(First update)
"Sky-Blasting Gang?"
A man's reputation was like a tree's shadow!
Although the Clear Sky Sect had secluded itself in the mountains for many years, its daily supplies still had to be purchased in the city. Naturally, the sect's people knew of the major force that had stirred up trouble throughout the Heaven Dou Empire over the past year and suppressed their old enemy, Spirit Hall, so thoroughly it could barely raise its head.
The moment they heard that Yang Ming and the others were from the Sky-Blasting Gang, Yang Ming clearly saw wariness appear between the villagers' brows. They quietly tightened their grips on their farming tools and scrutinized Yang Ming's group with extreme apprehension.
Sensing the farmers' nervousness, Yang Ming did not know whether to laugh or cry.
With their pitifully weak strength, they would not have been able to stop them even if they wanted to use force!
Of course, Yang Ming had not come this time to cause trouble. He wanted to absorb the entire Clear Sky Sect into the Sky-Blasting Gang.
This was not mere wishful thinking!
Tang Chen and Tang Hao, the two pillars of the Clear Sky Sect, were both in the Sky-Blasting Gang. Yang Ming refused to believe that the current Clear Sky Sect Master would reject them!
Yang Ming smiled amicably, cupped his hands again, and said:
"Fellow villagers, our Sky-Blasting Gang bears no ill intent. We truly only came to visit the Clear Sky Sect. Please forgive any disturbance and point us in the right direction."
As he spoke, Yang Ming gave a slight shudder, releasing a thread of Conqueror's Haki at just the right moment.
Even a mere trace of Conqueror's Haki was enough to give these villagers a taste of fear. Their faces turned pale, and their