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While swigging liquor and talking loudly, the rowdy man occasionally waved a long, sheathed machete with his left hand to frighten the people around him.

Some of the gang members walked away from him. Some approached him and greeted him smilingly.

Like Elderly Dragon, this rowdy man was one of the founders of the Ten-Dragon Gang and nicknamed himself Dragon Tooth.

According to Gu Shenwei's observations, most of the gang members could not even hold their weapons steadily, whereas both Elderly Dragon and Dragon Tooth were endowed with superb kung fu skills.

Actually, Golden Roc Fort had not ordered Slave Huan to investigate the gang members' kung fu, but he did so anyway in order to discover Mister Guo's true intentions.

A moment later, Dragon Tooth staggered out of the crowd.

Gu Shenwei stared at him in an effort to cause irritation; this was how gang members provoked fights.

As he had expected, Dragon Tooth quickly flared up and shouted at him, ”Brat, why do you keep staring at me? Do you want to f*ck or something? Look, here's my machete. Is it big enough for you?”

The surrounding gang members burst into laughter. Gu Shenwei shook his head and retorted immediately, ”No, your machete is stained with your own sh*t. Use it yourself.”

After quarreling with his mentor many times, Gu Shenwei was not ashamed of uttering such filthy language anymore.

The gang members laughed even louder as Dragon Tooth's face suddenly changed. Gu Shenwei could easily tell that Dragon Tooth was the kind of person who always claimed that he was just joking when hurling insults at others, but would never tolerate being verbally abused himself. Only a real master of dirty language like Tie Hanfeng could remain calm throughout a quarrel while also quickly retorting.

Dragon Tooth unsheathed his long machete and threw the scabbard away. He held the machete shaft with both hands, ready to attack. Drinking and shouting, the gang members swiftly stepped aside to make room for the fight. They were delighted to see such an exciting scene with liquor in their hands.

Xu Xiaoyi joined the crowd, urging the gang members to bet with him. ”I bet the guy with the sword will win.”

Before anyone agreed to bet with him, the fight had already begun. Thanks to this, Xu Xiaoyi was able to keep his last few taels of silver.

When Dragon Tooth lifted up his long machete, the people beside him became scared and instinctively moved back as far as possible in order to distance themselves from the weapon. Meanwhile, Gu Shenwei quickly unsheathed his short sword, stabbed forward, and then drew it back. The next moment, everyone saw a shallow wound appear on the teenager's shoulder, blood quickly staining his cotton-padded jacket.

The gang members simultaneously cheered for Dragon Tooth while Xu Xiaoyi stood agape, unable to believe his eyes.

”Wait for me, if you dare. I'll bring my people here momentarily.”

With these words, Gu Shenwei turned around to leave. This was the gang members' typical way of admitting defeat.

Xu Xiaoyi quickly caught up with him and repeatedly questioned what happened.

Gu Shenwei just kept walking without saying a word; he knew that Xu Xiaoyi would never understand what he was thinking.

Firstly, he discovered that Dragon Tooth's machete skills were subpar; his moves were far too slow. The time he used to lift up his machete was enough for a professional killer to land three fatal blows on him. Given that, Gu Shenwei concluded that Elderly Dragon and the other founders of the gang might not be very good at kung fu either. Thus, he was confused as to why Mister Guo implied in the document that the apprentices might fail in this mission to crush such a weak gang.

Secondly, Gu Shenwei realized that the sword skill in the nameless sword book was exclusively a killing move and could never be used to deceive the opponent. In the fight, he had already touched Dragon Tooth's throat with his sword before he withdrew it, but neither the gang members nor even Dragon Tooth himself had noticed this swift move. That was why Dragon Tooth had not retracted his machete to block the sword and managed to wound Gu Shenwei's shoulder.

Xu Xiaoyi forgot that it was still early in the night and took the killer apprentice back to his home again. When they opened the door, they heard Xu Yanwei groaning upstairs as she endured a whipping.

Xu Xiaoyi turned pale and stood dumbfounded. He wanted to walk out of the house, but it was freezing cold outside. After a while, he entered the house and sat by the fire quietly. A moment later, he covered his ears with his hands and buried his face in his knees.

Gu Shenwei stood opposite Xu Xiaoyi, telling himself that this was none of his business and that he should remain a cold-hearted killer. Despite only being 15, the number of people he killed had already outnumbered the number of dead people an old man would have seen in his whole life. He was familiar with how cruel and unfair this world was and had decided not to play the hero anymore.

However, he just could not stand idle at this moment.

He unsheathed his sword, threw the scabbard away, and ran upstairs. When Xu Xiaoyi raised his head, he saw the killer apprentice standing at the door of the bedroom. The boy was confused and opened his mouth, wanting to say something. In the end, he failed to utter anything and closed his mouth.

The door was unlatched so Gu Shenwei pushed it open. His eyes were greeted with the back of a naked man. Due to the many candles in the room, the man's body was shimmering in the light, making it seem as though the black tattoos on his body were alive.

With a cup of liquor in his left hand and a whip in his right hand, the man whispered excitedly, ”Scream b*tch. Scream louder...” Just as he was about to flog Xu Yanwei once again, Gu Shenwei caught his wrist.

He threw the naked man out of the room and immediately turned around, averting his eyesight from Xu Yanwei, who was tied to the bed.

”What're you doing?”

Before the naked man realized what had happened, Xu Yanwei was overcome with anger and shame.

Gu Shenwei pretended not to hear what she said and fixed his eyes on the man outside the room.

The naked man staggered to his feet and looked around. After a while, he finally saw the teenager who had ruined his night and shouted at him, ”Who the hell are you?”

”Piss off.”

Gu Shenwei took a step forward with the sword in his hand.

The man was tipsy and had no idea what kind of person he was currently confronting. He roared and rushed back into the bedroom with a whip in hand. Nevertheless, when he saw the teenager's face in the light, he stopped all of a sudden and winced in fear like a dog meeting a wild wolf.

He had some jianghu experience and immediately recognized the teenager's murderous countenance. The grim look frightened him. He put down the whip and turned his eyes to the clothes on the chair. Gu Shenwei knew that there was a machete on the chair since he could clearly discern a machete shaft stick out from under the clothes.