Shengnan followed the bald man to an abandoned residential building.
“Kid, since you’re being so cooperative, do you want to keep your hands or your feet?” the bald man said coldly.
Shengnan glanced around and yawned: “Good choice of location, but you seem to have gotten one thing wrong—it’s not certain who’s going to be dealing with whom.”
The bald man was slightly taken aback. Could this kid have some hidden card up his sleeve?
Then he remembered that this kid hadn’t awakened a companion weapon and was no different from an ordinary person—how could he possibly be a match for them, who were awakened ones?
The strength of awakened ones grew along with their companion weapons. Even a level-one awakened was enough to pin an ordinary person to the ground and beat them, let alone someone at his level-two peak strength.
Ji Yiwen had also followed them in. His assistant was checking the bald man’s information and then said: “Brother Ji, this bald guy is named Zhao Hu. He’s been hanging around the outskirts of Tianlan City for a long time and has done plenty of illegal work. But because of his level-two peak strength, he’s mostly just served as a thug for wealthy people, so the government hasn’t looked into him too deeply.”
“Mm,” Ji Yiwen responded, but his gaze was fixed on Huang Quan.
The first time he saw this kid, he almost didn’t recognize him. If Zhao Hu hadn’t shouted that one line, he never would have noticed that this playboy-looking person in front of him was actually yesterday’s honest young man!
The assistant looked at the data and reminded him: “Brother Ji, should we step in? Zhao Hu doesn’t hold back—plenty of people have been beaten straight into the hospital by him and still haven’t woken up! And the lackeys Zhao Hu brought are also awakened ones—the weakest is level-one mid-tier.”
Ji Yiwen calmly lit a cigarette, narrowed his eyes slightly, and looked at Huang Quan: “Let’s watch a bit longer first!”
He wanted to figure out first whether this guy’s companion weapon was really a truck. If his companion weapon really was a large truck, then their assault team’s logistics would be secured.
Meanwhile, Zhao Hu stretched his muscles and grinned viciously: “Kid, don’t blame Old Hu for being ruthless. You offended someone you shouldn’t have. I took someone’s money, so I have to do their bidding.”
“Who’s behind this? Tell me, and I’ll have her go easy on you!” Shengnan looked at the bald man in front of him with complete indifference, not realizing his current situation at all.
Her?
Zhao Hu frowned slightly. This kid must be crazy—there was only their group here. Where would anyone else come from?
“Kid, go die!” Zhao Hu didn’t waste any more words and raised his hand to throw a punch at “Huang Quan.”
However, at the instant he struck, “Huang Quan’s” entire aura suddenly changed. A wild, wicked smile appeared at the corner of his mouth, and his eyes became as sharp as a beast’s.
Boom!
A punch was thrown, and Zhao Hu felt as if his fist had hit a massive mountain—there was no feeling of hitting a person at all.
Looking closely, his punch had actually been caught. Zhao Hu’s pupils trembled slightly. This punch had used fifty percent of his strength—even a stone tablet could be easily shattered by it. How could an ordinary person have blocked it?
“This force… way too weak!” Kuang Tian’s eyes were full of disdain and disappointment, as if fighting these small fry was beneath him.
Ji Yiwen, watching from a distance, was briefly surprised before his brows furrowed tightly: “What’s going on? His temperament and demeanor are completely different from before.”
“Brother Ji, this guy named Huang Quan seems to have some skill. Being able to take Zhao Hu’s punch, he’s at least a level-two awakened,” the assistant said in surprise.
…
Zhao Hu pulled back his fist and looked coldly at the person before him: “Kid, I almost misjudged you. I didn’t expect you to be an awakened one too. This means more money. Brothers, show your companion weapons!”
At Zhao Hu’s command, the others revealed their companion weapons—a long saber, a spear, a spiked club, and a beast-type companion weapon.
Zhao Hu’s own body also shifted from illusion to reality as a set of heavy armor materialized on him. This was what allowed him to run rampant in this area.
“Go!”
Zhao Hu didn’t give Kuang Tian any chance to react, calling his brothers to charge at Kuang Tian.
The thug with the spiked club rushed to the front, swinging his weapon straight at Kuang Tian’s face.
But the next second, the spiked-club thug was suddenly blasted into the sky by a single punch, spinning several times in the air before crashing heavily to the ground.
A clear fist mark remained on his face, and his companion weapon, the spiked club, had been broken cleanly in two.
“What!?” Zhao Hu stared at his fallen brother, frozen in place. That scene had happened too fast—so fast that even he couldn’t see it clearly.
By the time he came to his senses, his brother had already fallen from the sky.
Ji Yiwen, watching the fight, also had his pupils tremble slightly. He was secretly shocked—what incredible speed. This was definitely not something an ordinary person could have. Such punching speed and strike direction would require years of accumulation and extraordinary talent.
“Hey, how did that thug end up on the ground? Was that Huang Quan’s companion weapon?” The assistant was completely bewildered.
Ji Yiwen just rolled his eyes at him.
Meanwhile, Zhao Hu’s expression turned ugly seeing his brothers beaten: “You dare hit my men? Brothers, get him! Today we’re definitely crippling him!”
But Kuang Tian simply flexed his arms, a slight smile on his lips: “Then let’s stretch a bit.”
Kuang Tian charged into the crowd like a wild beast—bang! bang! bang!
Every punch met the companion weapons head-on, shattering both the person and the weapon together. In less than ten exchanges, everyone Zhao Hu had brought was lying on the ground, howling in pain.
Zhao Hu, who had taken a punch head-on earlier, wasn’t feeling too good either. His arm felt numb, as if it had been broken.
“Some skill,” Kuang Tian walked toward him with interest. The aura emanating from his body also shifted from illusion to reality, materializing within several zhang the fangs of a wild beast.
Ji Yiwen, watching from afar, turned pale at the sight of this move: “This is the Lei family’s Fang Bloodline—no, impossible!”
The assistant beside him also trembled at the mention of the Fang Bloodline: “Brother Ji, isn’t the power of the Fangs something only the Lei family can use? Are you sure you didn’t see wrong? He’s not surnamed Lei—he doesn’t have the slightest connection to the Lei family!”
“This is undoubtedly the power of the Fangs. I could never mistake it!”
Ji Yiwen still showed a trace of lingering fear: “In last year’s assault team tournament, that man’s Fang power still fills me with dread!”
The assistant replied: “Brother Ji, could this kid be from the Lei family?”
“Very likely,” Ji Yiwen said, pulling out his phone and hesitating about whether to call that guy.
“Brother Ji, are you going to call Lei Kunlun? I heard you two are good friends. I never expected to hear the voice of a new star of Huaxia!”
