The Imperial Capital, Jia Ma Empire.
With the destruction of the Misty Cloud Sect, the powers of the Jia Ma Empire underwent a massive reshuffling. Countless established factions were affected by the battle and never recovered.
Of the Jia Ma Empire's original three great families-the Mittel Family, the Nalan Family, and the Mu Family-both the Mittel Family and the Mu Family reaped considerable rewards from the battle, raising their influence to new heights.
The Nalan Family, on the other hand, had been entangled with the Misty Cloud Sect and should have met a grim end. Fortunately, Nalan Yanran had refused to obey Nalan Su and had been working against the Misty Cloud Sect in secret all along. In the end, the rescued elders of the Xiao Clan stepped forward to explain, sparing the Nalan Family from the reckoning. Even so, restoring its former glory was all but impossible.
Moreover, Nalan Yanran, who possessed the strength of a peak Dou Wang, had vanished entirely after the war. Even if Nalan Su and the others wanted to make a move, the other families' surveillance left them no opportunity.
As the family that had contributed most to the war against the Misty Cloud Sect, the Xiao Clan was now a force no one in the Jia Ma Empire dared underestimate.
Xiao Fan's terrifying network of connections sent a chill through even the Jia Ma Imperial Family. The Dou Zong powerhouse Medusa, along with the Dou Emperor-level Amethyst Winged Lion King, Yun Yun, and Xiao Yan, were all among the empire's most formidable combatants.
Besides, the two men held another distinction: they were sixth-tier alchemists. In the small Jia Ma Empire, no one dared provoke a family like theirs.
As for the Xiao Clan members who had previously relocated to the Magical Beast Mountain