Secret Deer Gang

Having trained his martial arts to the peak, Wang Yu easily crushed Zhao Yong. There was not the slightest chance of a comeback for his opponent.

He could not even escape. Wang Yu broke his arms and legs, leaving him sprawled on the ground.

The remaining lackeys had only reached the first or second level of Body Tempering. Without Zhao Yong to lead them, despite their vicious swagger, the twenty or thirty of them were nothing more than a rabble in Wang Yu's eyes.

In no more than two or three minutes, they were all crippled. Not a single one escaped.

Still unsatisfied, Liu Yemei jogged over to Zhao Yong and viciously kicked him several times. Only then, her little face flushed pink, did she softly say to Wang Yu beside her.

"Wang Yu, thank you for saving me just now."

"We're fellow disciples. It's good that you're all right," Wang Yu said casually, then turned and had one disciple return to deliver the news.

Behind him, Liu Yemei watched Wang Yu's back for a long while with her glittering eyes.

"Xiao Yu, are you all right?" Meng Lao Er came out at that moment and asked worriedly.

"I'm fine, Uncle Meng," Wang Yu replied calmly.

On the other side, Sun Chengshan hurried over with a dark expression after receiving word.

No one had dared set their sights on his mine for a long time. Who would have thought that, at the very last moment, a group of blind fools would appear, even injuring his disciples?

Had Wang Yu not been guarding the place tonight, this final batch of ore would have been stolen. How could he not be furious?

Yanking off Zhao Yong's face covering, Sun Chengshan's expression changed slightly. "It's you people!"

"Who are they, Master?" Song Hezheng, who had come with him, asked.

After a moment of silence, Sun Chengshan said, "A gang has recently emerged in Island Town 732, and it's been acting quite aggressively. There are quite a few experts in the gang. I heard that several gym masters went to negotiate with them and all came back with their noses bloodied."

Song Hezheng's expression turned serious. "Master, are you talking about the Secret Deer Gang?"

"Mm." Sun Chengshan suddenly found the matter rather troublesome.

The Secret Deer Gang was not easy to deal with. Take Zhao Yong, who had led this troublemaking operation—his strength was not much inferior to Sun Chengshan's, the master of a fist gym.

Wang Yu did not know much about the Secret Deer Gang. After all, he spent most of his time practicing martial arts and did not interact with the other forces in town.

Seeing Sun Chengshan so troubled, he could roughly guess that this gang was quite formidable. Even the Shadowless Fist Gym found it somewhat difficult to provoke them.

Sun Chengshan knew that he had broken through to the sixth level of the Shadowless Fist. When he had first been told, he had been no less shocked.

But perhaps he had already grown numb to it. This was not the first time such a thing had happened to Wang Yu, so he accepted it quickly enough.

Thus, even after factoring in Wang Yu, a top-tier combatant, he still harbored concerns when facing the Secret Deer Gang.

So there must be at least martial artists at the Body Tempering Sixth Level within their gang.

At worst, there might even be martial artists in the Blood Burning Realm. Sun Chengshan was not certain about that, though the possibility was not great.

Very few civilian Blood Burning Realm powerhouses would have nothing better to do than come to a remote island town like this.

"Interrogate them first and see if we can get anything useful out of them. If that fails, hand them over to the Garrison Commander and let him deal with the Secret Deer Gang!"

After some thought, Sun Chengshan made his decision.

Though Zhao Yong was fairly tough, under Wang Yu's torment, he still cracked and revealed some information.

The Secret Deer Gang was actually not small in scale. It even had branches in other nearby island towns.

They were merely one such branch. As for the gang's true foundation and the location of its headquarters, these people knew nothing at all.

Some of them were skilled gang members who had followed them here from other island towns, while the rest were thugs recruited locally.

Zhao Yong was one of the leaders of the Secret Deer Gang's branch in Island Town 732.

The branch leader, Luo Gang, was indeed a martial artist at the Body Tempering Sixth Level.

Because of his presence, even though they had encroached upon the interests of other martial arts gyms in the island town, those gyms could only swallow their anger and let this outsider gang grow stronger.

There was no helping it. Strength was the hard truth. Whether it was a martial artist gang like this or a martial arts gym, they stood on martial prowess. If they could not beat the other side, what else could they do?

Furthermore, after repeated interrogation, Zhao Yong finally admitted that this attempt to steal their Purple Coal Ore had actually been a private operation driven by his own greed.

It was not the Secret Deer Gang as a whole trying to seize the Purple Coal Ore.

Zhao Yong had even arranged a ship for sea transport. Once he succeeded, he would lead his men to haul the ore onto the ship overnight and sell it in other island towns.

By then, no one would know it had been him.

Unfortunately, he had vastly underestimated Wang Yu's cultivation and strength.

To outsiders, Wang Yu was still merely a disciple at the Body Tempering Fourth Layer Realm.

Who could have imagined that this disciple had already surpassed his master, his cultivation outstripping Sun Chengshan's?

In the end, Sun Chengshan still decided to hand this group over to the Garrison Commander.

As for how the Garrison Commander would ultimately deal with the Secret Deer Gang, he could not predict it.

"Hezheng, suspend the office for now. Have all disciples stop accepting commissions. Everything can wait until I make my breakthrough," Sun Chengshan said gravely.

No matter what the Garrison Commander did, he was already prepared for retaliation from the Secret Deer Gang. That was the worst possible outcome.

Song Hezheng nodded in agreement.

Over the past several months, Sun Chengshan had tempered his cultivation with sufficient patience.

For ordinary martial artists like them, it was not easy to break through a major cultivation bottleneck.

The right time, the right place, and the right people all had to be considered. There was even an element of luck involved.

How could they be like Wang Yu, who could naturally advance his cultivation once he had accumulated enough proficiency?

Some people, even after making thorough preparations, failed their breakthroughs three or five times. Some even damaged their vitality and foundations in the process. Successfully breaking through in a single attempt was instead the rarity.

Last year, Sun Chengshan had already failed once. Now that he was trying again, he had become especially cautious and conservative.

Every day, he adjusted himself into his best possible state. Now, faced with the outside pressure of the Secret Deer Gang, he felt the time was ripe!

Sometimes, gaining a certain amount of pressure was actually a good thing.

It gave him a stronger obsession. This time, he had to break through successfully!

The next morning.

Sun Chengshan personally met with the Garrison Commander. After explaining everything, Zhao Yong and his group were detained for interrogation.

Zheng Anbang, the director of the Security Bureau, personally took charge of this heinous incident.

It was clear that the Garrison Commander attached great importance to the matter.

After all, this was ore meant to be sold to him, and such a thing had happened on territory under his jurisdiction. It was simply a slap in the face.

Very soon, several gray-market businesses, shops, and gambling dens under the Secret Deer Gang's name were sealed off.

A number of gang members stationed there were also arrested and taken away for investigation.

Meanwhile, in the Rat Street district, inside an old house.

Luo Gang, the Secret Deer Gang branch leader, was there after receiving advance warning.

As he listened to the report, he smashed the stone table before him with one punch.

The fury on his face was completely undisguised.

"Damn Zhao Yong! I'm going to kill him!"

Luo Gang's words brimmed with killing intent. In his rage, he looked ready to swallow his former right-hand man alive.