I told them to find Ma Dalong! Not to come here and play!

I told you to look for Ma Dalong! Not to come here and play! Lin Tian did not stop at all along the way, heading straight toward his home.

However, when he passed by a certain place.

Lin Tian's steps immediately halted where he stood.

Having come here at this moment, he suddenly remembered something.

That was... before, when Lin Tian had followed a member of the Shark Gang, hadn't he come to this place?

And Lin Tian also remembered.

At the time, the other party had seemed to sneak furtively into some place?

However, these were only images that flashed through Lin Tian's mind.

He immediately did not think too much about it.

Then he headed once more in the direction of his home.

As Lin Tian entered Jinghe Bend.

Lin Tian seemed to discover that something was not quite right.

Especially along the riverbank.

Lin Tian knew that people like them, who lived by the riverbank.

Most of them would come back at night at rather irregular times.

So under normal circumstances.

Even if the sky was gradually darkening now, there would still be a few fishing boats returning from shore.

But they seemed to have discussed it in advance.

Those boats were actually arranged neatly along the bank.

Not a single one was missing?

Would they come back so punctually?

No, that was wrong! The positions and order of these boats had not changed at all?

This was... these boats had not even gone out today?

Such an abnormal thing immediately made Lin Tian feel that something was wrong.

He quickened his pace home again.

And after returning home.

Lin Tian's eyes immediately narrowed.

He saw that at this moment, quite a few people had indeed gathered around his family's Black-Awning Boat?

Those people were continuously heading into the Black-Awning Boat?

Seeing this scene.

A cold glint immediately flashed through Lin Tian's eyes.

The next moment, he immediately tightened his grip on the long saber he had just obtained.

Then he strode quickly toward those people.

And the people before him also noticed Lin Tian behind them at this moment.

They immediately turned their heads to look.

"Who are you?"

The leader among them was the first to speak.

The man was tall and burly, his face full of bulging flesh, coupled with a scar on his right cheek.

His entire person actually carried a fierce, savage air?

"And who are you?"

Lin Tian did not answer the other party's question. Instead, he directly asked in return.

When Scarface heard the tone Lin Tian used to speak to him, and saw that completely fearless look on the other party's face.

A vicious gleam immediately flashed through his eyes.

After all, as the fifth-in-command of the Black Axe Gang.

On ordinary days, who did not lower their brows and smooth their eyes when they saw him?

Yet today, some wet-behind-the-ears brat from who knew where actually dared to look down on him like this?

Almost instinctively, Scarface immediately reached out to take the axe at the back of his waist.

"Old Fifth! Stop! What are you doing!!"

An angry shout immediately came from behind Lin Tian and the others.

Hearing the voice, everyone looked behind them.

The man who had come over had a straight, tall bearing and a powerful build.

A saber scar ran from his chest down to his abdomen.

Looking at him, Lin Tian's eyes did not change in the slightest.

He still watched him calmly.

After all, in Lin Tian's eyes, the other man was merely someone who had only just stepped into Bright Force.

He could not pose any threat at all to Lin Tian, who had already entered Dark Force.

As the man drew closer, Lin Tian naturally knew that the person before him and the men behind him were definitely together.

But before Lin Tian could open his mouth, the man walking toward him immediately cupped his hands to Lin Tian and said, "Black Axe Gang, Third Master Black Wind, greets Lord Lin!"

Hearing his words, not only Lin Tian, but even the Black Axe Gang's Fifth Master behind him was stunned.

"Third Brother, you..."

"Shut up! Hurry over and apologize to Lord Lin! Do you know whose home this is? The two black-awning boats behind you are carrying Lord Lin's family!"

"Who told you to come here?"

At this moment, after Scarface saw the look Black Wind gave him, he immediately put away the weapon in his hand.

He bent at once toward Lin Tian and apologized in an incomparably sincere voice.

Then everyone immediately returned behind Black Wind.

Seeing the other party's series of swift and smooth movements, even Lin Tian could not quite react for a moment.

However, he did learn something.

The person before him was from the Black Axe Gang?

The Black Axe Gang?

Weren't they fighting the Shark Gang over territory?

Now they were appearing here so openly... Could it be that the Shark Gang had... lost?

"Lord Lin, what happened today was an accident. These people have only just arrived at Jinghe Bend, so please forgive them."

"Rest assured, I will certainly restrain my subordinates in the future. Today's matter will definitely not happen again!"

As he spoke, Black Wind immediately took a small cloth pouch from his robes.

"A small token of my regard. Please be sure to accept it."

Hearing what the other man said, Lin Tian knew he was referring to the matter just now, when they had surrounded his family's black-awning boats.

And looking at how cleanly the other man handled things, it was obvious he did not want to make the matter bigger.

As for the silver the other party offered... Lin Tian naturally accepted it gladly.

And after seeing Lin Tian accept the silver, a smile immediately appeared on Black Wind's face.

After all, taking this silver meant that the matter just now had been wiped away.

"Heh, Lord Lin is indeed a straightforward man. From now on, this Jinghe Bend will be taken over by my Black Axe Gang. In the future, I will have to ask Lord Lin to be tolerant of us!"

After saying this, Black Wind clearly had no intention of staying any longer, and immediately turned to take his leave.

Watching everyone's departing backs, Lin Tian thought to himself, Sure enough, the Black Axe Gang won.

However, Lin Tian did not feel much about this.

After all, after his strength had reached Dark Force, he no longer felt much fear toward these so-called gangs.

After all, whether it was the Black Axe Gang or the Shark Gang, the strongest among them possessed only the power of Bright Force.

They posed no danger to him whatsoever.

In the distance.

After Scarface and the others followed Black Wind a ways away, Scarface immediately said, somewhat puzzled, "Third Brother, why did you treat that kid like that just now? That kid..."

"Shut up! What 'kid' this and 'kid' that? Watch your damn mouth from now on!"

"Especially that man's appearance just now—engrave it into your damn bones! Be polite whenever you see him in the future."

Black Wind immediately rebuked him.

"Huh? This... why?"

Scarface was immediately rather confused.

Black Wind looked at Scarface's unconvinced expression before him, and knew that if he did not explain the whole situation to him today, who knew if this fellow might bring him trouble one day.

"Because that kid just now was already at Bright Force, and he reached Bright Force after entering the Martial Academy! Not only might there be five or six fellow Bright Force disciples like him at his side, he might even have fellow disciples at Dark Force."

"And above him, there's also a master at Transformation Force. Do you understand now that I've put it this way?"

"Remember this. If you go loitering around that place again in the future and stir up something like today's mess, handle it yourself! Don't drag me into it!"

"And another thing—what did I tell you to do before?"

"I told you to find Ma Dalong! Not to come here and play around!"

"Right now, although we've temporarily pressed down the Shark Gang, as long as Ma Dalong isn't dead, the Shark Gang still has a chance to come back with dust rolling and banners raised!"

Inside the black-awning boat.

As Lin Tian returned, only then did everyone in the boat hurriedly gather around him.

"Xiao Tian, are... are you all right? And those people just now, they..."

His mother, Madam Zhao, said, her face still somewhat frightened.