After dealing with Chi Daxiao, Li Hai lightly stepped on the ground and soared to the top of a house with a whoosh, then, accompanied by a rumbling wind, he instantly shot towards the Zhou Family Residence several miles away.
With his current Realm and strength, he could often glide dozens or even hundreds of meters through the air by stepping on the wind, and scaling walls and rooftops was as easy as breathing.
However, precisely because Li Hai's speed was too swift, the fierce wind he stirred up as he sped along was so violent that it even swept up debris and dust from the street below into the sky, causing pedestrians on the street to cry out in alarm.
But by the time they looked up at the sky, everything was already calm, as if everything that had just happened was merely an illusion.
And in this short while, Li Hai had already crossed several miles and arrived at the location of the Zhou Family compound.
Bang!
With a muffled thud, under the horrified gaze of the Zhou Family's gate guards, Li Hai descended from the sky, landing heavily on the road in front of the Zhou Family Residence's entrance, and forcibly cracking the large stone bricks with dozens of fissures.
These Zhou Family guards were not fools; after witnessing Li Hai's dramatic entrance, they immediately bowed and smiled obsequiously, cupping their hands in greeting, saying:
"Great Hero, what... what can we do for you?"
Seeing these people so sensible, Li Hai also smiled and said:
"That's right, it's just a job, no need to risk your life. As for me, I'm here to find someone named Zhou Yugen. You should know him, right?"
The guards looked at each other and said, "Great Hero, Master Zhou Yugen is our Third Master. He has been doing business outside for many years and does not live here."
"Oh, I made a wasted trip then."
Li Hai wondered, "Then, does Zhou Xing Ye live here?"
The Zhou Xing Ye he was referring to was Zhou Hu's son and Guo Huaijin's grandson.
"Uh..."
The guards looked at each other, hesitating, "Young Master Xing Ye... Yesterday, Liu Tie Jiang's daughter in town got married. According to custom, Young Master went to preside over the wedding and stayed at Liu Tie Jiang's house. He hasn't returned home yet today."
"Wedding officiant?"
Li Hai suddenly recalled what Qiu Fangzheng had said, narrowing his eyes and saying indifferently, "Is Liu Tie Jiang's daughter very beautiful?"
To this, the guards shook their heads, all indicating they did not know.
"Beautiful! Liu Tie Jiang's daughter is truly beautiful, so satisfying! I'm going again tonight, hahahaha!" Suddenly, an extremely arrogant voice came from afar.
Li Hai's bald eyebrow twitched, and he immediately looked in the direction of the voice.
Then he saw that in the alley across the street, a dozen zhang away, a large fat man dressed in a bright red jacket, looking like a pig spirit, was sitting in an open sedan chair, fanning himself with a paper fan, and swaying towards the Zhou Family Residence, surrounded by seven or eight guards.
"Great Hero," a guard said, "This is Young Master Zhou Xing Ye."
"I can see that," Li Hai chuckled, then strode towards the fat man.
Although Zhou Xing Ye was so fat that his eyes were reduced to mere slits, he still saw Li Hai walking towards him, about to collide with his sedan chair, so he immediately craned his neck and shouted:
"Hey, you big oaf, are you blind? Turn around quickly, don't hit my sedan chair."
Upon hearing this, Li Hai immediately grinned and said, "Hehe, what a foul mouth, let me tear it apart."
As soon as he finished speaking, his figure blurred, and he crossed seven or eight zhang to arrive in front of Zhou Xing Ye, pinching his fat face and forcibly dragging him from the sedan chair, slamming him heavily onto the ground.
"Ow! My face, my face, it hurts so much!"
Zhou Xing Ye sat paralyzed on the ground, covering his bloody face, which Li Hai had torn into the shape of a toad's mouth, wailing like a ghost, saying, "Why are you all standing there like idiots? Don't you dare fight him!"
The stunned guards around him, hearing this, immediately drew their knives and picked up their sticks, shouting and striking at Li Hai, who was standing next to Zhou Xing Ye.
But Li Hai merely extended one finger, then swiftly swept it around in an instant.
Swish—
Clink! Clink! Clang! Clang! Crack! Crack!
After a series of crisp sounds and dazzling sparks, the blades and sticks in the hands of these guards all broke, their cuts so smooth they seemed to have been sliced by a divine weapon.
This was the power of Li Hai's 【Finger Claw Level 2】; for him, ordinary wrought iron and refined steel were no stronger than scrap paper.
And the guards who witnessed this shocking scene wisely retreated several steps, not daring to lay a hand on Li Hai again.
"You, you, you..."
Zhou Xing Ye, who also witnessed this scene, lay on the ground, his face covered in blood, utterly panicked, saying, "What kind of monster are you? You, you, my father is a peerless master, you can't kill me, he will beat you to death! Beat you to death!"
"Alright."
Li Hai smiled upon hearing this, "Then let him come and beat me to death."
Then he asked again, "There's one more thing I want to know... How many innocent maidens on the verge of marriage have you truly ruined?"
"Uh?!" Zhou Xing Ye froze, momentarily unsure how to answer.
The next second, Li Hai's smile vanished, and he stomped down on Zhou Xing Ye's crotch.
Thump~
"Ah ah ah ah ah ah!"
Accompanied by a muffled thud and a pig-like shriek, Zhou Xing Ye was instantly turned into a eunuch by Li Hai.
"I'll kill you, I'll kill you! Father, help!"
The fat pig rolled on the ground in pain, shouting and screaming incessantly, drawing immediate attention from passersby.
As for the guards, they had all quietly slipped away amidst the crowd, presumably not returning to serve at the Zhou Family Residence.
As for Li Hai, he had gone to the nearby butcher's stall to borrow a pig-slaughtering knife, and also brought back a hemp rope and an iron basin.
"Come, come, come, watch the show, but don't block the way, alright?"
Li Hai shouted as he pushed through the onlookers, leisurely walking up to Zhou Xing Ye, who was still screaming and rolling on the ground. He dragged him all the way into a small noodle shop.
"Here."
Casually throwing two gold pieces to the Store Owner, Li Hai said, "I've bought this shop. Stay if you want to watch, leave if you don't."
"This, this, this..." The noodle shop Store Owner looked at the gold in his hand, his face a mix of joy, surprise, and doubt, "You... what are you going to do?"
Li Hai replied indifferently with two words: "Slaughter a pig."
After speaking, under the gaze of the noodle shop Store Owner and the onlookers outside the shop, he swung the hemp rope in his hand over the ceiling beam, and like tying up a pig, he hung the screaming and cursing Zhou Xing Ye upside down.
"Let me go! Let me go now!"
Zhou Xing Ye struggled and roared, swinging back and forth headfirst, "You bastard! I'll tell my father to flay your skin alive!"
Clang-lang-lang~
With a light kick, Li Hai nudged the iron basin he had taken from the butcher's shop under Zhou Xing Ye's fat head. Then he went into the noodle shop's back kitchen, took out an apron, leisurely tied it around his waist, and then, holding the pig-slaughtering knife, began to size up Zhou Xing Ye.
Zhou Xing Ye clearly felt something was wrong, so he asked in a panicked voice:
"What are you going to do? I warn you, don't mess around!"
Li Hai did not respond to him, merely saying to himself:
"You know, I started slaughtering pigs when I was twelve. Tying pigs, slitting throats, singeing pig hair, skinning, bleeding, removing internal organs... I'm proficient in all of it.
I thought my skills wouldn't be needed after coming here, but then I saw you, and after seeing many people like you..."
Li Hai walked up to Zhou Xing Ye, slowly squatted down, patted his fat face with the knife, and grinned:
"I suddenly feel that my skills are about to shine again."
After speaking, he slit Zhou Xing Ye's throat with one stroke.
Blood immediately poured down, gurgling, and fell into the iron basin below.
At this moment, Li Hai also took out a naihe token from his embrace and threw it into the iron basin.