Chapter 437 - Road Pass (2/2)

Regent Estate used this time to lead its allies like an unstoppable flood towards Veiled Dragon Pavilion and Sword Marquise Abode.

Learning from Drifting Flowers Edifices’ miserable ending, the two didn’t resist and stuck to fleeing.

Regent Estate’s attack on the houses met hardly any resistance since the houses were long gone, taking less than a week to trample both of them.

But unlike Drifting Flowers Edifices, these two houses hadn’t suffered many losses.

While the wretched Zhuo Fan was the real big baller getting rich over this war. He robbed Pill King Hall and Merry Woods blind, tombs included. But didn’t forget to include his precious allies as viable targets for some relaxed desecration.

It went like this. Once Regent Estate knocked itself out after attacking a house, his team would swing by for some quality digging.

The true winner in all of this was Zhuo Fan by far, getting close to a hundred thousand powerful corpses with Bone Tempering Stage as the minimum. He had already refined tens of thousands of puppets.

Just that none of his allies were clued in on this little tidbit, following him like good little doggies and blaming it all on Regent Estate.

It was safe to assume that a heavy war would break out if they found out who was behind all this.

Up till now, the foundation of the seven houses laid in rubble as two sides formed. All that remained was a cruel and hard war for supremacy.

Blackwind Mountain’s main hall was packed with leaders of every house. Zhuo Fan and Luo Yunhai represented Luo clan, taking the main seat, while the rest were their three allies.

Zhuo Fan glanced over them, “The imperial family is beset with inner and outer conflict while the Regent Estate is running rampant across Tianyu. Both camps are at a breaking point. War is knocking and we can’t avoid it!”

“Then we don’t. We’ve suffered the past thousand years at their hands and now they’ve even ruined our homes!”

Long Jiu snorted, “We didn’t fall out all this time for the nation’s sake. But now we have you as a brother, Luo clan, and together we can fight them. We have you to lead us, to destroy them. It is the only choice left to us.”

“Yeah, we’ll destroy them!”

The others echoed. The disciples of the houses present were all homeless, runaways in the truest sense and form. When they had nothing left to lose, why would they shirk from this?

And with victory promising to restore their lands, they were all for it.

War was the answer and their thirst for it only grew.

Zhuo Fan put his trademark evil grin on, [Perfect.]

He held his hand up for silence, “Be assured, friends, we understand your plight. Our Luo clan’s ancestral teaching is all about being righteous and moral to our neighbor! You’ve all helped us when we were at our lowest. We never forgot your great generosity. Now that you all are in difficulty, Luo clan will step forth and bring you justice. This is my declaration of war. We will fight them to the end!”

“Oh~!” Fists were thrown into the air.

Some sighed, praising Steward Zhuo’s loyalty and Luo clan’s benevolence.

Only Luo Yunhai turned somewhat pink, sweating buckets like every other Luo clan elder present.

Granted Luo clan’s ancestral teaching was about righteousness, having heard Luo Yunhai and Luo Yunchang talk about it. But ever since Zhuo Fan took helm, that word was crossed out and written off from Luo clan’s vocabulary, replaced with a better and truer aim, like self-interest to start with.

Zhuo Fan used it just now only as a tool, but selling it with his pretty speech and heartfelt act, everyone was inspired, driven and filled with thirst for battle; to the point of giving their life for it.

Funny enough, if it were plain righteousness, they might not be so keen on going along with Zhuo Fan.

But with him being so despicable and vile to throw in some incentives for everyone, they were all in.

Like Zhuo Fan once said, in this world where the strong ate the weak, going by righteousness alone would get one into a sorry dump, like the Luo clan when he found it.

Understanding this, Luo Yunhai’s eyes flashed and he rose, “Everyone, as the Clan Head of the Luo clan, I will draft the declaration of war, to quell Regent Estate and give you all justice!”

With a dignified act and powerful voice, he drove an even stronger sense of camaraderie into their hearts. Zhuo Fan nodded inside, [The kid grew up at last.]

Without darkness to back it up, light would be like dust in the wind…

On the other side, Regent Estate already had its declaration of war ready, sending it to their final goal, Luo clan. The people cleared the room once the negotiations finished.

Only You Ming stayed behind and Leng Wuchang smiled, “Sir You Ming, I heard you were close to the second prince.”

“He trusts me completely.” You Ming nodded.

“Then please return to his side. We and Zhuge Changfeng have an understanding in place, but when it comes to that old fox, we still need assurances and need to prepare a plan B. As we are about to go to war with Luo clan, there’s nothing I would hate more than to have the imperial family stick its nose in it!”

You Ming squinted, and grinned, “Ha-ha-ha, you are just like Zhuo Fan!”

Pausing, Leng Wuchang looked at him, “Ha-ha-ha, I see. So he gave you a road pass as well…”