Chapter 96

After two days of observation, Yang Fan had managed to get a grasp on the rules of the martial world. To put it bluntly, martial artists who serve powerful families, like Wang Wu, exist because martial cultivation is a poor man's game while the clans are wealthy. They form a symbiotic relationship: the clan provides the rare treasures and resources needed for cultivation, and in exchange, the martial artist ensures the clan's safety. Another scenario involves independent practitioners banding together. Rare treasures and spiritual items are prohibitively expensive—lingzhi must be centuries old, ginseng no less than a hundred years old, and other items imbued with spiritual energy are equally priceless and hard to come by.