This man was named Tan Tong. Detailed intelligence on him had been gathered by various minor families and given to Hao Qi. According to Lan Linger's data analysis, neither Tan Tong nor his family had the slightest collusion with the Shadow of the Blue Sea pirate group. Judging by his past actions, conduct, and words, this man was truly a chivalrous figure—someone quite upright. It was just that... he was simply incompatible with Hao Qi.
This man was an absolute believer in order. Once, after achieving the First Divine Realm and traveling across the mainland, an incident occurred. At the time, he was journeying through the Northern Blue Sea, where a major nation had fallen into a wave of revolution. The royal family of that country was extremely corrupt and extravagant, draining the nation's wealth and oppressing its own people. Furthermore, because the royal family had a mere three Inner Force Realm practitioners, when they faced an invasion by another country, they actually signed humiliating betraying-the-nation treaties. They even brazenly declared that they would exhaust all national resources to win the favor of foreigners, while ruthlessly suppressing internal dissent with the slogan: "Better give it to outsiders than to domestic slaves."
Led by such a corrupt royal family, the nation erupted in revolutionary fervor. Revolutionary armies sprang up everywhere, successfully capturing several major cities and forming military forces to engage the royal army in battle, pl…
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