Jiang Wang was so angered by Yin Guan that he nearly wanted to report Hell's Gate to the Qu Kingdom court.
Back when Hell's Gate had assassinated Qu Kingdom's border-guarding general, Qu Kingdom had issued wanted notices and sworn to wipe Hell's Gate out. When they failed to find them, they quietly revoked the warrants themselves...
They should have had nothing to do with each other from then on. Hell's Gate was, after all, an assassin organization: they only did business and did not deliberately target anyone. But for them to appear openly within Qu Kingdom's borders was practically like repeatedly dancing on Qu Kingdom's face.
If the Qu Kingdom court learned that Hell's Gate was currently in Jade Light City, one could well imagine how fiercely they would react...
Of course, he could only imagine it.
With Yin Guan protecting him, capturing Yang Xuance was already impossible, so Jiang Wang continued on his way.
After leaving Qu Kingdom and entering Zheng Kingdom, he heard a piece of news—
Over Xiang Kingdom's groundless detention of a Xu Kingdom merchant caravan, friction had arisen between the two states. After several rounds of failed negotiations, Xu Kingdom had brazenly sent troops to punish them!
Now, the armies of Xiang and Xu had deployed at Star Moon Plain and were locked in confrontation.
The major move Chongxuan Sheng had spoken of... had arrived!
There had recently been many more people in Zheng Kingdom, most of them minor factions that had previously scraped by on Star Moon Plain.
With the two states going to war and Star Moon Plain chosen as the battlefield, these ramshackle groups with ties to neither side scattered like monkeys when the tree fell.
No matter how long they had operated here, how long they had lived here, or how