Seven Years Later

Time flew, and the years flashed by like a shuttle.

In the blink of an eye, seven years had passed since Meng Jingshan, clan leader of the Xinghua Village Meng Family, had single-handedly slain Zhang Wenhai, head of the Ranked Zhang Family, Wang Renhua, head of the Ranked Wang Family, and Yang Shouming, head of the Ranked Yang Family.

During those seven years, the Xinghua Village Meng Family first won the recognition of Zhou Qingyuan, the county magistrate of Qingyang County Territory. He put their centuries of achievements into a written report and submitted it to Tang Shouyuan, then Commandery Governor of Qinghe Commandery Territory. With help from the sidelines by Baili Shouxi, an elder of the Sixth-Rank Cultivation Family known as the Baili Family, the Xinghua Village Meng Family became the first Ninth-Rank Cultivation Family in Qingyang County Territory.

The Xinghua Village Meng Family did not disappoint the Ranked Families that had placed their hopes in it. As their leader, it guided the Ranked Wu, Li, Sun, and Xie Families of Qingyang County Territory, as well as the Ranked Zhao, Zhou, and Jiang Families of Chiyang County Territory.

Using Qingyang County Territory and Chiyang County Territory as its bases for outward and upward growth, the Xinghua Village Meng Family rapidly expanded its influence in every direction.

After the clan war seven years earlier, the Commandery Governor of Qinghe Commandery Territory had stripped the Zhang, Wang, and Yang Families of their Ranked Family titles. Now reduced to scraping by among the Lesser Cultivation Families, their members had to weigh their present strength and standing before even thinking of taking revenge on the Xinghua Village Meng Family.

In other words, the Xinghua Village Meng Family had become a towering tree beyond the reach of the Zhang, Wang, and Yang Families. None