The establishment of Xiao Gate stirred up quite a wave throughout the Black-Corner Region. Although the city where Xiao Gate was based was hardly a thriving area of the region, it was still a large city with plenty of fat to skim. Thus, while no major faction had moved against it yet, quite a few had already set their sights on it. But their prey had been seized by an obscure little sect. How could they possibly let that slide?
And so, less than half a month after Xiao Gate was established, a second-rate faction marched into its city in force. Its leader was a Five-Star Dou Wang with several hundred men under him. By all rights, sweeping through a city without even a single Dou Wang-level fighter should have been child's play.
Yet just one day later, that Dou Wang's corpse was dumped at the city gates like garbage, his face still frozen in terror. As for the men he had brought along, they vanished without a trace. Only later did people learn that Xiao Gate had wiped out most of the faction, while the survivors had chosen to surrender...
This astonishing news sent a tremor through the Black-Corner Region. People had originally assumed that Xiao Gate had seized the entire city in a single day by catching everyone off guard, rather than through any great strength of its own. After all, the city had no Dou Wang experts and pitifully few Dou Lings. Subjugating them was hardly a difficult feat.
But easily wiping out a second-rate faction with a Dou Wang-level fighter meant that Xiao Gate had to possess at least one high-star Dou Wang. In other words, Xiao Gate qualified as a near-first-rate faction. If it had a Dou Emperor-level expert holding the fort, it could even