A bone-deep chill spread from the soles of their feet to the crowns of their heads. At that moment, every surviving Black Gang leader faced the same deadly dilemma.
If they did not kill the Dalits, they could only watch as those gaunt figures tore their low-ranking gang members apart, one by one.
But once they killed a Dalit, the debt claim figures above their heads would soar, stripping away their cultivation layer by layer until they became useless wretches no different from ordinary people.
Death lay to the left, and death lay to the right. Was their only choice to withdraw from Grand Sovereign Yellow-Tseng Heaven?
Grand Sovereign Yellow-Tseng Heaven was rich in resources. The Black Gang's low-ranking members scarcely understood the concept of saving wealth; whatever they seized, they squandered.
But although most of their recent plunder had been handed over to the big shots at Eden Garden Academy, the share left for the gang leaders had still earned them a fortune.
These were tangible profits. Asking them to let go was like asking them to cut off their own flesh.
More importantly, the Black Gang's presence in Emperor Taihuang City had never been merely about plundering valuables.
The Zero-Dollar Shopping Ritual represented Eden Garden Academy's systematic destruction of Grand Sovereign Yellow-Tseng Heaven's order. Countless Black Gang members smashed, looted, and robbed at will throughout the city. On the surface, they were creating chaos, but in truth, every use of Zero-Dollar Shopping inflicted a tiny erosion on Grand Sovereign Yellow-Tseng Heaven's native order.
Once that erosion accumulated to a certain degree, the foundations of Grand Sovereign Yellow-Tseng Heaven's laws would loosen. Eden Garden Academy could then seize the opportunity to introduce its own Eden Law, fundamentally altering the mythic nature of this realm.
The Black Gang was the