A Powerful Backer

The Central Plains Merchant Alliance was developing steadily, and so was Song Ankang. Song's Workshop and the Tang Family were also growing quickly. Life was peaceful and stable—exactly the state Song Ankang wanted.

It was only that, with more and more grandsons and granddaughters, accidents were bound to happen.

To properly look after the seeds Song Fanxing had scattered everywhere, Song Ankang had specially formed a Fanxing Group for him, dedicated to protecting and arranging matters for the women and females carrying Song Fanxing's children.

But Song Fanxing was far too unreliable and had left behind far too many seeds. Sometimes, even the group could not keep track of them all. This time, an accident occurred.

An Angel Race woman whom Song Fanxing had encountered by chance became pregnant with a child of the Song Family. Yet she was not discovered in time. By the time the Fanxing Group found her, the Angel Race woman had already been killed by the Water Roaming Insect Race—in other words, one of Song Ankang's daughters-in-law had been murdered.

Even the child had suffered severe injuries. If a Water Roaming Insect Race expert had not recognized the child's extraordinary nature at the critical moment, the child would likely have perished as well.

Song Ankang flew into a rage upon learning the news and immediately dispatched Inner Demon True Immortals to the Kunlun Mountains. This time, he was determined to slaughter every last Water Roaming Insect.

He had ignored them before only because they posed little threat, and keeping them around could temper the Human Race, Angel Race, Merman Race, and others. Yet he had never expected these Water Roaming Insects to commit such an outrageously audacious act.

What could be tolerated, and what could not? Three Inner Demon True Immortals made their move, with