Chapter 284: A Jianghu Legend
Listen well, honored guests. To speak of Azure Cloud's Fan Jian, one must first speak of the Azure Cloud Gang.
The Azure Cloud Gang, currently a tyrant in the South District of Dongtu Street, once nearly unified the greenwood. They were truly magnificent back in the day.
Back then, the gang leader was a man named Zhang Batian. His swordsmanship was peerless, and he carried the air of a gentleman. The streets of the South District all submitted to him—bladesmen, monks, Daoists, renowned courtesans, doctors, and wandering masters... all fell under the Azure Cloud Gang's jurisdiction.
The Azure Cloud Gang's rise to such glory began because Zhang Batian was a great philanthropist.
This great philanthropist took in large numbers of street urchins—orphans with no one to care for them, children destined to starve to death on the streets.
They trained together every day, and when they grew up, they naturally joined the Azure Cloud Gang. Those with transcendent talents became transcendents: food artisans, moral educators, fighters, doctors, and even monks.
These youths acknowledged Zhang Batian as their adoptive father, spilling their blood for the Azure Cloud Gang.
Every generation has its powerhouses, but when a certain batch of children came of age, that generation was truly extraordinary.
According to Jianghu legend, a cloth-sack monk once gifted Zhang Batian a couplet: The Qingyun Seven rise upon the wind, soaring ninety thousand miles high. The emergence of these Qingyun Seven signaled the era when the Azure Cloud Gang would dominate Dongtu Street.