Chapter 121: Subduing Heavenly Venerable, bringing the martial world to heel [2]
Jiangnan, Seven-Star Pond, the Murong Family.
The Murong Family had once been a first-rate martial family in Jiangnan. Its patriarch, Murong Zheng, had once been known as the Great Hero of Jiangnan and enjoyed considerable fame in the jianghu.
But seven years ago, a calamity had struck the Murong Family-
The Murong Family had sought a marriage alliance with the third young master of Divine Sword Mountain Villa-the very same Third Young Master Xie Xiaofeng who ranked seventh on the Ming Sword Dao Rankings. Who could have known that, on the night before the wedding, Xie Xiaofeng would abandon his pregnant fiancée, Murong Qiudi, and run away? Murong Zheng had fallen ill and died as a result. The great Murong Family had declined from then on, supported entirely by his only daughter, Murong Qiudi.
Pregnant before marriage and reduced to a disgrace, Murong Qiudi had spent these years not only holding up the Murong Family but also enduring the world's scornful looks.
Yet no one knew that, over those seven years, Murong Qiudi had secretly gathered countless scoundrels of the jianghu and founded a vast assassin organization that could stand alongside the Money Gang and Phantom Manor-
Heavenly Venerable!
After suffering such tragedies as her husband's betrayal and her father's death, Murong Qiudi had nothing left in her heart but the pursuit of power.
And she pursued power because she wanted revenge!
She wanted revenge on Xie Xiaofeng, the man who had wronged her!
But she had never expected that all her years of planning and effort would come undone because of one mistaken decision. She had offended the imperial court, causing Heavenly Venerable's forces to suffer devastating blows over the past few months. They had become rats