Chapter 262: Killing the Horse

Zhou You gripped that bone hammer, thinking to himself that after the appetizer, the main course had arrived.

To ordinary residents, the Fengma Bangzhu was undoubtedly a high and mighty big shot, a terrifying and brutal strongman.

In reality, before Zhou You learned fist techniques, even the most ordinary member of the Fengma Bang could have driven his family into a dead end.

Ordinary commoners could never provoke the middle or high-level members of gangs who had reached the level of Force or even Blood Qi.

Now, Zhou You could stand shoulder to shoulder with them.

"Hmm, an iron fork, a Blood Qi divine weapon."

Zhou You glanced at the opponent's weapon, then looked at the Fengma Bangzhu himself; the two were perfectly integrated, showing not a single flaw.

He concluded in his heart that this person was a formidable enemy.

Although he had two Blood Qi divine weapons, a dagger and a sharp sword, they were both ready-made, not crafted by his own hands, so the level of compatibility was always lacking.

The bone hammer was something he had assembled himself, but the time spent was still short, and the refinement was far from reaching its peak.

From this perspective, the opponent held a great advantage!

The Fengma Bangzhu also realized it; just now, the Second Elder's head had been smashed, and the headless corpse on the ground had all been killed by a blunt weapon.

Combined with the signature skills of the Jian Xiong Martial Arts Hall...

"Tiger Head Hammer, Wang Laohu has been quite good to you."

The Fengma Bangzhu was somewhat surprised that Wang Laohu had not only failed to kill this expelled disciple but had even provided him with instruction on weapons.

This was a change of character; the tiger had stopped eating people and turned to a vegetarian diet.

No!

The Fengma Bangzhu suddenly felt his hair stand on end and broke into a cold sweat; the opponent was using a Blood Qi divine weapon.

As everyone knew, the threshold to drive a Blood Qi divine weapon was the late stage of Blood Qi.

"You, are you at the late stage of Blood Qi?"

How much time had passed? When Zhou You left the Jian Xiong Martial Arts Hall, he only had the strength of the mid-stage of Blood Qi.

By the time he joined forces with Jiang Hua to wipe out the Heming Fist sect outside the city and returned, he had already broken through to the late stage of Blood Qi.

Just how many good things had he scavenged from the treasury of Golden Crane Mountain! Greed surged uncontrollably in the Fengma Bangzhu's heart; if he swallowed those things, his hope of breaking through to become a Martial Master would be even greater.

"Zhou You, I cannot spare you today."

He immediately decided to kill him to seize his wealth and swallow all the treasures on Zhou You's body for himself.

Afterwards, he would kill his entire family to completely erase all traces.

Hearing that the opponent's parents lived in the Inner City, hmm, that was slightly troublesome; he would just have to lure them out before taking action.

Swish, the bright silver iron fork unfolded like a bolt of silver silk, instantly crossing the long distance between the two, arriving before his eyes in a single breath.

It was clearly light as nothingness at high speed, but when it pierced before him, it contained a heavy momentum capable of piercing through everything.

In that instant, the two contradictory concepts of light and heavy were fused into this move.

Fast and light, so it could not be avoided; heavy and fierce, so upon impact, bones would inevitably shatter and limbs would be torn asunder.

The Double-Stranded Iron Fork was a sharp weapon, but the damage and destruction it caused were even more terrifying than a blunt weapon.

Once it pierced into the body, tearing wounds and piercing bones and internal organs, it was absolutely a fatal injury.

Seeing this, Zhou You raised his sleeve, and the bone hammer struck out like lightning, hitting the Double-Stranded Iron Fork squarely.

This Tiger Head Hammer move was like a fierce tiger emerging from its cave, the infinite strength cultivated during its long Dormant period exploding in an instant.

Ding-dong!

The sound of the collision was deafening; the bone hammer struck the smooth, bright silver surface and slid off.

The Fengma Bangzhu twisted his wrist slightly, and the iron fork spun like a fan, continuing to stab toward Zhou You's chest.

Not only did he dissipate the force of the Tiger Head Hammer, but he also took advantage of the momentum to increase his power, adding a few more points of lethality.

"Well come!" Zhou You exerted force with his five fingers, and the bone hammer flew out of his hand; woo-woo-woo, a fierce wind whistled out from the eye sockets of the skull, emitting a shrill cry.

The white shadow rotated and made a sharp turn, actually grazing the opponent's shoulder and circling to the back of his head.

Zhou You flicked his fingers, and the hair-thin threads, invisible to the eye, which were tied to the bone hammer from afar, instantly pulled taut.

This move caught the Fengma Bangzhu off guard.

The sound of the bone hammer breaking through the air rang out from behind his head; he lifted his foot to kick the iron fork away, and with a swoosh, it circled over his head to strike the bone hammer squarely.

Another collision sound rang out, and the two weapons separated.

Zhou You manipulated the bone hammer through the hair threads, rotating it in place a few times to dissipate the force, and continued to strike toward his chest.

Conversely, the Fengma Bangzhu had to dash to close the distance and reach out to grab the handle of the iron fork.

It was just that short time difference... "Hahaha, your death date has arrived, hand over your life."

Zhou You's bone hammer dropped to the side on the left, smashing a large rock into pieces.

"Evil Qi attachment."

Rocks the size of human heads were wrapped in bronze-colored Tiger Evil and flicked into mid-air by the bone hammer.

In the blink of an eye, a whistling sound arose, and one after another, the rocks fell like meteors, covering the area where the Fengma Bangzhu was located.

Thump, thump, thump! The Copper Tiger Evil had astonishing destructive power, creating terrifying craters upon landing.

The Fengma Bangzhu raised his arms to block two or three stones, but he was left grimacing from the impact of the Tiger Evil, unable to bear the pain.

By the time he grabbed the bright silver iron fork, he let out an angry roar on the spot.

"Encircle the land to protect oneself."

A silver-bright arc rose from the ground, the head and tail connecting into a flawless silver ring.

The stones flying from all directions shattered and disintegrated the moment they made contact with the silver ring.

The Copper Tiger Evil was also entangled and chewed up by the Evil Qi inherent in the silver ring, its lethality greatly reduced.

"Stone-shattering and heaven-startling, one hammer settles the tone."

Amidst the sky full of flying debris, Zhou You arrived, piercing through the air with the bone hammer in his hand, which then sprang from his grip.

In a flash, the baleful aura on the surface of the bone hammer twisted and gathered, manifesting into a ferocious Copper Tiger head that opened its mouth and roared.

The Copper Tiger head bit down on the silver ring, and bursts of heart-wrenching roars echoed all around, accompanied by crackling sounds.

This move had been hastily unleashed by the Fengma Bangzhu, and it had already been excessively depleted by the successive strikes of the aura-imbued rocks.

With the silver ring weakened to its limit, how could it possibly withstand the fierce Tiger Head Hammer?

With a soft "pop," the tiger head crushed the silver ring, broke through it, and opened its mouth to swallow the Fengma Bangzhu.

The scene was like a violent storm, with white shadows from the bone hammer filling the sky.

The Fengma Bangzhu held an iron fork, his entire body covered in dents from the bone hammer, as if he had been pelted by a hailstorm.

Skin splitting, flesh rotting, bones cracking, and internal organs bursting—the sounds were endless.

In the blink of an eye, he was hammered into a pile of mush and plopped onto the ground.

Zhou You flicked his toe upward, and the bright silver iron fork sprang from the ground into his hand; it was quite heavy.

Another Blood-Qi Divine Weapon; should he get a weapon rack when he gets home to display his spoils as a collection? He then searched the corpse of the Fengma Bangzhu, but couldn't find much in that pile of mush! "Pah, poor wretch."

A gang leader, yet so poor he was empty-handed; aside from the iron fork, there was only half a broken horsewhip.

If it wasn't that he had exhausted all his savings to refine the Blood-Qi Divine Weapon, there could only be one explanation.

The so-called Fengma Bang was just a black glove used by the higher-ups to do dirty work, and they couldn't save any money at all.

Zhou You was so angry he scattered the pile of mush, and a few wild dogs ran over happily, sticking out their tongues to lick up the bloodstains and meat paste; in a moment, they had eaten it clean, leaving absolutely nothing behind.

That half of a horsewhip hadn't even worn down under the strikes of the bone hammer; the material was quite good, so he wouldn't throw it away—he would keep it.

(End of this chapter)