Urban Martial Saint

After Li Lianshan’s arrival with so many people, the disciples of Snake Form Gate suddenly became much more subdued and no longer exhibited their previous anger and arrogance. Ye Qing, disregarding the gazes of the crowd, walked straight up to Snake, leaned down, and said, ”Snake, I know you suspect us, thinking that we are behind this. But, Snake, I can assure you with my integrity that we had absolutely nothing to do with this. This is surely someone else trying to frame us, hoping to instigate a feud between us, leading both sides to suffer. I don’t want to explain too much; just give me three days. I will investigate this matter thoroughly and provide you with an answer, what do you say?”

Snake’s eyes still held hatred, but, seeing so many people behind Li Lianshan, he dared not disagree. He waved his hand, weakly saying, ”You... do as you see fit.”

Seeing Snake like that, Ye Qing knew he still didn’t believe him. However, he couldn’t force Snake to believe him and could only murmur, ”Three days, give me three days. If I can’t provide you with an answer by then, you can seek revenge on us, and I absolutely won’t say another word.”

Snake didn’t pay any attention to Ye Qing, turning his head away, unwilling to take another look at Ye Qing and Li Lianshan. His subordinates, though fearful, also looked at Ye Qing and Li Lianshan with anger, indicating that their hostility towards them had already taken form, and it wouldn’t be easy to erase.

Ye Qing didn’t say anything further, turning around and leaving with Li Lianshan and their followers. As they watched them leave, the people of Snake Form Gate gathered together again, cursing angrily.

”Snake, we can’t give them three days!” a disciple urgently said. ”Three days is enough for this Ye guy to do a lot, perhaps even rallying people to deal with us. Snake, this Ye is clearly just buying time; we can’t fall for it!”

”Right, Snake, dealing with these people, we must strike first. Ye Qing and Li Lianshan’s influence in Shenchuan City is so strong, if we really let them make their move, we’ll have no chance at all!”

”I say we should inform the elders in our gate as soon as possible so they can handle this. No matter how many followers Ye Qing and Li Lianshan have, they are nothing in front of our elders!”

Everyone was suggesting that Snake contact the elders of the gate immediately to deal with Ye Qing and Li Lianshan. Meanwhile, Snake was furrowing his brows, still hesitant. If the elders were called, this matter would surely erupt into a no holds barred conflict. With the strength of Ye Qing and Li Lianshan, going head-on with them would mean a significant loss for the Snake Form Gate.

While Snake was indecisive, a disciple suddenly ran over from behind the crowd, exclaiming, ”Snake, something’s happened! Blackie just called, some of our brothers have been kidnapped by a group of unidentified people!”

”What!?” Snake’s eyes widened, ignoring his own wounds as he clenched his teeth and stood up, furiously saying, ”What the hell happened? How could this be?”

The disciple said, ”I don’t know. Just now, our brothers at home called and said, a group of unidentified people stormed into our yard and took our brothers away. Most of our brothers at home were injured, only Blackie was hiding and wasn’t captured; otherwise, he would have probably not escaped either!”

”Bastard, who dares to cause trouble at Snake Form Gate!” Snake said, bearing the excruciating pain of his wounds, ”Quick, let’s head back!”

The group didn’t dare to waste another word and hurriedly drove towards the Snake Form Gate. Returning to the gate, they saw from a distance that the main entrance was a mess, clearly showing signs of a recent fierce battle. Walking inside, the chaos was even worse, with numerous chairs and tables shattered to pieces, and not a single person was in the courtyard; all the wounded previously left at home were now gone.

Seeing the situation, Snake was utterly furious and shouted, ”Who dared to trespass and cause trouble on our Snake Form Gate’s territory?”

”Who else but Ye Qing’s men!” a disciple angrily said. Everyone at Snake Form Gate had no good feelings for Ye Qing and Li Lianshan, so the first thing that came to mind involved them.

”Ye Qing?” Snake frowned slightly. Honestly, he wasn’t so suspicious of Ye Qing. In fact, what Ye Qing had said earlier had stirred his heart a bit, making him think that Ye Qing might not be lying.

At that moment, a figure staggered out from inside. Seeing Snake and the others, he almost cried out, hurrying down and loudly saying, ”Snake, you’re finally back!”

This person was Blackie, who had miraculously escaped the ordeal. Seeing Blackie, the disciples of Snake Form Gate immediately surrounded him, bombarding him with questions about what had happened.

”Ah!” Blackie sighed, saying, ”Just ten minutes ago, a group of unidentified people stormed into our Snake Form Gate and started attacking anyone they saw. Not only did they injure all our brothers, but they also captured all of them. I was in the inner room tidying up when I heard something wrong outside, so I quickly hid. I narrowly escaped. Otherwise, you might not have seen me when you returned!”

Snake, infuriated, said, ”You don’t recognize any of them?”

”I don’t,” Blackie shook his head, saying, ”But the leader was very distinctive. He was very tall, almost over two meters, with a broad back and a robust build that made him look like an iron tower standing there. He was so massive that none of our brothers could match him. He could lift any of our brothers with just one hand!”

Hearing this, Snake’s brow furrowed. The man Blackie described seemed familiar, but he couldn’t recall where he had seen him.

The others also had an impression. After thinking for a while, finally, someone remembered and loudly said, ”That man... Isn’t he one of Ye Qing’s men?”

At these words, a light flashed in Snake’s mind, and he finally remembered where he had seen him. Such a physique was indeed rare. He also remembered seeing Black Bear, who was by Ye Qing’s side, at Li Lianshan’s hotel. He had taken a good look at Black Bear back then and had a deep memory of him.

”Damn it, it really was that bastard Ye Qing’s doing!” a disciple said indignantly, ”He just sent someone to ambush us on the road a while ago, and now he has sent someone to our Snake Form Gate to kidnap our brothers. What exactly does this bastard want to do?”

”Isn’t it obvious that he wants to target our Snake Form Gate? I say, this Ye Qing is even worse than Li Lianshan. He talks nicely, but the stuff he does is utterly disgusting, always engaged in these despicable and shameless ambushes!”

”That can’t be right. If he wants to target us, why would he ask us to give him three days on the road? If he wanted three days, then why did he send people to attack us here and kidnap our people? It’s totally unnecessary!” Still, a disciple, confused, raised doubts, saying, ”Do you think it’s possible that someone is deliberately framing him?”

”Are you defending him?” another glared and said. ”Let me tell you why he kidnapped our people. I guarantee that this Ye Qing must still have other things to deal with, so he can’t handle us right now. That’s why he caught up with us earlier and asked us to give him three days, just to confuse us. But Snake didn’t care about his request at the time, nor did he grant him those three days. Ye Qing wasn’t confident himself, so he captured our brothers to coerce us. Hmph, this Ye Qing is just playing for time!”

Most members of Snake Form Gate agreed with this analysis, and Snake himself couldn’t help but slowly nod, thinking it made a lot of sense. With so many things happening one after another, his anger had reached its peak, and he had entirely regarded Ye Qing and Li Lianshan as enemies!

”In that case, what should we do now?” another disciple asked urgently. ”Ye Qing and Li Lianshan have such strong power. If we just confront them directly, we are sure to suffer!”

The crowd fell silent; though they grumbled and cursed at Ye Qing and Li Lianshan, when it came to actually fighting them to the death, they lacked the courage. They had no choice; Ye Qing and Li Lianshan’s power in Shenchuan City was just too strong!

As everyone was silent, Snake finally spoke in a deep voice, ”It seems, it’s time to ask our seniors back from our sect to return!”

At this statement, the people of Snake Form Gate immediately became excited, each of them looking eagerly at Snake. The strength of those seniors from their sect was very clear to them. They believed that if these seniors returned, dealing with Ye Qing and Li Lianshan wouldn’t be difficult.

Just then, right across the yard from Snake Form Gate in a small farmhouse, Xu Cunxiao and Mr. Wu were sitting by a player. They had installed quite a few listening devices inside Snake Form Gate, and could clearly hear every conversation from their side. They had clearly heard all the discussions of the people from Snake Form Gate just now.

”These guys from Snake Form Gate are really fucking useless!” Mr. Wu sneered, ”It’s such an obvious case of using a borrowed knife to kill, but they can’t see it and are still shouting about taking revenge on Ye Qing. They deserve to be used by others!”

”There are eighty or ninety people together; not all of them can be useless, right?” Xu Cunxiao chuckled, shaking his head, saying, ”Actually, the real useless one is Snake himself. The real person we need to deceive is just him!”

”What do you mean?” Mr. Wu looked at Xu Cunxiao in surprise; he could never fully grasp what Xu Cunxiao was thinking.