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Anning West Street, Tiger Leopard Hall!

A sprawling four-courtyard residence stood bright and open, with stone walls, blue tiles, and an air of solemnity. Racks upon racks of weapons filled the grounds.

The Three Great Gangs.

They were the three major powers formed by the villages and mountain towns of the Five Hundred Li Mountain Road joining forces and pushing into the county seat.

If the Fire Kiln made its name and livelihood through smelting iron and forging weapons, while the Firewood Market dealt in coal and firewood, and the Cattle and Sheep Market monopolized the meat trade—

Then

Lion Hall, Tiger Leopard Hall, and Falcon Gang

Relied on the Five Hundred Li Mountain Road to feed a whole host of people!

Moneylending, guarding establishments, and collecting rent within the city were merely small dealings.

The greater profits lay in the strange treasures and mountain goods found outside the city.

What ordinary hunters and woodcutters dared venture deep inside?

Only martial men from Blade Manor and the mountain towns, those who came and went through perilous heights, could obtain great medicines for qi and blood, slaughter tigers, leopards, wolves, and jackals, and serve as "mountain patrollers."

It was said

That Tomb Tiger Yang Daohan of Tiger Leopard Hall

Had once crossed mountains and searched forests, exhausting all available manpower as he followed clues to uncover a genuine "earth treasure."

He had then presented it directly to a great figure in the prefectural residence, which was how he had gained a foothold in Anning and risen to prominence.

Mountain folk who lived off the mountains led poor, hard lives at the bottom. Yet for those who founded villages and mountain towns and stood at their head, one good feast could keep them full for years.

This day.

On Zhongyong Street outside