In a heap of shattered stone, Yan Shan struggled to get up, only to find that countless bones throughout his body were broken. Even moving a finger was nearly impossible.
He lay amid the rubble, staring up at the cold moon in the night sky, his mind blank.
One slash. Just one slash!
With one slash, he had lost!
He was a patrol officer of the True Martial Platform's Cangnan Headquarters, a Martial Dao Grandmaster renowned for decades, yet a young man barely in his twenties had defeated him with a single slash.
The splendor of that slash, its overwhelming force, still echoed in his heart like a nightmare.
Li Yun sheathed his blade and looked down at Yan Shan, his gaze indifferent.
"Yan Shan, I'm not sparing you today because you have any standing. I'm leaving the True Martial Platform a little dignity."
He paused, then said evenly,
"Go back and tell your platform master this: I, Li Fenghua, settle kindness and grudges alike. Whoever touches my people, I'll wipe out their entire family. If anyone wants to stand up for them, they're welcome to come find me."
With that, he turned and walked out of the courtyard.
Zhao Gongnian stood where he was, watching that retreating figure. His lips moved a few times, but no words came out.
He knew that from tonight onward, the sky over Sand City had changed completely.
News traveled faster than the wind.
Before dawn, word that the Wang Family, one of Sand City's Four Great Families, had been wiped out swept across the city, then spread throughout Cangnan Province.
Within a day, the entire Cangnan Martial Dao world was shaken.
"Have you heard? Someone wiped out the whole Wang Family in Sand City!"
"Who did it? Who's got that kind of