Half a month later, Zhang Xing and the others finally passed through the Hurricane Grassland and arrived at Little River Town.
Dongfang Biying and her siblings had been in a state of excitement along the way. When they reached home, not only did they not calm down, they became even more excited.
That was because they had invited a war god back!
Moreover, he had brought the shocking news that Patriarch Zhaoyang was still alive.
Little River Town was located more than five hundred kilometers southwest of the imperial capital, close to a branch of the Redwater River.
The environment was not bad, but the soil here was not suitable for planting crops. The people's lives were mainly fish and prawns from the Redwater River.
There were about two hundred thousand people here. The most powerful family was the Sheng family, other than the Dongfang family.
The two families, one in the east and one in the west, occupied the two docks of the Redwater River.
On one hand, it was for the resources in the water, and on the other hand, it was for the river transportation.
The two families had been fighting openly and secretly for decades. They were evenly matched, and neither could do anything to the other.
However, in the past year, the Sheng family had received help from some unknown force, and they had repeatedly snatched the Dongfang family's business.
After a few rounds of competition, the Dongfang family had no choice but to give in.
The Dongfang family had lost two thirds of their land on the river, and their income had plummeted.
The cargo business at the docks had also been pried away by the Sheng family through various means.
The family's expenses were obviously tight, and many merchants who relied on their family had changed their allegiance to the Sheng family.
The current patriarch of the Dongfang family, Dongfang Chengye, was sixty years old. His cultivation was not high, only at mid-level War Emperor.
He knew that the family was in danger, but it was not caused by the Sheng family, but by the hidden forces behind them.
Therefore, he sent out the sixth generation of the family, led by Dongfang Wang, to embark on a treasure hunt again.
He hoped that this time, luck would fall from the sky and they would find the treasure.
Even if they had to give up their decades of foundation here, even if they died in battle, as long as Dongfang Wang and the others were still alive, they could still obtain the secret manuals left behind by the patriarch.
Then, they could rest in peace.
Early in the morning, a group of people from the Sheng family blocked the docks, saying that a batch of rare ores from the imperial capital had disappeared.
They insisted that the Dongfang family had stolen it in the middle of the night.
Moreover, there were witnesses who asked to search the warehouse of the Dongfang family's docks.
This was pure nonsense. It was nothing more than a random reason to stop the Dongfang family's cargo ships from transporting the goods.
If the delivery time was delayed, the Dongfang family would have to compensate the other party for their losses.
After receiving the news, Dongfang Chengye personally led the fifth generation of the family to the dock.
"Sigh!
Another fierce battle is unavoidable! "
The people of the Dongfang Family sighed in grief and indignation.
When they arrived at their family's pier, all they saw was a mess.
Three rows of two-hundred-meter-long warehouses were smashed to smithereens.
Some of the servants and stewards hired by the family had been beaten black and blue. They were kneeling on the ground, trembling, not daring to make a sound.
More than a hundred guards from those families were either dead or injured. They were piled up in a pile. The ground was covered with their blood and severed limbs.
"You're going too far!"
Dongfang Chengye's eyes almost popped out of their sockets as his temples throbbed.
It seemed that the Sheng family had received some kind of instruction to go all out.
In the past, the fights were all small-scale. A dozen or so guards would first engage in a chaotic fight, and then the two families would each send out five people to duel. Five rounds, three wins.
The loser would have to pay compensation and cede their territory.
But this time, the Dongfang family's pier was directly flattened.
Dongfang Chengye realized that he might not be able to get through today.