Azure Sun City, the Yuan Family!
Several years earlier, the Yuan Family had had a chance to become one of Azure Sun City's great clans. A genius had emerged from their ranks, entered the Violet Sun Gate's Inner Sect, and become a disciple of Elder Li Yang of Medicine King Peak, who doted on him.
Unfortunately, two years earlier, that genius had entered the Cloud Ridge Mountains and never returned. The Yuan Family's glory had ended there.
Not only had the clans on friendly terms with them abandoned them one after another, but now even bandits who made their living on the roads had begun setting their sights on the Yuan Family.
Just a few days earlier, a shipment the Yuan Family had sent out of Azure Sun City had been seized by the bandits of Clear Wind Ridge. They had also killed several Yuan Family servants and demanded money to ransom the goods, along with tolls for future passage. Otherwise, they would rob the Yuan Family's caravans every time they crossed Clear Wind Ridge.
"If you're trying to test whether the Yuan Family still has ties to Elder Li Yang, you've picked the wrong target. My son may be gone, but he and Elder Li Yang were as close as father and son. Elder Li Yang won't abandon us."
Killing intent shone in the eyes of Yuan Gang, the Yuan Family's patriarch. The strongest of those bandits on Clear Wind Ridge had only reached astral qi minor accomplishment. Elder Li Yang merely needed to send an Outer Sect disciple with astral qi mastery, and that disciple could wipe out Clear Wind Ridge single-handedly.
They wanted to test the Yuan Family? This was the perfect opportunity for the family to establish its might and show outsiders that Elder Li Yang