"General, Tong Mo has been executed!"
In a requisitioned courtyard along the Northern Province border, a junior officer presented intelligence from Yan Capital.
Dressed in fitted combat clothes, Shao Dengyun had been practicing with his saber, its blade whistling through the air. He suddenly reversed the blade and planted it in the ground, straightened up, took the report, and examined it closely.
They had already received word here of the earlier developments in the Capital City. After that string of startling upheavals, the Tong Family had been raided, yet Tong Mo's fate had remained unknown. They had been following the matter closely.
Now, with confirmation that Tong Mo had been sliced to pieces alive, Shao Dengyun threw back his head with a long sigh. "Evil meets its retribution. The treacherous minister has faced justice. Those brothers who were slaughtered in blood back then can finally rest with their eyes closed."
At the Yan-Zhao front, upon seeing the news that Tong Mo had been executed by dismemberment, bang! Shang Chaozong slammed his fist onto the table. "Good! So long as this traitorous villain lived, the uncles and elders from those years could never rest in peace!"
"Ah!" Meng Shanming was equally overcome with emotion. Back then, Tong Mo's power had been so overwhelming that even he had been forced into seclusion. Now, he had finally been removed. "Of all people to provoke, Tong Mo just had to send men into the secret realm to assassinate Daoist Master. He truly enraged Daoist Master. Daoist Master's methods are indeed brilliant—he used the opportunity to uproot the entire Tong Family!"
Shang Chaozong was also deeply moved. Tong Mo's influence had been immense; he was not someone anyone could simply overturn at will. Yet Niu Youdao had gone to Yan Capital and, with one