The Dagger Revealed: Shangguan Clan

The Shangguan Clan martial artists within Sunset City had been almost entirely killed or wounded. Chen Yuan directly chopped off Shangguan Chun's head and took his Heaven-and-Earth Bag as well.

Chen Yuan could not spare any concern for his utterly depleted strength. He casually stuffed a handful of pills into his mouth and prepared to return to the Martial Suppression Hall headquarters first.

The area surrounding Sunset City lay at the border between Ningzhou and Azure Province. The commotion from his fight with Shangguan Chun had been so great that he did not know whether word had reached the Shangguan Clan. It was better to be cautious.

Though Chen Yuan still had some trump cards in hand, they were best saved for critical moments rather than wasting their power in a place like this.

After returning to the Martial Suppression Hall headquarters in Tianning Prefecture, Liu Suifeng immediately ordered Shangguan Chun's head hung from the city gate tower. He also announced to the public, "Those who dare offend my Martial Suppression Hall shall be executed, no matter how far away they are!"

This move was incomparably high-profile and swiftly spread throughout both Azure Province and Ningzhou.

Deep within Azure Province lay Peerless City in Icefrost Valley, the home of the Shangguan Clan.

Icefrost Valley was naturally bitterly cold. Even in summer, it remained blanketed in ice and snow. The Shangguan Clan's city had been forged from ice itself, the only one of its kind in the world. Thus, the Shangguan Clan's ancestors had named their city Peerless City. However, this name overlapped with Northern Peerless City, one of the Northwestern Twin Cities.

Of course, the Shangguan Clan's ancestors had not deliberately intended to provoke Peerless City.

When the Shangguan Clan's ancestors named their city, the Northwestern Twin Cities happened