Chapter 82: Annihilation

To ensure the safety of the spirit stones, Yang Fan came in person to supervise and guard the construction site.

He was already certain there were spirit stones below; as for how many, that remained unknown.

When he had come to inspect before, he had sensed spiritual fluctuations, but they were not especially strong, and that left him uncertain.

The place where the spirit stones were detected needed to be dug deeper, after all. It was a matter of going down nearly a hundred meters, and that would take time.

A week later, they had dug to a depth of about a hundred meters, and Yang Fan’s sense of spiritual energy grew clearer and clearer.

He felt that with just one more day, they would reach the spirit stones.

“Stop work, all of you, or I’ll make sure every one of you breaks a leg. You hear me?”

That very day, over a hundred men stormed the site, carrying steel pipes and machetes, and began beating the workers inside.

The moment they saw people, they lashed out.

The workers at the site, seeing this, hurriedly scattered and dared not continue.

Yang Fan stood quietly to the side, his expression cold as he stared at the intruders.

Beside him, Wang Gang wore a face full of anger, waiting for Yang Fan’s command.

Anyone could tell these men had come to cause trouble; someone must have been behind it.

Wang Gang was confident he could deal with ordinary thugs easily.

Seeing that Yang Fan and Wang Gang did not flee, but stood calmly where they were, the men who had come over showed mocking smiles.

“Get lost now, or I’ll make you bleed,” a buzz-cut young man said as he walked up to Yang Fan with a machete in hand, his tone brazen.

Behind him, more than a hundred men watched Yang Fan and Wang Gang with hostile eyes.

“Who sent you?” Yang Fan asked, his gaze fixed on the young man before him, his tone icy. “Tell me, and I may spare your lives.”

With over a hundred men arriving here for the sole purpose of forcing the site to stop work, there had to be someone pulling the strings.

As for Zhou Zhenming, Yang Fan did not think it was possible.

To gather more than a hundred people, there was only one possibility: these men were all from the Wild Wolf Gang.

“Damn it, you dare act so arrogant?” The young man’s face darkened at Yang Fan’s audacious words, and he swung his machete down at once.

He struck with ruthless force, showing no mercy at all.

Yet Yang Fan did not move; he merely stood there.

The man behind him moved instead.

Wang Gang activated his cultivation art, and with a surge of power that stirred the air around him, he swept forward like a gust of wind.

Before the young man’s machete could even fall upon Yang Fan, Wang Gang kicked it flying from his hand.

The man cried out in pain, and Wang Gang followed with a punch to his chest, sending him flying backward.

At this sight, over a hundred men were briefly stunned.

They realized that Wang Gang was extremely fast.

“What are you waiting for? Hack him to death!” the young man shouted, clutching his aching chest at the people around him.

At the command, over a hundred men immediately rushed at Wang Gang, each one looking vicious and murderous.

“Cripple them all,” Yang Fan said indifferently.

Receiving Yang Fan’s order, Wang Gang revealed a savage smile and charged straight toward the crowd of more than a hundred.

He held a steel pipe in his hand and plunged into the fray.

Yang Fan watched from the side, with no intention of making a move himself.

Wang Gang’s cultivation was already close to breaking through the initial stage of Qi Refining, and his strength was enough to handle these people.

The workers at the site were all shocked to see Wang Gang taking on over a hundred men by himself.

“Hiss... does that guy not want to live? Facing more than a hundred men alone? He’s going to be chopped into mincemeat.”

“Those people are all from the underworld. Their backing must be strong. Since they dare come here to make trouble, they must have enough confidence.”

“Call the police already. What are you all still standing here watching for?”

Everyone thought Wang Gang was courting death.

After all, the other side had over a hundred men, all of them ruthless.

However, what happened next left everyone utterly stunned, as though they had witnessed something beyond belief.

In their eyes, Wang Gang charged into the crowd with a steel pipe and launched a ferocious assault on the mob.

With every strike of his rod, someone would be sent flying, unable to stand again.

Screams filled the scene without end, and one person after another collapsed to the ground.

Those watching from the side were dumbfounded, inwardly astonished.

The people who had been about to call the police even forgot to do so, staring blankly at the scene before them, which looked like something out of a martial arts film.

Wang Gang’s presence was ferocious, and the steel pipe in his hand, reinforced by spiritual power, carried terrifying force. Combined with his nimble reflexes, he took less than five minutes to knock them all down.

After dealing with them, he returned to Yang Fan’s side and stood there.

“Master, how should these people be handled next?” Wang Gang asked for instructions.

Yang Fan did not answer. Instead, he walked over to one of them, crouched down, and asked, “Speak. Who are you really?”

That man looked terrified and hurriedly replied, “We’re from the Wild Wolf Gang. We were all sent here under the orders of our boss.”

Having gotten his answer, Yang Fan asked no more.

Since he now knew it was the Wild Wolf Gang causing trouble, he knew what to do next.

“All of you over here. Drag these men out of the site, then get back to work,” Yang Fan barked at the workers standing nearby.

The workers did not dare delay. They hurried over, dragged the more than a hundred injured men out of the construction site, and then returned to resume work.

“The Wild Wolf Gang... looks like I’ll have to wash them out in blood, or they’ll just keep making trouble,” Yang Fan decided inwardly.

He had originally thought that killing the gang’s boss would settle the matter, but reality had not gone as he expected.

In that case, Yang Fan decided to unleash a killing spree.

That night, Yang Fan altered his appearance to that of a middle-aged man and went alone to the Wild Wolf Gang’s headquarters.

The Wild Wolf Gang’s base was a nightclub in River City.

Today, more than a hundred of the gang’s men had all been taken down, each of them either missing an arm or a leg, shocking the upper ranks of the Wild Wolf Gang.

Thus, the gang’s leadership had gathered for an emergency meeting to discuss how to respond.

The newly installed boss, Qian Cheng, sat in the chairman’s seat and swept his gaze over the gang’s key figures.

“One man managed to bring down more than a hundred of our brothers. That means he’s a hard target. Ordinary methods won’t work on him. What ideas do you have?”

“Boss, I think we should use guns. No matter how strong that guy is, he can’t compare to a gun, right?” one of the gang’s core members suggested.

“Using guns will attract government attention. If they start suspecting the Wild Wolf Gang, that’ll be trouble,” another core member said. “There’s a serious crackdown right now. If we run into the gun barrel, there’ll be no recovering from it.”

Hearing this, the others felt it made sense.

Qian Cheng frowned, feeling irritated.

If he failed to handle this properly and those above blamed him, he would not end well.

“Don’t worry, all of you. I’ll help you solve it.”

Just as they were discussing, a voice rang out, and then a figure appeared before them.

“Who are you?” Seeing a stranger walk in, Qian Cheng’s expression changed as he shouted sharply.

“I’m the one who came to kill you,” the newcomer said grimly, his voice carrying a cold intent to kill.

As soon as the words fell, a terrifying aura erupted from his body, and his figure flickered with lightning speed, appearing in front of Qian Cheng in an instant.

Before Qian Cheng could even draw his pistol, his head was severed by a single blade strike.

Then a slaughter broke out in the entire conference room.

The massacre ended very quickly.

By the time the Wild Wolf Gang’s men arrived, all they saw was a floor covered in corpses.