"Hm?"
Xu Zhen seemed to sense something and looked up. By the roadside thirty meters away, a drenched young man in a black baseball cap stood straight in the rain.
The young man stood in neither a square nor a horse stance, his entire body loose and relaxed, just like an ordinary teenager.
Though the rain poured down in sheets, Xu Zhen could feel a chilling killing intent rushing toward him. The hairs all over his body stood on end!
"Who are you?" Qin Maojiao frowned and stepped forward, shouting.
Amid the crashing rain, Gu Shaoshang's voice pierced through like an arrow.
"Tongbei Fist master! Xu Zhen, one of the Three Tigers of Guangdong!" Gu Shaoshang lowered his cap brim, a cold smile curving his lips.
"Baji, Gu Shaoshang, has come to seek your instruction! Today, we shall determine victory and defeat—and life and death!" Ba Liming was a master of the ancient Baji Quan, so although Gu Shaoshang was more skilled in Xingyi, he still called himself a disciple of Baji.
He clasped his fists!
He bowed!
He stepped forward!
Boom!
A thunderous blast rang out as Gu Shaoshang shot forward in a single stride, leaving deep footprints in the concrete beneath his feet!
"Fuck! You're courting death!" Qin Maojiao and another young man stepped forward and threw punches almost simultaneously!
One stepped ahead and the other behind. Their joints linked together as they issued force, their long arms shooting straight out like spears toward Gu Shaoshang!
Their sleeves snapped open, sending rolling clouds of mist into the air. The rain-soaked fabric instantly swelled, producing a string of sharp cracks like waves slapping against a ship's hull!
They were clearly both masters who had trained Tongbei Fist to the peak of Clear Force!
In an instant!
Gu Shaoshang crossed more than ten meters. His previously ordinary figure suddenly loomed before Qin Maojiao like a great mountain. His five fingers clenched into a fist, and he sent out a punch!
A violent crackle of bones erupted like a tiger's roar!
Too fast!
Fierce gusts surged outward, blowing the raindrops against their faces like pebbles and leaving them stinging with pain!
Qin Maojiao let out a silent roar. Every inch of sinew and bone, every muscle, trembled madly. Under such savage pressure, his body emitted a soundless, shrill wail!
If he failed to block this punch, he would certainly die!
Faced with such terrifying momentum, such a brutally vicious punch, Qin Maojiao felt as though a huge hand had seized his heart in a crushing grip! Even the space before his eyes seemed to darken, and unprecedented terror flooded his heart!
"Haah!"
Qin Maojiao roared madly. His outstretched arms snapped back, all the joints in his body trembling. He bent forward like a racing horse, crossing his hands in an X before his head to block Gu Shaoshang's descending fist.
His face flushed crimson, and shock, regret, fear, and despair spilled from his eyes!
Bang!
His block was futile!
The overwhelmingly powerful punch smashed through Qin Maojiao's crossed arms, snapping them apart! Then, without losing any momentum, it struck his chest!
Qin Maojiao's eyes instantly filled with bloodshot veins before bulging outward! The cloth on his back burst into fluttering scraps!
A massive explosion of cracking bones rang out like a string of firecrackers! Every bone in Qin Maojiao's body shattered!
Then he was flung into the air, tumbling away like a ragged sack!
He crashed heavily into the rain-soaked ground. Blood spread across the ground, only to be washed away by the downpour!
In an instant, Qin Maojiao was beaten to death with a single punch!
After more than two years of training, Gu Shaoshang's immense strength was terrifying! That punch could have shattered even an iron man, let alone a living body of flesh and blood.
The young man who had been a step behind Qin Maojiao felt his eyes split with rage. He had never expected his junior brother to be beaten to an uncertain fate in a single exchange by this mysterious youth!
"Beast! Die!"
The young man let out a frenzied roar. His left leg bent like a bow, then he crouched and explosively sprang forward!
His whole body shot toward Gu Shaoshang like an arrow loosed from a powerful bow. His suit billowed violently, producing countless sounds like tearing silk.
Whoosh!
His fist tore through the air and smashed toward Gu Shaoshang through the curtain of rain!
Gu Shaoshang saw in every direction and heard all around him. As the punch hurtled toward his head, his shoulder suddenly sank, and he seemed to shrink by half a body's height out of thin air!
Then Gu Shaoshang hooked his arm over it, twisting the young man's arm apart with a crack. His shoulder then drove upward, crashing into the man's chest!
Like an old bear ramming against a tree, every muscle in his back sprang up!
Baji! Iron Mountain Lean!
With Gu Shaoshang's vast strength, even a reinforced concrete wall would have been smashed down and shattered!
"Argh! Argh!"
The sound of exploding flesh and bones rang out, accompanied by the suit-clad man's heart-rending screams! His clothes tore all over his body, then burst apart in scraps!
His chest could clearly be seen collapsing inward! His bloodshot eyes bulged as though they might leap from their sockets!
His whole body flew backward, blood mixed with fragments of organs spraying from his mouth in a crimson curtain through the rain!
Boom!
The rag-doll-like corpse still carried savage force as it flew more than ten meters, smashing over a Bentley parked nearby!
"Ah!"
Xu Zhen's eyes widened uncontrollably, and he nearly froze. This entire chain of events had occurred in the blink of an eye!
No matter how ruthless he had always been, no matter how little regard he had for other people's lives, his mind still buzzed violently!
In a mere instant, his two disciples at the peak of Clear Force had been beaten to death right before his eyes!
In the curtain of rain, Gu Shaoshang and Xu Zhen stood ten meters apart.
To great masters of Hidden Force, that was practically face-to-face!
"What an overbearing, powerful fist! When had I, Xu, ever provoked someone like this?" Xu Zhen's chest heaved rapidly several times, countless thoughts racing through his mind as shock filled him.
His two disciples had learned seventy percent of his martial arts. Even if he went all out, it would be difficult for him to break their combined defense in such a short time!
Yet this mysterious man had killed his two disciples at the peak of Clear Force in mere moments. He was likely no match for him!
He only wanted to survive this ordeal. There would naturally be plenty of chances to take revenge later!
"...Sir, do you have a grudge against me?" Xu Zhen forced himself to speak, his expression incomparably ugly.
"No grudge."
Gu Shaoshang lowered his eyelids, his face indifferent.
"...If you seek money, I can offer ten million. Please, brother, spare this old man's life!"
Xu Zhen felt deeply uneasy, but he forced himself to say it.
After so many years as a big shot, Xu Zhen had long lost the desperate ferocity he possessed when fighting underground boxing matches.
Even before the murderer who had killed his disciples, he still harbored a sliver of hope and attempted to buy his way out with money!
Though his kung fu had steadily deepened, Gu Shaoshang did not think much of him!
"I already said it! Today, we determine victory and defeat! We determine life and death! There is no luck involved. Either I beat you to death, or you are beaten to death by me!"
Gu Shaoshang sneered, shattering all of Xu Zhen's illusions!
"Not everything can be bought with money! Your life belongs to me!"
Ever since arriving in the Dragon-Snake World, Gu Shaoshang felt as though his body and mind had broken free from their restraints. An unprecedented sense of ease filled his heart!
He had no attachments whatsoever in the Dragon-Snake World. Now he was alone, with nothing to hold him back!
Those who went against his will! Those who deserved a beating would be beaten, and those who deserved death would be killed!
Scum who trafficked drugs and human organs had to die!
"You... insist on killing me!" Xu Zhen finally abandoned all hope and casually tossed his umbrella aside.
Long-lost hot blood, a long-lost battle of life and death!
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