The Demon Suppressing City's second-largest family, the Fang Family, had suddenly paid a visit to the City Lord with a group of Xiantian Masters.
Everyone in the city's major families knew that they had come with ill intent. Lord Mo had accepted an invitation to the former Xinglong Demon Suppressing City, and he had taken most of the city's masters with him. Most of them were Martial Cultivators, which was why only Dongfang Yu remained in the Innate Mansion.
The City Lord of Xinglong Demon Suppressing City had suddenly turned hostile and detained all the guests in Xinglong Demon Suppressing City. Then, with lightning speed, he launched attacks on the two nearby Demon Suppressing Cities.
The resistance from the City Lord's Mansion of Xinghui Demon Suppressing City had been especially fierce. As a result, after the city was finally breached, everyone still alive in the City Lord's Mansion of Xinghui Demon Suppressing City was beheaded and displayed to the public. The methods had been utterly bloody.
Only then did the news spread, and everyone discovered that they could no longer reach their respective City Lords.
Mo Ruxue was in the same situation. Her father, Mo Hongjie, had also attended the banquet hosted by Xinglong Demon Suppressing City. He had now been detained, and his life or death was unknown.
Once the war broke out, Mo Ruxue's talent for leadership also revealed itself. She immediately gathered all the Xiantian Masters in the city and brought them to the City Lord's Mansion. She was preparing to gather the masters and head out to rescue Father King. The Fang Family was the only family that had not come!
Xingyu Demon Suppressing City bordered the Endless Forest and could be considered a frontier city of the human race on the Eastern Continent. Its entire city wall was much stronger defensively than those of the other inland cities.
Moreover, although Xinglong Demon Suppressing City had taken Xinghui City, its bloody methods had provoked their other opponent, Xingyuan Demon Suppressing City, into resisting to the death.
Xingyu Demon Suppressing City was located farther back. If they wanted to attack it, they would first have to completely capture Xinghui and Xingyuan. Only then could they launch an assault on Xingyu Demon Suppressing City.
Mo Ruxue had gathered all the Xiantian Masters and was preparing to head out to aid Xingyuan Demon Suppressing City. However, because of the Fang Family—the city's second-largest family in ordinary times—they had refused to obey the summons and declined to send Xiantian Masters to station themselves at the City Lord's Mansion.
This meant that if Mo Ruxue wanted to aid Xingyuan City, she had no choice but to leave behind enough Xiantian Masters to stand against the Fang Family. Only then could she send troops to Xingyuan.
At this point, different voices emerged among the major families in the city. If the enemy's forces had all been in Xingyuan City, no one would have objected to sending people into battle. But now there was an uncertain factor: the Fang Family!
Which of the other families would still dare send all their masters out? The chaotic age had arrived. Without the strength to protect themselves, they would only end up as meat on someone else's chopping block.
Yet at precisely this moment, the Fang Family had come.
The Fang Family's patriarch did not enter the City Lord's Mansion. Instead, he stood outside the gates, bowed to Mo Ruxue, and said,
"Fang Xu, patriarch of the Fang Family, pays his respects to the Grand Princess."
Looking at the dozens of Xiantian Masters behind the Fang Family's patriarch, Mo Ruxue could not help marveling inwardly. The Fang Family has the ambitions of wolves and the hearts of jackals. They've come with ill intent! To think they have so many Xiantian Masters—their strength truly cannot be underestimated.
"Uncle Fang Xu, there's no need to be so courteous. A few days ago, your niece used the City Lord's Token to issue a mobilization order to all the Xiantian Masters in the city. Why did you, Uncle Fang Xu, disobey the order?"
Mo Ruxue truly possessed the bearing of a superior. Facing the aggressively imposing Fang Family, she had instead overwhelmed them with her own momentum!
"Grand Princess, please don't be angry. That day, I was on the verge of breaking through, so before entering seclusion, I arranged for all the masters to protect my path. That was why everyone failed to heed the order. It truly was unavoidable."
Fang Xu put on an insincere act outside the gates.
"Then, Uncle Fang Xu, have you come to obey the summons now?"
Mo Ruxue regarded Fang Xu noncommittally. She did not know his purpose in coming today, so she could only respond to change by remaining unchanged.
"Haha, the Grand Princess is refreshingly straightforward. Since you've put it that way, I won't beat around the bush. My son, Fang Cheng, has admired Lord Mo since he was young, and he has been hopelessly in love with the City Lord's daughter. Somehow, he was captivated by the Grand Princess's beauty and fell in love with you. So, as his father, I can only shamelessly come to the City Lord's Mansion to propose marriage and take the Grand Princess as my daughter-in-law.
"The dozens of Xiantian Masters behind me can all be counted as my son's betrothal gifts. They will help the Grand Princess send troops to Xingyuan Demon Suppressing City and rescue Lord Mo!"
After hearing Fang Xu's words, everyone could not help cursing aloud. The Fang Family's wolfish ambitions were laid bare for all to see. They actually wanted to marry the Grand Princess—was the Demon Suppressing City about to change its surname to Fang?
Suddenly, a shrill voice rang out from within the Fang Family's crowd.
"It's fine if you refuse to marry the Grand Princess, but today I'm taking a Princess home with me. You want my Fang Family to risk our lives, yet you won't offer us a single benefit? Do you take everyone for fools?"
As soon as those words were spoken, quite a few people cursed aloud as well. "You, Fang Cheng, should go take a good look at yourself after pissing into your hands. Do you really think you're worthy of a Princess?"
Mo Ruxue's expression had now turned icy. Marry a daughter of my Mo Family? There are only my younger sister and me in the Mo Family. He's trying to force me to marry off my sister! But the situation is critical. Without resolving the Fang Family problem, we can't send troops to Xingyuan. Father is surrounded by danger, and his life or death is still unknown.
Many of the families standing behind the Mo Family had fallen deep into thought after hearing the Fang Family's words. They stood silently in the rear, watching the matter unfold.