A Sharp Intake of Breath (First Update)

Salomon had no intention of wasting time with the sixty-sixth Iron Fist.

Daniel Rand's cultivation was truly abysmal; there was no need to communicate with him at all. According to Daniel Rand himself, he had cultivated in Kunlun since childhood, yet he had only barely entered the door of True Man Taixu's Sitting and Forgetting Qi Cultivation, an internal cultivation method of the Left Immortal. Even that had been learned under his teacher's compulsory demands. His level was inferior even to that of any newly initiated Arcanist apprentice. Perhaps it was a cultural barrier, but Daniel Rand simply did not understand how powerful the health-preserving arts—the techniques for cultivating longevity and ascending to immortality in the "Supreme Yellow Court Inner Scenery Jade Scripture"—really were. He merely thought his fists and kicks were impressive.

Faced with Salomon's doubts, Daniel Rand claimed that the young man before him had no idea how formidable the Iron Fist was. Then he had to pay compensation for the wall in the rental apartment that he had punched through. After all, Salomon had not intended to spend money when he threw that punch; he had merely wanted Daniel Rand to stop being such a nuisance. Considering how increasingly impatient he had become, he had already shown considerable restraint. Otherwise, he would have had the current Iron Fist see what so-called Palm Lightning was.

Over the next two days, every gang entrenched in Hell's Kitchen that refused Salomon's terms suffered the Sisterhood's merciless cleansing. They slaughtered every gang unwilling to accept the conditions with the utmost speed. Salomon wanted to ensure that every penny he paid went into the residents' pockets instead of being taken away through usury, gambling, extortion, and the like.

Previously, the Sisterhood's purge of Manhattan's gangs had been confined to the wealthy district