Heaven Dou lay desolate beneath the bleak moonlight~
The entire Heaven Dou City was shrouded in darkness, with only a few shops along the streets still lit by candlelight that burned through the night.
At the end of the street stood a vermilion gate, its plaque bearing three large characters.
"Iron-Blooded Sect—!"
In a corner of the street, Tang Ya stared at that familiar gatehouse, her usually gentle eyes surging with bone-deep hatred.
Once upon a time, those words had been Tang Sect! This had been her home, the place where she had grown up.
Yet these bandits could not even be bothered to replace the entrance itself. They had merely removed the Tang Sect plaque and hung up their own name.
How arrogant. How utterly unscrupulous.
"This is the former site of the Tang Sect. It has now been occupied by petty villains..."
Tang Ya suppressed the sorrow in her heart and wiped away her tears before turning toward Jiang Yi beside her, her gaze complicated.
She had never expected Jiang Yi to bring her back here so soon.
"You've suffered a lot, Xiao Ya!"
Jiang Yi withdrew his gaze, rubbed her head, and softly comforted her.
The Iron-Blooded Sect was no great sect. Its strongest member was merely a Soul Emperor, yet it had managed to seize the Tang Sect's foundation in the imperial city of Heaven Dou and had even nearly wiped it out.
It was truly ironic!
The Iron-Blooded Sect had dared to act only because numerous forces had tacitly approved of it. Even Shrek had made no response afterward.
Not to mention anything else, any random disciple from the Inner Academy could have slaughtered the Iron-Blooded Sect cleanly.
No wonder Tang Ya had been completely disappointed in Shrek Academy in the original story, voluntarily dropped