Chapter 367: (1): A Long Journey for Li Er
Following the inexplicable disappearance of Du Mao, a peculiar period of tranquility descended upon the entirety of Old Dragon City. At least, that was what appeared to be the case on the surface.
No one knew what had happened, but it was presumed that Du Mao had easily defeated Zheng Dafeng and Chen Ping'an, and even though he had gone missing, his authority was standing hanging over the entire city like the sea of clouds, making all of the five major clans feel very apprehensive and uneasy.
After witnessing Du Mao's unfathomable immortal powers, some extremely significant events were made to appear completely trivial. Of course, for those that were directly involved, those events were far from trivialities. For example, the Fu Clan had instructed the Ding, Fang, and Hou Clans to send out their elders to intercept Zheng Dafeng and the others, and every single one of them had perished.
According to a Dragon Gate Tier scout who was fortunate enough to have survived, all four of Chen Ping'an's martial artist servants displayed incredible combat prowess, and they didn't seem to fear death at all, often displaying no hesitation at all to strike down their opponents even at the cost of sustaining grievous injuries.
Two of them had perished, namely a beautiful woman wielding a sword, and a deranged old man who liked to tear people apart with his bare hands. After that, a series of pillars of light had suddenly descended out of the sea of clouds like the bonded flying swords of swordsmen, killing the rest of the three clans' elders.
If it wasn't for that, they would've almost definitely been able to kill Chen Ping'an's two remaining servants. What was even more terrible news for the three clans was that following the battle, one of Chen Ping'an's two remaining servants had picked up the sword of his deceased female comrade and plunged it into the hearts of the fallen elders one after another.
After learning of this terrible news, the three clans hurriedly arranged a secret meeting. Du Yan was invited, but he didn't show up. Hence, everyone began to speculate about whether this was a separate plot that the Fu Clan had hatched with Du Yan, one that used Zheng Dafeng as bait to lure out all of the three clans' most powerful elders before having them killed, thereby dealing an extremely heavy blow to the three clans at the lowest possible cost.
The more they considered this notion, the more it made sense to them. Fu Qi was the lord of Old Dragon City and the leader of the Fu Clan, yet for some reason, he had cast aside all of his pride, shamelessly surrendering halfway through what was supposed to be a battle to the death before leaving Zheng Dafeng to be picked off by Du Mao.
On top of that, he had also put the Cloud Forest Jiang Clan to shame with his unscrupulous actions. It seemed completely unreasonable that he would do something like this, and the only plausible explanation seemed to be that this was a plot against the three clans all along. If that was the case, then it seemed that the Fu Clan's ambitions had been underestimated, and that they were determined to eliminate the three clans altogether.