While the news outside was making waves, Liang Chen had already returned to his home in the northern district. He had not left his house since the night he killed all those people. It has been two days since then and people from the blood saber gang had come looking for him on several occasions but he did not reply to them.
On the third day, he opened a door to his courtyard and made his way straight for the gang's HQ on the way he realized that the way people were looking at him was with a mixture of fear and veneration. This is how the world works, people fear and respect the strong. Liang Chen understood that when the news of what happened spread it had changed people's perspective of him.
Arriving at the gang's HQ this morning, his jade-green eyes darted around taking in the scene. Everything had been repaired and the scene was very beautiful. He walked into a hall that was already filled with people as today Chief Ouyang who had already taken some healing pills that Liang Chen bought for him was now better, had summoned a general meeting for all members of the gang. When Liang Chen entered there was a higher degree of respect for him in the eyes of the gang members. This is the person who had single-handedly ended the war with absolute power. He had saved their lives and protected the gang from a sure-death situation.
If it was four days ago with these people looking at him the way they do now he would have been proud but now it didn't move him in the slightest. He thought to himself that if he initially had the power he had now, those two gangs would have never dared to make a move and his friends would still be alive. Over the past three days, he had concluded that strength was everything and as long as he had enough strength and power he would not have to suffer such loss again and he planned to get them.
He moved to where his seat had been placed and sat down, not long later Chief Ouyang entered and was shown to his seat which was the highest seat in the hall. The discussion didn't last for long as they discussed the progress of the takeover of all businesses that used to belong to the other two gangs and also they appointed Liang Chen as the second in command of the gang.
At the end of the meeting just when Liang Chen was about to leave he was called over by Chief Ouyang who thanked him for saving his life. After some small chit-chat, he excused himself and headed for the hunter association. Arriving at the hunter association most people there already recognized him and from the recent rumors he was received by the low-level staff with some degree of respect.
He stated his reason for coming there which was to take a test to increase his hunter rank. Before leaving to hunt Heartless he was still an unranked hunter but now that his strength had increased he decided to increase his rank so that some of the things he had in his mind would be easier to do.
A full four hours later Liang Chen left the hunter association with a robe embroidered with four bronze stars. This was the symbol of a fourth-level qi condensation cultivator. Among his possessions now were 10 soul-sealing talismans that he had just bought.
The news that Liang Chen who wiped out the two gangs had been promoted to the second in command of the Blood Saber gang was still spreading when a bomb landed. Liang Chen had become a four-star ranked hunter.
"Oh my heavens, this liang chen wants to shatter the sky"
The information spread and soon reached the gang HQ and Liang Chen who was just leaving did not know that the news had already spread over and his name was making waves again. He at this moment did not see it as an extraordinary achievement but only something to be expected. Since he was lost in that mist and saw all those visions and then spoke to that turtle senior he had come to realize that there were powerful people in this world that were just beyond his understanding. How could he be proud of himself knowing that there powerful people out there who could just end him with a flick of their pinkie if they so desired? Liang Chen understood that his fate was not within his control and If he wished to control his own fate he had to become the strongest—he had to cultivate till the point where no one would dare to get in his way, a point where things will move according to his will.
The news of liang chen had also reached the governor and he was starting to take an interest in liang chen and he made up his mind to not offend liang chen. It's not that the governor Marquis Purple Leaf was afraid of Liang Chen after all he was a sixth-level qi condensation realm cultivator. It's just that why offend someone when you can make them your friend? so he made up his mind to put Liang Chen on the invitation list when next he held a party.
Laing Chen arrived at the HQ not knowing that the information had already reached there before him and what waited for him was a group of very excited martial artists. A celebration was held that evening after which Liang Chen invited ten people to a private room for a conversation. These people included Chief Ouyang, Mei Lin, yuan, Zhao, and some of the senior members of the gang. These were people who had held up the gang for many years and were well respected. Liang Chen told them about his discovery of totem cultivation and how to cultivate it. He told them that this was why his strength had increased so much.
This made them excited and eager to try but Liang Chen told them to first settle things within the city and then they could go out to imprint their own tattoos. Three days later the ten of them left the city and headed strange for the southern mountain range. They didn't know they were just now taking the first steps of a very long journey. The next time they returned to the city their strength would have increased a lot.