Chapter 100: Roar (1)
The largest hidden stronghold of the Blood Cult in the central plains was discovered in the jungles of Funing, Yunnan, as revealed by the confessions of the captured cult members from Wuhan.
Just a bit further east lay Guangxi, and heading north led to Guizhou and Sichuan—an essential strategic point.
Because of this, Zhu Jung-hak, the leader of the Martial Alliance, acted swiftly.
The captured cultists admitted that apart from a small branch monitoring the Martial Alliance in Wuhan, the Blood Cult hadn’t yet spread its influence too far. This meant now was the time to strike.
If they delayed even a little, the Blood Cult’s power could spread uncontrollably across Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan, and Guangxi.
The Blood Cult’s martial arts allowed its practitioners to grow stronger rapidly by drinking or absorbing blood.
For degenerate aristocrats and some lowlife martial artists, this was a very tempting prospect.
Even thirty years ago, during the Blood Cult Rebellion, the cult recruited scoundrels like them to swell its ranks in an instant.
So Zhu Jung-hak quickly assembled a punitive force and marched toward Funing.
As a result, a village of over a thousand Zhuang people deep in the Yunnan jungle found itself under siege by martial artists.
“Those bastards disguised themselves as Zhuang people! They are a blight upon the central plains—leave none alive!”