The City Patrol Guard could not possibly protect every faction.
Still less could they help a victimized faction hunt down certain people over the losses of a single family.
This was a strict decree of the Ruthless Dynasty.
After all, the entire continent belonged to the Ruthless Dynasty. Whether factions or powerful experts, all were subjects of the Ruthless Dynasty.
If they truly backed those major factions, the dynasty would only gradually become bloated beyond measure, with parasites running rampant.
Ever since the Ruthless Dynasty had truly taken shape here, this strict decree had existed.
Although the City Lord Tower and Military Review Pavilion had separated from the dynasty to develop independently, they were forbidden from taking part in any factional disputes. Violators would be executed without mercy, along with their nine generations of kin.
It was said that even harsher decrees existed within the Ruthless Dynasty.
At the very least, there was one rule.
If someone truly overturned a powerful faction and possessed sufficient strength and potential, not only would the dynasty not hunt that person down, it would instead recruit them into the Attendant Hall.
This very rule had once driven countless people to take desperate risks.
Yet the facts proved that peak factions were peak factions after all, utterly beyond comparison with ordinary Rogue Cultivators.
As time went by, fewer and fewer people dared challenge peak factions.
Yet because this strict decree existed, peak factions did not dare go too far lightly.
After all, throughout history, cases of Rogue Cultivators being driven to fight with the net torn and the fish dead by factional oppression had been everywhere.
After listening to Master Hu's account, Qin Shaofeng was so excited he nearly jumped up.
It was merely a third-rate faction.
Did he really need to fear it?
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