"What?"
The man slammed his hand on the table and stood up.
Immediately, intense anger surged into his eyes.
He found it utterly incomprehensible that someone would dare to force their way into the Fengdun Bureau's operational headquarters!
This was no different than a robber entering a police station to commit a heist!
In fact, it was even more serious!
"They're tired of living!"
"Number Two, Number Three! Step forward!"
As the man gave his order, two solemn, tower-like strongmen emerged from the shadows in the corner of the conference room.
"Bring that clueless fellow outside in! Be careful not to hit too hard; just beat him half to death!"
The tower-like strongmen merely nodded at the man's command and remained silent.
Then, they walked out.
Seeing the tower-like strongmen mobilized, everyone else in the conference room breathed a sigh of relief.
These two giants were the pillars of the Hong Kong branch of the Fengdun Bureau.
They were the strongest combatants.
The head office had specifically dispatched them to handle emergencies.
While their cultivation realms weren't exceptionally high, only at the sixth stage, their combined combat power could rival the seventh stage!
Coupled with their unwavering loyalty and indomitable fighting spirit, they could even contend with an eighth-stage expert!
In the small territory of Hong Kong, they were more than enough to dominate.
This was why the Hong Kong branch felt confident in calling off the scheduled battle at Kowloon Mountain.
In their view, Ying Chen's so-called duel was merely a childish squabble.
The children might see it as a grand martial arts competition, a battle for the ages, but to the teachers, it was just fighting, just a disruption!
It had to be stopped!
Knock, knock!
Knock, knock!
The two tower-like strongmen, Number Two and Number Three, arrived outside.
Suddenly, two small mountains seemed to appear before Ying Chen.
"It seems this is the foundation of your branch," Ying Chen narrowed his eyes, glancing at Number Two and Number Three, and said.
Number Two and Number Three exchanged no pleasantries, their gazes fixed solely on Ying Chen, ignoring their colleagues completely.
The next moment, they let out a fierce roar and lunged at Ying Chen from both sides simultaneously!
As they moved, the very ground of the Hong Kong branch trembled violently!
Their passage left behind a trail of deep footprints!
A layer of light, resembling monastic robes, flashed across their bodies, causing their aura to surge several times over in an instant.
Their muscles became as hard as steel, and the friction from their arm movements and the undersides of their arms produced a grating, metallic sound!
Body-tempering secret art – Immovable Kasaya!
These two were top-tier body-tempering experts!
They had cultivated the Immovable Kasaya since they were three years old, and after thirty years, they had already mastered it to perfection!
Let alone Ying Chen fighting bare-handed, even if Ying Chen held a gun, these two could advance through bullets!
"Such… such terrifying body-tempering skills!"
Du Jin'ao's granddaughter watched this scene, dumbfounded.
She suddenly regretted provoking Ying Chen, getting unnecessarily entangled in such a troublesome affair.
A dispute in which even her grandfather's influence might not be enough.
Most importantly, if Ying Chen died, no one would be able to prove her innocence!
She could very well be arrested as Ying Chen's accomplice, unable to explain herself, unable to prove that she actually didn't know Ying Chen at all!
Thinking of this, Du Jin'ao's granddaughter cursed angrily and, without hesitation, adopted the stance of Bagua Palm Strike.
She thrust towards the temple of one of the tower-like strongmen.
"Even gods fear three strikes."
Bagua Palm Strike was renowned as a sinister technique that even gods would fear!
One strike of this palm could bring down not just a person, but even an ox!
In other words, if Du Jin'ao's granddaughter's strike landed, the tower-like strongman would certainly die!
"I can only help you this much!"
"If you still can't hold your own, don't blame me for abandoning you!"
Du Jin'ao's granddaughter shouted at Ying Chen.
It was clear that after incapacitating one of the tower-like strongmen, she intended to flee immediately.
As for Ying Chen, if he could escape, so much the better.
If he couldn't, she wouldn't look back.
She understood the principle of "better my neighbor die than myself."
However, what Du Jin'ao's granddaughter did not expect was that her long-practiced Bagua Palm Strike had no effect whatsoever on the tower-like strongman's head!
She usually practiced by striking through wooden stakes with a single palm!
But now, she couldn't even pierce the tower-like strongman's skin!
The tower-like strongman didn't even react to her, his eyes still fixed on Ying Chen as he lunged forward!
"How can this be?"
"This is it, it's all over."
"You're going to get me killed!"
Du Jin'ao's granddaughter collapsed onto the ground, utterly distraught.
She had completely given up resistance.
But as her words hung in the air, a bizarre scene unfolded.
The two tower-like strongmen who were lunging at Ying Chen, for some unknown reason, froze less than a meter away from him!
The next second, they both crashed to the ground!
The impact sent a massive tremor through the floor.
Looking at them, their temples on one side of their heads were slightly indented and oozing traces of blood.
They looked as good as dead!
"Wh-what's going on?"
Du Jin'ao's granddaughter was stunned.
Beside her, Ying Chen looked at her with a half-smile and said, "I didn't realize you were such a master. With just an ordinary palm strike, you knocked down two body-tempering experts."
"Tsk, tsk. How pathetic. If you had just a little more strength, they might have actually died!"
Hearing Ying Chen's words, Du Jin'ao's granddaughter's face showed disbelief.
"I… I did that?"
"But… when I struck, he didn't react at all!"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible! It couldn't have been me!"
"Even if I could knock down one, there's no reason I should have knocked down the second one!"
Du Jin'ao's granddaughter vehemently denied it.
Ying Chen, like an expert from "Approaching Science," tried to cover for her, "This is precisely your brilliance, to have perfected the ordinary palm strike to the point of transmitting force through objects!"
"I guess you must be at least a seventh-stage martial artist, right?"
Faced with Ying Chen's excuses and flattery, Du Jin'ao's granddaughter fell into a daze.
She stared at her own hands, her eyes distant, "Did I really do it?"
"Have I truly reached the legendary realm of 'three divine strikes'?"
This scene, observed by those in the conference room, caused their faces to drain of color in horror.
The man chairing the meeting, Director Ming, the head of the Hong Kong Fengdun branch, showed deep shock and said, "How is this possible? Number Two and Number Three are sixth-stage experts!"
"And they practice such a top-tier body-tempering art as the Immovable Kasaya! While their chances against Xuanmen experts might not be overwhelmingly high, against martial artists, their odds should be extremely good!"
"There's absolutely no reason for them to be easily defeated by a woman's palm strike!"
"Could this woman truly be a seventh-stage martial artist, having mastered the Bagua Palm Strike to the realm of three divine strikes?"
"If that's the case, then we're in serious trouble… With Number Two and Three down, we have no personnel in our branch capable of dealing with an expert of this caliber!"
Director Ming pounded his chest in distress and regret.
The others in the conference room were equally ashen-faced, as if they had lost their closest relatives.
The pillars of their strength had been broken, the Dragon Palace was about to be overturned, and even the Dragon King could not protect himself, let alone them, the mere shrimp soldiers and crab generals!