The open and covert struggle between the Huang Family and Wang Firm quickly spread throughout Scarlet Cloud County.
"Have you heard? Early this morning, someone dumped a corpse at the Huang Family's gate. It was their retainer, Liu Hui!"
"Wasn't Liu Hui a Blood Transference Completion martial artist? Is that for real? Who killed him?"
"How could it be fake? My second uncle works in the east of the city. He saw the Huang Family guards carrying the body inside with his own eyes—their faces had gone green."
"Even a Blood Transference Completion expert died? Who had that kind of ability?"
"Who else could it be? Most likely that senior Qiao Yuan from Wang Firm."
At Little Prosperity Tower, a group of people drank as they discussed the storms that had swept through Scarlet Cloud County these past few days.
Someone spoke up. "I heard Qiao Yuan was surrounded and killed by three Blood Transference Completion experts from the Huang Family. How could a dead man come back and stir up trouble?"
"Where did you hear that nonsense? Senior Qiao Yuan fought three alone and killed one in return. The other two fled with severe injuries."
"He could kill one while fighting three? This Senior Qiao Yuan of Wang Firm is truly formidable!"
Chen Chong drank alone at Little Prosperity Tower, drowning his sorrows.
Now turmoil was breaking out everywhere in Scarlet Cloud County. The Huang Family and Wang Firm were fighting so fiercely that the whole city knew of it. The Chen Family could not escape calamity either.
The Chen Family was no great clan.
There was not much ancestral property left to them—only a small patch of land in Green Willow Alley, south of the city.
It lay close to the docks, where cargo carts came and