As the Military Governor of Beiyuan Circuit, Chen Zhongting was no weakling. He possessed peak Spirit Transformation Realm cultivation. Though his strength matched Su Xin's, his status was far inferior—after all, Su Xin was one of the Six Fan Sect's Four Great Constables.
The military also knew that the Six Fan Sect had moved in fury. For that very reason, Chen Zhongting was even less likely to speak for the Xu Family.
At a time like this, he did not dare offend the Six Fan Sect for the Xu Family's sake. And the person he would have to face was Su Xin, notorious within the Six Fan Sect as someone not to be trifled with.
Thus, although he normally had some ties with the Xu Family, those ties truly amounted to nothing at a time like this.
When the Xu Family sent people to ask him to intervene, Chen Zhongting could only fob them off with evasions.
And for the Xu Family, that was not their only piece of bad news.
Xu Mingshan had returned as well. He too had failed to see Dugu Yan, the Dugu Clan's patriarch, and had merely been dismissed by several Dugu Clan elders.
As fellow great families of Beiyuan, Xu Yuande had never expected the Dugu Clan to refuse to lend a hand as well. Had they never heard the saying, "When the lips are gone, the teeth grow cold"?
And worse news was still to come. Of the sects and families friendly with the Xu Family that the others had gone to invite, very few had come either.
Compared with those sects and families, several independent martial artists who were close to the Xu Family or had received its favors had come to support them instead, leaving Xu Yuande sighing inwardly.
Those sects