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Time flew by like a fleeting white colt. In the blink of an eye, a year had passed.

Over that year, the Yuling Group had expanded from fewer than three hundred members to over twelve hundred. That was only because anyone wishing to join the Yuling Group needed to possess at least Middle Star Rank strength. Otherwise, its numbers would have been even greater.

Following the missions Xiao Xie had issued through the Tasks Hall, the Yuling Group had wiped out several hundred Bandit Strongholds and dozens of Heretical Sects in the martial world over the past year.

Since the Yuling Group only targeted bandits and utterly vile criminals, no one opposed them. On the contrary, wherever the Yuling Group was present, no one within a hundred miles dared commit evil deeds. Thus, most common folk greatly supported them.

On the surface, the Yuling Group was merely exterminating bandits and using part of the silver they obtained to aid impoverished civilians. In reality, however, they were secretly expanding their influence. After all, wiping out bandits could yield quite a fortune in plundered valuables.

Although the Yuling Group did use some of that money to help civilians, it amounted to less than one percent of the wealth they seized. Yet that alone was enough to make the common people deeply grateful to them.

The Yuling Group now had branches throughout the Nine Provinces, nine major branches in total. Each branch had at least one Fifth Heaven expert stationed there.

Publicly, the Yuling Group had only one headquarters and nine major branches, with just over twelve hundred members in total. But those were merely the details Xiao Xie had deliberately shown the spies of other forces.

Besides the nine major branches, Xiao Xie had secretly purchased many businesses throughout the Nine Provinces: