Yet the cruelty of fate lay in the fact that Murong Guanshan went to his grave completely in the dark, entirely unaware that Murong Feng’s death had nothing to do with Xuanyuan Chen. He had been played in the palm of the true mastermind behind his son's murder and used as a mere tool for revenge.
No matter how hard he tried to believe it, as a powerhouse at the Great Vehicle Mid-Stage after a long lifetime of cultivation, he could never accept that he had fallen today at the hands of a mere brat at the Nascent Soul Peak.
Everyone on the battlefield watched in utter astonishment as Murong Guanshan dissipated into the wind, as if time itself had frozen in that moment. Murong Xiande gazed in the direction where his clansman had met his tragic end, his eyes filled with profound grief. Though he and Murong Guanshan shared blood, as the Murong Patriarch, the principle of placing family honor above all else was deeply ingrained in him.
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