The major sect alliances of the north all mobilized in full force, first gathering with the main forces of the Seven Sect Alliance before heading to the Zhang and Zhao Families.
Because the Zhao Family was closer.
The main forces of the Zhang and Zhao Families rushed back to the Zhao Family first.
When they returned and saw corpses strewn everywhere and blood flowing like a river—
Every Zhao Family cultivator's eyes split with rage.
There were not even many intact corpses to be found on the ground. Their enemy had been far more than merely cruel.
Quite a few Zhao Family cultivators suffered a complete collapse of their Dao hearts on the spot, weeping bitterly.
Others refused to give up, searching for their closest relatives to see whether they might still be alive.
Several Zhao Family higher-ups rushed straight to the Zhao Family ancestral hall.
When they saw that Zhao Zizhen's soul plaque had already shattered in the ancestral hall—
The other two Zhao Family patriarchs could scarcely believe their eyes.
Of the three, Zhao Zizhen had been the strongest. When he had been summoned away, he had said they had caught that little thief Tang Yu and that he would capture him alive, then torture him for centuries or millennia.
They had never expected that departure to become a final farewell.
Could the one who killed him have been that dragon demon cultivator? But that person had not been as strong as Zhao Zizhen.
While the Zhao Family cultivators were consumed by grief—
The Zhang Family cultivators were pale as well, no better off.
The two families were roughly equal in strength. If the Zhao Family had suffered like this, how could the Zhang Family have fared any better?
When the group arrived at the Zhang Family—
They