Chapter 887: Our Turf! He Can't Stir Up Much Trouble!

Xu Jingming is the Inspector of Modu, responsible for overseeing all affairs of the Lei Ting Wu Guan in Modu, Jiangnan Province, and Suhang Province.

Although Su Qingli is the hall master, she only handles one regional president; there's no need for her to step in.

And although Song Qiuyun and Jiang Chuxuan have already joined the Lei Ting Wu Guan, they still have training courses.

So, the next day at noon.

After leaving the ninth-rank Thorn Sword Grass at the villa, Xu Jingming took his escort squad and, together with Ling Shuang, boarded a fighter jet bound for Suhang Province.

Like Jiangnan Province, Suhang Province is also a major economic province of Daxia.

Its resident population exceeds 120 million, one in twenty of whom are ability users.

Jingnan City, the provincial capital of Suhang Province, is even more economically developed and extremely prosperous, gathering nearly one-third of Suhang Province's ability users.

In the bustling district of Jingnan City's urban area stands a building over a hundred meters tall.

On the front of the building, the four big characters 'Lei Ting Wu Guan' are written in bold, flourishing strokes; on the side wall is a huge azure lightning bolt emblem.

Among the people coming and going in the martial hall, besides ability users with formidable auras.

There were also high school students in school uniforms, taking advantage of their lunch break to squeeze in a few sets of training.

Jingnan City has six administrative districts, each with a Lei Ting Wu Guan building.

And this one is the most luxurious of the six buildings.

"Any news from Modu lately?"

Top floor of the building, the regional president's office.

Li Gang sat on the sofa, facing a man whose appearance bore a slight resemblance to his own.

This man was Li Gang's cousin Li Kun, a seventh-rank upper-tier ability user and the branch hall master here.

Recently, it had been Li Kun's job to keep an eye on news from Modu.

Of course, the main focus was Xu Jingming's movements.

"What news could there be? I already sent word to all the major supervisors and presidents.

Suhang Province has been forged into a solid block of iron by us; they can't find any handle on us."

Li Kun said proudly, "But this Xu Jingming really does have some tricks.

Disappearing for a month, then reappearing already having broken through to eighth rank."

"What's the use of being strong? As long as he can't find a handle on us, he has no way to strip us of our positions."

Li Gang said disdainfully, "If he forcibly removes us, it will only make everyone inside the martial hall feel insecure and damage his own prestige."

With the Li family backing him, he wasn't afraid of Xu Jingming at all.

He hadn't even attended the inauguration welcome banquet held in Modu back then.

"That's true, but those two guys Pang Tian and Ma Shan have already completely sided with him.

In this past month, almost all the people we left in Modu and Jiangnan Province have been rooted out by them."

Li Kun said through gritted teeth.

Although the Li family has three councilors and is a large, powerful clan.

The number of family members is likewise huge; losing the martial hall positions in Modu and Jiangnan Province would cost them a considerable amount of profit.

"It's fine, they'll regret it. The clan head and the others have already contacted Hall Master Hu, preparing to begin the final plan.

If nothing unexpected happens, this Lei Ting Wu Guan will ultimately fall into our Li family's hands."

Li Gang said with a cold laugh.

In the Li family's eyes, losing a ninth-rank peak Lei Ting Wu Guan is merely a slightly stronger bug.

They had previously thought to take it slowly.

But now Xu Jingming's forceful rise, and his obvious targeting.

Forced them to abandon their original plan and become more aggressive.

"Really?"

Li Kun's eyes lit up. "Brother Hao was made to suffer so badly by that bastard Xu Jingming; it's indeed time to make him pay some price."

Although Li Hao was a notorious playboy, he was absolutely solid with brothers like them.

The relationships between these people were all quite good.

"No need to wait too long; tonight we'll see him get his comeuppance."

Li Gang said with a smile, "Green of the Blazing Fire God Palace has already defeated the Star Martial Saint this noon.

Tonight's match, Xu Jingming is bound to lose."

"Haha, that's good then.

That bastard Xu Jingming is just too arrogant — defeating Meng Ke wasn't enough for him, he actually tried to challenge the eighth-rank leaderboard."

Li Kun laughed heartily, "Looks like I can't miss tonight's match."

After a pause, he added somewhat hesitantly:

"Oh, by the way, word came from the resource warehouse that quite a few things went missing last night."

"Hmm?"

Li Gang frowned. "Isn't there a seventh-rank peak of the psychic system guarding the resource warehouse? How could things still go missing?"

"According to the artificial intelligence's analysis, this should have been done by an eighth-rank grand master skilled in stealth.

He not only shielded the perception of the psychic grand master, but even the surveillance couldn't detect his movements.

The alarm only went off after he left, when the AI's scheduled inventory check discovered the items were gone."

Li Kun said, somewhat helpless.

"An eighth-rank grand master?"

Li Gang was taken aback. "How many Daxia coins worth of resources did we lose?"

"32.3 billion Great Summer coins." Li Kun replied.

"32.3 billion? That's not a lot either."

Li Gang, upon receiving this answer, was already speechless.

This wasn't to say the resource value was insufficient—in fact, this was already one-sixth of the resource reserves on this side of Jingnan City.

Rather, for an eighth-rank Master Zongshi, this was not a very large number.

It wasn't worth the risk of being discovered by the Lei Ting Wu Guan to carry out a theft.

"Let's investigate first, see if we can catch whoever did it. As for headquarters, don't notify them."

After a moment of thought, Li Gang instructed.

Xu Jingming's side was surely planning to deal with them now, so naturally he wouldn't be stupid enough to hand them leverage himself.

"I thought so too. I've already ordered them to keep it secret."

Li Kun nodded and said.

Suddenly—

Li Gang revealed a look of shock and uncertainty, his gaze piercing through the office's floor-to-ceiling window to look outside.

"What's wrong?"

The moment Li Kun asked, his expression also shifted slightly, and he looked out the window.

Whoosh—

A triangular black fighter jet appeared on the horizon, flying rapidly toward them.

"That's... Xu Jingming's fighter jet? When did he come to our Suhang Province?"

Li Kun's expression was one of astonishment.

Although they were resisting Xu Jingming's authority, they had long since memorized the appearance of this Obsidian-grade fighter jet.

"Not sure."

Li Gang shook his head, his gaze flickering: "Meet force with force, stem the tide with earth.

Suhang Province is our turf—he can't make any big waves here.

Let's go, gather all the major supervisors, and go welcome our Inspector my lord."

Li Gang rose from the sofa, striding with steady steps toward the outside.

Indeed, they had already been operating in Suhang Province for over ten years.

An Inspector who had only just taken office a month ago could not possibly threaten them.

Thinking of this, Li Kun likewise regained his composure, rose, and followed.