Two hundred kilometers away, at the West River Sect.
A brutal battle had broken out not long before.
With cold expressions and weapons in hand, the Qin Family forces encircled the sect and attacked.
The last hundred survivors of the West River Sect were trapped inside the main hall, the elders guarding them with faces covered in blood.
An angry shout from a Qin Family expert rang out from outside the hall. "Listen up, everyone in the West River Sect! There's still time to submit to the Qin Family. Otherwise, you'll be killed without mercy! This is what happens when you refuse to obey our orders!"
The West River Sect's leaders were furious.
Earlier, the Qin Family had forced them to sign some Alliance Pact, but in reality, they had been forcing the West River Sect to become their lackeys.
The West River Sect had, after all, stood for nearly a century, and its pride would not let it bow its head and become a slave.
But that had also brought the Qin Family's assault upon them.
"I'll go out. There's an underground passage below. Hurry and get out." The West River Sect's Sect Master bound his sword tightly to his hand with a strip of cloth and strode resolutely toward the hall's entrance.
Shhk-
A sword suddenly pierced his heart.
Everyone was stunned.
The West River Sect's Sect Master turned his head in disbelief. Jiang Hu, Jiang Yujian's father, wore a vicious expression. "Sect Master, the Jiang Family has been loyal to the West River Sect for half our lives. I refuse to keep living in such humiliation."
"Jiang Hu!" the elders of the West River Sect roared.
With an indifferent expression, Jiang Hu kicked the Sect Master aside and said coldly, "The Qin Family promised that as long