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At the border between the Yintian Dynasty and the Ziyuan Empire, there is a lawless area, which belongs to the Qingyun Sect, one of the seven major sects in Dongzhou of the Xianwu Continent.
Within this region lies a special town called Qingyang City.
The people of Qingyang City are simple and honest. They work hard from dawn till dusk, busy with their daily routines. If one of them has a problem, they will help each other out. In this cultivation world where martial arts are revered, such a harmonious environment is truly rare.
Although Qingyang City is small, it is only small compared with the benchmark cities of the empire. If compared with other towns, Qingyang City is definitely a big city with a population of over one million.
Because it was a no-man's-land, the Qingyun Sect naturally brought Qingyang City under its jurisdiction.
After all, as a reputable and upright sect, the Qingyun Sect only collects some food and medicinal materials and forged ironware from the City Lord's Mansion at a designated time every month. It has no special requirements. At most, it comes to the city every other year to see if there are any talented children who can be accepted as disciples. This is actually a great thing to bring honor to the family.
With the protection of Qingyun Sect, Qingyang City developed very prosperously. Merchants and people from all over the world were willing to live and settle in this city, which indirectly promoted the city's economic level.
Of course, the Qingyun Sect belongs to the Xuanmen (mystical sect), and can help Qingyang City resist attacks from barbarians or demonic beasts, but it will not interfere with the lives of these "mortals".
This also led to the emergence of numerous gangs beneath the city's prosperous surface, specializing in extorting protection money, engaging in gang fights, and even murder to cover up wrongdoing.
However, there is a limit to what gangs do. As long as they don't disturb the big Buddha of Qingyun Sect, everyone will naturally live in peace.
However, in the past three months or so, the gangs in Qingyang City seem to have become much more organized, and there have been no more incidents of them arbitrarily collecting protection fees or extorting civilians on the streets.
This is because in these three months, dozens of gangs of varying sizes in Qingyang City were almost wiped out, leaving only three gangs. Moreover, the profits of these three gangs were evenly distributed, and their businesses were on track, so the public security naturally improved.
The three gangs are the Wuwei Martial Arts School on East Street, whose boss is Feng Xiunian, who has reached the third level of the Juling Realm.
The boss of the Yangwei Dojo on West Street, He Yishou, also has the third-grade cultivation level in the Gathering Spirit Realm.
The last one is an underground fighting arena that opened only three months ago and is called "Fight Club". You can tell from the name that it was opened by Shen Zhao.
Shen Zhao had traveled all the way from the capital to this border city four months ago and settled down here.
Freed from the constraints of the system, Shen Zhao was able to completely unleash his potential. The first thing he did upon arriving in Qingyang City was to restore order to the city's chaotic security.
The rectification method was simple and brutal: standing in the square where all the major gangs gathered, he shouted: "I'm not targeting anyone, but everyone here, whether standing or sitting, is trash."
How the hell can you tolerate this?
Someone immediately raised their hand and asked a soul-searching question: "I'm protesting, but those who lie down are not garbage, right?"
"Sorry, let me correct you, you are all garbage."
"Okay, wait for me!"
Therefore, the major gangs in Qingyang City were very angry and decided to temporarily put aside their conflicts. All the trivial hatreds such as the murder of their father and the abduction of their wife were written off. They first wanted to give this ignorant little man some "shock" from Qingyang City.
So the next day, the various gangs gathered thousands of people to have a heart-to-heart talk with Shen Zhao.
Faced with such a scene, Shen Zhao said that this was nothing, and directly fought against thousands of people with one punch each. He beat those little Karami so badly that they regretted being born. He used his actions to make them deeply understand the true meaning of "Don't go out into society if you haven't even graduated from junior high school".
After this battle, Shen Zhao's "fame spread far and wide." The little Karami who had been beaten so badly that they questioned their existence all declared that they would study hard and improve themselves every day. They immediately withdrew from the martial arts world and went to find another way to make a living.
This effectively subdued the entire underworld of Qingyang City. Almost overnight, these organizations, which usually only bullied old men selling vegetables on the street and robbed elementary school students of their pocket money, disappeared without a trace, completely eradicating the bad atmosphere in the city.
Upon learning this, City Lord Lu Zhantian was so excited that he almost awarded Shen Zhao a "Top Ten Outstanding Youth" award.
Fortunately, the Wuwei Martial Arts School and Yangwei Dojo keenly sensed that Shen Zhao's aura was extraordinary. Instead of taking action, they personally sent invitations to visit him, thus reaching an agreement for peaceful coexistence among the three parties and forming the "Evil Alliance".
The leader of the alliance was naturally Shen Zhao, who had defeated thousands of small karami with his fists.
As a result, the gang structure in Qingyang City opened a new chapter and ushered in an even more lawless situation.
But some people just wouldn't believe it. They heard that a very capable young man was going to take their jobs and were eager to challenge the authority of the leader of the lower-level alliance.
For example, today's leader of the "Red Dragon Gang," Chen Ruhai, wants to test how much this twenty-year-old leader is capable of, daring to compete with him, an old man who has seen "big storms," for his livelihood.
Inside the fight club, four gang leaders with thuggish airs were eating hot pot around a table.
Shen Zhao, who was in the lead, focused on eating. He picked up a piece of freshly cooked mutton and ate it without caring that it was scalding hot, paying no attention to his own image.
Sitting opposite him was a short, stick-figure-like old man, He Yishou from Yangwei Dojo, who was enthusiastically urging Chen Ruhai, who was sitting next to Shen Zhao, to eat more.
To Shen Zhao's right is Feng Xiunian, who is in his forties, 1.9 meters tall, with a robust build and weighing over 200 pounds. He wears an eye patch over his left eye, has Peppa Pig tattooed on his left arm, Balala the Fairies tattooed on his right arm, and a dark portrait sketch of Tong Dawei on his chest. He is both fierce and down-to-earth.
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