The power hierarchy of the Source Hegemony Planet's Black Market was somewhat complicated.
Unlike the Royal Dynasty and the Talisman Palace which occupied large territories, and the Shuang Commerce Hub which had a chain of market spaces all over the planet, the area of land covered by the Black Market wasn't very large, merely the size of two large cities. But at the same time, it was the zone with the most cultivators.
Mercenaries, bandits, criminals, vagabonds, loose cultivators who didn't want to be bound by sectarian rules.....the Black Market was filled with them, accounting for over 49% of the total cultivators on the planet. In hindsight, it was probably the overpopulation of cultivators in such a small space that was responsible for the cutthroat competitiveness and violence.
But there were three main superpowers that were recognized by all the cultivators in the Black Market, also nicknamed Inferno City.
