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Chapter 1246 - Chapter 1246 Chapter Five Hundred Thirty-Eight Great Chaos

Chapter 1246: Chapter Five Hundred Thirty-Eight: Great Chaos Chapter 1246: Chapter Five Hundred Thirty-Eight: Great Chaos If his roommate had allowed it, Tang Luo really could have left Xiang Lan hanging for a few days, but unfortunately, the roommate did not permit it.

So, fully dressed, the Devil Lord Gou Chen hastened out of the room and headed toward the direction where he had abandoned the female city lord.

He had assumed that she would have the sense to stay put, but by the time Tang Luo arrived, he discovered that she had long since vanished. According to the remnants of spiritual power, Xiang Lan hadn’t paused for a moment.

Now… this was getting interesting.

Stroking his chin, Tang Luo followed the traces of spiritual power and eventually spotted the persistently moving female city lord in another twisted and turning alleyway.

“I thought you would be smart enough to know who you could rely on right now, but it seems you are not quite as clever as I thought,” he said.

The hoarse voice tinged with a hint of mockery echoed in the passage, startling Xiang Lan to the ground. Stammering, she looked toward the dark tunnel where the voice was coming from and said, “I… I… I… I was just…”

“So, the secret of the Xiang Family doesn’t exist, is that it?”

Crouching before the disheveled female city lord, the shadow of his robe left not a single glimmer of light in the already dark underground passageway. Shrouded by darkness, Xiang Lan felt an oppressive force that nearly stopped her breathing. Unable to imagine how she, abandoned by her family, would be treated by the Devil Lord.

In her despair, Xiang Lan suddenly remembered a conversation that she had accidentally overheard. It was between her father, Xiang Ange, and the Ancestor, Xiang Qian, about the Xiang Family’s last resort.

Normally, such a critically important family secret was not to be disclosed, but Xiang Lan, discarded by the Yanyun Grandmaster like a worn-out shoe, could not care less at that moment.

“Wait, Lord Gou Chen, the secret does truly exist. The Ancestor once asked my father, if there came a day when the Yun Clan returned to Chaochang and the Xiang Family was powerless to resist, what could be done to ensure the majority of the clan could retreat while holding back the Yun Clan?”

Swallowing her saliva, Xiang Lan looked up at Gou Chen’s impenetrable eyes and said with a trembling voice, “Father said, if that day really came, the Xiang Family has the ability to plunge the entire Chaochang into chaos during the retreat, enough to hinder the Yun Clan’s pursuit.”

Although he did not hold much expectation for this puppet city lord, Xiang Ange’s method to throw Chaochang into chaos still made Tang Luo somewhat hopeful. The problem was, Xiang Lan wasn’t continuing her explanation.

“And then? Why did you stop talking?” he pressed.

“…There’s… there’s nothing more.”

Xiang Lan was terrified to her core, yet she still told the truth, “That’s… That’s all I know.”

“Heh…”

He really shouldn’t have had greater expectations for a puppet, the corner of his mouth twitched. Devil Lord Gou Chen knocked out the frightened female city lord then, grasping her by the neck, dragged her back to the prison chamber.

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The dark wooden ghost ship moored on the shallow beaches of the Southern Seas Shore.

Corpse Monk, along with several heavenly assassins from the Blood Tower, quietly entered the storm-ridden city of Chaochang. Notices for conscription were plastered throughout the city, yet there were hardly any responders.

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After several reversals, the reputation of the Xiang Family in Chaochang had become extremely poor, and neither the local clans nor the ambitious merchants who had come to expand their cities were interested in cooperating with the Xiang Family anymore.

After all, the allied forces of the Da Lin Commerce Alliance made it very clear, they had not come to occupy Chaochang, but to seek justice for the fallen warriors and their families of Cloud Summit Tower and to expel this family bearing the Divine Dynasty’s token from the city.

This declaration put the Tang Clan of Nangang in a delicate position, as everyone in Chaochang knew that the real force that crushed Cloud Summit Tower was the Martial Ancestors of the Tang Clan of Longxi.

Although the Xiang Family’s four battalions’ encirclement seemed fierce, it was in fact merely cleaning up the battlefield, as most of the relatives of the twelve wealthy merchants had died in the collapse of Cloud Summit Tower, and within the residual effects of the joint attack by the Martial Ancestors.

The current stance of the Ye Family, only executing the ringleaders without pursuing the accomplices, seemed quite thought-provoking.

Some said this was because after a confrontation at Cloud Summit Tower, the twelve wealthy merchants were so frightened by the battle strength of the Longxi Alliance that they didn’t even have the heart for revenge, and thus targeted only Chaochang.

Others speculated that this was merely a temporary strategy by the Da Lin Commerce Alliance, intended to divide the Xiang Family from the Tang Clan; after all, even the Commerce Alliance couldn’t withstand taking on both families at once.

But once the Xiang Family was driven out by the Da Lin Commerce Alliance, they would certainly declare war on the Tang Clan, it was merely a matter of sequence.

There were also those who said that the explanation offered by the Commerce Alliance was merely to stabilize the emotions of the local clans of Chaochang, after all, the Commerce Alliance had wanted to take control of Chaochang not just for a day or two, and had it not been for the cloud-based council targeting the Xiang Family, that battle which involved the entire eastern city might not have erupted.

So this allied force, flying the flags of revenge and expulsion, was actually aiming for Chaochang, intending to take its place.

All sorts of theories were rampant; many families saw this as an opportunity for their rise, while others saw it as the beginning of turmoil.

But until the situation became clear, most families were not going to openly reveal their stance, and the commoners at the very bottom of Chaochang became the most innocent victims.

This prolonged chaos left many without a means to survive and turned them into refugees, and in this city bereft of harvest, those who had lost their jobs roamed the streets both day and night, becoming another fuse for Chaochang’s turmoil.

Chaos and murder were often separated by just one street, where one could witness the distinction between order and disorder. The clan warriors watched indifferently as desperate commoners slaughtered each other, raising their swords to slaughter any troublemakers daring to enter their domains.

And for the common people who were confused and helpless about their future, they could only choose to give up their status as free citizens and join the clans, or endure the chaos that had no end in sight.

Many people’s wills collapsed, choosing to join the ranks of the rioters; others banded together to support each other, hoping for the clouds to part and the moon to show; there were also many distinguished individuals in Chaochang still calling for the appearance of the city master, Yun Xiu, hoping that this celestial maiden of the Yun Clan could take control and restore order.

In such a situation, who could notice the Blood Tower assassins who had infiltrated Chaochang? In this city filled with corpses and the air of resentment and death, Gu Han’s abilities were greatly amplified.

According to intelligence, he had led several Heaven-level assassins into a martial hall with no background in the central city and killed all the masters and disciples within half a day, refining hundreds of Corpse Refiners with the battle strength comparable to the peak of Shedding the Mortal Realm.

Gu Han, the Corpse Monk, arranged the hundreds of Rank Six White Zombies neatly in the Martial Hall and ordered the Heaven-level assassins, “Go collect the bodies of martial artists, the higher their rank the better. Remember, try to keep the bodies intact as much as possible, and be careful not to be discovered by those from the Forest Department!”

Chaochang’s wild Wind Media were plentiful, so it didn’t take long after Gu Han entered the city to get the information that Wang Chang and Xiang Yan had joined forces to attack the Devil Lord but were countered and one was killed.

This greatly excited Gu Han as the enemy of his enemy was a friend; the Ancient Blood Tower and the Devil Lord Hook Chen were natural allies, after all, when compared to the sacred lands and the royal patrols, they were far too weak.

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