Chapter 1925 - 1480: Rare Heroic Spirit, Beauty’s Favor Most Hard to Bear

Supreme Alliance.

Facing the devastating situation of a sudden, comprehensive crackdown within the Mixed Martial Arts World, the twenty-three elders of the Ten Great Families gathered once again in full, convening a solemn council under a heavy atmosphere.

Even before they launched their plan against Black Wind Village, the think tank of the Ten Great Families had already thoroughly analyzed all the severe situations they might face, including this terrifying predicament right before their eyes.

However, even though the think tank had judged that they would indeed face such a harsh situation, they never expected it to arrive so quickly, leaving the Ten Great Families with absolutely no time to react.

Or rather, the counterattack of the Black Wind Village Chief was simply too fast, too swift, as if he had long since prepared in advance to launch a full-scale strike against them, and this preparation might not have been just recent, but started a long time ago—at least two or three years.

The newly installed Family Head of the Le family, one of the Four Giants, spoke gravely, "For so many vassal states—Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Mongolia and the like—to move in unison and simultaneously seal off the industries of our families, only the Black Wind Village Chief possesses such rallying power. And this matter must have been designed long ago; otherwise, the reactions of so many vassal states and those natives under Black Wind Village would not be so perfectly coordinated, nor would their speed of action be this astonishing."

The Hu Family Master nodded at these words and said, "Among the vassal states, only these countries possess relatively strong national power, making them suitable for family development, so the industries of our Ten Great Families are almost all primarily distributed within these states.

Our decision-making council once resolved that after we became enemies of the Black Wind Village Chief, we would need to shift the focus of our power development toward the Holy Dynasty and Ying Country, and other countries less affected by the Black Wind Village Chief.

But many of our industries rely on local relationships and resources; they are foundations painstakingly built up by the families over the years. Abandoning them lightly is not easy, and in actual implementation it requires a certain amount of time...

We never thought the Black Wind Village Chief would strike precisely during this gap in time, sealing off all our family industries before we even had a chance to relocate them."

An elder of the Yun Family frowned and sighed, "This shows that after leaving Sky, the Black Wind Village Chief immediately designed a scheme to deal with us, and that he had already long regarded us as enemies. He secretly collected detailed information on the industries of our Ten Great Families across various regions, just waiting for us to walk into his trap. He is far more deep-minded, and far more frightening, than we imagined...

You must understand, within our Ten Great Families, it has always been only the forces such as Tyrant Hall, supported openly by our Cloud, Li, King, and left alliance families, that were showing their faces. The bulk of our families’ power had already been embedded within the various vassal states even before the Black Wind Village Chief was born. And now he can precisely and without error uproot most of them. What does that imply?"

All twenty-odd elders felt a jolt of dread, their gazes flickering as they fell into silence.

What does that imply?

It naturally implies that among their Ten Great Families, a traitor has appeared.

And this traitor might well be one of those seated at the elders’ table.

Otherwise, there would be no way to explain how the Black Wind Village Chief could know so clearly about those industries the Ten Great Families had secretly developed within the Mixed Martial Arts World many years ago. Even if the Black Wind Village Chief had the intelligence networks of the various vassal states backing him, it still could not reasonably explain it.

Because among the industries that have been seized, quite a few had been entirely handed over to natives who had been thoroughly brainwashed into absolute loyalty, with registrations directly under the natives’ own names. Even those natives themselves had no idea who their real boss was. How, then, could the Black Wind Village Chief know?

And the existence of this "High-level traitor" also perfectly explains why the Black Wind Village Chief’s counterattack could be so timely: every move they made, every decision they issued, was leaked to the Black Wind Village Chief in advance by the traitor.

This is simply inconceivable—what is he scheming for?

Once the seed of distrust is planted, it immediately begins to sprout in the heart of every elder and every member of the families, slowly taking root.

The Supreme Alliance, which appears powerful and united as one whole—when facing the current crisis, where should it go from here?

Sever the arm like a warrior, completely abandon those seized industries, and fight the Black Wind Village Chief to mutual destruction? That is impossible.

Ultimately, the final objective of the Supreme Alliance is to seize profit within the Mixed Martial Arts World.

Since those profits are under such great threat, they cannot act on impulse, but must choose compromise and concessions for the sake of profit.

As long as their survival is not threatened, everything must still be measured by whether it allows them to gain profit.

For the Black Wind Village Chief, their containment measures merely force many Players to give up Black Wind Village, gradually isolating Black Wind Village, and this will indeed have a huge impact on Black Wind Village.

But this impact, in their plan, is a long-term vicious cycle process; in the short term it cannot inflict any truly substantial damage on the Black Wind Village Chief or Black Wind Village.

After all, even if they reduce the number of Players by over a million, leading to a shortage of human resources in Black Wind Village’s various sub branches across the land, as long as the top-tier experts of Black Wind Village do not bleed away, these low-end human resources can be replenished by expending other resources in exchange, acquiring them from natives or other Players willing to trade.

By contrast, if their Ten Great Families were to completely lose more than half of the industries they have accumulated over so many years, that blow and loss would be far greater than anything Black Wind Village suffers, and no family could tolerate it.

At this moment, all twenty-three elders present were cursing that possible "traitor" in their hearts, cursing him bloody for harming others without benefiting himself. Yet even as they mutually suspected one another, this matter still needed to be resolved through negotiation.