Ye Zichen didnât lower his hand. He just held it in front of Huang Aogu expectantly. Theyâd already given Ye Zichen all of their spatial rings, so this was obviously just making trouble.
Huang Aogu had already lost an arm to Ye Zichen. Rage was building up in his heart.
He instantly lost his temper. âBrat, donât push me too far.â He was so angry, his entire body radiated a bloody mist. The blood vessels in his eyes burst; heâd practically gone mad with fury.
âIâm âpushing you too far?ââ Ye Zichen suddenly laughed. Then, the next instant, his expression soured, becoming as dark and deep as an autumn pool. âJust which one of us is âpushing others too far?â You people keep making trouble for me, but Iâve never once blamed you for it. Now youâre telling me Iâm over the line? Fine, then. Iâm sorry, but today, Iâm going to bully you. What can you do about it?â
Ye Zichen was angry too. He just wanted to relax and enjoy the God Realm for a while. Once his immortal power was fully converted to divine power, he could ascend to the Divine Mountains and go to the Yao RealmâŠ..
Heâd never gone out of his way to antagonize others, yet this Axe Gang kept looking for trouble.
It seemed that just talking smack wasnât enough, so Ye Zichen slapped Huang Aogu across the face. âNow Iâm slapping your dirty mouth. What are you going to do about it?â
The onlookers dared not speak. Ye Zichenâs tone was wantonly arrogant, but everything he said was true. There was nothing any of them could do to stop him.
Peh!
Huang Aogu coughed up a mouthful of broken teeth. He no longer had any desire to beg for his life. âIf youâve got the guts, go ahead and kill me. So long as you spare even one of us, weâll report this to our gangâs headquarters. Let me tell you, our main boss is a sky immortal expert, and heâs not the only one. You might be a sky immortal too, but thereâs something you might not know: our Axe Gang is a subordinate of the Green Gang, which has immortal kings and supremes! From the moment you first provoked us, your fate was sealed.â
With that, Huang Aogu laughed hysterically, his gaze twisted hideously as he looked at Ye Zichen. He wasnât afraid to dieâŠ.. But Ye Zichen had to go down with him.
Then, inexplicably, Ye Zichen smiled. His smile contained a hint of pity. The way he saw it, Huang Aogu was truly pitiful.
What a pity! He was nothing but a frog in a well who thought too highly of himself.
âYour Axe Gang is powerful, so you think you can just rob and bully whoever you want? Then, the moment someone robs you back, youâre suddenly so upset you think you can just sentence someone to death? Who gave you the right? Your Axe Gang is no soft target, but does that mean I am?â He flipped his hand, summoning the immortal blade, then pressed it against Huang Aoguâs neck.
âKill me! If youâve got balls, kill me! So long as I die, the jade slip containing a trace of my soul will shatter. When the gang leader sees that, heâll send people to investigate, then get revenge for me. Countless sky immortals will be after you. Youâll never sleep peacefully again, ha ha haâŠ...
Splurt!
The sword swung with no hesitation. After a flash of sword light, Huang Aoguâs head thudded to the ground.
Huang Aogu laughed hysterically even as his head separated from his neck. As his head hit the ground, he stared directly into Ye Zichenâs eyes, as if he were sayingâŠ..
I might have died, but you wonât live much longer either!
The other captains were stunned. Their former terror was nothing compared to the shock of witnessing Huang Aoguâs death with their own eyes.
He was really dead!
By now, most of them didnât even dare look at Ye Zichen for fear that the moment they met his eyes, their heads would be the next to fall to the ground.
At the same time, Ye Zichen indifferently put away the immortal blade, looked the severed head in the eye, and said, âSky Immortals? In my eyes, even immortal kings arenât worth a fart!â
Ye Zichen no longer paid Huang Aoguâs headless corpse any attention. Instead, he slowly approached the surviving captains. As he approached, the captainsâ legs trembled uncontrollably. In their eyes, Ye Zichen was an emissary of Hades, here to send them to their graves.
âYouâŠ..â Ye Zichen started to speak, but before he could finish his sentence, several of the captains knelt on the ground and started kowtowing repeatedly.
As Ye Zichen watched them kneel, his cold expression softened. âThereâs no need to be afraid,â he laughed amiably, âIâm not the bloodthirsty type. Right now, you have two paths before you. You can become my subordinates orâŠ. You can die. Whatâll it be?â
âŠ.
The sun set.
The rosy pink sky faded to a red so bright, it looked like freshly shed blood.
Two corpses lay outside the city walls. The first belonged to Huang Aogu, the second to Zhao Ye. In truth, when Ye Zichen offered the captains a choice, all of them, Zhao Ye included, chose to pledge their allegiance. However, considering how close Zhao Ye had been to Huang Aogu, as well as his rift with Wei Jie, Scarface decided it was better to just kill him.
The Axe Gangâs base in Raging Flame City was now gone for good. In its place, Ye Zichen established a new faction.
âUpheaval!â
Valiant heroes were only born in turbulent times. Opportunities were only found in unrest.
Ye Zichen wanted to bring upheaval to the God Realm. This was the only way he could change its current territorial divisions, which had long since been set in stone. Raging Flame City was his starting point, but his ambitions wouldnât end there.
Every member of the Axe Gangâs Raging Flame City base joined their ranks. Wei Jie took on the role of gang leader, while the baseâs former second-ranked captain was promoted directly to vice-leader. The other captains became inner court elders, while many ordinary members with exceptional talent took roles in the outer court.
To Ye Zichen, founding his new gang, Upheaval, was just a start, but to the former members of the Axe Gang, it was an opportunity.
Ye Zichen naturally couldnât let his new gang carry on like the Axe Gang had before. He needed to establish new rules. He didnât return the money heâd stolen either.
Theyâd only just barely formed their gang, so they needed vast quantities of resources to recruit talents and maintain regular operations.
Founding Upheaval didnât disrupt the current divisions of Raging Flame City. They simply occupied the Axe Gangâs former territory. All they needed to do now was expand and develop methodically. However, the upper echelons of the city were in uproar as they discussed just what had happened to the Axe Gang and why it had suddenly been replaced with Upheaval.
In any event, a new faction, âUpheavalâ was born!
Meanwhile, just as Upheaval started growing systematically, something changed in the Axe Gangâs main headquarters in the Profound Great District.
They had an ancestral hall filled with jade slips. Every higher-ranked member of the gang had one containing a sliver of his or her soul. Someone came in to clean the hall once a week, but in a hundred years, not one of the slips had shattered. As a result, the janitor didnât pay much attention to them.
Today, the janitor stepped inside as usual, but just as he was about to close the door and start cleaning, he discoveredâŠ..
Amongst thousands of jade slips, twoâŠ...
Had shattered into pieces!
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