Break Formation

Thinking back to those days, Solitary Moon Mountain had been utterly unrivaled within Wangyue City's territory of the Tiger Chasing Dynasty, carrying itself as though it were the true lord of the land.

Not only had it colluded with Song Kaiyang, refusing for years to pay any taxes or tribute to the Dynasty, it had repeatedly violated the rules between the Dynasty and the sects, privately recruiting disciples in the Dynasty's towns and cities without the Dynasty's consent.

As the old saying went, "To make it perish, first make it mad."

With an Upper Sect backing it, Solitary Moon Mountain had grown ever more lawless within the Tiger Chasing Realm. Its hand in the Li Family's destruction marked the very peak of its madness.

Later, the Dynasty's heavy hammer came crashing down. Using twenty-four Secret Treasure Vault Lands as bait, it forced Solitary Moon Mountain to send disciples into the game, ultimately suffering grievous losses.

In truth, by the time matters had reached this point, Solitary Moon Mountain had brought it upon itself. It had to pay the price for its years of reckless wrongdoing.

Had the sect's upper echelons retained even a shred of clarity at the time, they should have known to stand at attention and take the beating when they realized their mistake, swallowing shattered teeth along with their blood.

Then, if they had bowed their heads to Tiger Chasing and made up for every past shortcoming, this matter could have been turned over as a new page.

But for more than thirty years, they had grown accustomed to the comfortable life of petty emperors ruling their own patch of land.

And Tiger Chasing had long turned a blind eye, letting them forget their own standing within the Dynasty—and forget just how sharp this vicious tiger's fangs