"Lightning Gun" Zuo Lang.
"Thunder Slash" Zhou Yang.
"Shadow Hunter" Jin Heli.
And more than a dozen equally renowned names that rang like thunder in the ears.
They were all battle heroes who had fought blood-soaked battles decades ago, clawed their way back from the Gate of Hell countless times, their bodies covered in scars and even embedded with fragments of monster fangs.
They were also idols Meng Chao had heard about since childhood, the people he had sworn countless times to emulate—the superstars among Transcendents!
They were furthermore core figures in major Super Enterprises and key departments of the Superhuman Tower, as well as lifetime professors at Dragon City University and the Five School Alliance.
Meng Chao even found on this list the names of several university teachers who had once taught him, as well as senior predecessors from the Investigation Bureau and the Adjudication Court.
By all rights, these glittering names should have been the pillars holding up Dragon City.
Yet in the testimonies of Blood Alliance members, every one of them had become an umbrella shielding the Blood Alliance.
Even if they had not been long-term protectors privy to the Blood Alliance's inner workings, they had at least once "shown mercy," providing temporary convenience for some of the Blood Alliance's illegal and criminal activities, then helping to cover them up afterward and declining to pursue the matter further—"temporary partners."
There were only two reasons they had been willing to wallow in the mire with the Blood Alliance.
Either the Blood Alliance had offered terms they could not refuse, smashing through their psychological defenses with astronomical amounts of cultivation resources.
Or the Blood Alliance had seized their weaknesses.
And their weaknesses were much the same.
These great figures, distinguished in war merit, illustrious in reputation, and righteous-looking in