Not long after the Ding, Li, Liu, and Yu families of Five-Family Fort discovered that something had happened to the Yuan Family, they gathered their forces and marched to its grounds—but upon arriving, the entire force of roughly two hundred Transcendents froze in shock.
What lay before them was a field of corpses amid shattered walls.
"The Yuan Family—is it gone? How much time has even passed?!"
Ding Long, head of the Ding Family, held a long saber, his expression grim. Less than half an incense stick had burned since his scouts discovered trouble at the Yuan Family and he led his men out to help.
Five-Family Fort could be called large or small. The Yuan Family's grounds lay only four hundred meters from the Ding Family's.
On their way, they had also seen the white blade of energy, clearly visible from anywhere within Five-Family Fort.
Ding Long had assumed the battle at the Yuan Family had only truly begun when that blade appeared.
No one had imagined that it actually marked the end—
"In seven or eight minutes, an entire family of nearly three thousand people—I can barely sense any signs of life left."
"Just what sort of being did Yuan Fang and Yuan Ying provoke? A Transcendent above Level 4?"
"Would a Level 4 Transcendent even come to a place like our Five-Family Fort?"
The four families' forces surrounded the Yuan Family's ruins, not daring to act rashly. Only their handful of Transcendents at Level 2 or above gathered to study the devastation and discuss it.
"Family Head Yu, Yuan Fang hasn't answered my calls. Whether he's alive or dead is unknown." Yu Wen, head of the Yu Family, also looked extremely grim. As two relatively weaker families, his family and the Yuan Family had always supported each