The technological level of the Red Sea is extremely high, with its weapon technology even surpassing that of Earth at the beginning of the twenty-first century, as known to Hao Qi in his past life. Under such circumstances, individual soldier weapons might still be insufficient to resist the decapitation tactics of Inner Force Realm masters, but weapons of mass destruction, the robotics technology developed alongside them, and already-existing nuclear weapons—though still unable to prevent Inner Force Realm masters from carrying out destructive decapitation tactics—can at least achieve a stalemate. The result of this stalemate is that an Inner Force Realm master remains merely an individual, whereas a nation is a collective. Comparing the two, an Inner Force Realm master is ultimately weaker than a nation in the Red Sea, and every step of weakness compounds. Although their status is revered, they have still been incorporated into the national order by the state.
This is the origin of the current order in the Red Sea. Because of this, lawyers are able to flourish in the Red Sea; this is playing within the rules and the system. Previously, when Hao Qi asked Baili Si whether their law firm had ever prosecuted an Inner Qi Realm master, the answer he received was no. This demonstrated that Inner Qi Realm masters in the Red Sea remain outside the established order and system. Or rather, Inner Qi Realm masters *are* the order itself; they *are* the system.
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