Chapter 57: Guang Brothers

'I have a bad feeling about this.' Xiu Ye frowned. He brought out his soul video camera and started to play record.

"Xiu Ye? What are you doing?" Mu Xi and Gu Yue noticed what he was doing and asked him.

"It's an insurance, trust me."

"Guys! Let's go and take a look." Xie Xie didn't bother to say something to them, so he quickly ran off. Tang Wulin, Xiu Ye, Gu Yue and Mu Xi could only follow him.

"You guys can't act like this! Not at all! This is how I make my living!" Before they neared, the five of them could already hear Uncle Li's voice.

Xie Xie was at the front and was thus able to quickly force his way through the crowd.

The cooking table beside the stewed beef shop's entrance had been overturned. Beef broth streamed out from the countless shattered jars that lay on the ground. The steamy aroma coming from the meat only added to the disarray.

Uncle Li lay collapsed in the doorway of the shop. He was bleeding from the corner of his mouth and had a swollen eye, which only contributed to the look of grief and indignation on his face.

Three burly men stood before the doorway of the shop. The leader of this trio was a bald man, bare-chested despite the cold weather, showing off the dragon tattoos on his arms.

The other two were also quite tall, and were obviously bad people from the look of their scowls.

"Old Li, a wise man submits to his circumstances. There isn't anyone on this street who dares to not hand over the protection fee money, yet you're always coming up with all sorts of excuses. Could it be that I, Guang Long, need to beg? Do we need to specially send someone over everyday to collect a bit of money? If it wasn't for the fact that your stewed beef is quite tasty, this daddy over here would have already disposed of you. So stop talking nonsense and hand over the money today. If you don't, then you can forget about opening up your shop here in the future." The bald man cast a cold and gloomy gaze on Uncle Li as he spoke. Despite the large crowd, not a single person dared to intervene.

"Big Brother Guang Long, it really isn't that I am refusing to pay the protection fees. It's just that my wife is terribly sick and I use the little money I earn every day to take her to the doctor. But you've actually smashed apart my business! Now my wife won't be able to live much longer. When it comes time, I won't live any longer either."

Guang Long laughed out loud. "Fine then! Trying to threaten me with your life? Do you think that this daddy here cares about your cheap life? Even if you die, I can just substitute you with someone else and I'll be paid all the same. If you can't pay, then beat it! Don't occupy this space." As he spoke, he took a step forward a kicked the kitchen table, flipping it over. In a moment, all of the jars of stewed beef on top were scattered about on the ground.

Uncle Li sorrowfully cried, "Guang Long, I'll stake everything against you." Uncle Li climbed up with great difficulty, then lowered his head and charged at Guang Long.

Guang Long let out a single evil laugh before raising his leg and kicked Uncle Li, sending him tumbling away. "Fighting with your life? In front of this daddy here, you don't even have the qualifications to fight with your life. Don't forget this daddy is a Soul Master."

"Oh, so just because you're a Soul Master, that you can do whatever you want?" A calm voice rebuked from the sidelines and Xiu Ye and his friends squeezed past the crowd. Xie Xie quickly rushed over to Uncle Li's side and supported him. Guang Long was met with Xiu Ye's cold glare.

Guang Long was stunned for a moment, before he began laughing unbridledly at the sight of this child. "This street really doesn't have anyone left after all! Even a child dares to get in my way. He truly is a calf that does not know how to be afraid of the tiger. Beat it! This daddy doesn't like to hit children."

Xiu Ye snorted, clear disdain and contempt could be seen in his eyes as he looked at Guang Long. He stood in front of Uncle Li and his friends. "Daddy? Bitch, you don't even qualify to a percent to my father and, not only are you bullying the weak, you're even scared of fighting children? I've heard of cowards before, but this is the first time that I've seen one such as you."

People from the sidelines laughed out loud or snickered. Even Xiu Ye's friends had laughed.

Guang Long's face was as red as a burning furnace. How dare this child humiliate me! "You little bastard! I'll break every bone in your body and messed up your face that even your mother wouldn't even recognize you!"

He took great strides towards Xiu Ye, his right hand curled into a fist and punch straight towards boy's face.

Xiu Ye snorted coldly, he didn't even need to use reinforcement to deal with this scumbag. As Guang Long's fist went towards him, with a quick and decisive move, Xiu Ye held his wrist tight with a iron grip and raised his left knee up and bend his right arm into a unnatural direction.

"Ahh! My arm!" Guang Long let out a horrified scream as he saw and felt the pain of his right arm being dislocated.

Xiu Ye let go of Guang Long's wrist then, concentrating his physical strength into his right arm and hand, he sent a straight jab towards the latter's sternum that caused a small shockwave and he was sent flying out to a nearby concrete wall and was embedded into it, creating a spiderweb crack crater. Blood started spilling out of his mouth.

"Brother Guang!"

"Oh shit! Somebody call the ambulance!"

The two guys together with Guang Long immediately went to his unconscious body and started calling for help.

Xiu Ye huffed. "Don't worry, I held back my strength. I only broken almost half of the entire bones in his body and disrupted his blood pressure for a brief moment, causing him to spit out blood and went unconscious. He won't die, but he still needs treatment if he doesn't want to be crippled permanently to the neck down."

Everyone sharply took a cold breath in.

So ruthless! Xiu Ye looked to be about fifteen years old and yet he could cause such injuries to a fellow person without any hesitation. If it were ten thousand years ago, everyone wouldn't really have cared much about this type of situation happening in front of them. However, that was then and this was now. In their minds, they all thought of Xiu Ye as a demon in human skin.

The two went pale and trembled at hearing what he said. Without any hesitation, they quickly carried Guang Long with them and away from the demon.

Xiu Ye noticed the looks he was getting from everyone and ignored them, he only turned to walk towards his friends and a scared looking Uncle Li.

In Tang Wulin, Xie Xie, Gu Yue and Mu Xi's eyes, there was only surprise and worry. Surprise at the extreme beating Xiu Ye gave to Guang Long, and worry for the consequences he would take due to his actions. For most of their life they have been through strict and gruelling training, mentally and physically, from seniors and understand that violence is sometimes the answer to problems.

"Ye, what–" Xiu Ye waved his hand and pointed towards Mu Xi, who was using a soul video camera that the former gave to, she didn't realize that she had recorded the entire scene.

"Don't worry, as I said, I have insurance. Now how about we help Uncle Li here and go back to academy?" Everyone nodded.

As they enter the shop, Xiu Ye stopped Mu Xi and said.

"Xi, I need a favor..."

...

In one of the most expensive hotels in Eastsea City, in one of its top floors and one of its numerous rooms, a large noise was heard and a wooden expensive table was flung to wall and broke to pieces.

"Who! Who fucking dares, mess with my little brother!?"

He was over two meters and possessed an extremely stalwart body. He is strikingly similar to Guang Long, his head was also shaven, but he had some small sideburns. With this intrepid appearance of his, he seemed like an upgraded version of Guang Long. His bare arms revealed muscles brimming with a terrifying strength. His eyes burned with the flames of anger and injustice.

Kneeling on the floor, half a meter away from him, was the two goons together with Guang Long a while ago after they got him to the nearest hospital and get treated. Right after that, they immediately contacted Guang Biao, Guang Long's older brother.

After hearing the explanation from the goons about the situation of his brother, Guang Biao is pissed.

Guang Biao is from an ordinary family and both of his parents had died when he was a child. Relying on his own talent, as well as his hard work, he has managed to reach his current position of Eastsea City's Captain of the Mecha Brigade at the age of 35. Due to his upbringing and situation, Guang Biao is always protective of his little brother due to not being able to help him in his Soul Master path.

So when he heard that his brother was almost beaten to death, he immediately became furious and demand for their deaths. He didn't even care if they were children!

He seeks justice!

Guang Biao glared at the two goons, "Information. I want to know who caused my little brother's injuries..."

The two goons trembled in fear and immediately said, "W-We don't know! We just know that they're kids–"

"Useless!"

With a furious expression, he picked up his soul communicator and called for his subordinates to help him.

But before the connection to his subordinates was establish, there was a sudden knock on the door.

*Knock, Knock!*

"SMA(Soul Master Association), open up!"

....

In the following afternoon.

"...Guang Biao, Eastsea City's Mecha Brigade Captain, and his little brother Guang Long, are found guilty for numerous crimes, especially specially the younger brother: for bullying the helpless, abuse of authority and many more. There are many evidence and testimonies to support these crimes, especially a viral video in the soul net that shows Guang Long using his status as a Soul Master to attack and extort a little, yet reputable for its stewed beef, restaurant owner man with the surname Li. There are also–" The soul screen was then switched to another channel.

With a remote control in hand, Xiu Ye smiled and continued on forging his newest creation.

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