Immortals: Firepower for the Rich, Tactical Maneuvers for the Poor

The Xia family is a powerful beast-taming clan, but this generation produced Xia Fan, a useless young master. Even the weakest among the other clan members could control a first-tier demon beast. Xia Fan, however, was so hopeless that he could only control an unranked wild rat, making him the laughingstock of the family. War broke out, and Xia Fan’s grandfather, the strongest member of the Xia family, was conscripted by the imperial court to lead the clan members to the battlefield. His uncles had long resented Xia Fan’s father taking over as clan head. Then, with the front-line defeat, the Huang family coming to break off an engagement, and one setback after another, they seized the chance to force him to step down. Meanwhile, the front lines were on the verge of collapse and desperately needed reinforcements. To protect his position as young master, Xia Fan volunteered to accompany his father to support the front. Just as everyone was laughing at me, convinced I was doomed to die and never return, I had barely reached the battlefield when I ran off with every demon beast in the family. I even made off with the mounts of the imperial generals. The military was furious and ready to wipe out the entire Xia family. But then I returned in triumph, leading tens of thousands of captives...