Chapter 350: Chapter 203: He and Liu Join Hands (3)

In such an unsteady state, they couldn’t hope to run a hundred meters. Even if they could, they wouldn’t get the chance.

As the team closed in, their blades rose and fell, striking the He Family members’ hands or feet first.

Their sword-wielding wrists were severed, or they were kicked to the ground and the tendons in their arms and legs were slashed.

The fifteen Eighth Grade Martial Artists were like helpless chicks, instantly routed by Zhou Zhendong and his men.

Even the few who could put up a fight couldn’t last more than a few moves.

To put it plainly, with the Geomagnetic Stone, they were virtually unmatched against any Martial Artist within the Lower Three Grades.

In just two or three minutes, all of the He Family’s Eighth Grade Martial Artists were crippled, and White Medicine was quickly applied to stop the bleeding.

Cheng Zongyang had given them an order: cripple every Martial Artist’s ability to fight back, then capture them.

Although they didn’t know why, they followed his orders without question.

After dealing with these men, Zhou Zhendong said to the people behind him, "Take them to the warehouse and lock them up. The Young Clan Leader will deal with them later. I’m going to check the other streets."

The five men replied in unison.

Zhou Zhendong put away the Geomagnetic Stone, collected the Purses from their bodies, and then hurried off to other locations.

Similar battles were taking place on other streets at the same time.

The Cheng Family’s thirty Martial Artists were divided into six squads. Aside from Zhou Zhendong’s team of six, the rest were all five-man squads.

Each of these squads was assigned a Geomagnetic Stone. The person in control of the stone was from the Earth Branch Lineage.

Therefore, whenever these squads intercepted members of the He Family on the streets, it was a complete rout. The He Family men had virtually no capacity to resist.

The actual fights lasted less than a minute or two. The rest of the time was spent staunching the bleeding.

It was safe to say these battles posed no challenge whatsoever.

But they all knew that there was no need for a life-or-death struggle. Since there was a more efficient way to achieve victory, there was no point in wasting time.

The Cheng Family was already short on Martial Artists. If they were to lose more men in these battles, their available fighting force would shrink even further.

For the Cheng Family at present, the number of their Martial Artists was more for deterrence than for actual combat effectiveness.

There were plenty of other ways to gain combat experience; there was no need to prove anything in a situation like this.

The Cheng Family’s slow development was also related to their lack of manpower.

Within half an hour, the six squads had intercepted and dealt with the hundred-plus ordinary guards and Martial Artists sent by the He Family.

The ordinary men were killed on the spot, while all the Martial Artists were captured alive and taken away.

The He Family’s plan to annihilate the Cheng Family and take over West City tonight had essentially been declared a failure.

Similarly, on Southwest City Street, Xiao Bing, leading several experienced Martial Artists from the Celestial Break Gang’s Zhenwu Hall, caught up to his hall brothers who were being surrounded and attacked by the Liu Family’s guards in an alley.

Xiao Bing was well aware of his own gang’s combat strength. Against seasoned family guards like these, they stood little chance of victory.

This had been evident last time at Tiantuan Village.

Therefore, when Xiao Bing found one of the Liu Family’s guard teams, he didn’t hesitate. He took out the Geomagnetic Stone, put on the Purse, and launched a rescue and counterattack.

As the hall responsible for external combat, Zhenwu Hall recruited men who were either belligerent brawlers, physically robust, or utterly fearless.

It was for this very reason that Cheng Zongyang had left Zhenwu Hall one Geomagnetic Stone and five Purses to use in times of crisis and avoid excessive casualties among the hall brothers.

While it was true that the deaths of these contracted hall brothers would benefit Cheng Zongyang, he still felt that now was not the time.

In the early stages of the gang, these kinds of men were far more valuable alive than dead. Once things completely stabilized in the future, their deaths wouldn’t matter as much.

And so, another one-sided rout began.