👊 Fist Gang
- 🔹 Aliases: Iron Fist Gang, Black Fist Society
- 🔹 Creed: The fist is power! Fist strength is power!
- 🔹 Headquarters: The Domination Fist Tower, Spring Rain City, Changfeng Republic
- 🔹 Nature: A criminal organization controlling underground fights, gambling, vice and drugs, and protection money
📜 Gang Background
The Fist Gang is the most powerful criminal force in the Changfeng Republic. Its leader, Jin Quan, built the organization on the creed that "the fist is power," and has secured his position through extraordinarily brutal means.
On the surface the Changfeng Republic is a democracy, but in practice the order of the streets in many of its cities is controlled by the Fist Gang. Gambling dens, brothels, underground fights, the drug trade, protection money — all fall within the Gang's territory, and anyone who dares defy it is beaten savagely, or simply "disappears."
Jin Quan was once an underground fighting champion. With astonishing strength and merciless fighting technique, he won bout after bout in the black-market arenas, until he personally put the entire underground fighting organization to the sword and became its sole overlord. Knowing that "only the strongest fist holds the greatest power," he founded the Fist Gang and runs it by iron-blooded rules: every officer must fight their way out of life-or-death duels to earn rank and power.
Today the Fist Gang has worked its way into every level of the Changfeng Republic; even certain senior government officials and wealthy tycoons have close ties to it. Yet one man has always stood in the way of Jin Quan's expansion — Zhuge Yanwen, master of Thunderbolt Hall. Jin Quan sees Zhuge Yanwen as a thorn in his eye and a splinter in his flesh, and has set traps again and again to rid himself of this "righteous hero," but Thunderbolt Hall's actions and influence have thwarted the Fist Gang time after time. This clash between the light and the dark has become one of the fiercest hidden wars in the Changfeng Republic.
🏔️ Geography and Key Locations
Domination Fist Tower: The Fist Gang's headquarters, in the heart of Spring Rain City in the Changfeng Republic — a dark yellow high-rise, six stories above ground and nine below. Its exterior is grand and imposing, with two iron-fist statues standing at the entrance. The six floors above ground hold a council hall, a casino, an armory, and cells, every floor frequented by Jin Quan's trusted men; each of the nine floors below ground is an "underground fight pit," the heart of the Gang's black-market bouts, trials for new members, and internal vendettas — the deeper you go, the higher the rank, and it is said that trials on the ninth level are decided life or death by Jin Quan's own hand. The top floor of the Domination Fist Tower is Jin Quan's private residence, closed to all but his most trusted.
Blood Fight Hell: The largest underground fight pit under the Fist Gang's control, on the third level beneath the Domination Fist Tower. Every night brings life-or-death fights, with fighters wagering their lives and the audience wagering money. The defeated end up either crippled or dead; no one has ever walked away unscathed.
Black Street: A notorious street within the Fist Gang's territory, lined on both sides with gambling dens, brothels, and drug dens. It is the Gang's economic lifeline, patrolled day and night by enforcers; any business that doesn't fall in line is "dealt with."
⚔️ Martial Arts of the Fist Gang
Members of the Fist Gang rely on "pure violence," prizing strength, speed, endurance, and ruthlessly brutal fighting technique — no flashy forms, only the most practical and deadliest ways to attack.
👊 Iron Fist Tyranny (Fist Tyrant)
A fist art of Jin Quan's own creation that pushes power and speed to their limits; every punch carries devastating destructive force.
Tyrant Smash: A strike unleashed after gathering power to the limit, able to crack an opponent's bones or send them flying several meters.
Killer Combo: A high-speed barrage of unbroken punches, each carrying powerful inner force, that opponents can hardly withstand.
Bone Breaker: Targets the opponent's joints, snapping the enemy's limbs so they can no longer fight.
Hell Choke: Once it grips an enemy's neck, its terrifying strength can throttle them to death or snap their neck.
🥊 Hell Combat
A fighting art required of all Fist Gang officers, blending street fighting, underground boxing, wrestling, and grappling for close-quarters combat.
Street Kill: Blends street fighting, underground boxing, wrestling, and grappling; every move goes for a vital point, with no rules at all.
Brute Elbow: Uses the elbow as the main weapon, smashing an opponent's skull or ribs outright.
Rage Resist: A special inner art that trains muscle and breath to harden the body against blows, so that neither blade nor fist can easily harm it.
Dark Grab: A countermeasure designed specifically against Thunderbolt Hall's swordsmanship, able to wrench away an enemy's weapon by brute strength — even snapping a sword with bare hands.
⚡ Overlord Inner Art
An inner-art method that only the Fist Gang's elite may learn, known for its fierce, violent power.
Diamond Body: Pours inner force into the body, making it hard as steel and reducing damage from outside attacks.
Blood Rage: Raises fighting power through fury; when driven to desperation, it can instantly unleash several times one's normal strength.
Undying Will: The Fist Gang's highest secret method. Those who bring it to completion can, through astonishing willpower and physical toughness, become immune to most spells, poisons, curses, and other harmful effects. Attacks that are not purely physical can scarcely shake their spirit — which is exactly the secret of how Jin Quan can ignore the suppression of Zhuge Yanwen's "Noble Spirit."
🦶 Fist Step
The Fist Gang's footwork centers on straight-line charges and explosive movement. It has no interest in lightness or grace; it seeks only "to close on the enemy in an instant."
Iron Charge: An explosive straight-line dash, like iron hooves pounding the ground, closing on the enemy in an instant and leaving ranged attackers no way to respond.
Ground Stomp: A heavy stamp on the ground whose shockwave throws nearby enemies off balance, opening the way for a chain of attacks.
Quick Step: Rapid, continuous small steps that turn nimbly in tight spaces, so the enemy cannot lock on.
💢 Intimidation Art
A code of jianghu domination developed by Fist Gang members who use their fists as language and fear as currency. It isn't learned through sitting meditation; it's learned only by actually using it on the street — whatever makes people meekly hand over money, bow their heads, and kneel begging for mercy is the real skill. The Gang's vice, gambling, drug, and protection-money businesses are all built on these methods.
Threaten: Mouthing off and bullying with a gangster's presence — pure psychological pressure that forces the other party to shrink back and not dare to move.
Rob: Relying on hard fists to take money in the open street, stripping a target of all the silver they carry in one go.
Extort: Calling on businesses on the Gang's behalf to collect "protection money" at regular intervals. The money doesn't belong to the collector and must be handed over to the Gang — this is the Fist Gang's most reliable vein of gold, and the more diligently it is collected, the more secure its turf.
Convince: Using both the carrot and the stick to win over street vendors, merchants, and informants as "our people," weaving a network of contacts up and down the chain so that they supply money, goods, and information for the long haul.
🏅 Fist Gang Rank System (Nine Ranks)
The Fist Gang cares nothing for birth or seniority; it recognizes only one thing: how many levels down your fists can take you. Members fight their way up level by level in the fighting pits beneath the Domination Fist Tower, and their victories, reputation, and the gang leader's approval decide their rank. From lowest to highest, the nine ranks are:
- Fist Pup — Newly joined, with nothing to their name but a set of fist bones.
- Fist Grunt — Has made a name running errands and doing odd jobs; now counts as a full member of the Gang.
- Fist Brawler — Has drawn blood and taken a blade; can be called someone worth using.
- Fist Guard — Already a backbone of the gang who can hold their own ground and lead underlings to earn a living.
- Fist General — Has walked through fifty life-or-death bouts; now a senior figure in the Gang.
- Fist Marquis — Came up through the assassination bureau, with a blade in hand and secrets to keep; one of the Gang's dark confidants.
- Fist King — A regular on the Veterans' Stage and a candidate to head a branch hall; everyone in the Gang knows the name.
- Fist Patriarch — A top officer personally recognized by the gang leader, the absolute overlord of the Champions' Stage.
- Fist Sovereign — The supreme rank of the Fist Gang, a title sealed for life; the legendary master of the final secret chamber.
📜 Key Figures
Gang Leader | Jin Quan
Founder and leader of the Fist Gang, about fifty, built like an iron tower, knotted with muscle from head to toe, both fists covered in calluses and scars. He was once the undefeated king of the underground fighting world, and founded the Fist Gang on the creed "The fist is power! The fist is power itself!", ruling the Changfeng Republic's underworld by iron-blooded means.
Personal Gear: A pair of iron gauntlets called "Domination Fists" — cast from fine steel, with spikes at the knuckles that can tear flesh and also block blades.
Jin Quan is an out-and-out fighter who lives by violence. His own martial skill is formidable — so formidable that even certain special spells and special tricks can be wiped out with a single punch in front of him. His "Undying Will" has reached perfection.
Second-in-Command | Lu Xiao
The Fist Gang's second-in-command, about forty-five, lean and powerful, with a cold face and eyes like a hawk. He was once a military combat instructor, expelled for excessive cruelty, and later joined the Fist Gang to become Jin Quan's right hand.
Lu Xiao specializes in "Military Killing Fist" and kills with cold, merciless efficiency; he has killed dozens of martial artists with his bare hands. He manages the Fist Gang's enforcer squads and specializes in crushing rival forces.
Fist Magistrate | Liao Tieshan
Chief magistrate of the Fist Gang's "Fist Tribunal," in his fifties, with iron-rimmed glasses on the bridge of his nose and an old fist-wound scar on his right thumb. He wears the Gang's standard black cloth jacket with frog buttons, the character for "judge" embroidered on the chest.
Liao Tieshan keeps every record of the fighting pits — match results, promotion reviews, punishments for thrown fights, all filed with him; most of the protection money members hand in also passes through his hands into the books. He says little, but every word carries weight: "If it's in the register, it's true. If it isn't in the register, nothing happened." In a gang where power is measured by the fist, this man who holds the register is one of the few people others fear without his ever having to throw a punch.
Sorcerer | Zhou Long
The Fist Gang's sorcerer, about forty, thin, with a gloomy face. He was originally a disciple of the Shushan Sect, but fled after he was discovered practicing heretical sorcery; hiding out in the Changfeng Republic, he went over to Jin Quan and lives under his protection.
Personal Gear: A string of black prayer beads, each bead carved with an evil incantation, used to cast curses.
Zhou Long handles the Gang's activities in the Changfeng Republic's underground cult halls and local religious groups, and excels at bewitching people and using sorcery for evil. His curses and poisons are deadly to ordinary people.
Intelligence Chief | White Snake
The Fist Gang's intelligence chief, about thirty-five, slender, with a bewitching face and movements like a snake. She excels at buying people's loyalty and infiltrating every faction, and has blinding speed and assassination skills; she is known as the "Viper of Black Street."
Personal Gear: A pair of poisoned daggers called "Snake Fangs," their blades coated with a venom that kills the moment it draws blood.
White Snake is in charge of intelligence and underground trade. She has infiltrated Thunderbolt Hall many times, trying to find Zhuge Yanwen's weaknesses, but has never succeeded.
Underground Fight King | Fierce Fang
The Fist Gang's most savage fighting madman, about thirty, massively built, with a hideous face and a body covered in scars, known as the "Beast Among Men." He has beaten countless opponents to death in the underground fight pits, and no one can go toe-to-toe with him.
Fierce Fang is Jin Quan's most trusted war leader; whenever the Fist Gang needs to crush a district, he takes to the field himself.
📜 Relations with Other Factions
Thunderbolt Hall: Sworn enemies. The target the Fist Gang most wants to eliminate — Jin Quan sees Zhuge Yanwen as his greatest threat. The two sides have clashed many times: Thunderbolt Hall has repeatedly wrecked the Gang's illegal businesses, and the Gang has repeatedly set up plots to assassinate Zhuge Yanwen.
Changfeng Republic Government: Complicated. Some officials have been bought by the Fist Gang and look the other way; but some government forces are also trying to sweep the Gang away. Jin Quan's attitude: "People in the government are either our people or dead people."
Commercial Republic Consortiums: Complicated. Some wealthy merchants work with the Fist Gang, using it to handle gray-area business; but some merchants also quietly back Thunderbolt Hall, hoping to weaken the Gang's power.
Black Market Organizations: Competition and cooperation side by side. The Fist Gang controls most of the Changfeng Republic's black-market economy, fighting turf wars with other criminal organizations while also trading favors with them.
Mountain and Sea Society: Delicate. Each side holds its own territory in the Changfeng Republic's underworld; they clash now and then but have never gone to all-out war. Jin Qiye and Jin Quan are wary of each other, maintaining a fragile balance.
Storm Thunder Sect: Hostile. Like Thunderbolt Hall, the Storm Thunder Sect is a thorn in the Fist Gang's side. The Gang has tried many times to infiltrate Storm Mountain, and has been driven back every time.