Yan Yu, after arriving at Maowu City, first changed into the local attire and put on sunglasses before confidently striding toward the direction of the hostel, disguised as a tourist from out of town.
High-ranking sorcerers were often engrossed in enhancing their own power and disliked fussing over mundane affairs, so among one hundred sorcerers' territories, ninety-nine were in a state of anarchy. The larger areas were split among lower-ranking sorcerer chieftains; hence the security state in each area depended on how these chieftains managed it.
Among the four main professions of sorcerers, curse masters and dark sorcerers practiced "Black Magic," often involving blood and flesh and ritual sacrifice, resulting in a more violent temperament; curse technique masters and tattooed charm masters, on the other hand, belonged to "White Magic," and because their cultivation required the study of Buddhist principles, they were generally more benevolent in comparison.