Chapter 82: Battle Plans
The road to Shu was hard-harder than climbing to the blue heavens.
Shu's terrain was complex and its mountain roads treacherous, so its Jianghu powers were tangled and intricate as well.
Yet for the past few centuries, the Tang Clan had always reigned supreme in Shu.
The Tang Clan walked the line between righteous and evil. Its chief specialties were concealed weapons and poisons, and it excelled above all at manufacturing concealed weapons. From iron caltrops, iron sand, and silver needles to all manner of weapons conjured from the imagination, it had everything.
To bring out the full power of those weapons, its members were also proficient in all manner of techniques for deploying them.
Renowned concealed weapons such as the Pear Blossom Needles in a Rainstorm, the Peacock Plume, the Black Coffin, and the Soul-Chasing Life-Taking Bomb all originated with the Tang Clan.
The Tang Clan occasionally sold various concealed weapons and poisons to outsiders for profit, amassing vast wealth. Thus, in a mere century, it had become one of Jianghu's greatest powers.
But once people built up a little strength, arrogance inevitably began to take root.
This time, invited by others, the Tang Clan had shown outrageous audacity, daring to join the Money Gang, Phantom Manor, Wen Family Fort, and other major powers in ambushing the West Depot's forces. Who could have known they would be slaughtered instead? Almost all the disciples sent to carry out the ambush had died, with only a few underlings escaping back.
After learning that the operation had failed, the Tang Clan feared retaliation from the Imperial Court and sealed its gates, laying numerous traps, concealed weapons, and poisonous creatures throughout the dense forest leading into the mountains to keep outsiders away.
As a result, the atmosphere throughout Shu