Beggar Gang

Biodata

Feature	Value
Name	Beggar Gang (丐帮)
Organization Type	Beggar organization transformed into a player-led faction and commercial enterprise 50 83 97.
Affiliation	Lin Bai’s Protector Gang; secular foundation and recruitment source for the Righteousness Sect 81 112 162.
Leader	Lao Mi, who remains gang leader when it becomes the largest gang in the Taiyi Kingdom 433.
Operational Leadership	Lone Elder manages the gang’s affairs during its early expansion, despite Lao Mi holding the formal leadership position 142.
Membership	Heaven-Sent Ones and native recruits, including Qian City’s local beggars 116 129.
Occupation/Role	Protection, martial training, advertising, intelligence gathering, crafting, and recruitment-event management 118 129 134 142 143.
Bases	Jiamao City and Qian City; later maintains businesses across four cities 106 116 227.
Status	Largest gang in the Taiyi Kingdom by the latest documented account 433.
First Appearance	Beggars abduct Lao Mi and his companion 18.

Power Progression

The gang’s documented advancement concerns shared training and access to techniques, rather than a single cultivation realm.

Stage / Realm / Level	Chapter	Notes
Martial-hall training arranged	82	Lin Bai contracts martial-school masters to provide instructors. Righteousness Sect techniques are initially promised only after observation of members’ loyalty and contributions.
First Dragon-Subduing Palm rewards	112	Several core members receive individual moves for securing advertising deals during the journey to Qian City.
Advanced skills taught to selected players	117	Lin Bai begins teaching martial arts, alchemy, and artifact-refining basics to selected members.
Broad acquisition of foundational martial arts	122	Among the sixty-plus disciples accompanying Lin Bai to Qian City, most have learned the complete Nine Suns Scripture; half have learned almost the entire Dragon-Subduing Ten-Stroke Palm. Palm proficiency still requires practice.
Gang-wide access to martial techniques	142	Nine Suns Scripture and Dragon-Subduing Palm become available to every disciple. Lin Bai also offers Six Colors of Proud Frost, Arched Body, Single Shadow, and Golden Bell Shield.
Selective access to cultivation-sect training	161 162	After the Returning Dragon Temple’s takeover, promising gang members can enter the Righteousness Sect’s Outer Sect to cultivate Dao arts and martial arts. Further advancement into the Inner Sect depends on performance and achievements.

Background / History

Original gang and player takeover

The original beggars operate with coordinated roles: during Lao Mi’s abduction, some distract passersby while others club the targets, bag them, and carry them away. Lin Bai witnesses the operation but does not intervene 18.

Later, the city lord sends Lao Mi and Jing Mi undercover into the Beggar Gang, requiring them to abandon their Shadow Guard positions and gain influence before receiving further instructions. Lin Bai becomes their sole contact, but privately encourages Lao Mi to make the gang an independent career rather than a temporary government assignment. He supplies 200 taels to fund the venture, and Jing Mi agrees to support Lao Mi’s leadership 46 47.

The pair seize control through a resurrection bluff. Lao Mi kills Jing Mi before the beggars, then returns with him alive and threatens to kill gang members one by one. Liu Quan submits rather than test their apparent immortality, giving Lao Mi control of a street 50.

Formation of the Protector Gang

After defeating a player raid against him, Lin Bai offers the participants a way to remain in Jiamao City: join Lao Mi’s Beggar Gang. Their martial halls are expelling them and reclaiming their skills, making the gang’s promised instruction especially attractive 81 82.

Lin Bai presents the organization as the Righteousness Sect’s Protector Gang and recruits former enemies, artisans, and players already serving as Shadow Guards. He explicitly permits government employees to retain their positions while supporting the gang 83.

Leadership appointments establish a hierarchy, but also demonstrate Lin Bai’s control. Lone Elder purchases the left deputy position with 3,000 taels; other posts go to members with wealth or martial strength. Lin Bai refuses to sell Lao Mi’s position, citing their sworn brotherhood 87 88.

Sponsorship and expansion to Qian City

Recruitment by stronger cultivation sects threatens to draw members away. Lin Bai responds by proposing expansion beyond Jiamao City, then turns an unsolicited milk advertisement into a new business model: the gang will sell publicity through uniforms, slogans, banners, and livestreams 95 96.

Shared advertising income gives members a financial reason to remain together and protect Lin Bai. Sponsorship negotiations become so important that disciples spend their time comparing offers instead of leveling. Lin Bai retains final approval and limits contracts to one month 97 99 103.

The stronger members depart for Qian City in a branded caravan, while newer recruits remain in Jiamao City to receive incoming Heaven-Sent Ones. A Blood Shadow Gate interception becomes both a battle and a promotional spectacle; the players chant advertisements while Lin Bai and Jiang Qingqin fight 106 108 109.

In Qian City, sponsorship money purchases a lavish manor and training supplies. The players recruit all the city’s native beggars in one afternoon, organizing them as workers, advertisers, and a basic intelligence network. Within three days, the local native membership reaches one thousand 116 129.

Recruitment fair and sect confrontation

When representatives of the Seven Righteous Sects challenge the gang, Lao Mi argues that it is an organization founded by Heaven-Sent Ones, not an illicit sect established by Lin Bai. Hospitality, coordinated slogans, and political arguments keep the confrontation at the negotiating table 118 119.

The gang subsequently organizes Qian City’s cultivation recruitment fair. Its advertising attracts merchants and sect sponsors, generates revenue, and makes cultivation recruitment accessible to ordinary citizens. Locals welcome an organization that creates jobs and distributes money instead of demanding alms 122 134.

Steep registration fees initially prevent a hostile player scheme from flooding the gang with recruits. After rival sects adopt anti-Lin Bai recruitment slogans, Lin Bai abolishes the fees and confronts their leaders. Gang members help sustain his lightning barrage by reciting the necessary tongue twister; his victory sends players rushing to the gang’s recruitment desk 136 137 138 139.

Returning Dragon Temple campaign

Lao Mi’s promise to oppose the Beast Taming Sect becomes a long-term faction objective after Little White Fox challenges the players to prove their concern for Demon Beasts. Meanwhile, the gang grows to approximately three thousand members, and Lone Elder organizes training and combat roles 142 143.

Gang infiltrators persuade Long Xi to betray the Returning Dragon Temple and help arrange an inside–outside takeover. The first battlefield plan fails: players advertise before beginning their incantation, giving Golden Core Taoists time to kill them or force them to log out 146 147 150.

Lin Bai recovers independently. Lone Elder then secures flying transport from other sects, sending one thousand Beggar Gang disciples and five hundred allied recruits toward the temple 154 155.

After conquering the temple, Lin Bai converts it into the Righteousness Sect and establishes selective admission for promising Beggar Gang members. The gang remains a separate organization rather than transferring its entire membership into the new sect 161 162.

Independence schemes and disciplinary crisis

The gang’s players form an Advertising Alliance with members of other sects, protecting their income while building connections beyond Lin Bai’s immediate following. Later, its leaders plan to cooperate publicly with him while secretly cultivating an independent power base. Justice Weekly’s proposed expansion into other cities is part of that strategy 165 194.

The conflict becomes explicit when Lin Bai condemns members for prioritizing advertising impact over his instructions. He pardons senior players but orders the remaining members to fight in the Sword Practice Arena. Only half may stay; those defeated face twenty consecutive killings after revival and three months in the Black Iron Mine. He also threatens departing members with removal of their martial and mystic arts 220 221.

Lao Mi’s coup and business closures

The righteous and demonic Execution Order against Lin Bai exposes the gang’s dependence on his protection. Several city governments close its businesses, ban Justice Weekly, and imprison protesting members. Xu Longyun refuses to dismantle its Jiamao City operations simply to appease the sects 227.

Lone Elder proposes publicly severing ties with Lin Bai while secretly preserving them. Lao Mi instead allies with Guo Yuan, whose City Guard arrests Lone Elder and other members. Lao Mi announces his intention to seize the Advertising Department and its income; several executives remain loyal to Lone Elder and report the betrayal to Lin Bai 227 228.

Lin Bai later secures the reopening of the gang’s businesses in Binghuo City during the Righteous Alliance Army’s advance 231.

Growth bottleneck and later status

The gang eventually loses its overwhelming early advantage. Top sects offer superior cultivation resources, while consortiums possess greater finances and rapidly improving player forces. When Lin Bai keeps a low profile, advertisers stop investing and the gang largely survives on reserves and Magpie Bridge income 269 300.

Attacks by Chilian Ancestor and Song Yaoqing force Qian City members to remain offline for days. Lao Mi later relocates to Thunder City and invokes the gang’s Protector Gang status to demand action from Lin Bai 273 301.

Despite these setbacks, Lin Bai eventually orders the organization elevated to the largest gang in the Taiyi Kingdom. Lao Mi remains its leader 433.

Organization and Leadership

Position / Group	Documented Holder(s)	Function or distinction
Ultimate authority	Lin Bai	Defines the gang’s duties, controls access to instruction, and can punish or expel members 162 221.
Gang leader	Lao Mi	Holds the formal leadership position, protected early on by Lin Bai’s sworn brotherhood 87.
Left vice gang leader	Lone Elder	Buys the post and later handles the gang’s day-to-day affairs 87 142.
Other senior ranks	Right vice gang leader, Nine-Bag Elders, Eight-Bag Elders	Posts are filled according to wealth or martial prowess 88.
Advertising Department	Player staff	Handles sponsorship orders and distributes advertising assignments to players in other sects 203.
Alchemy team	Led by Flower Doctor God	Conducts pill research and reverse-engineering for Lin Bai 143.
Native recruits	Local beggars and other residents	Supply labor, local knowledge, publicity work, and support for crafting operations 116 128 129 134.

• Separate from the Righteousness Sect: The gang supplies its secular foundation and potential disciples. Outer Sect admission is selective, followed by possible Inner Sect promotion 112 162.
• Dual affiliation: Shadow Guards may serve the government while remaining gang members. Players affiliated with other cultivation sects also cooperate through advertising and intelligence networks 83 155 165.
• Disputed independence: Members present the gang as Heaven-Sent-led during negotiations, but Lin Bai insists that its purpose is to serve him. Lao Mi’s later coup exposes the gap between formal leadership and operational control 118 162 227.

Abilities & Skills

Martial Training

Technique	Documented use or limitation
Nine Suns Scripture	Widely learned by the initial Qian City contingent; later opened to every gang disciple 122 142.
Dragon-Subduing Ten-Stroke Palm / Dragon-Subduing Palm	Requires proficiency grinding and substantial inner force. Most disciples can initially perform no more than one complete sequence 122 130.
Six Colors of Proud Frost	Saber technique offered for gang-wide training 142.
Arched Body, Single Shadow	Movement technique offered for gang-wide training 142.
Golden Bell Shield	Protective technique offered for gang-wide training 142.

• Player cultivation is exceptionally fast: the stated rate is one day of cultivation equaling a year for an ordinary person 122.
• The gang brings expert City Guard archers in as instructors and emphasizes archery alongside daily Nine Suns Scripture practice 130.
• Large membership does not initially translate into independent high-level combat power. Its players remain vulnerable to Golden Core attacks and heavily dependent on Lin Bai 142 147 150.

Coordinated Incantation Support

Gang members can support Lin Bai’s Palm Thunder by successfully reciting its tongue-twister incantation 138.

• Mass recitation sustains the lightning barrage against the evil-sect leaders at the recruitment fair 138.
• The tactic requires time to begin; enemy attacks can interrupt or eliminate the reciters before they contribute 150.
• Members investigate the supposed connection to Words Become Law, but Lin Bai later admits that he invented that explanation 139 155.

Intelligence and Infiltration

• Native beggars provide a local information network in Qian City 116.
• Players inside rival sects relay intelligence through private communications, including disciples captured by the Returning Dragon Temple 142.
• The network converts Long Xi into an inside ally and helps coordinate the temple campaign 146.
• Players from other sects enlarge the network while assisting with transport and recruitment for Lin Bai’s expedition 155.
• Important meetings later use restricted private streams after public livestreams expose sensitive information 220.

Alchemy and Artifact Refining

• Lin Bai provides selected players with alchemy and artifact-refining instruction 117.
• Artifact Refining Master studies the Windbreaker sword and forges weapon blanks in exchange for further instruction 128 129.
• Flower Doctor God’s team develops a poisoned Rejuvenation Pill and attempts to reverse-engineer an Enlightenment Pill 129 143.
• Native members assist with workshop labor, allowing players and Lin Bai to concentrate on specialized work 128 129.

Negotiation and Event Management

• Team voice chat enables coordinated hospitality, slogans, and responses during confrontations 118.
• Lao Mi uses the Heaven-Sent Ones’ ability to choose rival factions as leverage against forced recruitment 118.
• The gang plans sect recruitment displays, attracts sponsors, and operates Qian City’s cultivation job fair 121 122 134.
• Lone Elder obtains transport through promises, threats, and cooperation with players already belonging to other sects 155.

Uniforms, Equipment, and Facilities

• Branded beggar uniforms — Deliberately tattered but finely made, with “Beggar” on the chest and Muming Milk branding on the back and sleeve patches 106.
• Advertising caravan — Twenty or thirty carriages decorated with dairy cows, grasslands, ragged flags, and slogans containing deliberately incomplete characters 106.
• Bows and Windbreaker Rejuvenation Arrows — An important early combat option while disciples lack the inner force for repeated palm sequences. The pill payload must reach an opponent’s stomach; it is especially effective against NPCs 130.
• Crossbows — Artifact Refining Master carries a crossbow on the Qian City journey; Lin Bai praises its earlier usefulness 83 106.
• Qian City manor — A wealthy merchant’s former estate, purchased as a branch headquarters, with rockeries, flowing water, landscaped gardens, and training supplies 116.
• Black Ice Spring — Created at the branch for quenching during artifact refinement 124.
• Workshops and Weapon Shop — Members rebuild alchemy facilities after the courtyard’s destruction and allocate space for Lin Bai’s weapon business 125.
• Borrowed flying transport — The Hundred Flowers Valley’s Flying Shuttle and other sects’ transport treasures carry the temple expedition 155.

Commerce and Recruitment

Advertising Model

• Shared proceeds: Lin Bai promises to distribute advertising earnings among gang members and use wealth to acquire supplies, talismans, and magic treasures 97.
• Advertising space: Uniforms, flags, carriages, streets, and house walls provide sponsor exposure 97 103 106.
• Livestream obligations: Sponsors require the Qian City journey to be broadcast, and later campaigns must deliver publicity even when operational details remain secret 106 148.
• Contract control: Lin Bai rejects six-month arrangements, caps contracts at one month, and reserves final approval while delegating smaller negotiations to Lone Elder 103.
• Print expansion: Justice Weekly gives the gang a publishing and advertising outlet whose staff plan wider distribution through player agents 194 227.
• Revenue vulnerability: Later sponsors demand major spectacles rather than everyday footage. Reduced publicity and stronger consortium competition diminish income 242 300.

Recruitment Policies

Period	Policy
Initial Protector Gang formation	Players are recruited through promised training and an alternative to martial-hall expulsion 81 82 83.
Early Qian City expansion	Native volunteers are accepted, including recruits from merchant and martial-hall families 116 134.
Paid registration at the job fair	Basic disciple: 1,000 taels; one-bag disciple: 2,000 taels; Nine-Bag Elder: 20,000 taels. Applicants with extensive social connections receive priority 136.
After the job-fair confrontation begins	Lin Bai removes entry requirements and confirms free registration following his victory 137 139.

Relationships

• Lin Bai — Patron, instructor, and ultimate authority. The gang profits from his fame but repeatedly seeks freedom from his control 97 194 221.
• Lao Mi — Formal leader and Lin Bai’s sworn elder brother. His resentment of nominal leadership culminates in an alliance with Guo Yuan against Lone Elder 87 227.
• Lone Elder — Principal organizer of training, negotiations, advertising cooperation, and independence schemes; later appears under the name A Daring Expert 143 155 194 288.
• Jing Mi — Lao Mi’s early partner, supporting his leadership and providing the resurrection demonstration used against Liu Quan 47 50.
• Liu Quan — Original beggar leader who submits after witnessing the players’ apparent immortality 50.
• Deng Libuduo — Lin Bai’s personal disciple, recruited into the traveling commercial group by Lone Elder despite initially belonging to the Righteousness Sect rather than the gang 108.
• Little White Fox — Challenges members to treat Demon Beasts as companions, prompting Lao Mi’s pledge against the Beast Taming Sect 142.
• Jiang Qingqin — Escorts the caravan, supports the players’ negotiating position, and later declares her wish to leave Hundred Flowers Valley for the gang 108 118 139.
• Xu Longyun — Helps initiate the undercover mission and later protects Jiamao City’s gang operations from politically motivated closure 46 227.
• Guo Yuan — Supports Lao Mi’s attempt to gain direct control and uses the City Guard to arrest rival gang leaders 227.
• Returning Dragon Temple — Intelligence target and military opponent; its conquest creates a route into Righteousness Sect cultivation training 142 146 161 162.
• Beast Taming Sect — Target of Lao Mi’s long-term “Big Brother’s Dream” mission. No completed destruction is documented in the provided accounts 142.

Notable Quotes

“In life, we belong to the Beggar Gang! In death, we are the Beggar Gang’s souls!”
— Gang members during the Blood Shadow Gate interception 108

“After all, we’re not playing a game anymore. We’re building a business...”
— Lone Elder, coordinating the caravan’s publicity strategy 108

Trivia

• The gang’s growth advances Lin Bai’s Chief Supporting Character System and raises his Fortune. Its early street takeover, formation, and expanding reputation all contribute to system rewards 50 83 88 129 134.
• Members regard sponsor-covered uniforms as a badge of success rather than an embarrassment, comparing them to athletes’ advertising-covered clothing 106.
• The original commercial ambition is to become the world’s wealthiest gang; the later confirmed distinction is the largest gang in the Taiyi Kingdom 97 433.