Chapter 48 (1/2)

The person who was walking toward the fop had his face covered by a scarf, thus his face could not be seen. Nevertheless, the step technique used by that person gave the fop a sense of familiarity, and the flas.h.i.+ng figure also gave him an enormous pressure.

Previously, when the fop had exchanged blows with Yan Chengcai and the others, he saw through their movements in a flash. With a.s.sistance from his hearing, sense of smell, and sense of touch on his surroundings, he naturally formed an invisible network that helped him observe everything.

The fop could tell what was true or false, and could take control of the situation even if he encountered a Yin Grade powerhouse, let alone a Force Grade martial artist.

However, while the person who was approaching the fop at the moment seemed like he was taking normal steps, the fop could not grasp his drifting figure at all. In other words, the fop could not see through that man.

As such, the fop trembled a little, then bent his knees slightly to be ready for a battle.

Yan Chengcai and the others lied on the floor and widened their eyes. Nonetheless, Ou Yangming had not only covered his face with a scarf when he came out, but he had also removed his outerwear, revealing a martial artist’s outfit. On top of that, he went around them to appear from a different spot instead of coming out from his hiding spot right away.

Therefore, apart from Yan Chengcai, who was suspicious, Big Bull and the others could not have guessed Ou Yangming’s ident.i.ty because they would not believe that a blacksmith could defeat their boss.

“You, who are you?” The fop asked seriously.

Despite that, he soon felt disappointed or even angry because the masked man had no intention of talking to him at all. The man simply attacked him with his fist.

The fop was enraged as he was always the pretentious one, and n.o.body ever dared to treat him without respect.

Subsequently, he scoffed and devised a plan in his head while staring at the masked man. Oncenthe fist was three millimeters closer, he would dodge to teach that fellow a lesson.

When the fop fought with Yan Chengcai and his men earlier, he showed a little mercy, but he was ready to exert all his force this time. This was not only because of the masked man’s att.i.tude, but also mainly because he sensed a huge threat from the masked man.

“Closer, closer…” The fop said to himself softly with a contemptuous look on his face. It was at that moment that the fist suddenly stopped.

Yes. It just stopped without any warning.

The fop was stunned as his planned routes were forced to freeze at that moment.

It was as though a person was going all out at a wooden pile, but realized the instant he hit the wood that his fist did not hit anything at all because it was just an illusion.

The ingenious pause caused the fop’s plan to fail at once, and he was forced to stop just as he was ready to unleash his acc.u.mulated energy.

At the next instant, the fist that had stopped suddenly struck again.

“Pow…”

It hit the fop’s chest hard and straightforwardly.

The fop groaned as a result, but quickly s.h.i.+fted his body to take a few steps back.

Ou Yangming sighed to himself. ‘It’s a pity that my power isn’t sufficient yet. If my cultivation base was also at Force Grade Cla.s.s Five, I could’ve more or less injured him with the punch, but I’m only in Force Grade Cla.s.s Three. Besides, I’m not wearing any equipment, so the most I can do is to let him suffer in pain for a short while.’

In spite of that, he had no idea that the damage he caused to the fop was far beyond what he imagined.

The damage was not physical, but something that was done to the fop’s mentality.

Before this, the fop defeated his opponents and dominated the scene even though he was outnumbered as he was unstoppable, but now an enemy had come out of nowhere and the unusual by counterattacking successfully. Additionally, it was clear that the masked man’s cultivation base was lower than the fop’s. Was the tide turned because the former’s grasp of skills was better than the fop’s?

How could something like this happen?

The fop’s state of mind was messed up at that moment, such that his breathing became unstable.

Ou Yangming took another step forward.

He already had a rough understanding of the fop after observing in secret just now, but he had a strong, irrepressible urge to act after Yan Chengcai and the others collapsed.

Ou Yangming wanted to battle the fop who had exceptionally powerful skills because he could only experience the power’s mightiness by confronting it.

Hence, he attacked without hesitation.

He did not do it to take revenge for Yan Chengcai and the others as he only wanted to verify his thoughts on skills.

Thus, no matter what the fop’s background was and why he got involved in the night battle, Ou Yangming was determined to fight him.