Chapter 263
A person’s name is like a tree’s shadow!
After learning in Starfall City that Qi Ping was going to serve as the city’s Guardian Envoy, the leaders of all the major black-market forces in Starfall City instantly lost their composure.
Being able to reach the position of boss in each faction and run black-market operations so smoothly under the Qingyuan Sect was not something that could be achieved just by having a backer.
Because under the premise of maintaining the stability and prosperity of the Qingtian Domain, black-market industries were inherently something that could not see the light of day. Once they grew too large and caused widespread panic, the low-level cultivators who labored at the bottom would inevitably flee to other domains, leading to the decline of the Qingtian Domain’s economy.
But black-market industries were also among the most profitable of all industries, so many high-level figures naturally were unwilling to give them up.
The lives of low-level cultivators were not truly important to them. What really mattered was how to make low-level cultivators feel that the Qingyuan Sect was good and willing to come here to develop, while at the same time developing profitable black-market industries to gain the greatest benefits. In the end, everything was for profit.
Black-market industries were already a very delicate existence in the Qingtian Domain. There were quite a few black-market cities like Starfall City, but the people standing behind them differed, and there were also competitive relationships and conflicts among them.
So this balance was extremely important, and the bosses of the various black-market forces were even more crucial key figures.
Basically, all black-market bosses were uniformly powerful and intelligent people, with strength at least at the late Foundation Establishment stage!