38 Aftermath

"You…! What are you trying to do?" Wang Deng lost his composure and stumbled back in slight panic as Long Chen raised his sword towards him.

"What am I trying to do? Can't you see? Of course I'm going to kill you." Long Chen took one step after another, inching closer to Wang Deng.

The corner of Long Chen's lips rose into a smirk as he stared at Wang Deng, "I heard somebody say that were should quietly wait for our death? What happened to the person who was so high and mighty before, who had claimed that you would have cleaned up our corpses for us?"

"Don't think that you can act so arrogantly just because you were able to chase away the monsters!" Angered by Long Chen's mockery, Wang Deng stared at Long Chen with hostility.

Then, forgetting his own strength, he raised his blade and slashed at Long Chen from a ten meter distance. His blade aura cut through the air, creating a swish sound that travelled towards Long Chen in a dominating line.

Towards this, Long Chen moved the sword in his hand, releasing a sword aura to deal with Wang Deng's blade aura.

The two powerful auras collided in mid-air and gave out a small explosion, which impacted the ground around, creating cracks and holes within.

A shrill cry of pain was heard, followed by a loud 'thump' sound.

Wang Deng clutched his left hand, as he screamed in agonizing pain, sounding exactly like a pig being slaughtered.

His left hand, had been cut off!

The only thing that was left was his stump, which he gripped as he tried to stop his blood from flowing.

Long Chen was about to follow up, when he saw the battered and beaten Hun Yan who stood beside him, glaring at Wang Deng with pure hatred.

"Hun Yan, I will leave him with you. You can do the rest." Long Chen turned towards Hun Yan and pointed at the miserable Wang Deng who was rolling in pain.

Hun Yan looked up at Long Chen with gratitude, and gave him a word of thanks before he left to deal with Wang Deng.

As for Long Chen, he dealt with the remaining members of the Wild Wolf Gang, picking them off one by one.

After he was done, he left towards a secluded corner and took a deep breath. He released all the negative emotions that he had been suppressing within him, as he gave a loud cry.

His hands, his body, was faintly trembling in fear.

This was the first time he had killed so many people before.

Even if he wanted to lie to himself, he just couldn't. This was a traumatizing event to him, which he currently wasn't able to completely adapt into.

How could he possibly remain calm, after his hands were stained with the blood of so many/

Even if they harbored ill-intentions towards him, this scale of slaughter made him feel an unease in his heart.

However, he knew that this was only the beginning.

This was a cultivation world. In this world, only strength rules. And in any society where strength is the law, killing is inevitable.

After releasing all his feelings, he returned to the battlefield.

The area was stained with the blood of countless monsters and cultivators, and was dyed a fresh red that gave off a bloodthirsty and suffocating aura.

Corpses lay around in disorder, blood ran freely.

This scene could be adequately described as a mountain of corpses, a sea of blood.

Normal people will definitely puke at the very sight of this horrendous scene.

The few remaining members of the Fierce Tiger Gang all presented the other side of these ferocious and fearless man, crying out their tears for their fallen brothers.

Hun Yan was at the side, below him was Wang Deng's body, whose eyes were wide open with terror. However, Hun Yan was not happy. He was remorseful. He felt resentment to himself.

The Wild Wolf Gang were utterly decimated in this fight, but the Fierce Tiger Gang was not doing any better either.

Their numbers had diminished to a meagre 10 people, with many of the others dying out during the battle.

This was a destruction to both sides.

"Bury the dead." Hun Yan said in a hoarse voice as he turned towards the remaining members.

Si Chen took a deep breath, as he started to move. They were all died, but their talent was still with them.

He squatted by each and every one of them, monsters and cultivators alike, and began his rampant absorption of talent.

[Host has detected Mortal Tier 5 Talent. Host is absorbing…]

[Host has detected Mortal Tier 3 Talent. Host is absorbing…]

[Host has detected Mortal Tier 6 Talent. Host is absorbing…]

….

After a while of work.

[Host's Alchemy Talent has levelled up from Mortal Tier 9 to Mortal Tier 10]

As this notification landed, Long Chen felt a burst of delight within his heart, and continued to absorb their talents.

In the end, his Alchemy Talent had reached the mid stage of Mortal Tier 10, while his Cultivation Talent was approaching the next level.

A few minutes later, all that need to be buried was buried, and the monster corpses were also collected into a storage bag.

"Brothers of the Fierce Tiger Gang, after this horrendous battle, we have suffered many losses. Too many losses. As the leader of this gang, I am supposed to have been protecting every single of you. Yet I failed in my mission. I sincerely apologise to you all." Gathering the members of the Fierce Tiger Gang, Hun Yan bowed down his head towards them.

"Leader, there is no need to apologize."

"Exactly. This is also mostly all fault. Who asked us to be so weak?"

The members of the gang all scrambled to speak up when they saw Hun Yan's actions, and rushed forward to pull him up.

"After this fight, I already have no face to continue being the leader of the gang. Sorry, but I shall officially step down as the leader. From today onwards, there is no such gang called the Fierce Tiger Gang! You can all leave to go wherever you please." Hun Yan choked with emotion as he spit out these words from his mouth.

As he finished saying this, he then unexpectedly kneeled in front of Long Chen, his eyes shining with a resolute gleam as he said, "Chen Long, you have helped and allowed me to kill off the man who had instigated this entire matter, who I was too weak to kill off. From now onwards, I shall pledge my allegiance to you! "

Long Chen's face froze for a few moments, before he hurriedly tried to help Hun Yan up, "What are you trying to do? I have only aided you to kill off Wang Deng. This isn't even a serious matter. "

However, Hun Yan did not budge from his knees, as he lifted his head, "Although this may be something easy for you, but this is something that means a lot to me. If not for Wang Deng, my brothers will not die! I wanted to kill him off with my own hands, to take revenge for the blood of my brothers, but I was far too weak. If not for you, I wouldn't be able to kill him off personally! If not for you, our entire gang would have been wiped out! Our lives, are all saved by you. Thus, I shall pledge allegiance to you, be it becoming your dog or your horse, I will be!"

Long Chen was rendered speechless by his words, his mind unable to make any turns.

When did he become so magnificent? He had only moved his sword a few times.

The rest of the members of the Fierce Tiger Gang also went down on their knees, as they all echoed, "We also pledge allegiance to you!'

"What are you all doing? This is my decision alone, why are you following me too?" Hun Yan berated as he heard the voices behind him.

"Leader, as you have just said, he had also saved our lives!"

"I only have one life, and he has helped me to retain my life! Since he is my benefactor, why can't I pledge allegiance to him too?"

The members all shouted one by one in righteous and convicted tones, leaving Long Chen just dumbly sitting there, not able to comprehend this scene in front of his eyes.

"How could I possibly? Quickly stand back up!' Long Chen shook his head and responded after he snapped out of his daze.

Pledging allegiance. Being loyal to him?

Was he a gang leader?

���Unless you accept us, I will kneel here forever, waiting for you to acknowledge us!" Hun Yan cried out, his voice persistent.

The other members of the Fierce Tiger Gang all fiercely nodded their heads in agreement, their expressions clearly writing, "You accept, or I kneel."

"This…" At this point of time, Long Chen felt a headache coming. Sweeping a glance across the bunch of ferocious man who were kneeling in front of him, he couldn't figure out what he should do next.

This turn of events was too sudden and too unexpected, he wasn't about to handle it at all.

First of all, he was in disguise. It would be hard for him to take care of these group of people.

Second, their current aptitude and cultivation were not much use to him at all. He could easily leave them behind in the dust, and in the end they provide no value to him.

Facing this situation, Long Chen had an urge to run and flee from this place.

But looking at the blazing desire within their eyes, he felt it was rather bad for him to reject their good-will.

He quickly made a decision within his head.

Lightly chuckling, he slowly stood up and inched away from them, step by step