At the Mu Clan residence, more than a dozen slave prison carts stood parked along the central avenue. Slaves were lined up one after another, branded with marks, and loaded into the prison carts.
"You can't do this! We're Mu Clan descendants too!" A divine being at the eighth level of the Divine Power Realm roared as he struggled.
"Hmph. Disobeying the clan chief's orders means voluntarily abandoning the clan. From now on, you are all slaves of the Mu Clan!" A divine being at the ninth level of the Divine Power Realm swung the whip in his hand, lashing the divine beings who had once been his clansmen.
"What kind of clan chief is Mu Hong? He deceived Master Mu and caused Master Mu to be trapped in Heavenly God Burial. He is the Mu Clan's greatest sinner!"
The cleverer members of the Mu Clan had already guessed that it was all a conspiracy once they learned that Qi Yaotian had not broken through to the fifth level of the True God Realm. It was a plot by Mu Hong and Qi Yaotian, working hand in glove from within and without, to frame Master Mu.
However, faced with Mu Hong's power—and with Mu Hong already controlling the clan's upper ranks—they could only swallow their anger and dared not speak.
But now, Mu Hong had pushed things even further. He had completely discarded Master Mu's principles for governing the clan, gradually colluding with the Qi Clan and monopolizing the many resources of Dragon Mountain Commandery.
Some clans that had originally allied with the Mu Clan were either forced to wallow in the mire alongside them or become their enemies, ultimately ending in the ruin of their clans and the deaths of their people.
In short, in Dragon Mountain Commandery, anyone