Wang Chong laughed. "How could I swallow my word and grow fat on it?"
"As you both know, things are different here. I've swept away all the gangs and associations, and I don't allow any others to exist. But that is how the world works: water that is too clear holds no fish, and a man who scrutinizes too closely has no friends. There still needs to be one powerful gang to keep the smaller gangs from springing up."
"With dependable men like you two, what reason would I have to worry?"
Lei Dongtian secretly thought, The Prince of Yan is right. He wants to contend for the world, so he may have little interest in the gangs of the martial world. If I could take charge of these fifty thousand or more men, I would lead the largest gang under heaven. Even if I couldn't vie for the realm like Junior Brother Wang Chong, I could still take a step back and become a local power in the martial world. He immediately cupped his hands and said, "How could your foolish elder brother doubt your word, worthy younger brother Wang Chong?"
The banquet had been going splendidly when a scout from the Tailwind Army suddenly shouted, "Urgent military dispatch, rushed seven hundred li! The Beggar's Gang has issued a proclamation to the world, slandering the Yellow Heaven Assembly, denouncing it as rebels of the Former Dynasty, and calling on all under heaven to join in attacking it!"
Wang Chong's brows rose slightly, anger stirring in his heart. The Xuanhuang Dao was indeed a remnant of the Former Dynasty. The Way of the Yellow Heaven, one of the Seven Paths of Xuanhuang, did not have an ancestral master who had become sworn brothers with the founding emperor, as the Taiyi