More than half a month later.
Wutan City, Mittel Auction House.
In the VIP Room on the auction house's second floor, Ya Fei, dressed in a red gown, was bringing Nalan Sheng up to date on Wutan City's recent affairs.
Wutan City no longer had any so-called "Three Major Clans." The Jia Lie Family and the Ao Ba Family were both things of the past.
Apparently, several months earlier, the heads of those two families had secretly hired a Da Dou Shi assassin, hoping to snuff Xiao Yan out in his cradle.
In the end, not only had the assassin failed, he had lost his own life as well.
The two families' dishonorable conduct had also enraged the mysterious alchemist behind Xiao Yan.
And so, their entire leadership had died in a single night. With the dragons left headless, the two families' businesses had soon been swallowed up by the Xiao Clan.
The Xiao Clan had now become Wutan City's foremost clan. Only the city lord's estate and the Mittel Auction House could stand on equal footing with it.
"So that's what happened."
After learning how the Xiao Clan had absorbed the other two families, Nalan Sheng was not particularly surprised.
Judging by the original plot, even without the butterfly effect Nalan Sheng had caused, the Jia Lie Family and the Ao Ba Family would still have been unable to escape being swallowed up by the Xiao Clan.
With Xiao Yan's meteoric rise, the Xiao Clan would never have been content to remain tucked away in one little corner. Nalan Sheng's appearance had merely brought the two families' destruction forward a little.
"Young Master Sheng, what brings you to Wutan City this time? Don't tell me you're here to make trouble for Xiao Yan?"
Partway through, Ya Fei could not