Gong Hengwen's Dirty Dogs-Just the Kind I Love Beating!

"It was Secretary Ye who started bullying people. Chen Yan was only acting in self-defense!"

"You're the Martial Division of Green Mountain Town. You shouldn't be doing this!"

Outside an office in the Town Martial Hall, a young martial officer stood in the doorway, blocking Wang Yang and Chen Yuxu, who had rushed over, from going inside.

Chen Yuxu had nearly worn his lips raw arguing, but it had done no good at all.

He had heard the news at home and rushed over without stopping, only to find he couldn't even see Chen Yan.

Beside him, Wang Yang looked dejected, full of self-reproach.

It was all his fault.

Watching Chen Yuxu argue his case, Wang Yang felt even worse.

"Old Chen, I'll find someone tomorrow. Don't worry. I won't let Chen Yan stay locked up."

Wang Yang clenched his fists. The only person he could think of was Zhuang Xihang.

He had already signed the divorce papers, but for Chen Yan's sake, he would even kneel and beg Zhuang Xihang to help.

Chen Yuxu glanced at Wang Yang and opened his mouth, then finally nodded.

"Chen Yan was saving me. It's all my fault. I'm the one to blame." Wang Yang gave a bitter smile.

"Nonsense!" Chen Yuxu said, his voice low.

"My son was right to save you. He should help you. He's not the one at fault, and neither are you."

Anger simmered in Chen Yuxu's eyes.

The ones at fault were the Town Martial Hall and those bastards who looked down on everyone.

Wang Yang froze for a moment, bitterness welling up inside him.

"Not at fault?"

A cold, airy voice drifted over. Secretary Ye, his head wrapped in bandages, strode toward them and roared, "That little bastard deserves to die! And you, you old bastard, dare to stand here and say he's not at fault?!"

Red glimmers flickered across his body, the sign of Qi and Blood manifesting beyond the body.

Chen Yuxu glared at him and bellowed, "Quit flaunting that pathetic Qi and Blood of yours! You couldn't beat my son, so what right do you have to use it?!"

Secretary Ye choked on his words. The father was even more brazen than the son. He was about to curse back when Xin Gongxian walked over.

"Chen Yuxu, you dare make a scene in the Town Martial Hall? Do you want to join your son inside?"

Chen Yuxu's expression shifted. If he were locked up, he wouldn't be able to help Chen Yan from the outside. He tamped down his anger for a moment and said, "I'm not making a scene. I just want to say that my son is still in high school. Secretary Ye may be a martial artist, but how could he have been beaten this badly? There must be some misunderstanding."

After Chen Yuxu finished, Secretary Ye's expression grew even colder, but Xin Gongxian snapped, "Whether there's a misunderstanding or not, do I need you to tell me?"

He stood with his hands behind his back and looked coolly at Chen Yuxu.

"Do you need to question whether I know how to do my job?"

He might have to show Wang Yang some courtesy, but he had no reason to care about Chen Yuxu.

That honest country man always kept his head down whenever he saw him. Now he actually dared to talk back.

It irritated him.

If even Chen Yuxu dared to contradict him, he'd be swamped with trouble as head of the Town Martial Hall.

Beside them, Secretary Ye crossed his arms and sneered. "Director Xin, you've got a tough town to manage. When I saw Chu Lan last time, he was praising how well you ran things."

Xin Gongxian shot him a cool glance. He was nothing but a dog of the Gong Family, relying on his master's power every day and thinking he was somebody.

"Old Chen, let's go back," Wang Yang said quietly. If they angered Xin Gongxian now, things would only get harder for them.

Chen Yuxu frowned. He couldn't back down; his son was still behind bars.

"Director Xin, even the Town Martial Hall has to follow the law. My son hit him, but that doesn't mean he should be thrown straight into a cell!"

His voice rang out, firm as steel, as he stared Xin Gongxian down.

Wang Yang had told him about the Town Martial Class. This concerned Chen Yan's future, and they absolutely couldn't let the Town Martial Hall waste any more time.

Chen Yan needed to get out.

"You..." Xin Gongxian's expression turned cold.

"Are you teaching me how to run the Town Martial Hall?"

The next moment,

flecks of crimson light spilled from Xin Gongxian's body. The pressure of a Blood Qi Martial Artist crashed down on Chen Yuxu in an instant.

Wang Yang's expression changed dramatically.

"Director Xin, it's just a small matter!"

At once, Chen Yuxu felt as if a raging current had wrapped around him. Even breathing became difficult, yet he forced out the words through his flushed face.

"I'm not teaching you, but you should at least have some... rules!"

His son and daughter had been in car accidents one after another, and the Town Martial Hall hadn't found out a thing.

Xin Gongxian had taken his family's business premises away with just one word.

It was the man who had forced him and his son up against Green Mountain.

His son had only hit someone, yet he was being locked in an iron cell with no idea when he'd get out.

Xin Gongxian deserved to die!

Xin Gongxian's expression turned even more severe. He couldn't believe this poor country bumpkin still dared to talk back under his pressure.

All he knew was that he wanted to teach the man a lesson.

Neither the authority of the head of the Town Martial Hall nor the dignity of a martial artist could be challenged like this.

Beside Xin Gongxian, Secretary Ye laughed, watching Wang Yang and Chen Yuxu with open provocation.

Crimson light surged, and the air around Xin Gongxian began to twist.

"Xin Gongxian, what are you..." Wang Yang's expression changed, and he immediately shouted.

"What am I doing?"

Before Wang Yang could finish, an old man's voice answered him.

A wisp of pitch-black light seemed to peel away from the night sky, then curled around Xin Gongxian.

The instant the red light spilling from Xin Gongxian touched the black glow, it melted and vanished like ice meeting flame.

The pressure pinning Chen Yuxu down disappeared. Xin Gongxian's expression changed drastically as he hurriedly scanned the area and roared, "Who dares use force in the Town Martial Hall?"

"It's me."

The old man's voice rang out again. Wang Yang and Chen Yuxu's vision blurred, and the tall, slender figure of an elderly man appeared before them.

Zhuang Xihang had gone all over Chen Yan's home, asking after him, only to learn that Chen Yan had been locked up in the Town Martial Hall.

He had asked a balding martial officer at the Town Martial Hall what had happened and finally learned the truth.

"Fa... Principal Zhuang!" Wang Yang stammered, surprise and delight rising in his eyes.

"Call me Dad!" Zhuang Xihang glanced at Wang Yang, his expression full of reproach and regret.

"Why didn't you tell me about what happened between you and her sooner? Why didn't you tell me?!"

Zhuang Xihang gritted his teeth. Now he understood why Wang Yang hadn't wanted Wang Xinqian to sign the Gong Family contract, and why Wang Yang had separated from his daughter two years ago.

He had blamed Wang Yang for it for two whole years.

His daughter had actually shamelessly become someone's mistress.

Disappointment, regret, anger!

"Dad..." Wang Yang hesitated, but still patted Chen Yuxu beside him.

"This is Zhuang Xihang, the principal of County Second High."

Chen Yuxu's body relaxed, and he panted as he realized the man before him had come to help Chen Yan. He hurriedly bowed.

"Principal Zhuang!"

Zhuang Xihang nodded. Across from him, Xin Gongxian said coolly, "Deputy."

Zhuang Xihang gave Xin Gongxian a mocking look. "Even as a deputy, I'm in the mid-to-late stages of the Five Viscera Realm. And you are?"

Xin Gongxian's expression turned cold.

Zhuang Xihang turned his gaze to Secretary Ye, only to see him smiling and greeting him. Zhuang Xihang bellowed, "You, shut up!"

Secretary Ye froze. He was furious, but didn't dare show it.

This man was about to become his boss's father-in-law.

"Go back and tell Zhuang Yan I don't have a daughter like her. She's an embarrassment!" Zhuang Xihang roared.

Secretary Ye's pupils contracted, but he didn't dare say a word.

Xin Gongxian's expression changed. Only then did he remember that Zhuang Xihang's daughter had married Gong Qing and would become part of the Gong Family.

"If you enjoyed this book, add it to your bookshelf so you can find it again next time."

"Principal Zhuang, what brings you here?"

"I'm here to make you release someone," Zhuang Xihang said coldly.

"Chen Yan is my student, and he's supposed to start at the Town Martial Class tomorrow. If you lock him up, who am I supposed to teach?"

Behind him, Wang Yang's expression shifted. When had Chen Yan become his student?

"But as far as I know, Chen Yan isn't on the Town Martial Class Quota," Xin Gongxian said, feigning surprise. Things were getting complicated.

He had a faint sense that something was wrong.

"You probably don't know that, as a Town Martial Class teacher, I'm allowed to bring along one auditing student," Zhuang Xihang said, narrowing his eyes as he sized up Xin Gongxian.

Behind him, Chen Yuxu and Wang Yang brightened with delight.

"An auditing student?" Xin Gongxian frowned.

"But he hit someone..."

Xin Gongxian glanced at Secretary Ye.

"That's right, that little bastard hit me," Secretary Ye said, though he had lost the bluster he'd shown earlier.

A flare of light slammed into Secretary Ye, sending him crashing into the wall. He slid down with a howl of pain.

"Then what are you, if not someone who deserves a beating?" Zhuang Xihang roared. If not for Chen Yan, Wang Yang would have lost a finger.

"Ah!"

Secretary Ye howled. His ribs were broken, and his face twisted in pain.

"Old bastard, my boss has gone through four wives in three years, and I'm his only secretary. You really think you're somebody?"

After being beaten so badly, he no longer cared about anything and started cursing.

"Zhuang Xihang, you've gone too far!" Xin Gongxian frowned, then snapped, "This is the Town Martial Hall!"

Zhuang Xihang's face was dark with fury, but the next moment he frowned and looked up at the ceiling.

"If you keep making trouble, I'll even..."

As Xin Gongxian spoke, he fell silent and looked around too, as if a voice had sounded overhead.

The voice grew louder and gradually clearer.

"Yin Yanjun, you've done well. Is this how you manage Luoshan County?"

"This has nothing to do with me. I didn't appoint Xin Gongxian!"

"Yin Yanjun, are you still trying to shirk responsibility?!"

"Luo Puxin, listen to me..."

"You've disappointed me!"

"It was Chu Cang! Chu Cang appointed him!"

Rumble, rumble, rumble!!!

Gusts of wind swept in through the windows and into the office, setting the papers, fountain pens, and even the ashtray on the desk trembling.

Everyone's expression changed at once. Feeling a faint tremor underfoot, they rushed to the window. A red and a white streak of dazzling light had shattered Green Mountain's tranquility, blazing painfully bright.

Clang, clang, clang!

In the corridor, the half-open doors were repeatedly banged against their frames by the raging gusts.

Xin Gongxian's expression changed in an instant. His eyes flew wide, and an indescribable terror showed on his face as he gaped and looked around.

The lights throughout the corridor began flickering, brightness and darkness alternating.

In a flash, two figures appeared before Xin Gongxian.

Luo Puxin and Yin Yanjun.

"D-Director Yin!"

At the sight of them, Xin Gongxian shuddered all over. The other man outranked him by far.

The head of a Town Martial Hall ranked even lower than a deputy minister of a county Town Martial Division department.

And Yin Yanjun was the undisputed Chief.

The man beside Yin Yanjun was no less imposing.

That man had been cursing Yin Yanjun outside just moments ago, and Yin Yanjun had clearly been the one on the defensive.

"Director Luo, Chief Yin, what brings you here?"

Principal Zhuang looked astonished to see them as well.

Wang Yang and Chen Yuxu exchanged glances, then chose to remain silent. These two were far beyond their station.

"Deputy Minister Bai Yuyue of the City Martial Division's Military Martial Department called us here," Yin Yanjun said, looking grim. Luo Puxin had just cursed him out, and not gently.

The problem was, he couldn't refute a word of it.

Yin Yanjun shot Xin Gongxian a cold glance and continued, "We're here to pick up Chen Yan."

Clatter!

A lighter hit the floor in the director's office.

In the hallway, Xin Gongxian's legs went weak. He leaned back slightly, his body coming to rest against the wall.

It was as if every ounce of strength had been drained from him.

His pupils contracted. At that moment, a tide seemed to sweep through his mind.

The Deputy Minister of the City Martial Division, Bai Yuyue, had personally sent the County Martial Division Chief to pick up Chen Yan!

And Chen Yan was locked up in the iron cell by him.

"Pick up Chen Yan?" Zhuang Xihang looked astonished. No matter how he thought about it, he couldn't make sense of it.

Behind him, Wang Yang and Chen Yuxu were equally stunned.

"My son... What did he do?" Chen Yuxu asked, feeling that things had gotten way out of hand.

How had his son attracted people of this stature?

"Chen Yan is doing great." Luo Puxin looked at Chen Yuxu. The other man probably hadn't recognized him as an old classmate, so he continued with a smile:

"Your son is a genius, a genuine genius of the Body Tempering Path!"

"Hm?" Chen Yuxu opened his mouth. A smile appeared at the corner of his lips, but he couldn't manage to smile just then.

The shock was simply too much.

Across from them, Xin Gongxian and Secretary Ye were completely stunned, their bodies stiff as they stood frozen in place.

"Just how much of a genius is he?" Zhuang Xihang was dumbfounded. He knew Chen Yan was a Body Tempering genius, but was he really impressive enough to make the Chief come pick him up?

Had he still not seen the real Chen Yan?

"Zhuang Xihang, don't ask. You'll find out later." Yin Yanjun smiled, then his smile faded as he turned to Xin Gongxian.

"Ha!" Xin Gongxian's mouth hung open, but he couldn't laugh. He forced out an ugly smile. "So it was a misunderstanding. Ha..."

"A misunderstanding?" Luo Puxin narrowed his eyes.

"Yes, a misunderstanding. To be honest with you two, Chen Yan killed someone today, so I..." Xin Gongxian started to explain.

Luo Puxin slapped a hand onto Xin Gongxian's shoulder. The latter felt as if a mountain had crashed down on him. His legs went weak, and he collapsed to the floor.

"Do you think I can't tell whether it was a misunderstanding?" A torrent of Internal Force poured from Luo Puxin's hand into Xin Gongxian's body. "You've gotten so used to playing emperor here that we have to kneel when we see you, is that it?"

Luo Puxin glared at the panicked Xin Gongxian, then kicked him in the thigh.

"Ah!" Xin Gongxian cried out. The kick didn't break his thigh, but a piercing pain shot through him, and he crumpled to the floor.

Nearby, Yin Yanjun said coldly:

"You're done as director. I'll report this to the city, and the county will investigate you thoroughly, too."

Xin Gongxian, still groaning in the hallway, froze. He pleaded with Yin Yanjun, but the other man took a deep breath and snapped:

"If you can keep this job, then I won't be able to keep mine."

Xin Gongxian's face turned ashen.

Nearby, Secretary Ye saw Luo Puxin looking his way, and his face instantly went deathly pale.

"My boss is with the Gong Family..."

"Gong Hengwen?" Luo Puxin narrowed his eyes.

"Huh?" Secretary Ye's mouth fell open. His boss was just a distant member of the family. How could he possibly compare to Gong Hengwen?

His breathing grew labored. Secretary Ye was about to speak when Luo Puxin suddenly kicked him in the thigh.

Crack!

It broke.

"Ah!!!" Secretary Ye let out a shriek.

Luo Puxin snapped:

"I love beating the Gong Family's filthy dogs!"