Switching Sides.
In this virtual world, it was a bit of underworld jargon used by certain martial arts sects—what ordinary people called criminal slang.
It meant leaving one's original organization to serve another organization, gang, or family.
For some proper families and sects, switching sides was permitted, carrying something of an amicable parting—if a deal fell through, goodwill remained; business might end, but friendship did not.
If they met again in the martial world, they could still clasp their fists in greeting, exchange pleasantries, and do each other a favor.
Of course, that depended on the circumstances. Leaving on your own was fine, but taking a group of people with you, or taking their resources or clients, stealing secret manuals or treasures, or killing someone and causing trouble—that was no amicable parting.
Whoever took you in would be considered an enemy of that sect.
The specifics depended on the scale of the trouble you had caused.
But for certain organizations, such as the Great Organization, switching sides was absolutely forbidden.
Once you entered the organization and learned some of its secrets, leaving was impossible.
You had to swear curses and oaths upon entering, declaring that you would follow them for the rest of your life, leaving life and death to fate.
Switching sides meant a kill order would be issued. Anyone in the Great Organization could kill you for the reward, the amount determined by your personal ability, how many secrets you knew, and the scale of the trouble you had caused.
Iron Tuo Wang was qualified. Not only was he one of the Four Heavenly Kings of the Northern Kingdom Xuecheng Branch, he also knew quite a bit about the Great Organization's inner workings. And this time, he had come out with five billion in cash to handle a