Too F***ing Evil

The Chang Le Gang, one of the Top Ten Gangs of Jade Capital City, might rank toward the bottom, but in the eyes of ordinary people in Jade Capital City, it was still a colossal beast. Yet that colossal beast was only such in the eyes of ordinary people.

At that moment, within the Chang Le Gang Headquarters Main Hall, the Chang Le Gang higher-ups who had just been summoned back by Chang Lao Si, the Chang Le Gang Helper, had exploded into an uproar.

"Fourth Master, we can't just hand over the foundation we fought so hard for all these years because they said they wanted it, can we?"

"Are the Five Great Families not going to let anyone else live? With one word from them, are the tens of thousands of Chang Le Gang members supposed to lose their way to survive?"

"Don't talk nonsense. Didn't you hear what Fourth Master said? We're only selling off the Chang Le Gambling House business. We have people, and we have so many customers in our hands. We can rebuild at any time."

"This might not necessarily be a bad thing. Although the Fang Family will take the lion's share from now on, we'll also be completely tied to the Fang Family."

"Bullshit. Do those great families care about us? Today, just because of one sentence from that Ren Family kid whose hair hasn't even grown in yet, we have to hand over the foundation we spent years building. Cooperate with them? Once they gradually take control, we'll have nothing left."

"Damn it, what else can we do if we don't cooperate? Can an arm twist a thigh? Can you fight them?"

"What's the big deal? When a head falls off, it's only as big as a bowl. So what? Fight them!"

"Right! So what if they're the Five Great Families? At worst, we die!"

The Chang Le Gang had risen through gambling. In the beginning, it had merely been a few gambling stalls by the roadside, operating in secret. Later, it gradually expanded. Chang Lao Si was also known as Chang Si Zhi—Chang Four Fingers. Some said he had lost a finger after gambling away a bet in his early years; others said he had been born that way; still others claimed he had done it to learn a craft. This matter was often talked about with great relish among Jade Capital City's gangs.

Chang Lao Si was only a little over forty. Becoming gang leader had not made him plump and prosperous; he remained lean and wiry, right in the prime of life. The Chang Le Gang had gradually developed from the Chang Le Gambling House as its foundation. Although it now ran dozens of other businesses, more than half its primary income still came from gambling, while all the others combined accounted for only a little over forty percent. Now that the Chang Le Gambling House had been extorted away just like that, he was angrier than anyone. This was the foundation he had built with his own hands. Though there was still a chance, from this day onward...

He sighed. In the end, he still could not escape this fate. He had known that as the Chang Le Gang steadily grew larger over the years, it had begun to attract the attention of certain people. But because it could barely be considered to have climbed aboard the Fang Family's branch, he had thought there would be no trouble for a while. He had never expected this to happen anyway. The Chang Le Gang relied on him alone to hold it up. It was unlike those other gangs, whose roots and branches intertwined, some even possessing deep foundations spanning a century or several centuries.

None of that was what he cared about most. What truly mattered to him was that the Chang Le Gambling House was his dream, the dream he had cultivated. But if he did not agree, then he would not even have a place left to continue building that dream or pursuing his aspirations.

Making a living in Jade Capital City was unlike anywhere else. A gang could not survive without the backing of a great power. Either it had to completely attach itself to some powerful authority or noble, or it needed a super expert of the Yin Yang Realm to stand guard. A Divine Power Realm expert might dominate one region, but that was not enough to make colossal beasts like the great families take notice. Once the need arose, they would crush such people without mercy. Though he was at the Divine Power Realm Ninth Layer, a figure whose stomp could carry weight among Jade Capital City's gangs, he still had no way to resist the Five Great Families...

But if a super expert of the Yin Yang Realm were stationed there, it would be completely different. Even the imperial family and the other Four Great Families would have to think twice, weigh it over and over, before making a move. Unfortunately, the Chang Le Gang neither truly relied on powerful nobles nor had such a formidable person guarding it.

"Who goes there? Stop immediately!"

"Block him! Bang..."

"This is bad! We can't stop it at all..."

Just as the Chang Le Gang was in an uproar and Chang Lao Si was wracked with a headache over what to do, chaos suddenly broke out outside. Before he could use his divine sense to investigate what was happening, he heard a series of rumbling crashes.

"Boom... Boom!" The gates, the walls—everything that stood in its way was smashed open. A Spirit Beast Carriage rampaged in with arrogant abandon, charging all the way into the Chang Le Gang Headquarters Main Hall.

Every guard who tried to stop the Spirit Beast Carriage was sent flying, while walls and gates were shattered.

"You dare charge into the Chang Le Gang's main hall? You're courting death!" Several Chang Le Gang leaders who had reached the True Qi Realm leaped up, preparing to attack the Spirit Beast Carriage.

A Spirit Beast Carriage—the Ren Family's emblem. This was...

The Ren Family Head's Spirit Beast Carriage! "Stop!" Chang Lao Si had a keen eye and immediately realized something was wrong. He hurriedly shouted to stop his subordinates from attacking.

He understood the terror of the Five Great Families better than anyone. Otherwise, he would not have agreed to Fang Yan's demand in less than an hour. He could not bear to part with the foundation he had painstakingly created, but he was even less willing to see the Chang Le Gang disappear from then on.

The Chang Le Gang might usually look quite impressive, but that depended on what it was compared to. Against colossal beasts like the Five Great Families, at most it was a Little Shrimp in the vast ocean, splashing about and kicking up a few droplets. The gap was simply too great; there was no way to fight them.

Chang Lao Si's words still carried great weight. After all, he was the gang's founder, at the time when his control was strongest. Moreover, he was the Chang Le Gang's sole Divine Power Realm expert. Within the Chang Le Gang, his words held supreme authority. The reason things had been so chaotic earlier was that Chang Lao Si himself had been wavering. Now that they heard his command, not one of them dared make a move, and they all stepped aside.

"Chang Le Gang Leader Chang Si pays his respects. May I ask whether the person inside is the Ren Family Head?" Chang Lao Si secretly felt helpless, even experiencing an urge to leave Jade Capital City. He had struggled for so many years. He did not fear life and death, and with his own sharp gambling skills, he had become renowned throughout Jade Capital City and built such a vast foundation.

Furthermore, he was a Divine Power Realm Ninth Layer cultivator. In Jade Capital City, he absolutely counted as top-tier combat strength, someone no one dared take lightly. Yet now, before a Hedonistic Young Master who was only at the Body Refining Realm and was supposedly about to repeat a year, he had no choice but to bow and scrape with a careful smile.

But this was Jade Capital City. Unless one reached the Yin Yang Realm and gained the capital for a measure of pride, even Divine Power Realm experts did not dare act recklessly. After all, the Five Great Families all possessed private armies, and their lineages were filled with experts. They simply could not be provoked!

"Come up and talk." The Spirit Beast Carriage was exceptionally imposing. Especially after it had smashed through more than ten walls and several gates before entering the main hall, it appeared even more imposing. Thus, even though Ren Jie's words were casual, everyone present felt the force of his presence. Many looked worriedly toward Chang Lao Si.

A few had even drawn their weapons, fully prepared to fight until the fish died and the net tore. Others who stood closer communicated with Chang Lao Si through divine sense.

"Fourth Master, this is going too far. Let's fight him."

"Fourth Master, you can't go up there. Who knows what he's planning?"

"Fourth Master, just tell us what to do. Your brothers will follow you."

"Do not act rashly. If he wanted to wipe out the Chang Le Gang, the one who came would not be him. I'll probe him first. Without my order, none of you may act recklessly." Unless he had no other choice, Chang Lao Si did not want to take that final step.

The Five Great Families—even if something happened with the heads of the four great families outside the imperial family, in Chang Lao Si's eyes, that would be no more significant than breakfast.

They were not afraid of fighting and killing in the martial world, but the Bright Jade Dynasty was presently at the height of its prosperity. There truly were not many who dared rebel. Unless it was in remote regions or at the borders between two nations, where some unruly horse gangs existed, he would never choose that final step unless driven into a corner.

After giving his brothers their instructions, Chang Lao Si steadied himself. At the same time, he gathered his mana, ready to strike at any moment, then stepped onto Ren Jie's Spirit Beast Carriage.

The moment Chang Lao Si entered, his heart tightened. All at once, his divine sense could no longer contact the outside world, and he could not sense anything beyond the carriage. It became extraordinarily quiet in an instant. Yet the next moment, he was even more astonished. Two people sat directly across from him. Neither was very old, and their appearances matched the rumors of the Ren Family's Hedonistic Young Master and puppet Family Head. This fatty was probably his attendant.

"Chang Si greets Ren Family Head. Chang Si has already fully complied with the Ren Family Head's previous demands. May I ask what else the Ren Family Head requires Chang Si to serve in?" Chang Lao Si bowed in salute, while also wanting to know what exactly was going on. The meaning was clear as well: even though you are the Ren Family Head, I have already given you the Chang Le Gambling House. What else do you want? Do not force me to risk my life.

The Five Great Families were powerful, but the era when they had recklessly accumulated power was long past; their rules were well established. Though they still fought over interests with deadly ferocity, it was done in secret and according to certain rules. Extortion that was nearly outright robbery, like today's, was still extremely rare. If Chang Lao Si said he was not furious inside, that would be impossible. Anyone who mixed in the martial world without a temper or blood in his veins had no business mixing in it at all.

But he had, after all, made his gang big, and he knew Jade Capital City's waters ran too deep. Unlike his subordinates, he was not so impulsive, and he could barely keep himself under control. Yet now that he had seen Ren Jie, some of it inevitably leaked into his words.

In truth, this was already quite good. When he had spoken with Fang Yan earlier, he had exploded at first as well. Only after Fang Yan repeatedly persuaded him and laid out the stakes had he been forced to submit.

"Don't make it so formal. If there's something you're unhappy about, just say it directly. You're hiding words within words, and this Family Head will pretend not to hear it. Understand?" Ren Jie smiled and waved his hand, pointing to a seat beside him for Chang Lao Si to sit and speak.

"Chang Si wouldn't dare..."

"Bullshit. Who are you trying to fool, ghosts?" Ren Jie glared and cursed. "Someone snatches away the foundation you spent more than a decade or two building. You're saying you're not angry, that you hold no resentment in your heart? You're saying you haven't cursed me in your heart?"

"..." Chang Lao Si was stumped by Ren Jie's question. That was impossible. He had practically cursed the Ren Family's and Fang Family's ancestors for eighteen generations. Not a single damn one of them was good. He had cursed them with every insult he could think of. But saying it directly was another matter. Ren Jie's question left him not knowing how to answer.

"Too damn wicked. Wicked beyond the ordinary!" The fatty looked at Ren Jie. He felt that this Meal Ticket Boss was getting more and more awesome at talking, and it really felt great. He had merely copied him a little earlier and had already made Fang Yan so furious.

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