Alliance Oath

Shangguan Mingshu's brows creased slightly when he heard the people from the Dongfang Family mention the Murong Family. He knew the history of the Murong Family—the clan that had once stirred up the winds and clouds a thousand years ago before ultimately being suppressed.

Ever since the Murong Family had sent someone to seek them out, the Zhang Family had been doing everything in its power to gather intelligence about them.

More than a thousand years ago, the Murong Family had been the true instigators of the chaotic age. They were hybrids of the barbarian and human races, possessing the advantages of both. Taking advantage of the previous dynasty's weakness at its end, they had raised an army and founded a nation.

At their peak, the territory they occupied had been even larger than today's Zhao Kingdom. However, they had all been mad.

Their ceaseless expansion had caused their ambitions to swell without end, making them increasingly indifferent to life. They had slaughtered people at will.

The worst of it was that their cultivators attacked without restraint.

In the end, all the great cultivation lineages had united to wage war against the Murong Clan.

When the Murong Clan saw that the situation was unfavorable, they had decisively abandoned their newly established nation. After frantically plundering vast amounts of wealth and resources, they had taken Qingzhou City with them and withdrawn from the world.

However, in the final moments, the coalition of aristocratic clans led by the Dongfang Family had established a ban with the Murong Clan, forbidding them from leaving Qingzhou City at will.

A thousand years later, the ban was no longer strictly enforced. Many people had forgotten it entirely.

Even when members of the Murong Family occasionally came out for a stroll, no one paid them any attention.