Wei Sheng swept his gaze around.
He saw the branch members knocked to the ground.
He saw Cao Defa pinned beneath a Golden Goose Gang disciple's foot.
And A Chang, his face so bruised that his original features were almost unrecognizable.
Wei Sheng walked toward A Chang.
??
The smile froze on Zhang Yan's face, and anger flared in his heart. You bastard, look me in the eye!!
"You're courting death!"
Zhang Yan snorted coldly.
Two Golden Goose Gang members immediately charged out, short clubs raised, and swung at Wei Sheng's head.
The clubs whistled through the air with ferocious momentum, about to smash into Wei Sheng's head the next second.
Thud!
Thud!
After two dull impacts, the two Golden Goose Gang members, neither weaker than Cao Defa, flew backward faster than they had charged in, crashing into the gang members behind them.
At some point, each had taken a solid punch to the chest, breaking several ribs. Their long clubs fell from their hands, their faces pale and blood seeping from the corners of their mouths!
"Hm?"
Zhang Yan narrowed his eyes slightly. "As expected of a perfected Savage Bull Fist. It really is extraordinary. Everyone, attack!"
"Kill!"
The remaining dozen or so Golden Goose Gang members roared and swarmed forward, surrounding Wei Sheng in an instant.
"Brother Sheng, watch out!"
A Chang's expression changed slightly.
Being attacked by over a dozen people was nothing like fighting one-on-one, especially when the gap in strength between the two sides was small. Once surrounded, two fists could hardly contend with four hands; defeat would soon follow, leaving one at their mercy!
"It's over! He's still too inexperienced. He got careless!"
Seeing Wei Sheng surrounded, Cao Defa lost the hope in his eyes and shook his head with a soft sigh.
The other gang members looked disappointed as well.
But the next second.
An unbelievable scene unfolded!
"Thud! Thud!"
The Golden Goose Gang members surrounding Wei Sheng all doubled over like shrimp in an instant and flew backward.
It was as though someone had thrown over a dozen punches in a single instant, each striking a different person.
In that moment, it was like a budding lotus suddenly spreading its petals. Wei Sheng seemed to stand atop its lotus seat, without having moved a single step.
At his feet lay Golden Goose Gang members clutching their chests and screaming.
"This...!"
A Chang and the other branch members all stared wide-eyed, as though they had seen a ghost.
Wei Sheng remained expressionless.
How could these people know that he had spent over a decade in total practicing the Savage Bull Fist? Its movements were already ingrained in his bones. Even without using his first refinement strength, dealing with these gang members was utterly effortless.
"Well, well!"
Zhang Yan's expression grew slightly grave. "I underestimated you! With those fists, you have few rivals below the first refinement. Unfortunately for you, I'm at the first refinement!"
The sound of "I'm" was still echoing.
The next instant, Zhang Yan suddenly appeared beside Wei Sheng. As the final word fell, his five fingers curved like eagle talons and tore through the air, viciously clawing at Wei Sheng's neck!
The attack was sharp and ruthless!
And it carried Zhang Yan's five hundred jin of first refinement strength.
If his grip landed, never mind a neck-even a rock could be crushed in an instant.
As his hand drew closer and closer to Wei Sheng's neck, a savage grin appeared on Zhang Yan's face, as though he could already see himself gripping Wei Sheng's throat and beating him into a half-dead dog.
"Slap!"
At the critical moment, a slender hand caught Zhang Yan's incoming claws.
Hm?
Zhang Yan's heart jolted.
He exerted strength through his hand, trying to break free.
He could not!
His wrist did not feel as though Wei Sheng held it, but as though an iron band clamped it tight. He could not move it at all.
How was that possible?!
Zhang Yan's expression changed drastically. Looking at the youth before him, whose expression had remained calm throughout, he suddenly had a bad feeling!
"First refinement?"
Wei Sheng tilted his head and smiled, his white teeth gleaming ominously. "What a coincidence, so am I!!"
The next instant, he squeezed hard. Zhang Yan's wrist burst in his grip, splintered bone piercing the skin as blood seeped out.
The excruciating pain twisted Zhang Yan's face, and he let out a beastlike roar.
But it also roused his ferocity. He swung his other hand, slamming a palm toward Wei Sheng's face.
Only for Wei Sheng to catch it with his other hand, then crush it!
"Aah!!"
The piercing scream echoed over Gaoliu Street!
"Thud!"
Che Zhenzhong planted a foot on Black Vajra's face, his expression vicious. "Go on, laugh! Laugh your fucking head off!!"
Behind him stood a middle-aged man dressed in a black escort uniform, his foot planted on a battered figure.
It was One-Eye!
"The Shunyuan Escort Agency has some nerve, attacking us! Aren't you afraid Brother Violent Bear will retaliate?"
Black Vajra ignored Che Zhenzhong and stared fixedly at the middle-aged escort. If not for his intervention, he and One-Eye could never have lost so quickly!
"I merely drove you back to protect the fifth young master. I didn't injure you..."
The middle-aged escort spoke in a low voice.
"You!"
One-Eye seethed.
If this third refinement fighter had not struck them, leaving their limbs numb and unable to exert strength, how could they possibly have lost to Che Zhenzhong?
"As for Violent Bear... if he dares make a move, Peng Ye will settle things with him."
The middle-aged escort spoke flatly.
At the name "Peng Ye," Black Vajra fell silent as a cicada in winter, as though he had heard something forbidden.
Just then.
A piercing scream came from deep within the alley.
Hearing it, Black Vajra laughed loudly. "Che Zhenzhong, so what if you beat us? That Wei Sheng has still been crippled!"
Che Zhenzhong's face turned ashen.
But just then, another voice rang out. "Brother Black, save me!!"
The smile froze on Black Vajra's face. He recognized Zhang Yan's voice.
What was going on?
The one who had been dealt with wasn't that kid surnamed Wei, but Zhang Yan?!
Che Zhenzhong froze too.
Then he left Black Vajra and One-Eye behind and hurried toward the source of the voice.
The middle-aged escort frowned and followed.
Once the two had left, One-Eye asked Black Vajra, "Brother Black, should we go too?"
"Let's take a look!"
Black Vajra gritted his teeth, then added, "Keep our distance."
When Che Zhenzhong hurried over, he saw Wei Sheng holding Zhang Yan aloft by the neck with one hand.
Like a drowning man, Zhang Yan kicked his legs helplessly. His face was flushed red from lack of air, his eyes rolling back, as though he would suffocate the next second.
Thud.
Wei Sheng let go.
Zhang Yan hit the ground.
Wei Sheng's cold voice reached his ears. "Hand over that lightness technique, and I'll spare your life. Otherwise, die!"
Zhang Yan gulped down air. Only after a long while did he recover, then nodded with a bitter expression.
At that moment, Wei Sheng looked at the shocked Che Zhenzhong behind him. "Old Che, what are you doing here?"
"Brother Fire Ox sent me... You-you broke through to the first refinement?!" Che Zhenzhong's eyes widened.
Zhang Yan was at the first refinement. Only someone at the first refinement could have beaten him so badly!
Yet apart from Wei Sheng, no one else at the scene was standing.
Wei Sheng was at the first refinement?
And he had injured Zhang Yan and the others?
Once every possibility had been eliminated, the most impossible one was the only truth.
Even so.
Che Zhenzhong still found it hard to believe.
How long had Wei Sheng even been cultivating?!
And he was already at the first refinement?!
Wei Sheng smiled faintly. "I got lucky and broke through to the first refinement yesterday."
Like hell I believe you!!
Someone who had just reached the first refinement could beat a seasoned old hand like Zhang Yan?
But he asked no more questions, merely looking at Wei Sheng strangely, as though meeting him for the first time.
"That kid surnamed Wei is actually at the first refinement? And he defeated Zhang Yan and the Golden Goose Gang members?"
In the shadows of an alley corner, Solitary Wolf watched the scene in the middle of the alley from afar and could not help exclaiming softly.
Black Vajra was equally shocked.
Under Brother Violent Bear's original plan, Zhang Yan was responsible for luring the enemy in, while he and Lone Wolf would launch the killing ambush. Whether Che Zhenzhong, Niu Yong, or Xiao Ran came, anyone who did would meet their end here.
But he had never imagined.
Before Xiao Ran even arrived, the plan had been ruined at the hands of Wei Sheng, a nobody they had never given a second thought beforehand.
Black Vajra forcibly suppressed the strange feeling in his heart, turned, and quickly left. He had to tell Brother Violent Bear what had happened here so he could prepare early!
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