Three Sects, Four Schools, Six Noble Families, Seven Cults, Eight Valleys, Ten Renowned Clans

"You've already started Bone Forging? When did that happen? How come I can't tell at all?" Wang Zhuang asked, puzzled.

"Oh! I just started not too long ago, just these past couple of days." Jiang Liu was afraid of discouraging Wang Zhuang, so he didn't dare tell the truth.

Because even as it was, Wang Zhuang was already cultivating day and night. He was afraid that if he told the truth, Wang Zhuang would cultivate even more desperately.

Although Jiang Liu didn't think of himself as a good person, among all the apprentices here, Wang Zhuang was the only one he had the best relationship with. Jiang Liu sincerely didn't want Wang Zhuang to go down a dead end.

"Oh! Looks like you're still progressing faster than me! I've already been working my butt off, but I still can't catch up to your pace," Wang Zhuang said helplessly. It seemed that people really couldn't be compared to each other. Wang Zhuang looked at the sky with a bit of resignation.

"Well! Don't think so much. As long as you do your best, just let nature take its course. Cultivation should be gradual, otherwise, if you blindly seek speed and damage your foundation, it will be difficult to make any further progress in the future!" Jiang Liu turned his head and said to Wang Zhuang.

"Easy for you to say! You're always first in every assessment, so of course you're not worried. I'm just afraid that when the one-year term is up, I won't meet the Fallen Blossom Gang's requirements and won't be able to stay. It'll be miserable if I go home then."

"I made a bold statement back then, that I would definitely achieve something here! Otherwise, I'd go back and accept the family's arrangements! My family only gave me the opportunity to come here because of that!" Wang Zhuang said helplessly.

"Alright! Are you going back? Or are you going to cultivate here? I'm going back first," Jiang Liu said, not wanting to continue the topic, and got up.

"You go back first! I'll cultivate here for a while longer." Wang Zhuang glanced at Jiang Liu, then also got up, preparing to meditate and recover Blood Essence.

Jiang Liu didn't say anything more, turned his head, and slowly walked away.

Back in his small courtyard, Jiang Liu sat cross-legged on the stone platform where he usually practiced, circulating the Five Elements Fist Blood Essence circulation method to recover Blood Essence.

The Five Elements Fist is a complete set of martial arts manuals that includes fighting techniques, defense, Blood Essence circulation, and complementary medicinal soups! That's why it's said to be the best Body Refinement technique! The most important thing is that it's complete. The Fallen Blossom Gang can be considered to have put in a lot of effort to cultivate these future backbones of the gang.

As for whether other gangs or sects have better secret manuals or techniques? Jiang Liu didn't know and hadn't heard of any.

When Jiang Liu occasionally went to the Medicine Hall to freeload medicinal soups from Uncle Hai, he also heard Uncle Hai vaguely mention that what was most prevalent in the martial world now was: Three Sects, Four Schools, Six Noble Families, Seven Cults, Eight Valleys, Ten Renowned Clans!

These great sects and schools all had Grandmasters above the Ninth Rank! Although the Ten Renowned Clans were just ten people, they all had the strength of Grandmasters! Above Ninth Rank is the Grandmaster Realm, and Grandmaster is further divided into Small Grandmaster, Great Grandmaster, and Peak Grandmaster three realms!

Jiang Liu listened with a face full of longing, wondering when he would be able to cultivate to that level.

Uncle Hai looked at Jiang Liu's longing expression and slapped him on the head, annoyed. "Kid, don't think so far ahead, you should focus on becoming Ranked first!"

Jiang Liu thought of this and was immediately full of motivation. I will definitely be able to reach that level!

"Reporting to Master Lin, we've finally found the trail of those few people!" Lin Hai strode into the Scattered Eagle Hall's headquarters hall, cupping his fist towards Master Lin.

"Oh? They finally revealed their tracks after so long. Good fellows, they can really endure! What's their background?" Master Lin asked.

"It should be people sent by the Scattered Eagle Hall."

"It really is that damned Zheng Lang! I suspected it was his people before."

"Because when the main branch leader assigned Fu Rong Street to us before, he had the strongest reaction!"

"What? Fu Rong Street was taken down by our brothers! Why should he object?"

"Zheng Lang believes that his Scattered Eagle Hall also contributed, and should be given half!"

"Where did his Scattered Eagle Hall contribute? He wanted to take Three Horses Street but failed! Now he wants to come here and reap the benefits?"

"Zheng Lang doesn't think so! He believes that if it weren't for his Scattered Eagle Hall, which put in a lot of effort to restrain the Vast Ocean Gang, we wouldn't have been able to take Fu Rong Street so easily!"

"Now they've sent people, spent money, and quite a few people died when attacking Three Horses Street, but they didn't get anything! Of course, they're unhappy! They can't stand seeing us doing well!"

"Fu Rong Street was assigned to whoever took it down, according to the main branch leader's promise! Why is Zheng Lang jealous?"

"Now that Zheng Lang is sending people to cause trouble, should we report it to the main branch?"

"No need! We have to report such a small matter to the main branch! Wouldn't that make me, Lin Hao, seem useless? Reporting every little thing?"

"You go and control those few Scattered Eagle Hall people first. Don't let Zheng Lang find them, I'll have use for them later. As for those causing trouble, you can close the net now, don't let any of them escape," Master Lin instructed.

"Yes!" Lin Hai bowed in response and turned to leave the hall.