The execution of every member of the Abundant Source Cloud Family and the Nie Family meant that every branch of the two lineages' main houses had already been put to death.
Many of those stationed in the valley even forgot to offer greetings. They stared, dumbstruck, at the six Grand Academicians slowly descending, utterly unable to understand how things had come to this.
Yun Zhaochен was a city lord and a Grand Academician. A mere pair of Metropolitan Graduate lineages meant nothing in his eyes. Since he had said it, he must already have done it.
Only after a long while did these people recover their senses. The Abundant Source Cloud Family and the Nie Family were finished for good!
"C-City Lord Yun, why has this happened? The Abundant Source Cloud Family may have harbored sinister intentions, but our Nie Family has been unswervingly loyal to you! Two hundred years ago, our ancestor was a close friend of yours! What exactly did our Nie Family do wrong? Why would you treat us this way?" Nie Zhe's face was ashen as he gazed at Yun Zhaochен in despair.
Yun Zhaochен ignored Nie Zhe entirely. Yun He rebuked him in a low voice, "Nie Zhe, remember your station! Remember who stands above whom! You are questioning a Grand Academician as a Provincial Graduate. A gap of three literary ranks is enough to have you sentenced to death for gross disrespect!"
Nie Zhe snapped, "So what if your literary rank is higher? Two hundred years ago, what was your Everjoy Cloud Family worth? Would you have dared order our Nie Family around? If we're talking about station and seniority, then I hereby accuse Metropolitan Graduate Yun Fang! He actually ordered me, a distinguished Provincial Graduate of the Nie Family, to eat excrement! His