Beastly Instinct

The Shiyilang who had been stranded at the American Park Grand Hotel by Kobe Port, three hours' drive from Osaka City, looked utterly dumbfounded. The intelligence he had just received had caught him completely off guard.

He had barely finished eating some popcorn when his brother-in-law blew up a building in Osaka City—and not just any building, but one in the commercial district downtown. The scene captured by the surveillance cameras had been unbelievably explosive.

Wasn't he supposed to be providing cover and diverting attention? Did he really have to go this hard?

His brother suddenly felt that the Old Dai Family had gotten their money's worth marrying off that girl!-

Neither the Yagyu Family, whose head had been killed, nor the Tojo and Naito Families could bring themselves to go all out like the Qing Tian Family and directly spend money to buy their opponents' lives.

After all, the three families had come to carve up the meat, not to fight until both sides were crippled. Even if they managed to eat something in the end, it would only be a tough bone with barely any meat on it—and one that would hurt their teeth besides.

If they had known the Qing Tian Family would react like this, they probably would have thought twice before officially making their move.

Although their opponents had temporarily admitted defeat, the Qing Tian Family still did not let down its guard. The covert moves between the two sides did not end because of that. Instead, they continued probing one another and gauging each other's limits.

Many plutocrats shifted their attention from the battle among the four families to the Yagyu Family, eager to tear off a piece of flesh from them.

Weakness was the original sin. Once they lost this struggle, there was