Chapter 157 Helpless Feng Hu Hall

Feng Hu Hall Leader ‘Cui Xiao Dao’ quickly gathered the core members of his hall.

“Brother Dong Xiao is dead.” Feng Hu Hall Leader swept his gaze over the surrounding people, throwing the envelope and letter paper onto the table. “Take a look, everyone.”

Anyone with a brain could determine from the words on the envelope and the content of the letter that the most likely suspect was Chang Yi.

“Chang Yi?”

“That bastard son of the Chang family? Does he have that much ability?”

“Could it be a frame-up?”

The core members weren’t about to determine that Chang Yi was the culprit based on a single letter.

Feng Hu Hall Leader said coldly, “Dong Xiao was only killed in the latter half of the night, and this morning, the letter was already in my hands! The speed is too fast. The one who wrote this letter is most likely on the killer’s side! Moreover, I don’t think Chang Yi is worth framing.”

“That Master Chang does have some experts around him. Last time, the three experts caused our three hundred elite gang members to collapse.” The white-clothed youth nodded.

“I think there’s more than a 70% chance that Chang Yi is threatening us,” said the Feng Hu Hall Leader. “Killing Dong Xiao to intimidate us.”

“He dares!”

“He already did it!”

“He can kill Dong Xiao, and with such force! Who among us can stop him?”

The core leaders of Feng Hu Hall were restless.

“Everyone, let’s talk about what to do next,” said the Feng Hu Hall Leader, his eyes sweeping over them.

“In my opinion,” a burly man said in a low voice, “we should be low-key and patient, to lull that Chang family bastard! We’ll prepare in secret, and when we’re absolutely sure, we’ll kill that Master Chang in one fell swoop! The outside world knows that our Hua Yue Gang’s Feng Hu Hall acted last time. If we just give up like this, what will the outside world think of us? They’ll think we’re easy to bully. So we have to find an opportunity to act, but… we have to be absolutely sure. If we can’t kill him in one go, that Master Chang will probably launch another wave of assassinations!”

“I don’t think it’s necessary. Maybe someone else killed Dong Xiao. If the killer is deliberately framing him, we’ll fall for someone else’s trick if we go after Chang Yi.” A man with a mustache shook his head gently. “I think it’s best not to move! This Lan Yue City has five million people. How many things happen every day? Who’s going to keep paying attention to the little conflict between our Feng Hu Hall and the Chang family? After a long time, people will forget.”

“How could they forget?” someone objected.

“Then our Hua Yue Gang can find other things to establish our prestige. Knowing that this Master Chang is much more difficult to deal with than expected, it’s stupid to go and kill him.” The man with the mustache shook his head. “We who are in gangs have to be tough when we should be tough, and soft when we should be soft! Those who shout and kill at every turn don’t live long.”

“I agree with Second Brother Xiao. The Chang family isn’t a piece of meat, it’s a nail. We don’t need to butt heads with it.”

“Are you all scared? We have tens of thousands of brothers in Feng Hu Hall. If they all peed together, they could drown the Chang family!”

“Use your heads!”

The hall was filled with arguing.

Feng Hu Hall Leader looked at the white-clothed youth. “Old Nine, what are your thoughts?”

The white-clothed youth said, “If we endure, we’ll lose face for Feng Hu Hall! But if we act, to be honest, with the strength of our Feng Hu Hall alone, we really don’t have absolute certainty. After all, the entire hall only has three second-rate experts! In a real fight to the death, it still depends on the strength of the elite. Our elite strength doesn’t have an overwhelming advantage. The so-called tens of thousands of gang members are useless in front of experts. If we really go to kill them, even if we succeed, the casualties will be very heavy.”

“If we lose face if we endure, and we’re not sure if we act, what do we do?” someone shouted.

The white-clothed youth said, “I think we should report this matter to the gang leader. This Chang family is not easy to deal with. Whether we endure or act, the gang has to decide!”

“Doesn’t that make us look incompetent?”

“This…”

“We are indeed incompetent!” The white-clothed youth shook his head. “Our hall’s strength is not enough!”

Feng Hu Hall Leader sat there in thought, and looked at the letter again.

He was indeed a little frightened.

When he was young, he often risked his life in the martial world! But now that he was getting older, he was used to having his gang members charge forward, and rarely risked his own life! Moreover, with the strength of Feng Hu Hall, facing the bastard son of the Chang family, he really didn’t have much confidence.

After all, the scene of Dong Xiao being killed by force was still fresh in Feng Hu Hall Leader’s mind.

“This matter will be reported to the gang leader, and the gang will decide.” Feng Hu Hall Leader spoke.

Once the hall leader spoke, no one else objected.

Even if the gang thought ‘Feng Hu Hall’ was incompetent, they would only punish the hall leader.

…

That afternoon, Feng Hu Hall Leader visited the gang leader again, and felt much more relaxed when he returned.

“From today on, the Chang family’s affairs will be taken over by the gang leader,” said Feng Hu Hall Leader. “Everyone must keep this a secret. Anyone who dares to leak it will be punished according to gang rules.”

“Yes.”

The people in the hall responded in unison, their faces much more relaxed.

******

The following days were peaceful.

Master Chang Yi often took his guards out to discuss business! But the Feng Hu Hall of the Hua Yue Gang did not act again. Xu Jingming, Mr. Lu, and Miss Zi Teng were also happy to relax.

In the blink of an eye, Xu Jingming had been in the Blood Rain World for more than a month.

Xu Jingming spent 12 hours a day in the Blood Rain World. At other times, he either practiced his spearmanship in the virtual world, or used a huge convex lens glass in the real-world training room to focus sunlight on his body, constantly evolving his body.

Although he had reached the sixth level in the virtual world, reaching the middle stage of Starry Sky Life, he was still in the ‘initial stage of Starry Sky Life’ in reality.

“I am now in the initial stage of Starry Sky Life. Although it requires a lot of energy to improve to the middle stage, with the help of this large convex lens glass to focus sunlight, it will probably take another month or so.” Xu Jingming thought, “But in the future, the energy required to go from the middle stage to the high stage of Starry Sky Life will be too much. This training room is far from enough.”

“I won’t think about it. I’ll worry about this problem when I reach the seventh level.”

Xu Jingming sat cross-legged in the training room, his upper body naked, with all the sunlight focused on him. His whole body was dark and blurry, and every cell in his body was absorbing the energy of the sunlight.

…

Blood Rain World, Lan Yue City, Fei family.

The Fei family’s master finally compromised with his daughter.

“Three people! You can choose a maximum of three guards.” Master Fei looked at his daughter, holding up three fingers. “And the reputation of these three guards can’t be too bad. At the very least, they have to be at the level of that spearman surnamed Jing.”

“Alright,” Fei Xinlan muttered, “Just three then.”

“Don’t be ungrateful.” Master Fei was helpless.

Fei Xinlan immediately hugged her father’s arm and said intimately, “I know you love me, Daddy.”

Master Fei looked at his daughter. He was really afraid of her melting in his hands, and shook his head helplessly. “You, you should be considerate of Daddy in everything. We’re moving our whole family to the capital this time, so we naturally have to be careful. In this world, the journey is very dangerous. From our Lan Yue City to the capital, the journey is long… Choosing guards is a top priority. We have to choose people we can trust.”

“Don’t worry, Daddy, I’m not stupid,” Fei Xinlan said. “I’ll choose carefully, and there are still experts sent by my elder brother.”

“Mm.”

Master Fei nodded. “Otherwise, how could I let you be so presumptuous?”

Fei Xinlan giggled.

“Uncle Zhang, since Daddy only allows me to choose three people.” Fei Xinlan thought for a moment and said, “Then there’s my Senior Sister Qiu, that handsome spearman from the Chang family, and Brother Luo from the Black Axe Gang. Just those three!”

“The one surnamed Luo?” Master Fei glared. “He’s from a gang.”

“Brother Luo is very upright. I believe him!” Fei Xinlan said.

Master Fei thought about it. That one surnamed Luo was considered to have a good character among the gang members.

“Alright, alright, just those three then.” Master Fei stopped arguing with his daughter. Anyway, it was just three guards, so he would just treat it as spending money to hire three more people. For their Fei family, that was just small change.

“Master, when should we arrange for them to depart?” the butler asked.

“Since we’re moving our whole family, we naturally have to make proper arrangements, and it’s still early before Xinlan’s enrollment date.” Master Fei said, “We’ll arrange to depart in two months!”

The butler nodded. “Then I’ll go now.”

Fei Xinlan said, “Go quickly! Oh, right, Uncle Zhang, we have to travel all the way to the capital, the journey is long, and we’re leaving our home, and the road is dangerous, so you have to be willing to spend money! I can’t let Senior Sister Qiu and the others suffer.”

“Of course, of course.” The butler said with a smile, then took someone and left the Fei family to visit the three guards named by the young mistress.