681. A Wolf's Nature

Compared with Li Bai, who shouted, "I'll crush my enemies with money," but in reality was so dirt-poor and low-class that he crushed them with rocks, the Qing Tian Family paid out in real gold and silver.

Money could move hearts. The fate of the Yagyu Family head was the perfect example.

Who would have thought the one to stab him with a fatal blow would be someone right by his side?

If even bodyguards couldn't be trusted, it was hard to imagine what could be.

A billion yen was an astronomical sum to ordinary people.

Several of the Yagyu Family head's bodyguards were tempted. They'd never earn that much in their entire lives. After discussing it in secret, they quietly shot their employer in the back, claimed the bounty with his head, split the money, then scattered and disappeared.

The Yagyu Family had brought this misfortune on itself. The head was only the first. Once there was a first, a second would soon follow.

On the narrow islands of Japan, assassins who caught the scent of money sprang into action, converging on the Yagyu Family's territory.

It wasn't just the direct-line family members whose lives were up for bounty. Even collateral relatives who weren't targets became extras, and the casualties were severe.

Before noon, Li Bai woke from a nap to find the Yagyu Family, struck by this ruthless extermination campaign, in a state of utter chaos and close to ruin.

In just a few hours, almost all the Yagyu Family's direct-line members had been targeted by one kind of assassination attempt or another.

The youngest generation was wiped out. Not one escaped the morgue, and many had even had their heads cut off.

There was a rumor that claiming the bounty with a head got the money paid