The news of the Chen Family's annihilation quickly became known to everyone, immediately stirring up a maelstrom. Just when the Noble Families and Clans were utterly convinced of their ability to eradicate the Rebels, those very foes had silently changed locations, slaughtered the Chen Family, and, to the Noble Families and Clans, it was undeniably a vicious slap squarely across their faces.
After all, the Chen Family was no mere upstart; though not among the elite, they were an esteemed family with a lineage of a thousand years. The thought of their complete extermination by the Rebels, who were rumored to have even burned down the ancestral hall to ashes, made the other families feel a cold shiver down their spines. Today it was the Chen Family; tomorrow it could well be their own. Once the veil of civility was torn apart, the brutality and ruthlessness of war became glaringly obvious.
