Cultivation through Skin Making novel Chapter 574

Chapter 574: 215. Encountering Wan’Er Again, Clues (7.5K Words - Major Chapter Seeking Subscription)_2

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On the soft couch, Song Yan opened his eyes, patting the plump buttocks of the beauty serving him by his side. She hurriedly got up from the couch, wrapped herself tightly in a plush blanket, bowed to him, and said timidly, "Seventh Master, this servant will take her leave first."

"Hmm."

Hearing Song Yan’s response, the beauty hastily stepped out, opening the door.

A gust of bone-chilling wind mixed with snow rushed inside.

The beauty carefully walked out from the side, ignoring the cold outside and the fact that her legs were bare.

The power of authority is far greater than the cold of winter.

The door closed gently.

Song Yan comfortably leaned back on the couch, took a jug of fine wine placed on the side table, and drank a refreshing sip.

Speaking of it, he didn’t hesitate for a moment to kill Yan Qi, the Second Gang Leader of the Cao Gang in Shanyang City, and then impersonate him.

In this world where order has collapsed, the hierarchy has become even more rigid amid the chaos. The dark and bloody deeds redefine the perspectives of anyone living in an era of prosperity, making them understand... just how cruel and vile people can be.

Yan Qi was precisely one of those at the upper levels of Shanyang City’s exploitive hierarchy.

Neither too high nor too low, he knew the affairs above and below—exactly the kind of person Song Yan aimed to impersonate.

Yan Qi, known as Seventh Master, was the Second Gang Leader of the Cao Gang in Shanyang City, dealing in stockpiling scarce goods and human trafficking.

After all, while order has collapsed here in Shanyang City, some inland countries are still intact. Those countries send lords for "barter," selecting slaves to take away.

Of course, that is just on the surface.

In secret, the Cao Gang was collaborating with the Imperial Court.

The Imperial Court established the "Blood Tax Bureau," where taxes could be paid with humans. If a household couldn’t afford the taxes, they could offer people as substitutes for several years. The court then sent these people to dangerous frontlines, collaborating with Immortals to form arrays against the Celestial Calamity Beasts.

On the other hand, the court issued "food tickets" and set up "porridge shelters." The porridge was thin but could save lives.

Had Song Yan not impersonated Yan Qi, he wouldn’t have easily discovered the hidden intricacies...

The so-called "setting up of porridge shelters" was merely to see which families still had strong men.

If a household had men, who wouldn’t send them to get porridge?

Thus, those strong men would come, wouldn’t they?

Even if it wasn’t the men fetching porridge, those distributing the food tickets could easily spot them, couldn’t they?

After that, the Cao Gang would seize people, drugging them with incense, then take them away and set "Yin Ships" to transport these strong men to the frontlines.

With Yan Qi’s network, Song Yan certainly knew... those strong men sent to the frontlines weren’t forming arrays—they were all being "sacrificed to the Mountain God" or "sacrificed to the Sea God."

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