Terrifying

"Terrifying."

Baili Qingfeng raised his head and looked at the afterglow of the sunset that had yet to fade above him.

That was a gun!

A weapon for killing!

When Baili Qingfeng had beaten Jiang Ziheng to death back then, he had acted on the principle that every debt had its debtor and every grievance had its perpetrator. He had not intended to implicate the innocent in the slightest. After all, he was not someone who slaughtered innocents indiscriminately. In his past and present lives, he had always upheld the principles of obeying the law and maintaining public order, treating others with kindness in everything he did and believing that harmony brought prosperity.

But...

After he had eliminated the chief culprit, Jiang Ziheng, he had never expected that the other members of the Jiang Family would directly choose to hire an assassin to send him to his death. Such a deranged act was outrageous enough, but it also filled him with profound apprehension.

Warriors did not scare him. If one or two Level 3 Warriors came at him, he would not mind fighting them several times.

But firearms...

Across his two lives, Baili Qingfeng had never experienced being killed by someone with a gun.

"Terrifying!"

Baili Qingfeng was restless and could no longer stay in his own courtyard.

"No, this is too frightening! I have to beat them to death!"

Baili Qingfeng could not even spare the bodies a thought. He left the Small Woods at once, passed through the Old City District, and planned to take a bus to the bus station, then travel by coach from there to Sumen City, a hundred kilometers away.

"At this time, by the time I reach the bus station, it will definitely be dark. There will be no coaches to Sumen City then. I can rest near the bus station for one night and go to Sumen City tomorrow, but... Jiang Hengshan is a vicious man who dared to hire an assassin to kill me. If he can hire one once, he can hire one a second time, or a third. The longer this drags on, the more dangerous the situation becomes for me. This danger makes me feel as though thorns are pricking my back, leaves me restless all over, and keeps me awake at night... I cannot sleep... I will take a taxi to Sumen City!"

Baili Qingfeng immediately made up his mind and waited by the roadside.

A few minutes later, he hailed a taxi. After haggling with the driver, he agreed to a fare of forty yuan to Sumen City.

Xia'er City was right beside Wuhe City, while Wuhe City was only around eighty kilometers from Sumen City. Xia'er City required crossing a bridge and taking a slight detour, but the distance was still just over a hundred kilometers.

The vehicle moved onward. After traveling for more than two hours, it arrived smoothly at the small alley where Jiang's Martial Hall in Sumen City was located.

By then, it was already dark, around nine at night.

Baili Qingfeng got out of the car, paid the fare, and walked into the alley.

No one was guarding the alley entrance anymore, but the lights in Jiang's Martial Hall were still on. There were clearly people inside.

"There's no glass or barbed wire on the wall."

Baili Qingfeng stood outside the courtyard and examined the height of the wall. He moved back a little, then accelerated. His body shot forward, his right toes pushed off the wall, and he leaped into the air. He grabbed the top of the wall with both hands, flipped over, and entered the courtyard.

Once inside, Baili Qingfeng took a look around.

There were two doors at the first-floor entrance: one solid wooden door and one iron door. As for the second floor...

It was a balcony.

"Click."

Baili Qingfeng was looking for a place to climb up to the balcony when the door to the main hall on the first floor opened, and a burly middle-aged man walked out.

"Who's there?"

The instant he came out, the man keenly sensed that something was wrong and immediately let out a sharp shout.

"Jiang Hengyue? Is Jiang Hengshan here?"

Baili Qingfeng recognized this man.

Jiang's Three Heroes referred to Jiang Ziheng, Jiang Hengshan, and Jiang Hengyue.

"Hm!?"

The man named Jiang Hengyue saw Baili Qingfeng emerge from the night. His pupils suddenly contracted. "It's you..."

After realizing what was happening, he immediately tried to retreat into the room as quickly as possible and shut the door.

But though he retreated quickly, Baili Qingfeng entered even faster.

With a movement of his body, the immense power of his Qi and Blood surged forth like a tsunami and poured into his arm. His arm became like a crazed dragon bursting forth, and in an instant, it slammed into Jiang Hengyue's chest.

"Bang!"

His force exploded!

Jiang Hengyue was struck as though by a truck traveling at eighty kilometers per hour and sent flying backward. The clothing over the spot struck by the fist burst apart, and the impact caved his chest in by two inches. The penetrating force seemed to have punched straight through the burly man's body. While he was still in midair, he spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with internal organs. After crashing into a tea table in the living room, he died on the spot.

"Who is it?"

"Third Brother!"

"Third Brother!"

A series of booming shouts came from inside the house.

Baili Qingfeng strode into the living room and saw four vigorous, brawny men gathered together, playing cards and chatting. More than a dozen stacks of hundred-yuan bills were laid out on the table.

"Baili Qingfeng!?"

The obviously leading burly man among the four stared at him, disbelief on his face. "You're still alive!? The one who made the move was the most famous expert in Sumen City's Underground World. How could..."

He quickly came to his senses, however. This was no time for shock. Facing this terrifying opponent who had come to their door, he hurriedly shouted in fright, "Grab your weapons!"

"Bang!"

Baili Qingfeng stamped down fiercely, and the entire room seemed to tremble slightly.

The expensive ceramic tile floor cracked beneath his foot. Carrying the immense force that surged up from beneath his feet, his body seemed to transform into a raging bear as he suddenly pounced toward the nearest burly man.

For a moment, the entire living room seemed to be swept by a gale. The pressure raised by Baili Qingfeng's full-speed charge rushed against their faces, nearly suffocating the man caught in his aura.

His spine straightened, and his force burst forth like a dragon.

"Crack!"

The man locked down by his aura had no time to react. Baili Qingfeng pounced upon him like a tiger descending a mountain, and his fist struck the man's neck. With a dull thud, the cervical vertebrae snapped instantly!

Killed with one blow!

Against these lawless and vicious men who had even dared to hire an assassin, Baili Qingfeng was apprehensive and did not dare hold back in the slightest.

After killing one man, he twisted his body. Carrying a horrifying murderous aura, his eyes flashed with sharp light, and he seemed like a devil bent on destroying the world. His right hand swept out horizontally at ninety degrees, striking toward another man beside him.

That man snapped out of his shock and punched at Baili Qingfeng's head. As his body twisted, the force within him had already condensed into one mass. Clearly...

He was a proper Martial Warrior-level expert.

But...

It was useless.

His fist was a step slower than Baili Qingfeng's. Before it could land, Baili Qingfeng's fist, like an iron hammer weighing over a hundred kilograms, smashed viciously into the man's temple.

"Bang!"

His fist's force exploded!

At that moment, the man's entire head and neck seemed to be forcibly stretched an inch. The horrifying inertia from the blow carried his eighty-kilogram body into a violent sideways fall. In the end, his head struck the ground before the lower half of his body.

After killing two men in an instant, Baili Qingfeng abruptly lowered his body and retreated. He tilted his head to evade the force of a punch launched by a man attacking from behind, then used the momentum of his retreat to slam viciously into the man's lunging body.

At the instant their chests and backs collided, Baili Qingfeng changed his fists into palms and brought both palms together. His sinking body was like a curved great bow. After storing up its full force, it suddenly pierced through and straightened.

As his body straightened, the penetrating force traveled through his spine and seemed to transform into a flying dragon. It flowed into both hands and soared outward. The force rose from below and pushed toward the heavens, like an overlord lifting a cauldron, brutally striking both sides of the man's lower jaw behind him. The force in his palms exploded, shattering the man's jawbones on the spot. With both palms thrusting upward, the man's body was forcibly launched three meters into the air before falling heavily backward.

"Die!"

At that moment, Jiang Hengshan had already pulled a handgun from beside the sofa and suddenly aimed it at Baili Qingfeng.

"Rumble!"

Yet the instant his handgun pointed at Baili Qingfeng, a peal of thunder seemed to explode in the void, nearly shattering his mind and will.

Amid his terror, it seemed that a long time had passed, yet it also seemed to be only an instant. When he came to his senses again, his entire body had already been swallowed by an unprecedented agony.