"Who knows... Anyway, it was like this when I arrived." Kent shrugged.
Mark also looked dumbfounded. It seems being a local, he had long been used to the existence of gangs and had never considered this issue.
Fars shook his head slightly and clicked his tongue:
"Make you study well, but you just don't. Now you don't know, do you? This part has been mentioned in the books."
Fars waggled his fingers as he boasted:
"We Alchemists value One Qi, Two Directions, Three States, and Four Elements.
"One Qi represents the Qi of nature, meaning all alchemy materials, alchemy runes, and alchemy formulas can ultimately be traced back to nature.
"Two Directions refer to the movements of ascent and descent. Approaching chaos is rising, and returning to order is falling."
"Three States represent the ascending state, stable state, and descending state, symbolizing the state of things.