Although the seven of them were escaping, Jun Chen and his companions retreated with complete composure. This drove Tokugawa Taro and Fujiwara Chika into a rage of embarrassment, leading them to point fingers and shift the blame onto each other.
Tokugawa Taro was the first to cut short the pointless bickering with Fujiwara Chika. He immediately called for reinforcements, then set off in pursuit with the surviving samurai of the Tokugawa clan.
Naturally, Fujiwara Chika refused to fall behind. With Iga Tenki now dead, Abe no Seimei hanging on by a thread, Abe no Seiseki having eyes only for his older brother Abe no Seimei, and the Yuki-onna secluded atop a snowy mountain far removed from worldly affairs, the Sakura Country martial arts world could be said to have no leader and to be completely fractured. Just moments ago, the Ito family had also been wiped out by Jun Chen and his forces. The only two families with the strength and qualifications to lead the Sakura Country martial arts world were the Tokugawa and the Fujiwara clans. As long as they could capture Jun Chen and the others—dead or alive—either clan could become the new leader of the Sakura Country martial arts world with the backing of Henry William. Neither the Tokugawa nor the Fujiwara clan was willing to yield to the other. Upon receiving distress calls from Tokugawa Taro and Fujiwara Chika, both families rapidly dispatched powerful Celestial Human Stage experts from within their ranks, determined to trap and e…
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