"Uncle Li, Uncle Lin, what happened? Why does the Travel Merchants Association no longer have a headquarters?!"
Hearing Ye Li's question, Li Xifeng and others' faces became extremely ugly.
After taking a deep breath, Li Xifeng lowered his head and said, "It's all over. The Merchants Association is finished. We have no other choice but to flee."
Ye Li took a deep breath and said, "What on earth happened? Wasn't the Travel Merchants Association doing fine before? Why was it suddenly attacked?"
Li Xifeng said: "Before, we had the help of the Guan and Zhao families, so we were able to stay in the martial arts world steadily and become bigger and bigger.
A few days ago, with the sudden disappearance of the Guan and Zhao families, the Zhu and Tao families also disappeared, and the entire Chamber of Commerce on Jianghu became chaotic.
Our Traveling Chamber of Commerce was suddenly attacked by many small chambers of commerce. No matter how tolerant our people were, the attacks from these small chambers of commerce did not stop.
When we can no longer tolerate it, we have no choice but to fight back.
However, just as we were about to take action, people from the Great Snow Mountain Divine Cult and the Soul Realm suddenly appeared, saying that we had attacked their Chamber of Commerce and were about to attack us.
The nature and strength of our Traveling Chamber of Commerce are no stronger than the four major chambers of commerce in the past. How can we be a match for the Holy Land? In just three days, all the strongholds in various places were completely destroyed.
The other side also sent a large number of medium and large families to encircle and suppress us and to persuade us to surrender. A large number of people directly defected to the other side, and the rest, like us, were forced to flee and hide.
The headquarters was captured by a group of noble families three days ago. Judging from the performance of these families, they should all be controlled by the Tianhun Club.
We made a rough calculation and found that almost all the medium and large families in the entire western region of the continent should have been controlled by the Tianhun Society.
Some of them may not show it, but we can basically be sure that they are all members of the Tianhun Society.
Apart from some trusted men in this manor, we now have some trusted men hiding near Tianhui Mountain.
The rest of the people were either killed, surrendered, or got lost. The entire Travel Merchants Association is... It's all over..."
Speaking of the latter part, Li Xifeng couldn't help but burst into tears.
Ye Li couldn't help but fall into silence after hearing that. He was not surprised that the Traveling Merchants Association was wiped out so quickly.
The existence of the Traveling Merchants Guild should be able to be maintained for a long time during peacetime, but in troubled times, they really have no ability to resist external shocks.
The Traveling Merchants Association itself has no foundation. Even if it can gradually develop with the help of wealth, it can never compare with those aristocratic families that have been operating for hundreds of years.
Not to mention that behind these noble families stands the behemoth Tianhun Society. It would be a piece of cake for Tianhun Society to take action against the Youshang Society.
However, Ye Li did not expect that almost all the medium and large families in the western part of the continent were controlled by the Tianhun Society. In Ye Li's opinion, the Tianhun Society should not dare to do it so blatantly.
It seems that the Tianhun Society is no longer afraid of being discovered, and their accumulated strength should have reached a very strong level.
In the past, the Tianhun Society was unwilling to expose itself simply because they were not ready to fight against the entire martial arts world.
At that time, except for the Great Snow Mountain Divine Sect, the other four holy places were not controlled by them.
Once the war starts, the Tianhun Society will have no choice but to join forces with the Great Snow Mountain Divine Sect to fight against the whole world.
Even if Tianhun had such strength, they would not choose this head-on approach, because it is not cost-effective for them to use this method.
The main purpose of the Tianhun Society is to cast the statue. Now that the casting of the statue is almost completed, they dare to act in a high-profile manner.
Moreover, Phoenix Villa has been destroyed. As for the situation in Emperor City, even Ye Li has no idea whether it is an enemy or a friend. The only one who can truly take the lead is Prajna Mountain.
Although Prajna Mountain is the most powerful one in the holy land, Ye Li is not too optimistic about them. They may not have enough understanding of the Tianhun Society. If a fight really breaks out, Prajna Mountain might suffer a great loss.
Fortunately, Ye Li had already told Xuan Ji a lot of the situation some time ago, and Feng Feiyan would also tell the people of Prajna Mountain the specific information, so Prajna Mountain could be more prepared and would not be quickly defeated when the real danger came.
Under such circumstances, the collapse of the Traveling Merchants Association was expected. "Uncle Li, don't be sad. Judging from the current situation, it is indeed difficult for the Traveling Merchants Association to survive in the world.
Your strength base is too weak. It can be maintained and developed in peacetime, but it is really difficult to maintain it in an era of impending chaos.
Among the remaining people among you, if you can be sure of everyone's loyalty, then just join our Five Saints Alliance.
The Five Saints Alliance should be the safest place in the entire martial arts world now. Our strength has been growing all the time, and we will soon accumulate enough strength to fight against the Heavenly Soul Society head-on."
Ye Li said to Li Xifeng.
Li Xifeng wiped the tears from his face and said, "In fact, I also know that the Merchants Association can't last long in troubled times, but after all, we have put a lot of effort into it, and we still have hope for it. Now that it has been destroyed, I feel really sad.
Brother Ye Li, those who are still with us are all our confidants, and these people are definitely not controlled by the Tianhun Society.
The rest of us had nowhere to go, so we had originally planned to hide here for a while. Once the news outside died down, we would disguise ourselves and leave here, and find a place to live in seclusion.
But since you, Brother Ye Li, asked us to join the Five Saints Alliance, we naturally have no objection. However, our strength is relatively low, and it is difficult for us to bring much help to the Five Saints Alliance. "
Almost all the masters of the Traveling Merchants Association have died, and the remaining loyal people are mostly small fry, and their strength is not as good as that of the Ye family.
However, Ye Li himself didn't care about these things. Li Xifeng and the others were like family to him, so he naturally couldn't just sit back and ignore them.
Ye Li thought for a moment and said, "Uncle Li, I came here originally to ask your Merchants Association for information, but now it seems that there is no way to do it.
We might as well leave here first and find a way to reunite with your other companions. Then I will send you to the Five Saints Alliance."
Hearing Ye Li's words, Li Xifeng nodded and said, "Okay, everything here will be decided by you, Ye Li!"