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However, news that made matters worse came one after another!
News kept coming from another direction, and all of it was bad news. The entire mainland seemed to have fallen into a state of chaos …
Ever since the Sikong and Duanmu Families were suppressed, the businesses that the families relied on to survive were facing a terrible situation of falling apart. A portion of them were monopolized by the unfilial disciples who had betrayed their families, while the other portion was controlled by their former competitors or occupied by unknown forces. In short, the two families didn't even have a single shop or business left. They had fallen into a predicament and were almost at the end of their rope!
Perhaps it was because they were at the end of their rope that it was even more shocking when there was light at the end of the tunnel. In just a few short days, the entire situation had turned around!
All the businesses that originally belonged to the two families that had been forcefully occupied had all suffered a destructive blow from a mysterious force! Anyone who dared to forcibly occupy the businesses of the two families had their heads rolled to the ground without a single survivor. There was absolutely no room for tolerance!
On the day of the incident, the leaders of the Sikong and Duanmu Families all had witnesses and material evidence to prove that they had absolutely not participated in this earth-shattering incident. The remaining people didn't have the ability to do so even if they wanted to. Although these two families were the most suspicious, it had become an unsolved case. Anyone with a discerning eye could tell with a glance that with the meager strength of these two families, even if they had the intention, they definitely didn't have the ability to do so. Thus, the true force that had taken action was more thought-provoking …
Among those forces that had been destroyed, the disciples of the two families who had betrayed their families were the most miserable. All of their corpses were hung up and exposed to the public. Although no reason was given, such a bloody scene was a silent declaration to the world …
Also, the partners who had initially responded to the call to never do business with these two families had all been annihilated! In just a short span of ten days, such unsolved cases had emerged endlessly in every corner of the mainland! Every place and every place was brimming with a bloody rain and foul wind. Every single case and every single one of them was a debt of blood that was too horrible to look at!
The ruthlessness and decisiveness of this incident had never been seen before!
Those who had taken action had only killed, but they had never given any reason or stated their objective! Vast amounts of wealth and treasures that had been piled up like mountains had all been discarded like worn out shoes. It was as if they had only expressed one thought: I like to kill, so I will kill! Whatever I want to do, I will do! If you don't have a reason, don't ask me for a reason … As for the reason and purpose … use your imagination to the limit and think about it yourself … think whatever you want …
But all these people that died had a similarity, and that was that they'd once gone against the Sikong and Duanmu Clans, framed them, or participated in some schemes against the two great clans! Although the murderer didn't say anything, these dead bodies automatically explained everything!
Thus, while the Sikong and Duanmu Clans were still in the dark, they unexpectedly discovered that the world seemed to have changed once again …
Just a few months ago, he had turned from an aristocratic family into a destitute family that no one cared about overnight. He had been living a difficult life, and there was no reason at all. In any case, all of his clients and partners had resolutely cut off all contact with him, and even further suppressed him.
Now, after only a few months, the situation had reversed once again! This time, there was also no reason or reason, and it was equally baffling. In fact, it was even more inconceivable than the previous time. All of his partners and people that he didn't even know had all come over in a single night!
First, they had sent huge gifts to express their apologies. Then, they had made a request for both sides to cooperate … and all of them had been very humble and respectful. Even compared to before, when they were like fish in water, they were even more respectful. Those conditions of cooperation were not business at all. They were basically stuffing people with large amounts of money!
Everyone had a clear point of view: Even if the three Holy Lands were not to be trifled with, they wouldn't easily kill people and confiscate their properties. But these fellows that were doing this right now, with a single word of disagreement, their heads would fall to the ground! Which was more important?
Everyone was looking at the expressions of these two clans when they spoke. Some of the rich and powerful merchants were now acting like lowly bastards, bowing and bowing. They even had to call the guards of these two clans' master 'when they saw them!
They were afraid that they would offend them with a little disrespect. Once they offended them, it was as if a calamity would immediately fall upon them.
This kind of strange scene caused the two clans that had suffered grievances previously to the point where they didn't even have a place to pretend to be grandsons to feel proud and elated. That feeling was simply too comfortable!
If a person had never truly lost something, they would never know how to cherish it. If they had never tasted the taste of poverty, they would never know how difficult it was to be rich! If they had never been looked down upon, they would never know how rare it was to be respected!
And all of this, to have it and then lose it, and then to have it again … that kind of feeling was even more thought-provoking than living it all over again! And it even caused a huge change in one's mentality!
Right now, these two clans were exactly like this!
If these two clans were originally just ordinary second-rate clans, but after this incident, it was as if they were phoenixes reborn from the ashes! They had completely blossomed with a brand new attitude, advancing towards the super clans!
And because of the previous incident, the second generation of the clans and the despicable parasites had all been cleared out one by one. Instead, they had become much purer! Their cohesiveness had also become much stronger! It was as if in these short few months of adversity, they had obtained an inexhaustible foundation!
And this kind of foundation, in plain words, was poverty after wealth!
And the greatest wealth in life was also poverty and lowliness! Only these two things were the greatest motivation for people to develop themselves! Or perhaps … poverty was the greatest wealth!
A person, or a family, being poor was not scary! Even being poor for generations was not scary, because they were already used to poverty, used to being down and out. But once you obtained wealth and power, at the peak of your glory, you suddenly fell back into poverty and down and out again. That was the most terrible and most miserable thing!
And these two clans, after experiencing such adversity, stood up strongly again, regaining wealth and power. They really knew how to cherish it more than anyone else … So from then on, the Sikong and Duanmu clans became the two clans with the strictest family traditions in the entire continent, and also the two clans that developed the fastest. They stood at the peak of the Xuan Xuan Continent's super clans!
Many years later, the Duanmu, Sikong and Dongfang Clans rose up completely, and each became a giant of a region!
Duanmu in the north, Sikong in the south, and Dongfang in the south did not fall!
It could be said that this incident, from beginning to end, had only lasted for a year. But again and again, and again and again, completely created the three great clans! Of course, this was a story for another time …
In this incident, there were those who were successful, and correspondingly, there were those who were unlucky. They were those who immediately took over the Jun Family's businesses after the Jun Family retreated. The Jun Family was forced to retreat temporarily, but they had no intention of giving up on their businesses. The businesses that belonged to the Jun Family would always belong to the Jun Family. After the Jun Family retreated, those who were in charge of the businesses were still the Jun Family's hardcore supporters.
But there was a group of people who believed that the Jun Family had no chance of making a comeback. It was as if they seized everything that belonged to the Jun Family in a single night! In this turmoil, these people also suffered a ruthless purge, and the purge was the most thorough!
For example, the Huang Family of Tian Xiang. They were the enemies of the Jun Family and the Dugu Family. They belonged to the Illusory Ocean of Blood's Huang Tai Yang. They belonged to a third-rate family. They had wantonly invaded the Jun Family's businesses when the Jun Family had first secluded themselves from the world. In fact, they had taken great credit in this incident. Their entire family was exterminated, and even the place where their family was located was burned to the ground …
And those who took over the Silver Blizzard City's Magnificent Jewel Hall were also killed!
In the short span of a month! In just a month's time!
The entire Xuan Xuan Continent was plunged into an unprecedented reign of terror, and everyone was in danger!
The Yu Tang Empire saw an opportunity when the Jun Family retreated, and the Tian Xiang Imperial Family was about to change. Thus, they launched a war. The two countries were at war, but after hearing about this incident, the Yu Tang Empire immediately withdrew their troops! They directly abandoned all the cities that they had previously occupied, and quickly returned to the Yu Tang Empire's territory …
They didn't even want their own barracks anymore …
Based on a rough estimate, in this one month, not including the deaths of the Dongfang Family assassins, other vendettas, and not including the war between the two countries, the number of people who died in these inexplicable incidents was no less than twenty thousand!
Twenty thousand people! This number didn't seem to be much, but these victims were all heroes with profound Xuan Skills!
Among these people, the lowest Xuan Qi cultivation was at the peak of Silver Xuan!
The entire world, from south to north, from east to west, was directly baptized in blood!
And this group of murderers, none of them were ordinary people, and they were in groups, like locusts passing through the country. Anyone who was related to the events mentioned above was killed without question!
Another common characteristic was that they came and went like the wind, and their actions were ruthless. Once they struck, they would immediately flee! When you investigated the east, there were several incidents in the west, south, and north …
In the face of such a bloody incident, the three Holy Lands immediately took action. It was unknown how many affiliated families were mobilized, but the moment they mobilized a family, it also exposed the relationship between the family and the three Holy Lands. Thus, they followed the clues and found that no one was innocent …
This was equivalent to slapping the faces of the three Holy Lands fiercely!
Furthermore, it wasn't just one slap, but one slap after another. It was a relentless beating! A few affiliated families were wiped out, and it was just a few slaps!
And the most frustrating thing was … so many people died, and there were so many mysterious murderers, but no matter how they investigated, they could not find a single one! They could not even catch a single one!
This matter caused the people of the three Holy Lands to be infuriated!
And at this time, Chrysanthemum City's request for help coincidentally arrived.
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