After the Han Family left, Withered Bones City was indeed busy for a while. They were busy with nothing other than finding ways to strip the Jialan Family of its assets.
The world was just that realistic and cruel. The Jialan Family, once one of the foremost families in Withered Bones City, plummeted after its patriarch Shatuo and five Upper Gods died together, and several hundred of its Divine Guards were killed by the Han Family. All at once, it became a family that could not even be considered second-rate.
All its top experts were dead. With its remaining strength, the Jialan Family naturally could not protect its vast assets. The wolves and tigers who had long coveted its enormous wealth and property took action almost the very day the Han Family left the city.
By rights, after all Shatuo and the Jialan Family had done for Hill, he should at least have shouldered some responsibility and stopped those covetous families from attacking the Jialan Family.
Yet in reality, the first to act was none other than Hill!
Using the excuse that the Jialan Family had acted without his permission and brought an unimaginably formidable enemy upon Withered Bones City, Hill took over its largest territories and businesses. Most of the Jialan Family's holdings changed hands overnight and passed into Hill's name.
He took the lion's share, but the others had to get something too. Other families, large and small, stripped away the Jialan Family's remaining interests. Many who held grudges against the Jialan Family had originally feared the power of Shatuo and his family and dared not act. Now they all sprang out, using Hill's righteous cause to avenge their grievances, hunting down the Jialan Family's orphans, women, and children, intent on exterminating the family.
Because Shatuo had suffered