Ambush

The resentment and hostility that alliance leaders like Wang Xuangan and Chen Longbi, who came from humble backgrounds, felt toward those aristocratic clans and major sects could be said to be etched into their bones. During their rise, those self-proclaimed noble clans and great sects had spared no effort in suppressing them.

Even when they could no longer suppress the Seven Alliances of the Realm in later years, they still looked down on them from the bottom of their hearts. They were merely a bunch of common rabble who struggled to maintain a legacy for even three generations.

In truth, aside from the major sects on the Jianghu Wind and Cloud Ranking, many smaller factions in the martial world had Divine Altar Realm or Origin Pill Realm martial artists overseeing them. Many had been passed down for hundreds or even thousands of years, through several or even more than ten generations.

The reason they had endured for so long was precisely because they were not strong enough to threaten those aristocratic clans and major sects. They bowed their heads and submitted, which was why they could survive.

The reason the Seven Alliances of the Realm had constantly risen and fallen over the years, with ninety percent perishing by the second generation, was because they refused to bow their heads before those aristocratic clans and major sects. Instead, they sought to compete with them.

Thus, after the founders of the first generation died, the second generation would either lack worthy successors or be too young, and those aristocratic clans and major sects would suppress them until they were completely destroyed. Over the years, only when the Radiance Cult controlled the realm had the Seven Alliances of the Realm not been suppressed.

It was not because the Radiance Cult possessed higher moral