In Soaring Cloud City, the Ren family seemed to have learned that I intended to collect the debts they owed. They had decisively summoned every family immortal under their command and pinned the matter of the Xu family patriarch directly on me, even using the claim that I was a spy for the Primordial Immortals. They had first reported the Mao family to the Northern Fox City Lord, intending to drive the Mao family out of Soaring Cloud City!
I admitted to myself that I had killed the Xu family patriarch, but of course I refused to take the blame publicly. I had known this would be the result of a cornered dog leaping over the wall. The Ren family had long since grown sick of being constrained at every turn by my plans. It was only normal for them to join forces with every family and resist me. The Mao family had grown too close to me; if they did not eliminate the Mao family, what foothold would they have left after I returned to Soaring Cloud City?
The Northern Fox Army was still far weaker than the combined forces of the Ren family. And the Mao family was no me. Although their assets had skyrocketed during this period, they had not dared to flaunt their strength too much. Wanting to increase their troops only after the enemy had turned the tables on them was indeed too late.
After failing to persuade the Northern Fox Army to expel the Mao family, the Ren family seemed to have been plotting for a long time. That night, they brazenly joined forces with the other indebted families and launched a war. They forced Northern Fox Zhan to hide in the main city, afraid to come out, while the Mao family was driven