"Not only a gambling addict, but a poor wretch too!"
Wang Sheng looked over the things searched out from Fang Mingguang's home and shook his head.
Eight taels of silver, two Blood Replenishing Pills, several novels and illustrated booklets, along with some unidentified medicinal powders.
Still, better than nothing.
Wang Sheng packed everything up and swiftly stepped onto the rooftop, leaving at once.
After a while,
As Wang Sheng neared Loach Street, he suddenly noticed a red glow spreading across the distant dark sky. It was rapidly growing brighter, black and red interwoven, while cries and clamorous shouting drifted over.
"It's on fire!"
Standing atop a roof, Wang Sheng gazed into the distance in that direction.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh...
Several figures clad in black happened to streak swiftly across the rooftops not far from Wang Sheng.
Wang Sheng merely glanced at them before withdrawing his gaze, unwilling to stir up further trouble.
Though those black-clad men appeared to have come from the direction of the fire. The blaze was likely inseparable from them.
"It's a little too close to our hideout!"
"Mm, then kill him."
The black-clad men had clearly already gone far away, but after exchanging a few words and realizing that Wang Sheng's position might allow him to see where their hideout was located, they turned around and came back.
When Wang Sheng saw the four men in black returning so aggressively without bothering to conceal themselves, his expression changed at once. He rapidly sprang from rooftop to rooftop and fled into the distance.
The four black-clad men pursued relentlessly.
"Gentlemen, I did not see your faces."
Wang Sheng deliberately lowered and disguised his voice as he explained.
However,
His only response
Was more than a dozen flying darts.
Wang Sheng did not dare take them head-on, fearing they might be poisoned, and could only hurriedly dodge.
Seizing this chance, the four black-clad men accelerated and rapidly closed in on Wang Sheng.
"Why must you force my hand!"
Seeing the four black-clad men of Bright Energy relentlessly chasing him, Wang Sheng's expression darkened. His right hand gathered its full force as he chopped with his palm like a blade, yet it also seemed like an enormous stone stele, tearing out gusts of force before crashing down.
"Just on a whim!"
The leading man in black sneered and raised his palm to meet it. He was exceedingly fast, but just before they made contact, a vicious glint flashed through his eyes. A dagger abruptly slipped from his sleeve into his hand, cold light glittering as it stabbed toward Wang Sheng's palm.
"Courting death!"
Wang Sheng circulated the Forging Gold Technique. His force surged several degrees higher, and the skin over his entire body tightened and hardened like mountain rock.
The dagger was knocked flying.
The man in black screamed. His hand was twisted on the spot by the tremendous force, blood streaming everywhere.
The other three black-clad men hurriedly raised their daggers and stepped forward to block Wang Sheng.
Blood Stacking Technique, activate!
Wang Sheng swiftly tapped several points on his body. The first layer of the Blood Stacking Technique activated, doubling his strength once more. Even his body expanded several degrees, filling out his black clothes to bursting.
"Not good, the Liu family's Blood Stacking Technique!"
Someone with sharp eyes recognized it and hastily retreated.
But the other two were a step too slow. Wang Sheng grabbed their daggers with his bare hands, twisted his arms, and bent them downward.
The strength of the two men he had seized crumbled at first touch; they could not withstand Wang Sheng's power at all. Their arms immediately twisted out of shape like fried dough twists, exposing stark white bone, while blood dripped down in dense raindrops.
Immediately after,
Wang Sheng's two huge hands slapped down on the heads of the two screaming men.
The screams stopped abruptly.
Their corpses rolled straight off the rooftop, smashing tiles with sharp clatters.
"So we have encountered an elder of the Liu family!"
"We concede!"
The black-clad man who had recognized the Blood Stacking Technique and retreated early spoke in a low voice.
Crack!
The other black-clad man, the one who had exchanged a blow with Wang Sheng first and injured his arm, let out a breath of relief. He grabbed his arm with one hand and set it back into place.
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"Heh heh!"
"You think one sentence of 'we concede' can make this matter disappear?"
Wang Sheng's laughter was cold, carrying threads of killing intent.
He stood with his hands hanging at his sides, his figure imposing as he looked down at the two black-clad men on another roof. He was faintly coiled to strike, as though ready to kill with a single blow.
The murderous atmosphere chilled the hearts of the two men in black.
"Elder Liu! Your surname is Liu, and we already know which family you come from. We were in the wrong today, and you have already killed two of our men. Consider that our apology."
"But if you continue to press the matter, do not blame the people behind us for settling accounts with your Liu family later. I fear your Liu family will not be able to bear it then and will face the calamity of extermination!"
The man in black sneered, seemingly unafraid.
In his view, now that they knew the other party's background, and since the other party was an old man, old men generally cherished their Lineage.
Thus, he concluded that Wang Sheng would not dare strike a killing blow again.
As for why he had decided Wang Sheng was an old man, it was naturally because Wang Sheng had not only cultivated to Perfected Bright Energy, but had also trained in a body-tempering method and an explosive secret art, achieving considerable results in both. That obviously required an enormous amount of time.
Only those old fellows with no hope of breaking through to Dark Energy could reach such a point.
If he were a young genius of the Liu family, why would he leave Dark Energy unbroken through to cultivate other methods instead, wasting his talent and cultivation?
"You're threatening me?"
Wang Sheng tilted his head slightly.
All of a sudden,
Wang Sheng erupted with his full strength. With one stomp of his foot, his figure shot forth like a loosed arrow. The roof beneath him could not bear the force and collapsed under that single step.
Accompanied by the crashing sound of countless falling tiles,
Wang Sheng arrived in the blink of an eye.
The pupils of the black-clad man who had just threatened Wang Sheng suddenly contracted. There was no time to gather strength, so he simply tumbled and crawled off the rooftop.
But the other black-clad man with the injured arm had no time to flee. He could only frantically raise both hands before his chest.
Wang Sheng struck out with his palm.
Crack, crack...
The black-clad man's hands broke, his chest caved in, and his whole body flew backward. His breath vanished in an instant.
"Liu family, you're courting death!"
The man in black who had rolled off the roof roared furiously.
Wang Sheng remained expressionless as he dropped down after him.
Only several sounds came from the dark alley, then Wang Sheng walked out.
One incense stick later,
After twisting and turning through the streets and confirming no one was following him, Wang Sheng finally returned to the old house on Loach Street.
The two women had already fallen asleep.
Wang Sheng went to the woodshed and spread today's bundled spoils across a battered table.
He lit an oil lamp, whose dim yellow light filled more than half the room.
Looking at the things on the table, Wang Sheng could not help revealing a faint smile.
The most conspicuous things on the battered table were undoubtedly several gold ingots gleaming golden. Each was five taels, five ingots totaling twenty-five taels.
There were also several gold ornaments stained with blood, probably worth around twenty taels.
Then there were silver ingots worth ten taels each, more than thirty of them, along with scattered silver and bloodstained silver jewelry. Altogether, they were probably worth four or five hundred taels.
Wang Sheng had searched all of these from the four black-clad men.
It seemed that tonight's arson case had a ninety percent chance of being their work.
"Murder and arson really do earn a golden belt!"
Looking at the gold and silver, Wang Sheng could not help sighing.
This haul alone was worth over a thousand taels of silver.
For some time to come, Wang Sheng would no longer need to worry about money.
There were also two cultivation methods: the Yin Blood Claw and the Nine Dragon Staff.
Even if Wang Sheng did not practice them, they would still fetch a considerable price if sold at the Black Market.
"No more waiting. Tomorrow, I'll announce that I've advanced to Bright Energy, then ask Master for a Dark Energy cultivation method."
"With money, cultivation methods, and my Heaven Rewards Diligence talent, breaking through to Dark Energy swiftly—and even Transformative Energy—will be no trouble at all!"
Having made up his mind, Wang Sheng calculated silently in his heart.
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