"Haha, bro is just afraid you might poison even deeper! I've heard about you Dark Night Sect folks, I'm in awe, really. Even my old man couldn't handle so of your Life-taking Poisons!" Lin Mu said.
"I'm not that powerful. To reach a level where I can use Life-taking Poison effortlessly, I'd need at least another ten years of practice!" Yu Yi replied.
"By the way, sis, are you open to telling about your Dark Night Sect? I've been quite curious about this mysterious gang, I heard it's all won?" Lin Mu asked.
Yu Yi didn't hesitate and said, "Of course, there's not much to say. Our Dark Night Sect consists of female disciples, and in the martial world, we're also known as the Thousand Illusion Sect. We were at our peak during the Kangxi Era, with over two thousand mbers at our highest point. But as society evolved, it's beco really challenging for our sect to survive in today's world. Unlike the old days, you can't make a living with martial arts now. The sect's condition is deteriorating, people leave, talents drift away. Those who are capable venture out alone, and those who aren't just fade away. Now, there's only about fifty of us left!"
Lin Mu nodded, understanding what Yu Yi was saying. Nowadays, society and the early societal structures are different. Today, various corporations and enterprises have replaced the nature of sects!
To survive in today's society, one cannot do without education and skills. Early sects, if developed well and established, could grow into big clans like the Heaven and Earth Society!
But if not developed well, failing to keep up with social progress, they can only be eliminated by modern society, gradually disbanding, or the sect dwindling until it eventually disappears from the world!
Of course, besides disappearing or keeping up with tis and evolving into a large sect, surviving in the form of a company, there's another way for sects to survive. So attach themselves to big companies, big bosses, doing jobs like bodyguard work!
Just like so of the bodyguards under Sophie's command, there are mbers from different sects. They provide protection and earn compensation, then use the funds to support their sect's survival!
Thinking about the Dark Night Sect now, supported by a group of won, it really isn't easy!
"As far as I know, your Dark Night Sect isn't weak, right? How could it decline so quickly?" Lin Mu asked.
"If we're talking purely from a societal developnt perspective, the Dark Night Sect hasn't declined that quickly. But there's still lingering enmities from the past within the sect. Internal conflicts never cease, and the Heaven and Earth Society is our Dark Night Sect's biggest nesis!" Yu Yi said.
"The Heaven and Earth Society?"
"Yes, the Heaven and Earth Society's strength far exceeds that of the Dark Night Sect!" Yu Yi nodded.
"That's true, so what grudge do the Dark Night Sect and the Heaven and Earth Society hold?"
"The grudge started with the previous generation, but feuds in the martial world, grievances between sects, they never fade with ti!"
"Oh, did Heaven and Earth Society people tease the Dark Night Sect girls?" Lin Mu joked.
"Nonsense, here's the thing, early on, the Dark Night Sect had two unique martial arts, one was using poison, the other disguise, which were unbeaten in the martial world! The Heaven and Earth Society's leaders were eyeing these two talents and proposed an alliance. But the so-called alliance was nothing more than making us a part of the Heaven and Earth Society, which our Sect Leader didn't agree to. In a fit of rage, the Heaven and Earth Society's Hall Master killed several key figures in our Dark Night Sect, and since then, we've been teaching every generation that we won't ever reconcile with the Heaven and Earth Society!"
"Wow, there's a saying, provoke a woman, and you're dood! It rings true, won sure hold grudges!" Lin Mu said.
"That's how our Dark Night Sect's conflict with the Heaven and Earth Society is. For all these years, we've been struggling tirelessly against the Heaven and Earth Society, which has hindered our own developnt, widening the gap in strength. This feud is still a focal point ntioned in our sect rules!" Yu Yi said.
"Oh, so that's what happened!" Lin Mu nodded.
"Anything else you want to ask?" Yu Yi asked.
"Hey, yes, the most important thing, are all the won in your Dark Night Sect unmarried?"
"According to sect rules, we can't marry, but if we leave the sect, we can marry!"
"Uh... no wonder your Dark Night Sect is getting weaker, people are creatures with emotions. If they can't marry, of course, they'd leave!" Lin Mu spread his hands. Looking at girls like Yu Yi, so untainted by the mundane world, such beautiful figures, but they can't marry, what a pity! Damn, if all the won were like this, wouldn't Huaxia society see a surge of bachelors? How many societal problems would that cause! From this angle, the Sect Leader of the Dark Night Sect is truly guilty beyond redemption!"
"I actually feel that sect rule is a bit unreasonable. I've suggested it, but no one agreed. People in our sect aren't as open-minded as people in today's society, still stuck in old thinking!" Yu Yi said.
"Wow, that's not right. Falling behind the tis and getting eliminated by society is one thing, but causing so many girls to miss out on marriage and love is a big deal!" Lin Mu said seriously.
"Hey, why do you care so much?"
"Of course I care! A pretty girl like you, not marrying or falling in love, what a sha!"
Yu Yi's face slightly reddened, "Hey, I never said I wouldn't fall in love or get married!"
"Haha, I knew it, every girl dreams of love! Also, sis, are all the girls in your Dark Night Sect as pretty as you? Do they all have such good figures?" Lin Mu grinned wickedly, hinting at sothing.
Yu Yi shot Lin Mu a look as if he was an old lecher and said, "You'd have to see for yourself, but I know their poison skills are much higher than mine, they could totally kill you without you even knowing!"
"Wow, won are indeed the venomous ones!" Lin Mu couldn't help but shiver.
Of course, Yu Yi didn't know that Lin Mu knew the antidote techniques of the Diamond Sutra. Unless it's an extrely advanced poisoning technique, it would be very hard to escape Lin Mu's keen eye, and his extraordinary Seventh Sense could even give a heads-up!
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