Hai City.
In a restaurant, several Pioneers had gathered to drink.
"Have you heard? That newly appointed captain in Cang City is dead."
"Dead? Killed by a Dark Aberrant? Fuck, it feels like no city has been safe lately. Captains are selected—they're the strongest Pioneers on the surface. There might be Pioneers hidden in the shadows, but a captain's strength is definitely solid. And he still died? The Cang City Captain had just taken office, hadn't he? He died that quickly?"
"The Cang City Captain was called Yue Fengjiang, right? I remember he was Divine Axe Sixth Star, but his strength was already comparable to Divine Axe Seven Stars. Even if he couldn't win, he should at least have been able to remain undefeated. His blade techniques were unmatched, and he was once a master of ancient martial arts blade techniques. Yet he died."
However, the person who had first raised the topic shook his head. "No, he was killed by another captain."
"What? A conflict between captains?"
Everyone immediately raised their brows.
Before the Spirit Association began registering Pioneers, Pioneers never gave way to one another. Nobody respected anybody else, and fights were commonplace—no different from gangsters.
But ever since the Spirit Association started registering Pioneers, such conflicts had gradually become less frequent, because the Spirit Association prohibited Pioneers from fighting privately.
Conflicts between captains were an extremely sensitive topic.
"Who killed him? There can't be many people who could take him down, right?"
"The Tai City Captain."
"Who?"
"The Tai City Captain—the Undertaker whose reputation has been spreading recently."
"Fuck!"
Everyone revealed horrified expressions.
"If it was him, then that makes sense. Fuck, someone who could deal with King Offering Hell alone—could he possibly be ordinary? He's an absolute monster. Did Yue Fengjiang think his life was too