Chapter 191: Results

Cheng Feng scanned the empty hall; the enemies who had been standing there had all fallen, and the Mechanical Dog's ammunition was completely exhausted.

"Well done!" Cheng Feng praised it inwardly. He knew full well that the Mechanical Dog had played a crucial role in this battle; if not for the two machine guns on its back, it was likely that Cheng Feng's own Hong Sect would have been the ones wiped out.

Cheng Feng directly ordered the disciples guarding outside to come in and collect all the wealth and resources from the Green Bamboo Gang's main hall.

After the Hong Sect disciples walked in and saw the horrifying scene of the slaughter in the hall, they could not help but gasp. And when they saw their own Sect Master, Cheng Feng, the feeling of reverence in their hearts grew even stronger.

After all, this was the magnificent feat of single-handedly fighting all the top brass of the South City's leading power, the Green Bamboo Gang!

Looking again at the metal beast beside Cheng Feng, they felt it was even more miraculous. They knew the power of this beast, and now that it had been subdued by Cheng Feng, it showed that Cheng Feng's strength was even more formidable.

Cheng Feng did not know that his disciples were having such complex thoughts at this moment. The only thing he wanted to do now was to keep the Mechanical Dog's secret, trying his best not to let it spread; for this reason, he specifically issued a gag order regarding the Mechanical Dog to these hundred-plus people.

He knew that the existence of the Mechanical Dog would arouse the covetousness of various forces, and if the news leaked out, it would inevitably trigger a bloody storm.

Therefore, he decided to hide the Mechanical Dog in the underground cave of the Hong Mansion and use it to gather intelligence in the city to understand other forces' views on the Hong Sect replacing the Green Bamboo Gang. At the same time, he also hoped that through this method, Mini-Kong could better observe the dynamics of the major forces and provide more support for the development of the Hong Sect.

Watching the disciples looting wealth everywhere, Cheng Feng decided to first understand the situation of the other teams. He boarded the carriage, lowered the curtains, and then checked the status of Babai, Cheng Yi, and Wu Feng through the Mechanical Dog.

Things were going very smoothly for Babai and Cheng Yi, and they had not encountered any major problems. However, when he communicated with Wu Feng, he heard an interesting piece of news.

Following Li Shan, Wu Feng had encountered several more small squads of Green Bamboo Gang members. However, the strength of these people was clearly far inferior to Li Shan. They were beaten by Wu Feng into a sorry state, fleeing in terror.

After the fight, those people actually ran away directly, not even going to the main hall, as if they had all gone home. Cheng Feng could not help but find it amusing, but at the same time, he realized that not everyone was keen on a life of fighting and killing.

Most of them were originally just ordinary people, and joining a gang was merely to earn money to support their families. This discovery gave Cheng Feng some new ideas for the future planning of the Hong Sect.

The Hong Sect had risen in Cheng Feng's hands by standing on the corpses of one gang after another, starting from the Hutou Gang, the Sishui Gang, the Xiao Dao Gang, the Zougun Gang, the Wolf Head Gang, and several other small gangs.

Taking territory when it was time to take territory, and recruiting people when it was time to recruit people.

If not for Wang Hao's poisoning incident, Cheng Feng would never have brought out the Mechanical Dog, but would have prepared to slowly improve the overall combat power of the Hong Sect, letting the entire Hong Sect serve him.

Instead of doing what he did tonight, bringing out his trump card, the Mechanical Dog, to slaughter everyone, and then issuing a mission allowance to all the Hong Sect disciples.

That would make Cheng Feng a nanny for the Hong Sect. A Sect Master needs to have the bearing of a Sect Master; fight when it is time to fight, everything should have a plan, and it is better to proceed step by step. However, this battle was mostly due to Cheng Feng's own factors, so he stopped thinking about it.

After all, he was the one who won, and it wouldn't happen again!

It was almost dawn, and it would surely alarm many people by then, but the dust had settled, and it wouldn't matter who came.

The main force of the Green Bamboo Gang had already been mostly killed by the Mechanical Dog at the main hall.

He notified Cheng Yi to lead a team to the Green Bamboo Gang's main hall to speed up the collection of items and resources, and also to prevent his subordinates from being unable to hold back their hands; taking too much was not good either, as these were Cheng Feng's spoils of war.

A main hall is a main hall; just in silver alone, Cheng Feng directly dug out nearly 100,000 taels of Silver, nearly 5,000 taels of gold—which would be 50,000 taels of Silver if converted—and various other jewelry and ornaments that could be worth another 10,000 taels.

Roughly calculated, it totaled 160,000 taels of silver.

It truly surprised Cheng Feng; wasn't this fat with oil?

In addition, there were more than 300 spare Ordinary swords and blades in the warehouse, 10 Sharp Blade-level weapons, and three cultivation manuals: the Body Tempering "Rock Technique," the Ordinary "Return to Origin Art," and the "Clear Sun Art," all of which were techniques that could be practiced to the Blood Refining Realm. There were also six martial techniques; although their upper limits were not high, they had the advantage of being comprehensive—Blade Technique, Sword Technique, Hard Qigong, palm techniques, footwork, and Fist Technique—which greatly enriched the Hong Sect's arsenal and gave the numerous disciples more choices.

It was a pity that these techniques and martial arts were not a matched set.

Like the Hong Sect's Mountain Crushing Fist, it had the technique, the medicinal formula, and the Fist Technique; it was a complete set.

Cheng Feng's own Blood-Boiling Thunder Art also came with the matching Thunder Blade Technique.

Even the Swift Wind Blade in the cloth bag of the skeleton at the bottom of the lake had matching techniques and martial arts.

One could really only say it was a problem of inheritance, which reminded Cheng Feng of what Peng Yuyan had just said about stopping at Blood Refining Perfection, unable to make an inch of progress for more than a decade, wasting his time.

Looking at these techniques, Cheng Feng truly admired Peng Yuyan; none of those who climbed up from the bottom were simple.

This made Cheng Feng feel even more that his Thunder Blood-Boiling Art was not simple; this Blood Refining technique that Wang Tieshan taught him had allowed him to work hard and add points until he reached the Bone Refining Realm.

What about after Bone Refining? It was said that this master, Wang Tieshan, was also the number one person in the Martial Arts Hall; at the very least, he should have reached Bone Refining, right?

Perhaps it would be even higher???

Everything was sorted out, and Cheng Feng let the leading Hong Sect disciples return to the Hong Sect stronghold first. They had started fighting at the Hour of the Rat, and now it was almost dawn, so he let the disciples who participated in tonight's operation get a good rest.

There were still many things that needed to be done next.

The carriage slowly drove away from the Hong Mansion, the sound of the wheels crushing the stone road echoing in the quiet streets, and Cheng Feng sat in the carriage, closing his eyes in contemplation.

He calculated in his heart how to use the aftermath of today's battle to further consolidate the Hong Sect's position, while not forgetting to think about how to let these ordinary disciples who were dragged into gang disputes find a new way out.

The Green Bamboo Gang was gone, but the people left behind were resources that could not be wasted; he had to find a way to absorb them. After all, there were still quite a few capable experts among these people; if he could recruit them, it would undoubtedly greatly strengthen the Hong Sect's power. Surely not that many people would be so loyal as to still hold out hope for a gang that had already lost its leader?

The treatment conditions offered by the Hong Sect were not bad either!

Regarding the remaining personnel of the Green Bamboo Gang, Cheng Feng was like the boss of a startup company; after defeating a competitor, he not only had to occupy the market but also use high salaries and high benefits to attract the excellent employees of the other company, so as to strengthen his own power. This approach could both reduce the threat of competitors and make his own team more powerful.