Major Reforms and an Unexpected Reunion

Heyang City, Inner City.

Dense crowds gradually gathered before the Alliance's gates.

This was quite an unusual sight. Heyang City had grown far too vast now, and with more people came an explosive rise in troubles and conflicts.

Without anyone to mediate and keep things under control, the gang-affiliated cultivators in the Outer City alone could fight eight hundred rounds a day.

Thus, unless something was particularly important, meetings within the Alliance were held in batches, with a shift system in place.

Yet today, nearly everyone who could move had come.

That alone showed this matter was no small one.

"Old Zhou, do you know what this is about? I heard Sir himself is coming today?"

A middle-aged cultivator clad in Alliance robes asked a familiar colleague beside him.

"If it isn't Sir, who else has the face to summon this many people?"

The cultivator he had questioned rolled his eyes.

"You brat, life's gotten much better since you were posted elsewhere, huh? You've changed the thing on your wrist again, haven't you?"

The territory under Heyang City's jurisdiction had expanded more and more. Under such circumstances, they naturally had to guard against certain cultivators taking advantage of the distance from central authority to gradually replace all the local manpower with their own subordinates.

After several internal purges, the Alliance's cultivators had come to understand just how troublesome it was to clean things up once a place had rotted from top to root.

And the best way to prevent one side from becoming an independent fiefdom was to ensure sufficient mobility.

Under such circumstances, Alliance officials stationed in a particular district would not remain there for too long. Normally, they would change posts, or even positions, every six months to a year.

At first, some had questioned whether such measures