I bought a secret manual of the Hehuan Sect for ten yuan.

"Brother Hao, why are we so unlucky? We run into a jinx like Min Zhenghao on a mission!"

"You should be grateful you weren't beaten to death. What's a few injuries? Do you even know who the Min family is?"

"What's their background? Brother Hao, we're just killing time anyway, why don't you tell everyone?"

"That old man next to Min Zhenghao was pretty strong. I didn't even realize what was happening before I was sent flying."

"This Min family of Beidu..."

"Wow, is it someone with such a big background?"

"Brother Hao, didn't our leader send people to arrest Min Zhenghao and the others? It seems that Deputy Leader Chang was leading the team personally. If what you're saying is true, isn't our leader in big trouble?"

"No matter how strong the expert next to Min Zhenghao is, he can't possibly be a match for Deputy Hall Master Chang. Capturing him isn't difficult, but once he's captured, that's when the trouble begins."

"Brother Hao, do you mean our leader doesn't dare to punish Min Zhenghao and the others?"

"What do you think? With the Min family's capabilities, they can go directly to headquarters to demand an explanation. Who can we, a mere branch, stand against?"

"No way, didn't our new leader say that our branch isn't subject to the headquarters' control?"

"Yeah, he was making all sorts of boasts the day he took office, he wouldn't be this cowardly, would he?"

"You actually believed him? He's arrogant, not stupid!"

"Exactly! If I could be a hall master at his age, I'd be even more arrogant than him!"

"Arresting them would be difficult to handle, but not arresting them would also be difficult to explain, and we'd lose face."

"Trust me, at most two days, Min Zhenghao and the others will be sent to the Beidu headquarters. What happens to them in the end is not our concern."

"Similar things have happened before..."

The group was chatting around Cheng Hao, and each of them had some kind of injury on them.

They were the same group that Cheng Hao led to capture Min Zhenghao, only to be brutally beaten by Feng Yi and slink back home.

"Brother Hao, something terrible has happened!"

A man burst in like a whirlwind, shouting, "Brother Hao, Min Zhenghao and the others are dead!"

"What did you say?!" Cheng Hao momentarily forgot about his leg injury, jumped up, wincing in pain, "You, you say it again, who died?"

"Min Zhenghao! And his entourage, that Feng Yi guy, all those people Vice Hall Master Chang just arrested, they're all dead!"

"Are you sure Min Jung-ho is dead too?"

"How can I not be sure? I glanced at the body when it was carried out; its head was smashed. How could it possibly be alive?"

A storm raged within Cheng Hao. "Was it our hall master who killed them?"

"I think so. It's said that only the hall master and two deputy hall masters were present at the time. Those two wouldn't do something like that, would they?"

"My goodness, the sect leader is awesome!"

"..."

Just as everyone was having a heated discussion, Chang Siyao arrived.

The main hall of the Northern Capital Martial Arts Hall, the Enforcement Department.

Just as Yi Han, burning with anger, was pondering who to send to Jiangcheng, Chang Siyao's briefing arrived at headquarters.

News of Min Zhenghao's death spread instantly to the top management of Shadow Martial Arts Hall, and a high-level meeting was subsequently convened.

They are currently facing two main problems. First, how to inform the Min family of Min Zhenghao's death, and who should do so.

Secondly, how should the Jiangcheng branch be dealt with?

When they first learned that Min Zhenghao had died in the Jiangcheng branch, quite a few people wanted to go to Jiangcheng to meet Qin Ge, the new branch leader. They all wanted to see for themselves what was so special about the person appointed by the head of the branch.

But after reading the full briefing given by Chang Siyao, none of them were willing to go.

This is no easy task!

At first glance, what Qin Ge did seemed outrageous, but after understanding the whole story, it turned out that there was absolutely nothing wrong with it according to the rules!

They felt the situation was serious, but only because the dead were members of the Min family.

No matter how capable or well-connected the Min family is, they can only deal with Qin Ge by having someone target them in secret.

It's impossible to use the rules of the Shadow Martial Hall to openly deal with Qin Ge!

......

Qin Ge was worried that Chang Siyao and his team wouldn't be able to handle the arrival of people from the Shadow Martial Hall headquarters, so he deliberately postponed his return to the East China Sea.

Another week passed, and everything went smoothly.

There was no notification from headquarters, and the Min family didn't take any action either, as if nothing had happened.

Qin Ge was a little confused. What happened to the storm?

His prestige in the Jiangcheng branch reached a whole new level, a level that even the former branch leader Liu Musheng could hardly reach!

The people of Shadow Martial Hall used to fear him, but now they genuinely respect him.

Qin Ge knew that the Min family would not let this go so easily, but he didn't care.

He wasn't even afraid of the Mo Yi Hall, so how could the Min family have more experts or more ruthless methods than the Mo Yi Hall?

Seeing that there was nothing much to do at the Shadow Martial Hall and he was bored, Qin Ge spent the whole night thoroughly satisfying Shen Yulan before returning to the East Sea the next day.

The first stop in the East China Sea: Shadow Martial Hall.

Qin Ge brought Sikong Xian back as well, and after thinking it over, he decided that it would be safer to keep him locked up in the Shadow Martial Hall.

It is said that Sikong Xian is really stubborn; he still refuses to speak.

"Qin..." Upon meeting Qin Ge again, Yu Xiaoyun was overwhelmed with emotions and didn't know how to address him properly.

He knew everything that had happened in Jinling and Jiangcheng. The last time they met, he wanted Qin Ge to join the East Sea Martial Arts Hall. How long had it been? Qin Ge himself had become a branch hall master, on equal footing with him.

I should treat Qin Ge as a junior, but his strength is far superior to mine. How can I accept that?

"Master Yu, you can just call me Qin Ge. I'm not any different from before."

After exchanging pleasantries with Yu Xiaoyun, Qin Ge looked at Yu Jinghong, who was unusually well-behaved, and said, "Miss Yu, it's been so long since we last met. Why do you seem to not recognize me?"

Yu Jinghong rolled her eyes at her and retorted, "Why are you even going back to Donghai? Why don't you just die in Jiangcheng?"

These past few days she had been keeping a close eye on Qin Ge's situation in Jiangcheng, and the various news coming from Jiangcheng made her heart pound with anxiety.

It was truly exhilarating, but I was also genuinely worried.

That bastard is really messing around!

"What are you saying? If I die, you'll be..."

Qin Ge was halfway through his joke when he remembered that Yu Xiaoyun was still sitting there, so he quickly swallowed the rest of his words.

It's acceptable to root a cabbage, but it's considered impolite to do so in front of the host.

"Um, I just remembered I have something to take care of!"

Yu Xiaoyun coughed lightly twice, as if for tactical purposes. "Jinghong, you young people have more in common, so why don't you help me entertain Master Qin..."

"Then you two talk, we won't disturb you."

Absence makes the heart grow fonder, and a major battle is inevitable.

Only when Yu Jinghong softened into a puddle of spring water did they finally give up.

That night, Qin Ge stayed at Yingwu Hall, and the next day he called Hong Zhendong over.