Chapter 91 Luoyang
This city, with its thousands of years of history, was steeped in every imaginable joy and sorrow. Its name alone conjured a host of epithets: the Nine Dynasties Ancient Capital, the Center of the Earth, the Peony City… Sima Guang, the Northern Song historian, once wrote in the Zizhi Tongjian: “Those who wish to know the rise and fall of ages, go to Luoyang.” Just as these various labels suggested, Luoyang had experienced every possible triumph and decline a city could endure.
And now, overcoming the decline brought by the neglect of the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, Luoyang was enjoying a new era of prosperity.
Historically, the absolute power of the government offices had left no room for Martial World powers to interfere in Luoyang. However, when the government turned its back on the city, a vacuum was created. Just as air rushes in to fill a void, Martial World powers seized the opportunity and filled that void. This led to the establishment of the Martial Alliance, the general headquarters of the Jianghu Martial World, founded fifty years ago in the wake of the Calamity caused by the Blood Sect.
“Though with Dan Un-ak’s appearance and the founding of the Black Martial Alliance, that’s become a thing of the past.” With Dan Un-ak’s emergence and the establishment of the Black Martial Alliance, the Martial Alliance, which once encompassed the entire Jianghu, lost its influence over the Unorthodox Faction and was reduced to an alliance solely for the Righteous Faction Martial World.
