Yes, as a descendant of Shao Jian, Fang Canran could not help but strike back at the Ke Family. After all, it was this family who had sold out their state for glory in their ancestors’ day.

Whether it be national hatred or family enmity, both were part of Fang Canran’s motivation.

He Lingchuan had been to the Ke Family estate before and remembered how splendid and dazzling it had been, how rich it was with worldly luxury. Never mind anything else, the Ke Family’s gardens had been crafted with extreme extravagance and exquisite care. For more than a century, they had been continuously refined and embellished, and among all the floating islands, they could be called unique. Yet in a single day, they had been destroyed beneath the hooves of the Giant Thunderclap Beasts.

Sect Leader Xue then said, “Although the Lingxu incident caused an astonishing commotion, the true losses were not mainly monetary.”

In truth, the losses lay in prestige and in the...