Strife

As people's bamboo shoots were stolen from time to time, mutual suspicion grew, and fights with fists and feet in the Blood Bamboo Grove gradually became more frequent.

Over the past two nights, the bamboo grove had also grown increasingly chaotic.

As fewer and fewer bamboo shoots remained to be dug up, although each court had long since divided up its territory, people still took advantage of the chaos to set their sights on other courts' land.

And the first to bear the brunt of it was the Celestial Pivot Court, which bordered the Heavenly Profound Court.

Within the bamboo grove, several Heavenly Profound Court disciples swaggered into the Celestial Pivot Court's territory.

The surrounding Celestial Pivot Court disciples all looked troubled when they saw them, yet none dared make a sound.

Last night, the Heavenly Profound Court disciples had forcibly occupied a stretch of their territory.

A Celestial Pivot Court disciple had tried to reason with them, only to be ganged up on and beaten into internal injuries. He had not even come today.

In truth, the old hands who had spent a long time drifting through the Celestial Pivot Court all knew that the sect assigned each of the six great courts a quota of one hundred people, yet the Celestial Pivot Court had only brought around fifty.

The reason was precisely this.

Although they could dig up Blood Bamboo Shoots, they would be freely bullied by the other courts.

Qian Kun, the court head, never dealt with such matters, and the few Force Training disciples mostly did not bother either.

Over time, the remaining Celestial Pivot Court slots had been sold by Qian Kun to the other courts.

The Celestial Pivot Court had mostly commoner martial artists to begin with. They had little money and few resources,