While Su Mingyuan was racking his brains over the Su Family, Su Xin had already arrived near Wutong Mountain, where the Su Family was based.
The area within three hundred li of Wutong Mountain had already been occupied by these martial arts factions, making it rather crowded.
Given the scale of Beiyuan Circuit, each prefecture usually had at most two or three martial arts factions within or around it. Now, however, there were more than ten.
With so many factions packed so close together, friction was inevitable. Still, they managed to keep their tempers in check, and nothing much had come of it.
Unfortunately, if they didn't cause a major disturbance, how was Su Xin supposed to weaken the Su Family and the Dugu Clan?
Although Su Xin had promised not to touch the Dugu Clan's territory, he had never said he wouldn't goad others into doing so.
At that moment, Su Xin was heading for the territory of one of the many minor families: the second-rate Huang Clan.
The Six Fan Sect had dug up detailed intelligence on major families like the Beiyuan Dugu Clan. One particularly interesting piece of information was that the current head of the Dugu Clan, Dugu Yan, had an illegitimate son living in exile.
Normally, as a Soul Fusion Realm expert and head of the Dugu Clan, Dugu Yan wouldn't have to worry about having an illegitimate son. Any son of his would be entitled to live within the Dugu Clan and become one of its heirs.
But the problem lay in Dugu Yan's position.
Among the martial artists of Dugu Yan's generation, he wasn't the only one at the Soul Fusion Realm, and some were even stronger than him. Nor was he particularly skilled at wielding power. In the end, half the reason