Antique Shop

Yi Long had just set up his cardboard sign, but immediately felt the stares of so many individuals from the surrounding.

Yi Long frowns, these aren't stares of disdain, these are those with intention.

Yi Long then scanned their bodies; 'This... Their bodies are top class, they have the bodies of an athlete... They are very well trained...'

He pondered for a while before a smirk appeared on his face; "Hmmp, they're playing fire with the wrong person..."

As Yi Long spoke these words, he immediately picked up the talisman and charms plastered on the board, keeping it inside his jacket, he looks around and started walking.

"Target is moving, I repeat, the target is moving." One of the ten men looking at Yi Long spoke.

"He's entered an alley, watch him closely."

"Someone report this to the president!"

"Copy that."

The ten men in the black suit immediately followed Yi Long through the alley, but as soon as they got there, Yi Long is nowhere to be seen.

"That... Where did he go?!"

One of them spoke.

The others felt shocked, they were given a strict command of not lose their target even with the cost of their lives, but immediately, they lost sight of him.

"Spread out, we need to search for him fast!"

They immediately spread out, some entered the close buildings nearby, while others scattered through the road and alleys to pick some traces.

Meanwhile, Yi Long looks at them from the rooftop of the building beside the alley; "What the hell, ten of them just for a mere 10,000 RMB? This world had truly gone down."

Yi Long came to a conclusion that these bad men were after his 10,000 RMB, and in his mind, these might be some gang or a mafia group of the locals.

With that in mind, Yi Long looks at them with disdain: "Let me teach you a lesson."

Yi Long scanned the ten men and choose to deal with one who's farther apart from the rest, and the one he chose is the person that actually had chosen the building he had climbed on to.

"You unlucky fella." Yi Long can still fight them, but the more he does, the stronger he does in spending his Spiritual Energy.

If he wants to shoo away these thugs, he needs to demonstrate his strength at the very least.

As soon as the person climbed to the rooftop, he searched left and right: "No signs of him here. Over."

Yi Long waited for him to finish his words before launching a surprise attack.

"Hmm?" The poor man noticed Yi Long's presence but it was too late.

Yi Long kicked him from the back of his neck and followed with another hit behind his lungs.

The man felt his neck aching as the pain traversed down the spine and the air he breathes suddenly got cut, making him almost lose his consciousness, but Yi Long's follow up, hitting him from behind the lung part caused all the air to push out of his body.

"Kuk!"

He could only utter a slight nose before fainting down flat on the ground.

"One down." As soon as he dealt with one person, he immediately chose his next target, the one that went to the other direction of the alley alone.

Yi Long jumps quickly as he chases after that man.

"None here, I'm returning with the group. Over."

The other one immediately tried to return to the others, but as soon as he turns around, he saw Yi Long.

He opened the radio and was about to contact the rest, but before he could, Yi Long launched a kick, hitting the man's temple and following up with an elbow to his chin.

"Hik!"

The man faints immediately as his knees lands on the ground, kneeling unconsciously towards Yi Long.

"Phoenix, what's that nice..."

"Phoenix?"

"Phoenix!"

"Shit, what happened there, go there!"

Yi Long sighed, he was careless this time: "I'm losing my grip... if it were the old me, it would've definitely ended long ago..."

After speaking like that, Yi Long ran away, but immediately, he was surrounded, this time, there are more than twenty men surrounding him.

"Hey kid, we just want you to come with us nice and peacefully, we don't mean you any harm, just come with us and we can talk things out, I promise." The leader of the black men spoke.

Hearing this, Yi Long found himself thinking that this is one of those that his mother usually watch, where the thugs are trying to coerce the female lead into surrendering and not make things hard for them, this made Yi Long felt bitter; 'Do I look like a female to you guys?'

"Tsk!" Yi Long can feel that this person is the most experienced out of all of them, and with that, he chose the other way.

Yi Long charges forth, he then jumps and elbowed the one blocking him.

"Ghrug!"

The man in black tried to block it, but Yi Long's force made his arm block break as Yi Long's elbow continued and struck his nose.

Blood scatters through the ground and Yi Long immediately ran away at full force.

"Why... why is he even running..." All of them looked at Yi Long's back as he vanishes into the crowd.

After a while, all of them woke up, the leader then shouted: "What are you all standing there for, follow him!"

"Yes!"

Yi Long chuckles, seeing that he had finally made a few distances with them, but something is bothering him: "I showed enough force to scare some people, but they still held on and are chasing me now... Something is weird here..."

Yi Long thought that these people were desperate, but after a while, he changed it to another one: "They want to establish dominance over the area, they clearly don't want me to gain benefits without paying taxes towards the Mafia Lord..."

"Hmmp, who are you guys? You, want me? Yi Long to submit?! You all must've lost your minds!"

After a while of running, Yi Long stops suddenly, he then noticed a very old looking house with old styled written words; [Heaven, Earth, Men.]

This words caught Yi Long's attention, especially the letters: "This type of Calligraphy art is imbued with a different energy, although it is not Spiritual Energy, it didn't lose out to it..."

Yi Long then remembered one of the dramas that his mother watches and spoke: "Let's call it Qi/Ki for now... Such profound knowledge with the calligraphy, If I could teach him, he'll definitely grow better in the future."

As soon as Yi Long finished speaking, he then opened the door and entered the antique shop.