Bab 206: Chapter 205: Nameless Mountain Being Spied On_1

But outside the controlled area of the officials, it was war-torn. Initially, there weren't many martial artists venturing out, so these martial artists would mostly choose to seize refuge centers where no other martial artists resided.

However, there weren't many private sanctuaries in the vicinity of Pengville City. With most of these private sanctuaries being captured, some martial artists began to call upon their comrades to prepare an attack on the sanctuaries already occupied by other martial artists.

Conflict was inevitable. However, as the number of martial artists in the private sanctuaries gradually increased, the officials, despite claiming no responsibility for these sanctuaries, released a directive prohibiting large-scale slaughter of ordinary survivors.

So in the later stages, the fight for private sanctuaries turned into a battle amongst martial artists and common survivors living within the private sanctuaries ended up serving the martial artists.