In fact, even Liu Chang had not expected Liu Jianming to react so strongly.
As for this junior disciple who had only joined her class that afternoon, Liu Chang had been deeply impressed.
Of course, before, it had been his talent that impressed her. Now, Liu Chang's opinion of Yang Sheng had changed slightly.
"This kid not only stayed calm when trouble came knocking, but after I demonstrated how to borrow momentum this afternoon, he put it to use that very night."
At the entrance to the boxing gym.
The bald man watched Yang Sheng finish his call, his face still full of disdain.
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But when he saw Tianhai's boss, he had actually begun to panic.
"Kid, putting on an act won't scare your grandpa. Let's call it even for today. I won't hold you accountable for the damage to the truck."
As he spoke, he grabbed the other two men and prepared to get into the truck and leave.
But Yang Sheng was not about to let them off so easily.
He strode quickly to the front of the truck.
The bald man froze, then shouted loudly.
"Are you looking to die, kid?!"
Yet Yang Sheng remained still. He even sank into a horse stance.
For no reason at all, a bad feeling rose in the bald man's heart.
Enraged, he gripped the steering wheel with both hands and floored the accelerator.
"You Lower-Registry trash, if I run you over, you'll deserve it!"
At that moment, Yang Sheng slowly closed his eyes.
Countless realizations echoed through his mind.
Bend the knees, raise the hips, twist the waist.
Yang Sheng opened his eyes. The truck was already bearing down on him.
He let out a low shout, and his body sprang forward like a tightly wound spring.
"Heart-Piercing Elbow!"
Yang Sheng twisted his body, gathering all his strength into one elbow.
He slammed it directly into the center of the truck's emblem.
The scene the bald man had imagined, Yang Sheng being sent flying, never occurred.
Instead, he felt the front of the truck jolt, then suddenly cave in.
Yang Sheng stood before the truck, leading with his elbow, and drove the entire front end inward.
Every component inside the front of the truck instantly shattered.
Even the cab split apart completely.
With just that one elbow, Yang Sheng had smashed apart a cargo truck.
At that moment, Liu Chang and the others arrived in a business van.
They witnessed the shocking scene before them.
Her mouth fell open in astonishment.
Behind her, Old Huang, the Liu Family's Subtlety Realm expert, had eyes gleaming brightly.
"It was actually the Heart-Piercing Elbow. Such a standard Heart-Piercing Elbow—I haven't seen one in many years."
The three men crawled out of the shattered cab.
As they crawled, they looked back in terror.
Yang Sheng stood amid the smoke and dust from the wrecked front end, quietly watching them.
That blow had left a massive psychological shadow over them.
After all, people like them rarely had contact with martial arts. They had never heard of someone using their bare body to ram a cargo truck and ultimately tear it apart.
A monster. An absolute monster!
The bald man staggered as he ran, not watching where he was going. He accidentally crashed headlong into Wang Zhuo, the executive who had rushed over.
With a sharp slap.
Wang Zhuo furiously slapped the bald man across the face.
"Damn it, Baldy! What the hell are you doing?!"
That slap finally knocked some sense into the bald man.
"Boss... Boss Wang."
The bald man clutched his face, his body still shrinking back uncontrollably.
Liu Chang immediately walked to Yang Sheng's side.
After examining him carefully, she asked, "Are you all right?"
Yang Sheng shook his head.
The cargo truck had only just started moving and was not fast. It posed no threat to him.
"You've only just transferred into the High-Aspiration Class, and you've already shocked us again and again."
Liu Chang spoke helplessly.
Old Huang, dressed in martial attire, asked, "That move you used just now—was it the Heart-Piercing Elbow?"
Seeing the extraordinary bearing of the man before him, Yang Sheng cupped his fists. "Senior, it was indeed the Heart-Piercing Elbow."
Old Huang nodded. "Back then, I too began with Eight Extremes Fist. I pondered that Heart-Piercing Elbow move for a long time and trained for more than half a month before reaching a passable level."
"Given how well you handle the Heart-Piercing Elbow, young friend, you must have put in quite a bit of effort as well."
Upon hearing Old Huang say this, Liu Chang's expression suddenly turned strange.
She said softly, "Uncle Huang, Teacher Jiang only taught Yang Sheng the Heart-Piercing Elbow this afternoon."
When he heard that, Old Huang, who had maintained the bearing of an expert all along, gaped wide.
"You mean he took only one night to train the Heart-Piercing Elbow to a passable level?!"
After saying that, Liu Chang and Old Huang both fell silent.
Compared with the other moves of Eight Extremes Fist, the core difficulty of the Heart-Piercing Elbow lay in this.
Mastering the general motions of the Heart-Piercing Elbow was not difficult.
Some people could even watch the movement once and reproduce it exactly.
But the core of the Heart-Piercing Elbow was control over one's strength.
There were no shortcuts to such control, only exerting force and practicing again and again.
Through extensive repetition, one had to find the point where one's muscles aligned with one's force generation.
Only then could one refine the technique upon that balance and truly achieve Force Penetration.
Comparing people really could make one furious.
After a long while.
Old Huang suddenly said, "The moon is quite round tonight."
The three looked up. The sky was pitch-black, without even a single star.
He coughed, then anger flared in his heart. He strode over to the bald man and his two companions, who were explaining themselves to Wang Zhuo.
Slap! Slap! Slap!
Three slaps from a Subtlety Realm expert, though fully restrained, instantly swelled all three faces into pig heads.
"Boss Wang, President Liu specifically sent me here today to punish the past and warn the future, to make an example of a few. I gave them a few slaps first. You don't have a problem with that, do you?"
Wang Zhuo was already so furious with his subordinates that his teeth itched. Naturally, he had no objection.
Old Huang placed one hand atop the bald man's head.
"Who are these two? Why have they been following you around?"
The bald man felt his scalp tighten and hurriedly replied, "They're younger members of my family. I brought them out to work."
Old Huang asked again, "Did you do today's job?"
The bald man shook his head with difficulty. "We didn't. We handed the whole job over to that old man... that uncle."
"How much did you pay him?"
"One hundred yuan per job. Twenty deducted for overtime."
Old Huang pulled a contract signed between the boxing gym and the branch office from his pocket.
"You scum are truly black-hearted. The boxing gym paid one thousand yuan, but you only gave him eighty. You three stupid pigs divided the remaining nine hundred among yourselves."
The bald man could no longer endure it. He broke down and burst into tears.
"We know we were wrong. We'll never dare do it again. Never again."
At that moment, executive Wang Zhuo tore a handwritten agreement from his notebook and snorted. "You don't know you were wrong. You know you're finished."
"This is a termination agreement. Starting today, you're fired."
Old Huang shouted angrily, "Why haven't you settled his pay yet?!"
Only then did the three wake as if from a dream. They scrambled over and knelt before Yang Sheng's father.
The bald man offered one thousand yuan with both hands.
Yang Sheng's father was somewhat at a loss. Even now, he did not understand how his son's phone call had caused such a huge commotion.
Yang Sheng walked up to the three men. They trembled and did not dare lift their heads to look at him.
Although Old Huang had beaten them into pig heads and Wang Zhuo had fired them.
Neither of those two had frightened them as much as Yang Sheng had.
Yang Sheng accepted the money, then greeted Liu Chang and Tianhai's boss before leaving with his father.
Wang Zhuo was still explaining to Old Huang that he would hold the responsible parties accountable the next day, expressing his determination to support the company's reforms.
The group gradually walked farther away.
Only the three bald men remained, collapsed on the ground.
Once they saw everyone leave, they finally dared to breathe again.
At that moment, Tianhai's boss, who had remained at the edge all along, appeared.
He handed the three men bottles of mineral water and gently produced a contract.
"Gentlemen, let's discuss compensation for the cargo truck."
The three bald men were dumbfounded.
"We didn't damage the truck either. Why should we compensate for it?"
Tianhai's boss smiled pleasantly.
He extended a finger and pointed to an inconspicuous clause in the contract.
"Should any accidental damage occur during this period, Party B shall bear full responsibility for compensation."
"Brother Baldy, Party B is signed in your name."
The bald man cautiously asked, "Boss, how much could that broken-down truck be worth?"
Tianhai's boss held up one finger.
"One million."
The three bald men's eyes instantly widened. "Even if you sold us, we couldn't pay that back!"
Tianhai's boss said, "So you intend to default on the debt?"
The bald man looked around. Once he saw no one else nearby, he tried to put on a fierce expression. "Brother, don't think you can take advantage of this mess. We won't compensate for that truck!"
Tianhai's boss nodded, then took a recording pen from his pocket and pressed the stop button.
"Then there's no need to say more. Wait for the court summons tomorrow. If the debt cannot be repaid, your household registration will be stripped to settle it. Starting tomorrow, you'll be Lower-Registry Commoners."
With that, he turned and left, leaving the three men standing there, petrified.
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