Dig three feet underground

  At night, in the depths of the night, in a room fifty meters underground that was extremely secretive and quiet, Yi Chen floated one foot off the ground, his five hearts facing upwards, his legs coiled together, and faintly visible was a hint of starlight flickering outside his body.

  The room is not large, about 5x5 meters in size. The four walls are the simplest wooden board walls, with a layer of high-quality Xuan paper from China pasted on them. A steady "Tao" character occupies more than two square meters of wall space, directly facing Yichun. This character was written by Yichun himself and also indicates his cultivation method.

  Yi Chen's school is an extremely ancient and mysterious sect of Chinese Taoism. The founder of the sect grasped the profound truth from the movement of the stars in the sky, combined with the original idea of the unity of heaven and man in Chinese Taoism, and created this sect.

  Yi Chen is currently following the so-called twenty-eight mansions, with the star power of Qinglong, Baihu, Zhuque and Xuanwu driving the true yuan force to slowly transform his body, while accumulating the vast power between heaven and earth. In Yi Chen's body, the four directions and four images are dominant, and the true yuan force has formed four large whirlpools. The star power of the twenty-eight mansions drives the meridian power outside the four large whirlpools, forming twenty-eight smaller true yuan cycles.

  The mind method of this sect, from the most basic one yuan, six bright stars, twelve yuan zhen, twenty-eight mansions, and three hundred and sixty degrees of the heavenly cycle, gradually simulates a complete small universe with one's own body, then, according to the principle that all things in the universe ultimately return to one, reverts the small universe formed inside the body to chaos, thus completing one cycle. At this point, the body has been completely transformed once, almost like being reborn, and again, following the principle of one yuan giving birth to all things, allows the small universe inside the body to slowly grow anew, formally embarking on the path of pursuing the ultimate truth of heaven and earth.

  Yi Chen had already formed a small universe of initial scale and had reorganized the complex small universe into the star power of the 28 mansions. According to his qualifications, with another 30-50 years of hard work, he could transform his body's true yuan back into chaos, achieving a preliminary transcendence beyond the mundane world. However, Yi Chen broke the sect's rules and was severely punished by the elder of the sect, destroying the true yuan power he had cultivated since the age of five. After being expelled from the sect, Yi Chen could no longer establish himself in China, so he went to the UK to develop his skills.

  The elders of the sect did not expect that Yi Chen's innate talent was beyond their expectations. Normally, a cultivator who had his True Yuan broken would be unable to resume cultivation even if he knew the heart method, but Yi Chen's talent was exceptional, and he still retained a wisp of True Yuan in the core of his former Small Universe. In less than two years, he had managed to cultivate back to the 28 Mansions Star Power realm.

  Yi Chen carefully manipulated the star power absorbed within his body. The stars in the sky all had their own infinite expansion of star power, which was a terrifying existence that humans could not comprehend. If utilized properly, one could borrow their power to ascend and become an immortal. However, if one were careless, the small universe within their body would absorb the star power too quickly, resulting in the powerful star power bursting out from the crown of the head, destroying the soul. Among all the cultivators in China, only Yi Chen's former sect had dared to borrow the power of the stars and knew how to do so.

  A thread of icy cold, scorching hot, overbearing and majestic star power was carefully absorbed into his body by Yi Chen, slowly driving the rotation of the small universe within him. Gradually, the scorching hot and overbearing aura dissipated the shackles planted in his body by the elders, and then used the icy cold or majestic aura to repair the damaged areas within his body. These four powers with different properties were the original powers of the Four Cardinal Directions and the Four Symbols.

  This is Yidun's first expedition to the boundary of the Twenty-eight Mansions after completing his Twelve Yuan Zhen.

  He carefully and slowly dissolved the last bit of true yuan power left in his body by the elder of the sect, the four major circulation meridians inside his body had already taken shape, and the twenty-eight affiliated true yuan flow meridians were also clearly visible. Yi Chen concentrated his mind and looked inward, his small universe had already vaguely taken shape, and some of the activity of his muscles had been reactivated under the nourishment of the familiar star power, those muscles that had withered due to the destruction of his true yuan in the past gradually regained their vitality.

  Until the eastern sky turned white and the true fire of the sun covered the power of the stars, Yī Chén slowly withdrew his powers and stood up.

  "He viciously cursed: 'Damn it, old ghost, I was just mistakenly entering the forbidden land and you chased me out. Now I'm not cultivating again? Maybe I'll become a god sooner than you... Don't let me reach the state of chaos returning to the origin, heaven and man united, otherwise... Hmph.'"

  She slightly tidied up her clothes and casually brushed back her long hair, then quickly walked upstairs through the secret door at the corner of the house.

  In the room above, a group of trusted lieutenants: Feli, Phil, Goll, Jester, Cain and Chekhov were having breakfast. Chekhov had some strange red marks on his skin, but he was spotlessly clean all over; it's just that sometimes when his own hand accidentally touched those red places, he would glare at Cain with a scowl.

  Fei Li saw Yi Chen, quickly dropped the small round bread in her hand, and tightly wrapped herself around him, tilting her head to say: "Boss, has your kung fu training succeeded?" Jester also looked over with interest. Yi Chen smiled: "It's almost there, yes, it has already recovered to the level of 28 Constellation Star Power. Now as long as I continue to cultivate slowly and perfect this realm, I can continue to practice."

  Jester licked his lips and asked with great concern: "Boss, so how much has your strength increased?"

  Yi Chen smiled and sat down on the sofa with Feili, stroking her face with one hand, and said to Jester: "A small insect that only lives in summer, can you discuss what ice is with it?"

  Jester shook his head quickly, and Easy shrugged: "So, I also can't describe this state to you. If the twelve Yuanzhen Star's state is similar to your powers, Feili, Jester, Phil, and Gole, then my current power is already beyond your imagination."

  His right hand formed a sword finger and stretched out, a nearly meter-long, illusory and hazy sword shadow suddenly appeared. The body of the sword was wrapped in countless tiny flashes, as if it were a meteor. Yi Chen said with some dissatisfaction: "It's a pity that my own cast treasured sword is not here, if it were, this sword energy would not be at this level."

  Chekhov seemed to see aliens staring at the sword shadow in front of Yi Chen's finger, licking his mouth, and quickly grabbed the large left-handed revolver that Cain had placed on the table, smashing it against the sword shadow. The gun passed through, then broke into two pieces, with a smooth cut, not even a single hair was damaged. Cain was a bit angry, and slapped Chekhov's shoulder heavily, saying in a low voice: "This is the oldest first-generation German military large-caliber left-handed revolver... Chekhov, you wait for me."

  Chekhov completely ignored him, as long as the boss was in front of them, they absolutely didn't dare to fight, and with a flattering smile, he handed back the half gun in his hand.

  Jie Si looked at all of this, weakly collapsing onto the sofa, and groaned: "Boss, can you teach us your kung fu? Three years ago, you saved me and wanted me to be your subordinate. I originally thought that you couldn't even beat a woman, if it wasn't for you saving me, I wouldn't have anywhere else to go, so I was too lazy to listen to you. Who would have thought, in less than three years, your kung fu has already..."

  Yi Chen laughed mischievously: "When I was driven out, I once vowed not to pass on the mantra to others, or else heaven would strike me with lightning... Heh heh. However, am I really still afraid of the old sky like them? The mantra can be taught to you, but how much you can learn is not something I can grasp."

  Her rosy lips were sealed, and after a long kiss, she gasped: "Boss, you're so good... Hmm, the big bear sent someone to invite you early in the morning, asking you to go over and discuss something."

  Yi Chen grunted, casually ate a little breakfast, didn't even wash up, left Chekhov in that secret computer room watching adult videos, brought a group of subordinates who were experts, didn't use the white Rolls-Royce, but instead used four stretched Citroen cars, and drove towards the lair of the big bear.

  Kane said in a low voice on the car: "Boss, I'm afraid he's anxious. Three consecutive times his subordinates were attacked and a large batch of goods lost. The old capital of the big dog bear is almost gone too? He looks like he wants us to take action to help."

  Yi Chen put on an innocent look, and smiled wickedly: "Heaven's conscience, God is also watching from above. The death of his subordinates has nothing to do with us, it's just that I picked up two out of three times the goods he had. So much money was left on the street, and there were no living people nearby, that means it didn't have an owner, can't let it go to waste."

  Fiona immediately echoed and laughed.

  Gao carefully adjusted a cup of wine beside him and handed it to Yichun, Feili took it over and sent it to the edge of Yichun's mouth.

  Jie Si Te was concerned about something else and asked in a low voice: "Those Vatican people, boss, have you seen their strength?"

  Yi Chen's eyes rolled, warning him: "I don't know why you were hunted by the Inquisition before, but since you're under me now, I won't let them touch you, and you shouldn't take the initiative to touch them either... Of course, if our strength is strong enough, I don't mind you going to the Vatican to kill that Pope... Anyway, damn it, I believe in the Original Heavenly Master, God has nothing to do with me."

  Jester's eyes narrowed excitedly as he said in a slightly cold tone, "Boss, what's your password? Tell me first."

  Yi Chen casually said a string of roughly three thousand words, sneering and saying: "This is the one-yuan heart method for building foundations. If you can produce your own true yuan power within a year, then you can continue to cultivate... Don't look at me, I know these incantations are hard to understand, especially after I translate them into English. But if you don't understand, you can only listen like this. If you have any questions, go back and ask me again." Yi Chen lowered his voice, a sly smile spreading across his face as he pulled Fei Li out of the car door, and they were already standing in front of the super luxurious nightclub owned by Da Gou Xiong.

  Yi Chen wrapped his arms around Fei Li's waist, and Fei Li seemed to have no bones as she entwined herself in him. The two of them giggled and walked inside together.

  Behind, Jester in the center, Philgoir to his left and right, closely following less than two meters away. Kane led a group of big men behind him, seeing that there were no customers in the entire nightclub, immediately dispersed throughout the hall, not hiding the ancient firearms on their bodies at all.

  Two tall black men stood at the staircase leading to the second floor, bowing slightly and saying to Yì Chén: "Sorry, our boss said no weapons are allowed upstairs, please..."

  He hadn't even finished speaking when he let out a pained yelp, Jester rushed forward and punched him in the right shoulder. The sound of his bones shattering echoed through the hall and the second floor corridor. The black man fell to his knees, wailing in agony. Yi Chen's voice was icy cold: "Peter, you son of a bitch, you invited me over to discuss something, yet you let your underling humiliate me? Kill him."

  Phil and Goll forced their way forward, big furry hands reaching out directly to the necks of the two black men. A loud shout came from above: "Halt!... Are you Chinese? They are my subordinates, not Peter's subordinates, sorry, please come up, they were too rude."

  Yi Chen raised his eyes and glanced at the person who was speaking, a middle-aged man wearing a tailcoat with a crimson handkerchief peeking out of his left breast pocket, short golden hair, and bright green eyes, typical of an Italian nobleman's demeanor, except for the faint scent of blood that only insiders could detect.

  Yi Chen smiled and led the person upstairs, following him into the large conference room of Da Gou Xiong Peter. At this moment, beside the long round table inside, seven or eight people had already sat down, behind them stood more than thirty burly men with rugged faces.

  A big dog bear sat in the chairman's seat with a worried face, gesturing to Yi Chen and saying: "China Yi, please sit down, everyone is friends... Oh, I forgot to introduce you, these are all the bosses of various gangs in London. This one is China Yi, China Yi rarely interacts with everyone, but should have heard of him?"

  Yi Chen made a slight bow, chose the position at the very end and sat down, put his arm around Feili's waist and said with a smile: "Peter, what's going on? You actually let an outsider help you greet guests? Did something happen to you?"

  The big dog bear smiled bitterly, nodded, and immediately, several people closed the conference room door. The Italian sat down beside the big dog bear, sneering: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am a representative of the Roman Angetti family, perhaps everyone has heard of our family. This time we came to discuss a business deal with Mr. Peter, we are all our own people, so we won't hide it from you... Hmm, Mr. Peter used $100 million in cash and diamonds worth $50 million to buy something from us, but Mr. Peter's money was robbed, and the subordinates who escorted him were also killed."

  The big dog bear pulled out a dozen or so photos from his pocket, threw them on the table with a gloomy face and said: "You can take a look, what is this thing... Damn it, several men, only a pile of rotten meat left. And the two masters who went to meet them, their deaths are even more bizarre. One person's sternum was completely shattered, which can be said to have been killed by a severe blow. Another person had no damage to his skin at all, but the organs and muscles inside his body were all mashed into meat sauce."

  As he spoke, Da Gou Xiong felt a bit nauseous and quickly shut his mouth.

  That Angetti family member shook his head and said: "We are now obligated to help Mr. Peter pursue this sum of money. Because we can get a profit of 50 million US dollars from it, our family will absolutely not give up halfway...Mr. Peter, I think you should give all the bosses a detailed explanation?"

  The bosses by the long table didn't go near the photos, only Fēi Lì walked up, grabbed a photo and took a look, then quickly pushed it away, cursed under her breath, and obediently sat back into Yì Chén's arms. The representative of the An Qiè Tí family looked at Fēi Lì's fiery figure with great interest, but when he saw Yì Chén's eyes full of murderous intent, he wisely chose to reveal an apologetic smile and averted his gaze.

  "Listen up, this is the third time my underlings have been attacked. What the hell did I do to deserve this? Everyone here represents the entire underground power of London. Who can tell me who took out three batches of my top subordinates? If anyone provides reliable information and catches those bastards, even if the money's already been spent, I'll personally offer a $10 million reward."

  The Anzetti family nodded and said, "We don't offer rewards, but we can consider the boss who provides specific information as our friendly cooperative partner and give them all business conveniences in the future. Everyone should know the strength of the Anzetti family, and I believe our cooperation will bring us a fortune."

  All the bosses were moved and whispered a few words to each other in low voices.

  Yi Chen picked up a photo, furrowed his brow and looked at it for half a day, then said seriously: "This guy who did this, either isn't human or is a pervert. Damn it, a big man almost 200 pounds, turned into such a small piece of flesh, ordinary people simply can't do it."

  The other bosses took a look at the photos and immediately threw them away, revealing a look of fear. The big dog bear said viciously: "Whoever can find these people who attacked me, I'll give him 20% of my nightclub's shares." He was ferocious, like a real bear ready to pounce, his eyes darting back and forth with a fierce glow.

  Yi Chen yawned: "Peter, I'm doing legitimate business, don't want to get involved, you've been attacked three times? And yet you're being attacked again, such a perverted killer I dare not take on. You have hundreds of men who can help you chop people, what about me? All my subordinates put together are less than fifty. I'm not willing to offend others because of helping you, unless you have enough confidence to deal with them."

  "Does Mr. Yi think that our An family and your combined forces are no match for them?"

  "Easy dust immediately clears the relationship: "This, Anche family is with Peter's cooperation, I and other bosses may not join... Besides, I..."

  "Peter cut him off: "China Easy, are you doing legitimate business? If you're doing legitimate business, then I'm as pure as an angel from God. The tens of billions of marks lost on German ATMs every year, at least 30% of the fake credit cards in the past three years were provided by you, right? In London, it seems that no boss's business can completely deceive me."

  Yi Chen's eyes revealed a murderous aura without any disguise, and he said coldly: "Big bear, food can be eaten casually, but words cannot be spoken casually... I don't want to be targeted by others. If I'm finished, you'll be the first one I take down."

  The big dog bear was shocked by Yi Chen's gaze that could pierce through gold and stone, knowing he had misspoken, his whole body trembling slightly, unable to speak.

  The boss next to him hastily mediated: "This, we are all friends, China Yi's business, how can we say it out? However, Pete, you should apologize to Mr. Yi." The big dog bear quickly descended the ladder and sincerely apologized to Yi Chen, saying sorry repeatedly.

  Yi Chen grunted and fiercely grabbed a handful of Feili's thigh, closing his eyes without saying another word.

  The Ancheti family members were secretly sizing up Yicun, thinking to themselves: "If he can produce so many credit cards, then maybe we can cooperate with him? However, we still need to be careful; the Chinese are not people you can offend, but at the same time, you also cannot trust them too much."

  The meeting lasted for three hours, and finally Peter agreed to raise the reward to $15 million plus 20% of his nightclub's shares, after which these bosses agreed to help investigate whether some suspicious people had recently arrived in London.

  "Alright, you all take your time. Since the big bear knows my bottom line, he should also know that it's more realistic for me to send someone to blow up Downing Street than to ask for help finding someone."

  The big dog bear nodded: "This, I also know that your subordinates are not many, but China is easy. You want so much money and don't recruit a few more people to help. What's the reason? Doing business, enduring hardship is good for getting things done."

  Yi Chen revealed an embarrassed smile: "I just like to see my account balance constantly increasing, it's such a great feeling. As for manpower, I'll find a few more to help you out. Anyway, there are so many small thugs in my place, I can easily find a few, probably more useful than our own underlings."

  "Huh", "oh", "hmm", these bosses have made up their minds, originally it was like that, if they want to find someone, they must find the local snake gods and demons.

  That night, all the men under the bosses of London town, plus Pietro himself and other relatives of the Ancheti family, were mobilized. Their sole purpose was to find those who had attacked Pietro's men.

  Yi Chen brought Jester, Phil, Gao Er and Cain, followed by seven or eight of Cain's subordinates, driving three cars, heading straight to his own turf, a place where hippies and small-time hooligans liked to gather.

  Roughly a hundred people gathered in that small, cramped space surrounded by countless abandoned cars, drinking, taking drugs, fighting, and having promiscuous sex - basically everything vile was happening at the same time, except for murder.

  Three cars' bright headlights startled most people, only those who were indulged in alcohol and marijuana were still moaning on the ground. Yi Chen adjusted his clothes, Phil opened the car door for him, and he stepped out. The others followed behind, while Cain and Gore dragged a person out of the trunk and threw him into the field.

  The young people in the room exclaimed: "Charlie, what's wrong with you? How did you become like this?" Charlie was covered in blood, his teeth were all knocked out, and two of his fingernails were missing.

  Surrounded by his subordinates, facing the increasingly angry and slowly closing in crowd, Yi Chen calmly said: "Your leader, is called Bi Li? Call him out."

  A man with a thick beard and iron chains wrapped around his neck, naked from the waist down, emerged and growled: "I'm Billy, what's going on? Why is Charlie in this state?" Behind him, a young girl, no more than 13 or 14 years old, lay naked and unconscious on the ground, her lower body covered in blood, her eyes glassy from an apparent overdose.

  Yi Chen kicked Bi Li's lower body with one foot, directly kicking out the most important organ on his body. Then a high-pressure leg heavily smashed onto Bi Li's shoulder, and before he could even let out a pained cry, almost all of his bones were shattered by this kick. His mouth spat out block after block of blood as he fell backwards to the ground.

  After Yi Chen's departure, led by Cain, those German giants took out heavy firearms, all of which were American-made M60 machine guns. Yi Chen sneered: "Now I'm telling you bunch of scum, find people for me, anyone who is active at night and gets in the way. In other words, if you think they're suspicious, report them to us. Hmm, whoever provides valuable information, I can provide him with free marijuana and cocaine for a year. Remember, if you don't give us any news within half a month, you'll be the example."

  Looking at this group of frightened little rascals, Yi Chen said viciously: "From now on, you are my outer subordinates. You can try to escape from London, damn it. Since I can catch Charlie, you won't be able to escape either. In the future, do what you should do, but you must obey my orders... Of course, I won't treat you unfairly."

  He casually pulled out ￡20,000 and threw it on the ground. Yi Chen smiled sinisterly and said: "You choose, either obediently listen to me, divide this money to gather information, or don't listen to me, and get shot now."

  Silence, then a few people walked up and took two banknotes from the stack on the ground. Slowly, except for those who couldn't move, others divided the money, looking at Yidun with terrified eyes.

  Yi Chen smiled contentedly and said in a low voice: "You bitches, go and gather information for me obediently, otherwise, you're dead."

  Yi Chen turned and left, all the thugs stood in a daze on the spot. Their leader was killed by Yi Chen with lightning-fast moves, and others didn't obey anyone else normally, now they had no other way to go but follow Yi Chen.

  Tonight, the big bosses of London City mobilized all their men and basically suppressed all the evil gangs, starting to investigate every vague and possible message.

  Only Yi Chen himself sneered secretly: "Damn it, I know who did it, but I won't tell you guys, go and mess around, the more chaotic the better."