The Professional Rankings, in twelve volumes, each bearing the name of my lord.

"Welcome back to your hometown, Captain Tao."

Song Feng appeared wearing a dice-shaped headgear, followed by a group of clones also wearing bandit headgear.

The group of over a hundred people slowly emerged from the darkness and walked into the dim streetlights of the abandoned square.

They entered the light row by row, creating a sense of oppression for Tao Ming and his companions.

"Brother Ming, they're...the bandits..."

"Are they really bandits?"

"The entire metaverse has been buzzing with discussion for the past two months, there's no mistake! The bandits really are in Baiyun City!"

Seeing his friends panic, Tao Ming snorted coldly.

"What's the panic! These bandits are all acquired martial arts practitioners. I can take on a hundred of them by myself! Tiger Qi Mystic Art!"

Tao Ming stood with his legs apart in a horse stance, his palms crossed in front of his chest.

His muscles suddenly bulged, and a faint red aura surrounded him.

This is a spiritual technique that temporarily enhances physical strength, and its quality is quite high.

Before Tao Ming could finish channeling his energy, the more than one hundred bandits opposite him simultaneously raised their right hands, pointing them at a 45-degree angle to the sky.

"rise."

They spoke in unison.

Immediately afterwards, the swords, knives, guns, cannons, and sniper rifles that the bandits carried on their backs floated up into the air.

This isn't Magnet Bro using his powers.

Rather, they were all using magical arts to control objects.

For innate spiritual warriors, the ability to manipulate objects is a very basic spiritual technique.

Its advanced version is the well-known sword control.

Only sword control has the ability to kill enemies, while object control can only control the movement of objects around the body; it is a very simple and easy-to-learn spiritual technique.

Tao Ming's friends were all stunned.

"They're all innate spiritual warriors! Doflamingo, did you see that? They all possess spiritual techniques!"

"This...this...this can't be real! Aren't they saying online that they all had cosmetic surgery?"

"Stop searching online. My all-powerful machine is equipped with a realm detector, and it's already confirmed that these people are indeed all innate spiritual martial artists, although they're only at the first level of the innate realm!"

Upon seeing this scene and hearing his friends' comments, Tao Ming, who was in a horse stance, immediately bent his knees and clapped his hands forward.

I knelt down.

"Brother Bandit, what are your orders?"

Seeing this, Tao Ming's friends' lips twitched, and helplessly, they also knelt down.

Tao Ming is at the fourth level of the Innate Realm. Normally, he could easily defeat several opponents at the first level of the Innate Realm.

But the other side wasn't just a few, or even just a few dozen, it was over a hundred!

What's the point of fighting?

Moreover, they also have firearms.

Faced with firearms, if one does not have equivalent firearms or smart equipment and cannot effectively dodge them, even a naturally gifted martial artist will suffer a great loss.

Seeing the enemy who killed his parents at such close range, Song Feng could not hide his anger.

Although he didn't say or do anything, as Song Feng's alter ego, the bandits felt the same way.

Blood Brother immediately pulled out his whip weapon—with two months of supplies from the outer sect's Pockmarked Brother, each of the bandits now had a weapon for combat, so there shouldn't be any problem.

"New or old thief, let me handle this. I have a hundred ways to make him die a horrible death."

Magnet Brother stepped forward to volunteer.

"I have a new idea that will make him die in a very rhythmic way."

Huozi Bro lit it on fire.

"Stop talking nonsense, I'm sending him to see Grandma!"

Song Feng stopped Huo Zi Ge, who had already made his move.

"Wait a moment."

Upon seeing this, Tao Ming was terrified and realized that the bandits had come for him tonight.

Tao Ming slumped to the ground, looking at the bandits dressed in Taoist robes, standing in the shadows, which made them even more terrifying, and asked with a wronged expression.

"No, my ancestors, I, Tao Mingyi, am a nobody. When did I offend you? Aren't you cracking down on gangs? I'm doing a legitimate job now."

Although he desperately wanted to kill his enemy, Song Feng did not forget the important matter of reviving Song Gua.

He suppressed his anger for the time being, and tried his best to remain calm and even slightly mocking as he spoke to Tao Ming.

"Captain Tao, you've seen it yourself. My brothers all have terrible tempers. They could skin you alive at any moment."

Tao Ming, a long-time member of the underworld who rose through the ranks from the lowest levels of gangsters, was more adept at reading people than any martial arts he had ever practiced.

He immediately realized that the man with the dice-shaped headgear was the leader and commander of this group.

He immediately knelt down and moved over, speaking in a fawning tone.

"Brother, have pity on me! I have elderly parents to support, young children to raise, and a wife and concubines to care for. Please have mercy and let these brothers release me. If you want me to do anything, I will absolutely not dare to say 'no'!"

Song Feng kicked him away, but Tao Ming just smiled and wasn't annoyed at all.

"The brothers aren't interested in you, but they are interested in something in the Ma Corporation."

"The vault! It must be the vault, right? No problem, I'll lead the way and distract the security guards!"

The other people with Tao Ming echoed his sentiments.

"That's right, that's right! We learned that our bandit ancestors loved warehouses!"

"We'll definitely help you, just spare our lives!"

"To be honest, bandits have always been my idols since I was a kid. It would be even better if I could join you! I want the 'two-tube' hood!"

When Brother Xuezi lashed out with his whip, each person would have a red mark on their face.

"What's all the noise about? Did we tell you to speak?"

Song Feng squatted down, picked up a weed from the ground, and played with it in his hand.

"We don't want the dirty money from the Ma family company, we want the Song Gua stone statue."

"You want... the Song Gua stone statue? This..."

"You should know where it is, right? You're a captain in the guard, you can't be that uninformed, can you?"

"I...I'll pass, this..."

Fire Brother's eyes started spitting fire.

"I know, it's in Building 9 of the Ma's campus, there's a floor there that's a cutting-edge laboratory."

"laboratory?"

"That's right! There's no mistake. Ma's Company has recently hired a lot of scientists and high-level spiritual warriors at high salaries. Their business doesn't include a technology sector at all; it's all about loans. Hiring scientists and experts is definitely for researching the stone statues."

Song Feng got up, casually tossed the weeds aside, and began to pace back and forth.

"The Ma Corporation is currently trying to investigate whether there's anything hidden inside the stone statue, but they'll eventually find out that there's nothing there at all. Then it will be much harder for us to take it back."

Huozi was puzzled.

Why?

"Because of the technology of material stretching and contraction."

The telescopic capsules we usually use are the cheapest version, which can only stretch from a few meters to more than ten meters in length and width, turning them into capsule-sized objects.

Larger companies, however, have more advanced nanoscale stretching.

If they shrink the statue down to the microscopic world, we won't be able to find it.

"We must seize this precious window of opportunity while they are studying the statue, and get it out!"

Fire Bro breathed fire from his hands and casually threw a few fireballs around, blowing up several trash cans.

"Let's do it! We're both at the Innate Realm now, and we need a lot of spiritual techniques to replenish our combat strength. Let's borrow some from the Ma family!"

Tao Ming and the others looked at each other in bewilderment.

"So, they're still going to rob the vault after all..."