Because of Lin Bai.
The Beggar Gang had pulled ahead of every other player.
And judging by how events were unfolding, that gap would only grow wider.
While the other players who had entered the game simmered with envy, they had no choice but to seriously consider the right way to play, and how they would deal with an increasingly powerful Beggar Gang in the future.
With Lin Bai, an NPC who feared nothing more than a world without chaos, in the picture, anyone who developed step by step would most likely end up pinned to the ground and ground into the dirt when they encountered the Beggar Gang.
After all.
Everyone knew.
War and plunder were the fastest ways to amass wealth, and under Lin Bai's leadership, the Beggar Gang was charging down that road.
The Shanlu Consortium decided to strike at the Beggar Gang from the flank;
Among the players making names for themselves in the towns neighboring Qian City, some decided to learn more skills and rally more players and sects before confronting the Beggar Gang head-on;
Others decided to work hard at developing their own forces, hoping to steal Lin Bai away from the Beggar Gang in the future;
Still others worried that the Beggar Gang disciples were too unruly, and would eventually affect the NPCs' attitudes toward them...
In short.
Every player had their own ideas.
But at this stage, the players did not call the shots.
Aside from major corporations like Shanlu, which could deploy their financial and material resources to take control of an entire Novice Village as a base, just as Lin Bai had;
Most players were still scattered stragglers, low in level and weak as individuals. Even those lucky enough to be selected early by cultivation sects had no say