Stop it, Taoist, Your Fight almost Ruins the DAO!
Chapter 1183 - 623: Unexpected Harvest, Holy Origin Slaying Immortal and God Energy, Strange Changes Within the Shen Hong Guards, Beginning the Breakthrough

"Liu Zuo Shi, did you say you've acquired a top-tier Martial Scripture?"

"Why haven't you presented the original 'Holy Origin Exterminates Immortals and Slays the Gods' to me yet?"

The person reporting was none other than the old underling of the Red Shark Organization, Liu Zuo Shi, a bull demon at the Immortal Platform Realm.

After eliminating the Ghost Lion King, Yi Chen gained the complete allegiance of the former Red Shark Organization.

Because, though his rule appeared extremely harsh, he provided far too much.

The bandit cultivators of the Red Shark Organization originally thought that the previous allocation plan was merely pie in the sky drawn by Yi Chen,

believing that for the looted resources, the most valuable portion would definitely be selected by Yi Chen first, then distributed according to a fifty-fifty split, where the leaders below would take a large bite, leaving just scraps for the lower ranks to scavenge.

They never imagined that the State Preceptor of the Great Qin had such a grand vision, genuinely keeping his promise, distributing all resources based on their approximate value, without the slightest deduction...

Even for the surviving bandit cultivators under the Ghost Lion King, the great Deep Red King took out a quarter of his share to heal them and provide settlement funds.

On the day they returned to the Giant Shark Realm, a torrential rain fell, and all the bandit cultivators almost cried.

The distributed resources were worth more than the money to buy their lives.

The pile of magic treasures and elixirs, of various resources, was longer lasting than their lives.

Though the danger was indeed significant, the reward was truly high.

The bandit cultivators who later joined under Yi Chen, especially those from the Ghost Lion King, were more loyal than the original Red Shark Organization cultivators.

The remaining drifters who survived initially thought that being alive was fortunate enough, even if they survived, they would be reduced to slave cultivators, becoming cannon fodder at the bottom. But Yi Chen didn't care about that, and astonishingly took out a quarter share of his portion to give them settlement funds and healing.

Though those distributed items were mostly what they and the Ghost Lion King had amassed, the joy of recovering what was lost...

The grace of the Deep Red King is forever unfathomable.

Why follow any other leader when you can follow a hero like the Deep Red King? Even in death, their hearts would be at peace.

Under the fervor of these converts, the bandit cultivators gradually settled into ease after joining Yi Chen's command and understanding his ways.

As long as they did not break the Deep Red King's rules, they realized he truly deserved to be called a benevolent ruler compared to their former lords.

There was no arbitrary madness or malice; every act of killing was not unwarranted, but rather a consequence of rule violations. Regardless of whether the rule was reasonable, a rule was a rule, plainly laid out.

More importantly, under the Deep Red King, they found they no longer had to guard against internal sabotage and could focus solely on honing their skills and advancing their cultivation.

Under the Deep Red King, there were no factions, only rules, and rewards based on performance; work more, earn more.

If any high-ranked bandit cultivator secretly withheld resources from those below, they were finished.

Because the Deep Red King would not tolerate such arrogant individuals.

When Yi Chen killed a newly defected Immortal Platform Realm great demon from the Ghost Lion King's remnants to protect a bandit cultivator at the True Monarch Realm, all the bandit cultivators were stunned.

The lower rank bandit cultivators were shocked, and the higher rank ones deeply shaken.

What are rules? This is what rules are.

A model for others.

Even the Deep Red King follows the rules, so who does that wolf demon think he is?

With the demon's death, the bandit cultivators, originally gathered for profit, were momentarily disoriented.

Especially the lower rank bandit cultivators, their feelings beyond words.

When they bullied ordinary people, weren't they also being exploited by the higher-ranking bandit cultivators internally?

When the class divisions are too many, people instinctively build their own spheres of influence wherever they can, seeking a sense of existence.

The ecosystem of bandit cultivators on the Youlan Star Path is not only brutally bloody externally, but also internally oppressive. Many bandit cultivators are both persecutors and victims....

The nobility above, the inferiority below.

With rank formation, apart from the very top, everyone wants to be on top.

Even if they cannot become the top, they must step on others to make themselves a 'relative upper class.'

Some of the smarter bandit cultivators found a way out on their own.

They were mid-tier before, but they didn't worry because they realized that if they actively created a hierarchy among their ranks, they would become the new ruling class in the circle.

A big leader has sub-leaders, sub-leaders have sub-sub-leaders, a hierarchy like water pressure, with a line of higher-ups above everyone. No one had a good time.

When this hierarchy extends deep enough, the lowest rank bandit cultivators face 'pressure' greater than the Mariana Trench.

All deep-sea fish tend to have bizarre shapes, each with their own flaws, as a result of pressure reaching a breaking point.

For instance, the ordinary folks of the Giant Shark Realm were living in the deep-sea zone before.

But now, the bandit cultivators were surprised to find that under the great Deep Red King, this problem seemed solved.

Because the only person above them was the Deep Red King.

And the Deep Red King equally bullied them all.

As long as they followed the rules, the Deep Red King guaranteed their life and property safety, gave them ample 'elemental coins,' took them out to fight where he always took the biggest threat, leaving them to clean up the battlefield....