"Elder Dog, as the head of a family, how dare you betray and turn against us in battle? You shall have a bad end!" Zhou Xingbang, forced to continuously retreat by the Yuan Family Patriarch, added several new wounds to his body and cursed in anger and sadness.
"Humph, I never had any sworn allegiance with your Four Great Families. It was merely a relationship of convenience. How can you talk about betrayal?" the Yuan Family Patriarch scoffed with disdain, his longsword unceasingly lashing out at Zhou Xingbang with one strike after another.
Zhou Xingbang was left speechless. Although the Zhao, Zhou, Cao, Xu families had joined hands against the Mu Family and had pulled in the Yuan Family, they never truly regarded the Yuan Family—a family with wealth but no power—and thus, there were no alliances to speak of. The Yuan Family Patriarch had not been involved from the start, so changing his allegiance to the Mu Family could hardly be called betrayal.
