Development After Natural Evolution

The deterrence brought about by the warship destroying the gangs had finally vanished under the crushing pressure of life and death. Gang conflicts in the Lower District had completely reached a white-hot stage.

Under such circumstances, they directly tossed the old rule of not harassing ordinary people to the back of their minds.

Don't rob ordinary people?

Ordinary people were exactly who they robbed!

Large numbers of gang members poured into the streets, seizing and plundering by force. Some went even further, directly brandishing Spirit Guns to force people to join them.

They came and went like the wind, and there were simply too many such incidents. Even if the Alliance deployed every person it had, it still had no way to suppress the current chaos.

When the ordinary independent cultivators saw that even the Alliance could not protect their safety, they could only find ways to save themselves.

Some independent cultivators who had only recently arrived chose to flee outright.

If I can't afford to provoke them, can't I at least hide from them?

But some independent cultivators who had lived there for a long time, accumulated a certain amount of wealth, and had set their hearts on the Upper City could not accept such an outcome.

I was just about to leap over the Dragon Gate, and now you're telling me to leave?

I'd rather die than leave!

And if they did not leave, they had to consider how to protect themselves.

So how could they protect their modest family fortunes amid the chaos of streets overrun by gangs?

The answer was in the question itself:

If you could not beat them, join them. Weren't gang members forcing people to join? Then they would bring their talents directly into the gangs!

After all, before joining a gang, they