Anyone with half an eye could see how well equipped this army was.
Its gleaming armor was especially striking. Each suit had several special sockets inlaid with different metal plates.
Feng Laixian and Bai De could both tell those plates were no scrap metal. They were genuine special equipment.
This was an elite army of Awakened, armed to the teeth with special equipment.
No organization in Mingzhu City had that kind of wealth. Even the combined savings of the three major organizations over more than two centuries could not have paid for so much equipment.
And even if they had the money, they could not have bought it!
Manufacturing special equipment was profoundly inhumane. Mingzhu City had long since banned its creation by such vicious means.
Only the Beast-Taming Zhu Family had the means to equip its army with so much special equipment.
At last, Zhu Chengmian reached the city wall.
He looked up at Feng Laixian on the wall, and countless memories flashed through his mind.
When he was young, Zhu Taihao had brought him to Pearl-Watching Peak again and again. Together, they had gazed at Mingzhu City from outside its walls, Zhu Taihao's face forlorn and unwilling to accept what he had lost.
Though Zhu Chengmian had killed Zhu Taihao in a fit of rage, that did not mean he had not loved his father.
He simply knew he was better suited to lead the family. Only he could guide the Beast-Taming Zhu Family onto the right path.
Now was the time to realize the great ambition he carried in his heart!
His feelings tangled together, he said in a deep voice, "Back then, Situ Shibai stole Mingzhu City from my Lineage through despicable means. Every member of the Zhu Family has slept on brushwood and tasted gall,