Success or Failure, All Turns to Nothing

Poison Dragon's face was a mingling of grief and joy. Thinking of all he had gone through recently, he truly found it impossible to sum up in a few words.

First, he had encountered a wise lord and helped accomplish great deeds—what incomparable exhilaration!

Then came the plot against the Five Nights Sect's hidden dragon!

"...Who would have thought that fate would recoil against us? At the very moment before that hidden dragon returned home, he had a sudden whim and abandoned the plan... But the county's preparations had already been made. The arrow was on the string; it had to be loosed... In the end, we only killed the hidden dragon's father, and then two thousand elite soldiers of the Phoenix Soaring Army arrived at once."

As Poison Dragon spoke, his face flushed red, and he nearly spat blood!

He had always known that the Phoenix Soaring Army's armaments were lax and neglected. He simply could not understand why they had deployed so swiftly this time.

—Poor Poison Dragon had no idea that these two thousand men had originally been secretly mobilized by Military Governor Li Tie, intending to strike like thunder and wipe out the "demonic Daoist Void Spirit Master." Instead, Xiao Yang, the man he had chosen, took the blow!

They had barely occupied the county seat for a single day before the imperial army came charging in. Then came a brutal siege. Their foundations were unstable, and one of the great clans opened the gates at night. Xiao Yang died on the spot. Only Poison Dragon escaped with his younger sister and son.

As Aaron listened to Poison Dragon's tale, he glanced at the woman and child beside him. Both were pale with fright. A young girl desperately hid a child behind her, and he was