect, he intended to completely blacklist their five families!

If they lost their ties to the two supreme human powers, the Forging Sect and the Pill Sect, the decline of the Five Great Families would become inevitable!

And once the outside world learned that the two great powers had blacklisted the Five Great Families, their downfall would accelerate severalfold!

When a wall collapsed, everyone pushed against it. Even giants like the Sima Family and the Kong Family could not bear the cost of being blacklisted by these two powers!

Thus, the five men no longer cared about their status and knelt in a row before Tao Hongjing!

The combined ages of these old men surpassed that of more than a dozen Xu Kuns, yet they wept until tears and snot streamed down their faces.

"Lord Tao, please show mercy!"

"Hmph, why didn't you consider the consequences when you offended my little martial uncle? It's too late for regret now!"

"My Forging Sect does not seek trouble, but neither do we fear it!"

"I forgot to tell you: in my grandmaster's eyes, my little martial uncle is even more precious than my eldest martial brother!"

"This time, to make it easier to teach my little martial uncle the Forging Art, my grandmaster personally came to the imperial capital!"

"You should count yourselves lucky that the only one who knows you offended my little martial uncle is this worthless third-generation disciple. If my master and grandmaster find out, just wait to be reckoned