Old Grudges

Only then did Meng Jingshan, clan leader of the Xinghua Village Meng Family, and the younger clansman Meng Haoran learn that the Sun-Extinguishing Elder had once had deep ties with the Baili Family, the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family to which Elder Baili Shouxi belonged.

Decades earlier, the Sun-Extinguishing Elder's Ranked Family and Baili Shouxi's Baili Family had both been Sixth-Rank Cultivation Families in Qinghe Commandery Territory. They had been enemies for centuries, and no one knew how many cultivators on either side had died.

Their blood feud had long since passed the point of reconciliation.

Later, someone in Baili Shouxi's family had somehow broken through to Void Insight and forged a connection with a member of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty's imperial family. The Baili Family then began relentlessly suppressing the Sun-Extinguishing Elder's family throughout Qinghe Commandery Territory.

When their struggle reached its final hour, the head of the Sun-Extinguishing Elder's family chose the riskiest path of all.

He secretly joined forces with the demons and monsters hiding within the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty!

It was the most dangerous path, but for the Sun-Extinguishing Elder's family at the time, it was also the fastest way to grow!

Yet as the family head prepared to swear an oath of cooperation with the demons and monsters, he had no idea that the Baili Family had been watching them all along!

Every step the Sun-Extinguishing Elder's family took had been under the Baili Family's eyes.

Determined to bring that family down in a single stroke, the Baili Family's head had thrown himself into the scheme.

To ensure it succeeded, he had also enlisted the Commandery Governor of Qinghe Commandery Territory.

Just as the Sun-Extinguishing Elder's family head was about to make peace with the demons and monsters, Baili Family clansmen and officers from the