The Upheaval

"I swear to protect you here. Anyone who attacks you is attacking me, and I will fight them to the death."

Yao Junchi spoke with solemn resolve, his voice booming like a heavy hammer pounding a drum, echoing throughout Wan Fang.

As soon as Yao Junchi finished speaking, the whistling sound bubbles from Xu Yi's suddenly launched punch came to an abrupt halt.

The fist stopped barely two feet from Zhou Daogan. Its tremendous force had already rippled the skin on Zhou Daogan's face.

Zhou Daogan let out a long breath and collapsed to the ground, his body finally free of its restraints.

Xu Yi clenched his fists tight, his clear reason desperately suppressing the fury and impulse deep within him.

He was a rational man, after all. With his great revenge nearly at hand, he would not let hatred make him forget himself.

If Xu Yi killed Zhou Daogan, he would violate Yao Junchi's Heart Oath. If Yao Junchi killed Xu Yi, he would violate Mu Shentong's Heart Oath. If Mu Shentong protected Xu Yi, he would have to fight Yao Junchi, and the two of them were bound by their mutual oath not to attack each other.

In that case, Yao Junchi and Mu Shentong would surely throw caution to the winds. By then, how could Xu Yi expect Mu Shentong to protect him? This Ancestor Mu, newly freed from the restraints of his Heart Oath, would probably charge even more eagerly than Yao Junchi to the front line of the effort to kill Xu.

As it turned out, Yao Junchi's Heart Oath had shaken someone far more than Xu Yi: War Son of Heaven.

When Xu Yi had bound Zhou Daogan with a thin cord conjured from iron essence, War Son of Heaven could have sworn a