Liberated at Last

The matter had already been brought to this point. Whether Xie Rongxuan, head of the Ranked Family Xie Family, Li Jiaheng, head of the Ranked Family Li Family, and Sun Mingrui, head of the Ranked Family Sun Family, agreed to the demands of Wu Bochang, head of the Ranked Family Wu Family, and Meng Jingshan, chief of the Xinghua Village Meng Family, was another matter.

In truth, Xie Rongxuan, head of the Ranked Family Xie Family, Li Jiaheng, head of the Ranked Family Li Family, and Sun Mingrui, head of the Ranked Family Sun Family, had no way to refuse. After all, there were now only eight Ninth-Rank Cultivation Families within Qingyang County Territory. Aside from the Ranked Family Wu Family, where Wu Bochang was head, and the Xinghua Village Meng Family, where Meng Jingshan was chief, the remaining six were the Ranked Family Xie Family, Ranked Family Li Family, Ranked Family Sun Family, Ranked Family Zhang Family, Ranked Family Wang Family, and Ranked Family Yang Family.

Although the heads of those six Ranked Families had all stood on the same front, Zhang Wenhai, head of the Ranked Family Zhang Family, Wang Renhua, head of the Ranked Family Wang Family, and Yang Shouming, head of the Ranked Family Yang Family, had intended to murder Wu Bochang and Meng Jingshan today. They had even invited Sun-Extinguishing Elder, a desperate fugitive and wanted criminal of the Great Yu Immortal Dynasty, only for Meng Jingshan to slay him single-handedly amid the ruins of the Seven-Star Pavilion.

The deaths of Zhang Wenhai, Wang Renhua, and Yang Shouming on the spot today had already dealt a tremendous blow to the overall strength of their six Ranked Families' camp.

Without family strength, there was no right to speak, much less any possibility of bargaining with Meng