Inside the Day-Changing Alliance's command tent, Wang Xuangan stood with his hands behind his back. His face showed little grief or anger; he remained calm.
Seeing Luo Lie and the others follow him in, Wang Xuangan smiled. "What, have you come to comfort me?"
Luo Lie looked somewhat worried. "A wolf-hearted, dog-lunged bastard like that isn't worth treating as a brother, foster father."
Wang Xuangan sighed. "That may be true, but we were brothers for more than a decade. Mo Yunzhong kept the Day-Changing Alliance's logistics running smoothly all these years. Without him, the alliance would have been nothing but a makeshift troupe in its early days."
Just as Luo Lie was about to offer more consolation, Wang Xuangan changed tack. "But he chose the wrong path.
"Even if we no longer walked the same road, I wouldn't have stopped him from leaving. But he should never have used my Day-Changing Alliance as his pledge of allegiance to buy wealth and power. That was why he had to die."
As he spoke, Wang Xuangan looked at Chen Yuan and shook his head lightly. "Young friend Chen once gave me these words: 'I share the golden cup with you, but my bare blade will show no mercy.'
"I have always kept those words in my heart, and today, I acted on them.
"Those who walk different paths cannot make plans together. Whoever stands in the way of my path must die!"
"A wise decision, Alliance Leader Wang."
The reason Chen Yuan admired Wang Xuangan so much was precisely this seemingly contradictory yet utterly decisive nature.
Wang Xuangan valued his bonds with others. Thus, even though he had noticed Zhao Jingxuan competing with him for power, their brotherhood had kept him from falling out with the man.
But once he learned that