One Look Will Tell

Hearing this, Zhou Qingyuan, the magistrate of Qingyang County Territory, knew that Meng Jingshan, the clan leader of the Xinghua Village Meng Family standing before him, intended to fight those established ranked families to the bitter end.

If the Xinghua Village Meng Family wished to advance from a ninth-rank cultivation family to an eighth-rank cultivation family, their greatest obstacle would be those established ranked families within Qingyang County Territory.

Now, Meng Jingshan, clan leader of the Xinghua Village Meng Family, had single-handedly wielded the might of his newly attained Golden Core Realm to forcibly wrest three lives from the hands of that desperate outlaw, the Sun-Extinguishing Elder: Zhang Wenhai, head of the ranked Zhang Family; Yang Shouming, head of the ranked Yang Family; and Wang Renhua, head of the ranked Wang Family.

In other words, after today, the ranked Wang Family, Yang Family, and Zhang Family would have all but lost the lineage strength and reserves needed to contend with the Xinghua Village Meng Family again.

Leaving aside Zhang Wenhai, head of the ranked Zhang Family, and his lineage for the moment, there were Wang Renhua, head of the ranked Wang Family, and Yang Shouming, head of the ranked Yang Family, along with the two ranked families behind them.

Although these two ranked families were ninth-rank cultivation families, they had each lost their heads twice in succession in less than ten short years. The backbone of their confidence had long since been broken. Without some heaven-sent encounter or opportunity, the ranked Wang Family and Yang Family would never rise again within Qingyang County Territory.

As for Zhang Wenhai, head of the ranked Zhang Family, and his lineage, the only reason they had been able to keep jumping about until now was that Meng Jingshan, clan leader of the Xinghua Village