Obtaining Top Art on Family's Extermination Night

Chapter 344: Chapter 175: Celestial Eagle Alliance

After experiencing Fang Shuwen’s "A Line," the man in the bamboo hat no longer dared to hide a single thing.

He laid bare their origins with perfect clarity.

The Western Regions Celestial Eagle Alliance was an organization with a rather complex structure, composed of over ten Jianghu forces in total, including Feisha Castle, Yellow Wind Valley, Li Ren Stockade, and Nine Streams Hall.

Even by the standards of the Western Domain, it was a formidable presence that could not be ignored.

Compared to the Northern Domain, the internal strife within the Western Domain’s Jianghu was far more vicious, adhering to a much crueler law of the jungle.

It was exceedingly difficult for a lone faction to survive; at the slightest provocation, entire sects and clans would be annihilated, their wives and daughters forced into servitude.

Thus, they could only band together for mutual protection, forming alliances like the Celestial Eagle Alliance, just to carve out a niche for themselves in the Jianghu.

This system had gradually brought stability to the Western Domain. Although the casualties from the constant struggles remained gruesome, completely annihilating a rival was nearly impossible.

But one year ago, an incredibly powerful faction suddenly rose to prominence in the Western Domain—Jueshen Palace.

The Palace Master of Jueshen Palace, Yan Guhong, possessed peerless Martial Arts and heaven-defying methods. He intended to forcibly unify the entire Western Domain single-handedly, operating under the principle: submit and prosper, resist and perish!

This move naturally drew the ire of the entire Jianghu of the Western Domain.

However, the various alliances of the Western Domain harbored such deep-seated hatred for one another that even in the face of Jueshen Palace, they found it nearly impossible to truly unite.

Even when they claimed to have joined forces, the clandestine infighting never ceased.

Under the relentless pressure from Jueshen Palace, the various alliances were either being annihilated or suffering successive defeats. The Celestial Eagle Alliance’s sphere of influence was also constantly being squeezed and diminished.

At this rate, their annihilation was only a matter of time.

Ultimately, the Celestial Eagle Alliance Leader decided to leave the Western Domain and find a future elsewhere.

But the Jianghu was a world where every faction had carved out its own territory. The Five Domains Under Heaven might accommodate an individual from another domain, but they would never accept a massive organization like the Celestial Eagle Alliance.

Doing so would inevitably encroach upon the local powers’ spheres of influence. No one wants a ferocious tiger appearing beside their bed.

Thus, trying to establish themselves elsewhere was bound to be fraught with peril.

But as things stood, he had no other choice.

The Western Domain bordered the Central and Southern Domains. A formidable natural barrier, a spur of the Northern Domain’s Great Ice Glacier known as Heavenly Abandoned Mountain, actually separated it from the Northern Domain.

Yet, the Celestial Eagle Alliance Leader ultimately chose the Northern Domain. This was primarily because the Central Domain, the heart of the Five Domains, was packed with powerful sects and home to innumerable masters.

As much as the Celestial Eagle Alliance Leader held himself in high regard, even he dared not tread lightly into such a place.

Compared to the Central Domain, the Southern Domain, while seemingly weaker, had an internal structure more akin to that of the Eastern Domain’s Seven Great Sects.

They watched each other’s backs; in the face of an invasion, they would undoubtedly issue a call to arms, and the Celestial Eagle Alliance would find itself facing the combined might of an entire domain’s Jianghu.

Therefore, compared to these two domains, only the Northern Domain had a power structure similar to that of the Western Domain.

In fact, the Northern Domain was even more fragmented...

The factions in the Western Domain’s Jianghu could at least form alliances, but the powers in the Northern Domain were completely fragmented, like a tray of loose sand.

There were no alliances. While the Five Great Forces were certainly formidable, they all adopted an attitude of only sweeping the snow from their own doorsteps.

As long as they weren’t directly involved, they wouldn’t so much as glance twice, even if the other factions were beating each other’s brains out.

Furthermore, while Heavenly Abandoned Mountain was a formidable barrier, that very fact meant it could also cut off any pursuit from Jueshen Palace.

After weighing all these factors, the Celestial Eagle Alliance Leader made his decision. He ordered Feisha Castle, Yellow Wind Valley, and the other factions to each dispatch their top masters to cross Heavenly Abandoned Mountain into the Northern Domain. Their initial mission was to gather intelligence, which would then inform their next move.

This group had already been in the Northern Domain for some time and had gained a fairly comprehensive understanding of the local situation.

Just as they were preparing to leave, their plans coincided with Fang Shuwen’s arrival in the Northern Domain, where he and Long Qingzhi began a massive killing spree.

This presented the people of the Celestial Eagle Alliance with an unprecedented opportunity.

Fang Shuwen’s Martial Arts were on another level. This Human World Demon God had single-handedly suppressed the entire Northern Domain Martial World, bringing it to its knees.

If he were to truly wipe out an entire generation of the Northern Domain Martial World’s practitioners, then after he returned to the Eastern Domain, the Celestial Eagle Alliance could move into the Northern Domain completely unopposed.

They could even seize the opportunity to expand the Celestial Eagle Alliance’s power and establish a firm foothold in the Northern Domain.

But as luck would have it, right at that moment, the Cyan Sheep Sect proposed the Celestial Martial Grand Assembly, hoping to resolve their grievances with Fang Shuwen.

Whatever the people of the Northern Domain may have thought, the Celestial Eagle Alliance panicked the moment they heard the news.

They were counting on Fang Shuwen to continue his rampage. If he stopped killing, their plans to move into the Northern Domain would face major obstacles.

While the resistance would be nowhere near as great as in the Central and Southern Domains, they estimated that the cost in lives would still be steep.

To ensure the Celestial Eagle Alliance could smoothly establish itself in the Northern Domain, they absolutely could not allow Fang Shuwen to stop now.

And so, they orchestrated the charade of massacring a village and annihilating a sect in order to frame him.

They wanted to use this incident to provoke a conflict between Fang Shuwen and the Northern Domain’s Jianghu. Ideally, Fang Shuwen would unleash his full power and slaughter every single martial arts expert at the Celestial Martial Grand Assembly.

Then, once Fang Shuwen returned to the Eastern Domain, there would be no one left in the Northern Domain capable of stopping them.

The worst-case scenario would be mutual destruction, or that Fang Shuwen, after killing a large number of experts, would be besieged and killed by the remaining masters of the Northern Domain.

Either outcome was a win for them.

As the man calmly recounted this entire sequence of events, Fang Shuwen could only listen, utterly dumbfounded.

He had assumed that someone held a grudge against the Cyan Sheep Sect, or perhaps wanted to seize Long Qingzhi’s Glazed Saint Body, and had orchestrated this charade to make him the public enemy of the entire Northern Domain Martial World.