Bai Yuanhu glanced at Old Luo: "What, are you dissatisfied?"

Luo Jun kept his head down and asked quietly, "Is the massacre of the Hee Family going to be just brushed aside like this?"

When Hee Zhongyang was still alive, Luo Jun didn't have much of a good relationship with him. In fact, Hee Zhongyang's death benefited Luo Jun, promoting him from vice-captain to captain.

But throughout this event, Luo Jun couldn't let it go, he felt sympathy like a rabbit mourning for the fox's demise.

After all, Hee Zhongyang was the captain of the Martial Arts Association Law Enforcement Team. His entire family was wiped out, and when the investigation pointed to a possible connection with Ye Qingzhou, higher-ups immediately stalled it.

Luo Jun felt very uneasy, or rather, he worried that he might face the same fate one day.

Bai Yuanhu, having experienced similar things, naturally read into Luo Jun's thoughts: "Do you think we shouldn't ignore Ye Qingzhou's actions?"

Luo Jun nodded: "Undeniably, he is a martial arts genius, but his actions are excessively unruly. Isn't the original purpose of establishing the Martial Arts Association to manage and restrain martial artists? Moreover, Ye Qingzhou is closely associated with the Linjiang Xu Clan; how can the Martial Arts Association just stand by and do nothing?"

Currently, the backbone personnel of the Martial Arts Association have mostly gone through a major reshuffle. The once-powerful martial arts family factions have lost significant power in many cities.

On the contrary, many civilian martial artists have risen strongly, seizing power in the Martial Arts Association.

This can easily be seen with Bai Yuanhu, the president of the Linjiang Martial Arts Association, who comes from a civilian background. It is evident that the official stand has supported the rise of civilian martial artists, which has become the general trend.

But even so, martial arts families remain an indispensable force in the martial arts world. It's impossible for the officials to introduce policies that prohibit civilian martial arts geniuses from contacting martial arts families.

It's like someone receiving nine years of compulsory education, then entering high school, getting admitted to Tsinghua or Peking University, acquiring skills, and just as they are about to make a mark, someone jumps out and says: 'Such a genius must not work in private or foreign enterprises, must not go abroad, and must do…' something specific."

This is completely treating talent as mere cattle or horses.

Initially, the 'Control Faction' within the martial arts world of the Dongji Kingdom held this mentality, believing that the control of the Martial Arts Association should not fall into the hands of a 'ruffian' like Qi Shengtian.

Then, the Control Faction people nurtured the first batch of civilian martial artists as a way to contest Qi Shengtian for control and discourse power over the Martial Arts Association and the entire martial arts world of the Dongji Kingdom.

Even martial arts families know that true talent should be drawn in and supported.

But the aristocrats? Their attitude towards martial arts geniuses is condescending, treating them like lapdogs, ordering them around arrogantly.

For compliant martial artists, the Control Faction would toss a few bones their way.

For those who didn't comply, they would be suppressed and subjected to various tests of obedience, under the guise of 'tempering their temperament.'

The end result was Zhang Xinwu defecting from the Martial Arts Association, leading a large group of proud and capable civilian martial arts geniuses to establish the Heart Evil Stream.

This event had a significant impact on the martial arts world of the Dongji Kingdom at the time, even directly altering the structure of the martial arts world. To this day, it's a taboo that cannot be openly discussed.

Bai Yuanhu was a witness to these events, so many things remain vivid in his memory.

He looked at Luo Jun: "Law and order are built on absolute violence. And martial arts itself is a form of powerful violence, so the martial arts world has its own rules. When it comes to Ye Xiangyang's matter, our Martial Arts Association did nothing; should we speak up for Hee Zhongyang now?"

"Do you think this is fair? Or do you want Ye Qingzhou to become another Zhang Xinwu?"

Luo Jun slumped, demoralized. Only now did he truly see that the Martial Arts Association is nominally about constraint and management of martial artists, but the rules have their limits.

The stronger the martial artist, or the more potential a martial arts genius has, the less bound they are by rules.

Seeing this, Bai Yuanhu sighed again: "Luo Jun, true geniuses are difficult to restrain and control. The Martial Arts Association is not blind to Ye Qingzhou's potential, nor do they not wish to stop his contact with the martial arts families. But this method has been tried already, and it simply doesn't work, it even leads to a backlash."

True martial arts powerhouses could never become someone's dog, nor could they be subservient to the so-called big picture.

Because powerhouses themselves are the big picture.

Just like Zhang Xinwu, back when he was still a Master Level, the Control Faction frantically sent people to besiege him, determined to kill him as an example to others.

But as they continued trying to kill him, Zhang Xinwu became a Grandmaster.

The Control Faction, realizing the unfavorable situation, began using reason and tried to bind Zhang Xinwu with a curse to make him submit to the greater cause.

Zhang Xinwu refused, and even with sheer determination, he successfully advanced to the Martial Saint Realm. With ease, he uprooted the Control Faction, crushing those who once held high positions into mud, wiping out their families.

If it weren't for the crucial moment when two of the Four Great Divine Generals arrived, battling Zhang Xinwu to a stalemate outside the Imperial Capital, the situation might have been uncontrollable.

Since then, the attitude of the Dongji Kingdom toward martial artists has changed. At least now, both sides can have somewhat equal dialogues, unlike before when they were completely treated as cattle or horses.

Instead, through various selection mechanisms, martial artists are now classified.

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