Under one person: I, Zhang Zhiwei, the arrogant Zhang.

The magistrate pulled out the four steel needles from Liu Cai's body. He was very careful with his movements; Liu Cai did not die after the four needles were removed.

But his current state is no different from that of a dead man; blood is flowing from all seven orifices, and he is urinating and defecating, mumbling incoherently.

He has gone completely insane; he can't even utter a complete sentence.

Then, the patriarch looked at Liu Cai's family: several had been hit by stray bullets from his own gun and were barely breathing, clearly not going to survive. A few were only wounded and not in immediate danger; others were trying to escape in opposite directions through the secret passage they had entered through. But just as they turned the mechanism to open the tunnel door, before they could even crawl out, several projectiles struck them, breaking their legs.

The old man went over and gave each of them several injections, which directly destroyed their nerves and turned them into idiots.

Next, following the clues provided by Liu Cai, the lord found his hidden treasure vault underground. It was an M-shaped reinforced concrete structure, with the entrance concealed in an extremely secluded corner of the tunnel, making it difficult to find without any clues.

However, the lord could not enter, because this treasure vault had three doors: the outer door was made of solid wood covered with iron, the middle door was a steel plate combination door, and the inner door was a circular explosion-proof door.

The outer solid wood clad iron door was pierced open by the patriarch with his hand, and the middle steel plate combination door was also opened by the patriarch using the combination he had obtained from Liu Cai. But he had no way to open the last blast door.

Because the key to the door wasn't on Liu Cai's person; it was kept at the Fuqing Bank in Rongcheng.

This bank is a safe in Liu Cai's private bank, and only he can open it.

With the Tang Clan's methods, there are plenty of ways to obtain this key. However, time is of the essence now, and people from Rongcheng could arrive at any moment, so there is no time left to get the key.

The old man knocked on the wall; the sound was dull, indicating that it was a solid structure, probably nearly a meter thick.

He then used his "qi" to sense the wall and discovered that it was densely packed with 15-millimeter-thick ribbed steel bars, forming a steel mesh, making it impossible to break through the wall.

Then, the old man looked at the ground, squatted down, tapped the ground with his hand, and then used his Qi to sense it. He found that the underground was the same, and even more so because of the foundation, the underground reinforced concrete was thicker.

"This is getting a bit tricky!" the old man muttered to himself. A moment later, he took out the Yin-Yang paper, sent a message, and said that he had taken care of things on his end and found the location of Liu Cai's property, but he couldn't open the door. He asked others to come quickly and find a solution.

Upon receiving the message from the master, the others quickly sprang into action.

Yu Huizhong stopped bullying her prey. She held a dagger in her hand, her hands covered in greasy blood, and plunged the half-foot-long dagger into the neck of the strange man in front of her.

"Relax, take a deep breath, it's normal to feel a little dizzy!"

She gripped the man's neck, letting the blood he coughed up splatter onto her arm.

"Ho ho ho..."

The man looked terrified and made a bellows-like sound as he spoke.

Yu Huizhong pulled out the dagger, and blood immediately gushed out. The man groaned and collapsed to the ground.

Yu Huizhong exerted a little force on her hand, and her Qi surged, dispersing the blood on her hand. She took out the Guanyuan and glanced at it, confirming the location of the master. With a leap, she disappeared from the spot.

In another part of the manor, dozens or even hundreds of mutilated corpses lay behind Lü Ci, his white clothes stained red with blood.

He and Xu Xin met earlier and then quickly parted ways. Because the Tang Clan had scouted the area beforehand, their attacks were not random but targeted.

Xu Xin went where he was supposed to go, while Lü Ci led the Tian Tong Church's protection squad to begin looting the manor's valuables. In the process, they inevitably encountered an attack.

Although the manor's guards had completely collapsed, as the saying goes, "people die for wealth, birds die for food," a considerable number of people did not escape directly. Instead, they thought they could take advantage of the chaos to make a fortune from their former employer, only to run into "Zhang Mazi's gang" who were robbing people.

Faced with this scene, the guard squad originally wanted to rush in and quickly finish off the opponent to end the battle, but Lü Ci did not. He ordered the squad members to pack up the treasure, while he stayed behind to cover the retreat. The corpses on the ground were his handiwork.

Soon, the nursing team emerged with a bountiful harvest.

"Is it clean?" Lü Ci asked.

"It's all cleaned up. All the treasure inside has been put into the food pouches," the team member said.

Before setting off, Wang Ai anticipated that the robbery would yield a large amount of treasure, so he equipped the team with a food pouch.

The Devouring Pouch is a creation of the Heavenly Craft Hall, and its annual production is not high. Because it is so useful, it is basically pre-ordered by other sects as soon as it is made, so it is impossible to buy it outside. It is already very rare for Wang Ai to be able to equip the team with one.

“Let’s go, let’s meet up with the Tang Clan!” Lu Ci said.

The escort team moved quickly, but Liu Mang's personal guards were not. It wasn't that they weren't eager to rob the money, but rather that they didn't have any food pouches and could only carry the money in bags on their backs.

Both silver dollars and gold bars are large and heavy. Silver dollars, in particular, are very inconvenient to carry around. A bag of them would make a jingling sound when you walked.

When Liu Mang's personal guards arrived at the tunnel, they found the Tang Clan and the Guardian Squad gathered around the door, deep in thought. There were several deep palm prints on the door and several large pits on the ground, with large pieces of steel exposed at the bottom.

Clearly, the construction of this treasure vault anticipated the possibility of tunnels being dug, so steel plates and reinforcing bars were laid underground.

"Does anyone have any ideas?" the master said. "If there really isn't any, then we'll just have to go to the Fuqing Bank in Rongcheng to get the key."

"How about we just blow it up?" Lu Ci said. "There are so many guards in this manor, there must be a lot of explosives inside. Let's just blow it up."

“Using explosives is difficult to control. Let alone whether it can be blown open, it will be difficult to deal with if it collapses!” Yu Huizhong said, stroking her chin.

Lu Ci glanced at the seemingly dull-witted woman and asked, "Then what does Aunt Yu think we should do?"

Yu Huizhong said, "In comparison, going to Rongcheng to get the key is more reliable. However, this will definitely trigger some action from Rongcheng. Young Master Lü, don't you like to cover the retreat? If the people from Rongcheng come to attack, you can take charge of covering the retreat, okay?"

Do you think I'm stupid...? Lu Ci shook his head and said, "Only Senior Brother Zhang can do this kind of rearguard action. I certainly can't. However, if we add the members of the Tang Clan, we can give it a try."

The old man shook his head and said, "Young Master Lü, we came here to rob money, not to fight and kill. Don't put the cart before the horse."

"Let's split into two groups. One group will go to Chengdu to get the key, and the other group will stay in the tunnel."

"Liu Cai's tunnel is very well hidden. Even if people from Rongcheng come, they may not be able to find it."

"Even if they discover it, we can still fight them using this tunnel. Moreover, the tunnel has two ends, so if we are outmatched, we can retreat at our own pace."

"It's a good combination of offense and defense, but I'd like to ask Senior Brother Zhang for his opinion first. Maybe he'll have a solution!" Lü Ci said.

"Young Master Lü, even if the Little Celestial Master is incredibly powerful, he's far away in Chongqing, so he might not be able to help much!" Xu Xin reminded him.

“Brother Xu, I don’t blame you. You don’t understand Senior Brother Zhang’s methods. Do you remember what Senior Brother Zhang said to us before we set off?” Lu Ci asked.

"What?" Xu Xin was a little confused. Zhang Zhiwei was a big mouth and said a lot before he left, so he couldn't remember everything.

Lu Ci said, "Senior Brother Zhang said that if we encounter any trouble, we should let him know and his support will arrive at any time. Isn't this the trouble we've encountered?" After saying that, Lu Ci took out another piece of Yin-Yang paper that could be used to contact Zhang Zhiwei alone and reported the situation here to him.

At the construction site in Chongqing, Zhang Zhiwei was chatting with his friends when he received a message from Lü Ci. He paused his conversation, took out the Yin-Yang paper and looked at it, then looked towards Chengdu.

Chengdu and Chongqing are not far apart. If he could travel by lightning, he could arrive in a minute or two. However... things must be done one at a time. He hasn't finished arranging his plans yet.

"Ladies and gentlemen, take a short break. The excitement continues in a moment!"

After saying that, Zhang Zhiwei flipped his hand, and a large sword with an exquisite and simple design appeared in his palm. It was the Dongfeng Greatsword that he had been nurturing for a long time.

Seeing this, the surrounding members of the Gelaohui, though unaware of what had happened, all clapped and exclaimed in surprise, asking Zhang Zhiwei what he was trying to do.

Zhang Zhiwei pursed his lips and did not answer. Zhang Mazi's actions should not be publicized, and he still had that much self-control.

He used yin-yang paper to communicate, instructing Lü Ci to stick the yin-yang paper in his hand onto the blast door.

Although Lü Ci inside the tunnel didn't quite understand, he figured that Senior Brother Zhang must have his reasons for doing so, so he did as he was told.

Zhang Zhiwei pointed at the Dongfeng Greatsword, and a flying sword talisman for exorcising evil adhered tightly to the sword.

In an instant, the greatsword flew into the air, poised to strike. Zhang Zhiwei formed a hand seal and imbued the Flying Thunder Sword with a lightning spell. Then, he swept his fingers across the sword, causing the blazing lightning to subside, leaving not a trace of light dissipating.

Since the purpose was only to break down the door, and to avoid collapsing the tunnel, Zhang Zhiwei didn't use much lightning magic.

Then, by sensing the connection between the Yin-Yang paper, he used this as a medium to direct the flying sword's attack towards the other side of the Yin-Yang paper.

"Go away!"

Zhang Zhiwei casually waved his hand, and the sword rang out, carrying wind and thunder as it soared into the sky.

"Little Celestial Master, what are you doing?" a member of the gang asked.

"A flying sword to take a head!" Zhang Zhiwei laughed.

"Whose head are we taking?"

"Take Yuan Shikai's silver dollars!"

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Meanwhile, inside the tunnel of the Liu family manor, after Lu Ci spoke with the Little Celestial Master, he said he had a solution and asked everyone to make way so he could watch.

Although the crowd was somewhat confused, they still cooperated by taking several steps back. Then, they saw Lü Ci sticking the yin-yang paper onto the blast door.

He tried to stick it on but failed, so he spat on the back of the yin-yang paper and finally managed to stick it on.

Then, he moved away at an extremely fast speed, as if the yin-yang paper pasted on the door was some kind of terrifying thing.

"Young Master Lü, what are you doing?" Xu Xin asked, puzzled. "It's as if that piece of paper is a high-explosive bomb that could explode at any moment."

“What do you know? This is more terrifying than high explosives!” Lu Ci said.

The crowd was puzzled and kept asking questions. At this moment, Tang Jiaren and Tang Shiying suddenly looked up with solemn expressions.

"Something's coming!" Tang Shiying whispered.

“But they’re not coming for us!” Tang Jiaren said.

No sooner had the words left his mouth than a huge rumble of thunder rolled overhead, making everyone feel as if a heavy stone had been placed on their hearts, making it hard to breathe.

Before they could even react to what was happening...

With a deafening roar, a blinding flash of lightning filled their vision. The lightning pierced the ground, like a hot knife through butter, slicing through the thick, solid steel explosion-proof door and continuing its downward momentum into the ground.

A burst of intense lightning caused a small-scale explosion, with black smoke billowing around it.

Everyone stared blankly at the scene, somewhat confused about what was going on. Tang Jiaren, however, understood. His Guanzizai Mind Technique was at a very high level, and he could see that the core of the lightning was a sword.

"This is... Little Celestial Master's... Flying Thunder Sword?!"

Tang Jiaren blurted out. Although he had never witnessed this technique, he had heard of it before. Now that Lü Ci had just finished consulting Zhang Zhiwei, a divine sword descended with the force of wind and thunder, so he naturally made the connection.

"That's right, it's the Flying Thunder Sword!" Lu Ci laughed excitedly. "Senior Brother Zhang held back a bit too much when he used his supernatural power this time. This is the weakest Flying Thunder Sword I've ever seen."

Upon hearing this, the others also reacted, all staring in disbelief.

"Good heavens, is this the Little Celestial Master's Flying Thunder Sword? Wasn't the Little Celestial Master in Chongqing? How did his sword end up in Chengdu? Is this really something that can be done by human power?"

"This method is truly beyond our imagination. And with such power, if Lü Ci says it's small, then how terrifying must its true power be?"

"As expected of our leader of the Tiantong Church, he is indeed incredibly powerful and has extraordinary abilities!" The members of the Tiantong Church's protection team all looked devout.

Although they were nuns, they were recruited by Wang Ai, and many joined only for personal gain, without much genuine devotion, and had little contact with Zhang Zhiwei.

But this time, after being summoned to Chongqing by Wang Ai, they witnessed Zhang Zhiwei displaying his supernatural powers several times in a very short period of time. They were completely convinced. Those who were originally skeptical began to become devout and developed a deep sense of identity with him.

"Now that the treasure vault is open, let's hurry and collect the treasures and leave," the master said.

The group walked forward and found that the heavy blast door had been completely torn open by the sword, leaving a large gap in the middle and a deep pit in the ground. Upon closer inspection, they discovered that the steel plate on the ground had also been torn apart, and a large sword surrounded by lightning was stuck in the pit.

Lu Ci imbued his hand with a layer of purple light, drew his greatsword, twirled it in his hand, and introduced it:
"This is called the East Wind Greatsword. It has been nurtured by Senior Brother Zhang's Qi for many years. It is extremely sharp and can cut through iron like mud."

"If it were here, even without the Flying Thunder Sword, it would probably be able to break through that iron gate just now."

"Let's go in and take a look. If there are any safes or vaults inside, I'll just cleave them open!"

The group entered the treasure vault, shining their flashlights back at them; the reflected light nearly blinded them. (End of Chapter)