White Shark Gang
"Sou da, dig dig dig, joy, sa mei jiu!"
The Mud Cult's Hungry Ghost Path, running rampant on the East Sea, set on making life hard for the and the Imperial Court. Dharma King Liu E tops the Wanted Notice bounties of the present day. The Imperial Court has sent troops to sea to wipe out the pirates more than once, all to no avail, and to this day no one knows where these pirates make their base.
The gang's members are fond of raw fish, and once you have eaten their raw fish, you are a merry companion who has shared raw fish with them. Even their signature weapon is the Fish Knife, oddly shaped yet extremely sharp.
Those they take a liking to are abducted, put through unspeakably cruel humiliation, and then released; those who offend them are pushed into the sea to feed the sharks.
Atrocities
Gang Leader Liu E is utterly crazy and lawless. Yet he does not simply commit evil out of greed; he never harms the common folk at all. The Imperial Court denounces the White Shark Gang as rebels, yet the commoners love them more than their own magistrate. The following are known incidents; whether they count as evil is for the reader to decide:
Robbing merchant ships and official ships; any officials caught are stripped bare and paraded through the streets, without rhyme or reason.
Selling private salt, and half-selling, half-giving it away to maliciously wreck the official salt market.
Throwing live fish through people's windows house by house, openly disrupting the fishing trade and throwing down the gauntlet to the Cang Gang.
They threw fish even on the day the held a banquet for an Imperial Court envoy. Xie Wuchen saw it, found the fish stank, and meaning to show off in front of Shangguan Ying, blocked Liu E and demanded his execution. Liu E simply snatched a passerby's sword, and the sword moves he used neither attacked nor defended, yet every one went for a vital point and had to be guarded against. Xie Wuchen could not bring a single skill to bear, was so furious he spat blood and conceded defeat, and was forced to rename his "Wind Thunder Divine Leg" to "Very Forceful Kick", then ran off crying.
During Nangong's Birthday Banquet, they attacked Cang Gang ships.
Attacked the , beating the abbot with a rolling pin and forcing him to run naked through the streets, while their accomplices sliced raw fish and laid it on the abbot's body to feed the dogs. The abbot was so traumatized that he retired that very day.
Kidnapped Shangguan Ying. Liu E claimed he had invited her as a guest with all courtesy, but after being roundly cursed, he threatened to sell her off to a foreign land.
Went with the Hell Path to Fengyu Mountain to rescue the Human Path, and set the mountain on fire.
While Fourth Senior Brother was peddling,
After the Battle of the Western Wulin, Chan Master Shi Ming, dreading the Tang Clan's revenge, did not dare linger a moment. He packed his Bag and fled overseas by boat, only to be captured by the White Shark Gang. After unspeakably cruel humiliation, he ended up in the belly of a fish.
Notes
- White Shark Tongue is just Japanese. Nihongo! Kanpai ni su!