8: Chapter 8: Blade Palm Shatters Bones! The Embers of Fate Surge, and the Black Tiger Hall Master Emerges.

Watching his underlings walk up step by step, two others on the side pressed tightly against Gu Han's arms, preventing him from breaking free.

Gu Han asked calmly.

"Good men, can you let me be a ghost who understands why?"

"Lest I die, still confused."

Hearing Gu Han's calm inquiry, Lai Three looked at Gu Han with some surprise.

"Kid, you certainly have some guts."

"To remain so calm under these circumstances."

"If it were anyone else in this situation, they would likely be crying for their parents and begging for mercy on their knees."

"Or else screaming and struggling desperately."

Hearing this, a smirk tugged at the corner of Gu Han's mouth.

"If I scream and struggle, I'm afraid I'll only suffer more torture."

Hearing Gu Han's "carefree" attitude, he burst into laughter.

"Hahaha!"

"Kid, you are worthy of being someone who has read the books of sages."

"Your integrity is not bad."

"Then, Third Brother, can you answer this kid's question?"

Gu Han followed Lai Three's words and asked with an indifferent expression.

"What, does a kid like you still want someone to avenge you?"

"After you die, your whole family will be wiped out."

Before Lai Three could finish speaking, the underling holding the small knife couldn't wait any longer.

"Third Brother, why waste words with this kid?"

"I'll just make the white blade enter and the red blade come out."

"Once we're done, let's go to Yingchun Tower to have some fun."

As the underling spoke, he quickly struck with the knife.

Seeing this, Gu Han's eyes turned sharp.

Having already killed two people, he didn't have much psychological burden anymore.

Immediately, he shook his right hand, throwing off the underling pressing down on his right side.

Then, he grabbed this underling with a backhand, pulling him in front to block the knife.

Seeing this, the other underling holding a knife immediately charged forward with his blade raised.

Gu Han followed the same pattern, pushing the underling on his left side forward.

In the blink of an eye, Gu Han had dealt with the underlings around him.

Seeing Gu Han act this way, Lai Three was first startled, then stared at Gu Han with a fierce expression.

"Kid, are you trying to pretend to be a pig to eat the tiger with me!"

"Brothers, get him! Sever this kid's limbs."

"Then, torture him severely to avenge our two brothers."

Following Lai Three's order, the other underlings regained their composure, picked up their weapons, and surrounded Gu Han.

Seeing this, Gu Han turned his arms into blades, his palms into blade edges, and unleashed the Town Prison Saber Technique.

Little did he know, this subconscious action of Gu Han's pushed the Town Prison Saber Technique to the level of Proficiency.

At Lai Three's shout of "Get him!"

The underlings surrounding Gu Han scrambled to attack him.

Gu Han suddenly raised his right hand, Qi surging between his blade-palms, and struck directly forward.

The blade-palm wind was biting, seemingly capable of slicing through the air and splitting the crowd.

The underling who rushed to Gu Han's front first only felt a blur before his eyes, and then he flew out.

He flew several meters before falling heavily to the ground, kicking up quite a bit of dust.

【Slaughtered a person of sin, plundered thirty-five remnants of fate.】

Instantly, a line of text floated before Gu Han's eyes.

Seeing this, Gu Han smiled inwardly.

"I was just worrying about how to get this stuff."

"Let them all turn into life origin crystals!"

Immediately, Gu Han took a step and appeared beside another underling.

With one blade-palm strike, he harvested more remnants of fate.

In an instant, this abandoned courtyard became a slaughterhouse.

Providing Gu Han with remnants of fate to harvest.

As the remnants of fate from the last underling surrounding Gu Han were collected.

Only Lai Three remained standing, along with the two underlings who had acted as human shields.

Seeing this, those two human-shield underlings scrambled to get up and run away.

Gu Han lifted his foot and kicked two small stones, which flew straight and smashed into the backs of the two fleeing men.

Both men fell immediately, their eyes wide open, filled with unwillingness and fear.

After finishing this, Gu Han strolled forward.

"Third Brother, can you tell me about the person behind this now?"

Lai Three watched Gu Han slowly walking towards him and the dead underlings.

Lai Three's eyes became even fiercer.

"Kid, I'm going to make you die."

"Let you witness the power of a Martial Artist."

The fierceness in Lai Three's eyes erupted instantly, and he clenched his fists tightly.

"Die!"

Lai Three roared, his figure rushing towards Gu Han like a leopard, his fists aiming straight for Gu Han's vitals.

Gu Han's eyes narrowed, and with a sidestep, he dodged Lai Three's fists.

Then, his blade-palm landed directly on Lai Three's spine.

In an instant, the powerful force of the blade-palm broke Lai Three's spine.

Lai Three also fell heavily to the ground, coughing up blood continuously.

At the same time, he turned his head and glared viciously at Gu Han.

His mouth kept muttering.

Gu Han sneered and stepped forward, crouching down.

"Third Brother, if you don't speak, I'm going to start breaking your limbs."

"Then I'll slice open your skin and bring a few nests of ants to put on your wounds."

"By then, unable to move, you will only be able to let ten thousand ants gnaw on you."

Hearing Gu Han's words, Lai Three's face changed, and he roared in threat.

"Kid, I am a leader of the Fierce Tiger Gang."

"You killed so many of us, the Fierce Tiger Gang will not let you go."

"When the time comes, no one will be able to protect you."

After saying this, he turned his head away.

Seeing this, Gu Han smiled disdainfully.

"Then I'll ask Third Brother to taste my Bone-Dislocating Hand first!"

Consequently, Gu Han shattered Lai Three's left leg into several pieces.

Lai Three's screams startled the crows on the withered branches in the corner of the courtyard.

His left tibia was shattered into three sections, and his kneecap protruded in a terrifying manner.

Gu Han tapped his fingertips on the Huan-Tiao Acupoint on his right leg, listening to the whimper leaking from the other's throat.

Gu Han crouched in front of Lai Three, a mocking smile on his lips, his cold gaze piercing Lai Three like a knife.

"Third Brother, this is just the beginning!"

Before Gu Han could continue, Lai Three said loudly.

"It was our Hall Master who told me to do it."

"Who is your Hall Master?"

Gu Han's voice asked coldly, his fingertips applying slight pressure, pinching Lai Three's right leg.

Lai Three was in so much pain that his body curled up, and bean-sized sweat beads rolled down his forehead continuously.

His lips were bitten until they bled, yet he forced out a few words.

"It is the Black Tiger Hall Master... Butcher Zheng."

"Black Tiger Hall Master?"

"Butcher Zheng?"

Gu Han raised his eyebrows slightly; there was absolutely no information about this in his memory.

"I don't seem to have offended your Fierce Tiger Gang, right!"

"Who ordered Butcher Zheng?"

Gu Han's fingers exerted force again.

Lai Three was in so much pain that his body curled up, and bean-sized sweat beads rolled down his forehead continuously, his lips bitten until they bled.

"I don't know."

"I really don't know."

"The Hall Master arranged it directly for me; I have never seen the person behind it."

Looking at Lai Three's expression and his unflinching eyes, Gu Han was certain that Lai Three truly did not know the person behind the scenes.

Gu Han tapped heavily on the Acupoint on Lai Three's right leg again.

"Tell me about the Fierce Tiger Gang."

"I want to know everything about Butcher Zheng."

"Don't hide anything from me, otherwise..."

Looking at Gu Han's sinister expression, Lai Three couldn't help but shudder, his body trembling a few times.

"Butcher Zheng..."

After a moment, Gu Han finally understood some of the situation regarding the Fierce Tiger Gang and Butcher Zheng.

According to Lai Three's description, the Fierce Tiger has four halls.

They are Butcher Zheng's Black Tiger Hall, the War Tiger Hall managed by the Gang Leader—Zhao Zhi, the Tiger Ring Hall controlled by the Deputy Gang Leader—Zhou Wu, and the Medicinal Pill Hall under the Alchemist Wei Jin.

The rest are some Elders, retainers, and the like.

And Butcher Zheng is Zhao Zhi's trusted aide.

Zhao Zhi relies on controlling two halls to firmly suppress the Deputy Gang Leader and his ilk.

Butcher Zheng's cultivation has even reached the half-step Primordial Core Realm.

His Fierce Tiger Palm is formidable.

Thinking of this, Gu Han couldn't help but feel annoyed.

"Damn it!"

"Can't you just let me lie low and develop properly?"

After complaining, Gu Han's mindset shifted.

"Since that's the case, then let's fight."

"It just so happens that I can use the remnants of fate from this group of people to Cultivate."

Immediately, Gu Han sneered, making Lai Three's heart crawl with fear.

"What... what are you going to do?"

Gu Han didn't say anything, a blade-palm landing directly on Lai Three's head.

【Slaughtered a person of sin, plundered fifty-five remnants of fate.】

After killing Lai Three, Gu Han, acting on the principle of plucking a goose as it flies, searched Lai Three and his group clean.

"For a leader, you have so little money; how do you lead your underlings?"

After complaining, Gu Han left.

However, complaints aside, Gu Han had already tucked away the most valuable things he had collected.