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Chapter 437: Chapter 433: The Last Tribesman

For Du Sha, neither the Tang Clan nor the Mi Clan, nor any prominent family in Xiling were forces he wanted to rely on. He’d seen too much he didn’t want to witness through his years of chivalrous adventures.

Why had the majority of commoners in western Longzhou heard of the reputation of the peaceful city of Xiling, yet local bandit threats remained copious? Despite the Tang and Mi Clans being so powerful, were they unable to eradicate these bandits and maintain peace in the surrounding villages and towns?

As formidable as the Tang and Mi Clans were, it wasn’ t a struggle to protect the surrounding hundred-plus villages and towns. If they truly wished to, they could vanquish all the water bandits and mountain robbers across western Longzhou, but they did not.

Some bandits had lairs right in the forests around Xiling, a fact the Tang and Mi Clans were well aware of, but they never sent people to eradicate them.

Why? Because with these bandits around, the local villages and towns were dependent on the martial power of Xiling. Every autumn harvest, they would go to Xiling to ask the Tang and Mi Clans to send soldiers to eliminate bandits.

But like leeks, bandits which were cleared out each year appeared again the next.

Could it really be that bandits were so efficient in training martial arts, quick enough to produce a new batch each year?

For Du Sha, this question that had bewildered him since he was young was finally answered during a campaign to wipe out a gang of mountain bandits: All the banditry around Xiling, shockingly, was fostered by the prominent families of Xiling.

The prominent families annually recruited hordes of wandering martial artists who then became bandits and ravaged western Longzhou. When it came to “clearing out” banditry, it was not the bandits who were killed but the martial artists protecting the villages and towns.

Bandits looted counties and small towns and decapitated the warriors of justice. When it came time for the two clans to return their dues, they handed over these heads and perished the hideout.

Tang and Mi Clans took in an untold wealth and yet, the following year, the bandits would return under new names. The entire region along the Lingjiang was a stage for the elites of Xiling. This year, a powerful rogue from the south named Ma San appears; next year, it would be a bandit from

bandits crushed amidst the remains of their den had no fear of the Red Crystal Giant’s might. The bandit chief arrogantly said to him, “Chief Du, find your own way out. This is the den

of Xiling was exceptionally good, yet behind the scenes, they fostered bandits who pillaged

Du Sha, who initially thought of his Dao

hundred and ninety-seven bandits were slain without any attempts at concealment. Traces of the Red Cloud Skill littered the entire den. He waited for the Wan clan to

the Wan clan has forgotten that event. That den had also been abandoned, but this year was still teeming with banditry. Leaders from several counties had already travelled to Xiling

righteous knight, the more powerless he felt. Slaying a band of bandits was no difficult task for him, but when the benefactors of banditry were the noble clans,

the Red Cloud Village rely on

Sha couldn’t do it. He reasoned that his Red Cloud Village was different from the clans of Xiling: “If there’s a war between the two clans, I

can one afford to let another sleep beside one’s couch? Neither the Tang nor the Mi clan will allow the Red Cloud Village to sit on the fence. Friend Du, your cultivation is remarkable, which naturally gives you confidence. But you also should think about the hundreds of clansmen at the Du clan. The problems with the Red

ask which family in Xiling feared war the most, the answer should be the Du clan. Their total population was fewer than four hundred. Although the Red Cloud Skill had incredible might, their sparse population doomed them from conducting any wars

noble families mainly comprised cultivators in the Mediocre Realm, which meant they suffered dozens to hundreds of casualties every time they waged war. But with such a thin population like the Du clan, a loss of one hundred Mediocre Realm

it today, friend Du. I will visit again tomorrow,” Mi Zhen rose and

in his chair, his eyes slightly closed,

Mi Zhen’s words. Yet, he

wasn’t due to the Du clan becoming so powerful they feared

current generation of the clan. The Du clan had not had a newborn for a

Du Ziteng, who had married at fifteen,

generation might well be the last of

lose, they naturally had

to offer such a profound-level technique, the Du clan would certainly have bowed in gratitude. But