I Become a Martial Arts God in the Chaotic Demon World

Inside the Headquarters Hall of the Black Water Gang.

Chen Jiuzhen sat grandly in the main seat, legs astride.

When he saw Han Zheng enter, he didn't even bother to rise, merely greeting him with a clearly forced smile, "Mr. Han's visit is an honor for which I failed to go out to welcome. Please forgive me."

This year, Chen Jiuzhen was just over fifty, a burly man with a rough appearance, twisting two large black iron balls in his hand.

This Gang Leader of the Black Water Gang had humble beginnings, a true ruffian hero.

"Gang Leader Chen, there's no need for formalities. I know my visit today was sudden and you're not particularly welcoming."

"But I am here for your benefit."

"For my benefit?"

Chen Jiuzhen looked at Han Zheng with a sardonic smile.

Han Zheng stared intently at Chen Jiuzhen, his voice stern, "I am here to persuade you to renounce darkness and seek light. Stop mixing with those Sect families. Your Black Water Gang isn't the same as them; there's no need to die alongside them."

"Renounce darkness and seek light?"

Chen Jiuzhen burst into laughter, then his expression suddenly darkened, "Mr. Han, aren't your words a bit too blunt? Is working for your Demon Cleansing Bureau what you call seeking light?

Since you've been so blunt, I don't mind being even more so.

None of the Demon Sweeping Captains from the generations of Smoke Wave Prefecture's Demon Cleansing Bureau have managed to take back the spiritual farm and mineral productions from those Sect families.

By what right do you ask me to renounce darkness and seek light? It seems your Demon Cleansing Bureau is the real darkness, isn't it?"

"I ask it by the right that I can prevent your Black Water Gang from being oppressed by those Sect families, by the right that I can free your gang from being confined to the shores of Smoke Wave Lake, by the right that I can prevent your gang from being dogs to those families!"

Chen Jiuzhen's expression turned icy, "Who are you calling a dog?"

Han Zheng scoffed disdainfully, "Isn't serving as dogs exactly what your Black Water Gang has been doing?

When your gang rose initially, it was suppressed by those Sect families. You, Gang Leader Chen, were supposed to be a hero from the commons, yet you had to bow and scrape before them.

Since the Black Mountain Demon left, these Sect families have occupied his leftover spiritual farms and mineral veins to flourish for decades, deeply entrenched here, not allowing others to rise.

Initially, Guiyuan Sword Pavilion rose and was suppressed by them as well, only that Yin Taiqing taught them a lesson.

Unfortunately, you, Gang Leader Chen, don't possess Yin Taiqing's strength, so you can only bow down.

For all these years, your Black Water Gang wasn't allowed to expand an inch. Those Sect families' merchant ships come and go from the docks without ever having to pay your gang, treating you like free labor.

Not to mention, you don't have a share in the spiritual farms and mineral veins. Facing the Demon Cleansing Bureau, they still demand your Black Water Gang to stand with them.

There are even more excessive actions I know of.

Working in the Elemental Crystal Veins isn't for ordinary people; it requires at least a Martial Artist in the Early Postnatal Stage with robust Qi Blood Power.

Your Black Water Gang, with its many subordinate members, many are working as miners in the veins of these major families.

But they are your subordinates, your brothers, yet they are worked to death in those Elemental Crystal veins.

Gang Leader Chen, are you truly unaware of these things?

It's one thing for others to avoid the Demon Cleansing Bureau, but even your Black Water Gang adopts the same attitude. What, do you enjoy being a dog?"

"Enough! Shut up!"

Chen Jiuzhen roared angrily and viciously crushed the two large black iron balls in his hands into a mass of mud!

"How is it? You've played the dog but can't stand being named one?"

Chen Jiuzhen roared, and the dark Gang Qi burst forth from his body, his hands forming Seal Techniques, with the faint shadow of a Black Dragon spiraling, suddenly smashing towards Han Zheng!

"Oh, oh, getting angry out of embarrassment, eh?"

Han Zheng continued with his jeering, but his hands formed the Vajra Ming King Seal, his Gang Qi fiercely erupting into a three-faced, four-armed Vajra Ming King shadow that thundered out.

The Black Dragon collided with the Vajra Ming King, and an explosive sound shook the earth.

Chen Jiuzhen had the Cultivation of the Middle Stage of Xuan Gang Realm, and his foundation was profound and solid, even stronger than that of Li Tianbao from the Red Flag Thieves.

With the explosive sound of Gang Qi, Chen Jiuzhen was suddenly repelled a step back and looked at Han Zheng with a shocked expression.

Such strong power Han Zheng had!

He was known for his formidable Physical Body Cultivation, yet even though Han Zheng's Cultivation was a minor realm weaker than his, Han Zheng's strength was significantly greater.

Han Zheng didn't care what Chen Jiuzhen was thinking; he unleashed the Dragon Elephant Prison Suppressing Power to its maximum limit, the abundant Qi Blood Power almost bursting the entire roof of the Black Water Gang Headquarters.

With each step he took, Han Zheng displayed the momentum of Dragon Elephant Stepping, shaking the entire Headquarters as if it were an earthquake.

With a punch, his extreme strength and massive Gang Qi erupted.

Han Zheng had mentally prepared himself to fight Chen Jiuzhen before coming here.

Even if he was eloquent, a grassroots hero like Chen Jiuzhen, who had risen from the bottom, wouldn't be easily persuaded to switch sides.

Only by demonstrating his true strength in front of Chen Jiuzhen, could he give him enough confidence to stand with him.

Chen Jiuzhen also did not dare to be careless at this time; black Gang Qi swirled around his body, like a set of black Scale Armor.

His muscles bulged, Qi Blood surged, and each punch, like a Black Dragon roaring, also pushed the Qi Blood Power to its limit.

Almost in an instant, Chen Jiuzhen exchanged dozens of punches with Han Zheng, stepping back with each punch, breaking the wooden planks under his feet, and splashing water everywhere.

In a blink, Chen Jiuzhen had already retreated to the end of the Council Hall.

Seeing Han Zheng, whose Qi Blood Power showed no signs of weakening, Chen Jiuzhen was incredibly shocked.

He had pushed his strength to the maximum, yet he was still overwhelmed by Han Zheng!

Although they were both restraining themselves, merely clashing in strength, not fighting to the death,

but if it were truly a fight to the death, Chen Jiuzhen didn't even have a thirty percent chance of winning!

Such a huge commotion had also attracted the members of the Black Water Gang from the Headquarters.

Seeing the members rushing in furiously, Chen Jiuzhen took a deep breath and waved his hand, "Step back, I am sparring with Mr. Han."

The members, somewhat confused, retreated and looked at the huge pits created by the two on the ground, wondering if this was a sparring session or demolition.

Han Zheng calmed his Qi Blood and retracted his rampant and massive Gang Qi, and calmly said, "Gang Leader Chen, do you want to continue fighting?"

Chen Jiuzhen smiled bitterly, "Mr. Han is truly a distinguished figure among the young generation of the Demon Cleansing Bureau, no wonder he was able to slay both the Gold Spirit King and the Dragon King of Smoke Wave Lake, and swiftly annihilate the Red Flag Thieves.

I won't fight anymore, if we continue, the one who ends up embarrassed will truly be me, and I don't want my men fishing me out of the water."

As his words fell, Chen Jiuzhen's expression became stern, and he said in a heavy tone, "Mr. Han, I, Chen Jiuzhen, do not want to be a dog, and the Black Water Gang does not want to be oppressed by those Sect families.

But there are only so many places around Smoke Wave Prefecture to expand, and if my Black Water Gang doesn't bow down, we can't develop.

Do you think I am unaware of how they treat my brothers in the Gang? They truly treat them like slaves, beating them viciously at the slightest slack.

But what can be done? The dock of the Black Water Gang cannot sustain so many of our members.

Our Black Water Gang is different from those large Sect families, most of our members come from impoverished families, if they don't work for those Sect families, what can they use to feed their families?

Surely, you don't expect them to become bandits and rob, and plunder!

It is my ineptitude as the Gang Leader that doesn't even allow them to have a full meal!"

Chen Jiuzhen said this with reddened eyes, and Han Zheng knew he wasn't acting.

Because Chen Jiuzhen came from a humble background, he was willing to help those poor people on the docks, incorporating them into the Black Water Gang and teaching them Martial Arts.

But the issue is that most people aren't suited to learn Martial Arts, some find it challenging even to get started, and after joining the Black Water Gang, the Gang still has to support them.

So, although the Black Water Gang had tens of thousands of members, only about a hundred could really fight as Martial Artists.

The organization had grown too large, with limited profits coming from the dock transport, making the Black Water Gang truly impoverished, even having to mine for other Sect families to earn money.

The simplicity of the Black Water Gang's Headquarters wasn't because Chen Jiuzhen was low-key, but because they truly had no money.