Gengxin City itself was not particularly large. Before long, Tai Tan and the others reached its central district. They exchanged glances and walked straight into the Blacksmith Association, only to find bloodstains and corpses everywhere as soon as they entered.
"Vice President Tai Tan, that Tang San, he... he's still in Teacher's Forging Room. You must avenge Teacher!" As he spoke, Si Long led them toward the stairs at the side. The two guards at the stairway also lay in pools of blood. Judging by their wounds, they had clearly been killed with some kind of blunt weapon.
Soon, they reached the second floor, which had been divided into individual shops. Between the two rows of shops ran a passageway roughly five meters wide. Within this spacious area, there were at least several hundred shops selling metal goods.
This was Gengxin City's Rare Metal Trading District. Now, however, corpses lay everywhere, and everything had been looted.
There were also two guards between the second and third floors, but both were already dead. The group hurried upstairs and reached the fourth floor. An alloy gate barred the way between the fourth and fifth floors, forcing Tai Tan and the others to stop.
"Tang San..." Tai Tan drew in a sharp breath, his face twisting before gradually turning livid. Then nine soul rings-yellow, yellow, purple, purple, black, black, black, black, black-spiraled up from beneath his feet. The enormous phantom of an ape appeared behind him, and he instantly completed Martial Soul Possession. Powerful soul power surged from his body.
"Oh... Old Ape, when did you become a Titled Douluo?" Niu Gao asked in shock as he saw the nine soul rings circling Tai Tan.
"With the help of the Hall Master's pills, along with my cultivation over these past two years, my