The Veiled Curtain Merchant Association was a force that had risen to prominence in the Outer Seas in recent times. The Outer Seas had originally possessed many major powers—the three great merchant associations, Yanlong Kingdom, Divine Wind Kingdom, Fuyu Kingdom, Haikong Zhizang of the Star Venerating Sect, the surviving remnants of the Great Xian Dynasty led by Tantai Tanmie, the Veda Great Sage of the Sutuoluo Clan, the Seven Great Remnant Clans, and others.
However, after wave upon wave of upheaval in the Outer Seas, the balance of power had shifted again and again. Now, the most powerful force in the Outer Seas was the Veiled Curtain Merchant Association.
This great merchant association had surpassed the former three great merchant associations in one stroke, becoming a colossal behemoth that ruled nearly half the Outer Seas.
Young Master Su was the master of the Veiled Curtain Merchant Association. He controlled the greatest merchant association overseas, while the former three great merchant associations, the Four Island Heroes, and the three great sea kingdoms had all declined drastically in power.
The three great Manifested Divinities who had once ruled the seas—the Veda Great Sage and Haikong Zhizang—had fallen, while the Tantai Clan had vanished without a trace. The three great merchant associations had also weakened; Yanlong Kingdom had only just changed rulers and suffered calamity and unrest, while the Star Venerating Sect of Divine Wind Kingdom had been destroyed. The entire Outer Seas had thus fallen into a vacuum.
The Veiled Curtain Merchant Association had seized the opportunity presented by this power vacuum, riding the momentum of the times to rise up and shatter the old monopoly of the three great merchant associations, becoming the new overlord of the Outer Seas.
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