Liu Shengze, Zhao Jinda.
Both were elite members of their clans. Though their strength was only around the fifth or sixth layer of the Qi Refining Realm, each was responsible for a portion of the family businesses, which they had managed with considerable success.
They were the sort of people who had once been treated like masters wherever they went.
Before coming to the Wang Clan to cause trouble and suppress Wang Longyan, they had been brimming with excitement, imagining how many benefits their clans would gain if they crushed the Wang Clan once again.
Yet the moment they arrived at the Wang Clan's gates, they were met with one crushing blow after another. In the end, even their ancestors had nearly been killed and had only barely survived after begging for help in utter humiliation.
And such monstrous humiliation was not even the end of it...
Liu Shengze and Zhao Jinda were now tightly bound, bedraggled beyond measure, with not a trace of their former nobility left. Their eyes held nothing but deep terror and despair.
They wanted to argue in their own defense, yet had no place to begin. Every charge listed against them was real, with no way to fabricate a denial.
Perhaps the only defense they could offer was that they had done those things for their clans, rather than out of personal greed. But that would undoubtedly drag their clans down with them, along with their descendants.
How could they fail to understand what the Town Guardian meant by leaving the clans a few shreds of dignity? They knew more or less about the relationship between their clans and Lei Yangqiu. Once they thoroughly offended Lei Yangqiu, their clans would have no easy days ahead.
After a fierce internal struggle, the two finally made their