I rely on unlimited life extension

Looking up at the sky shrouded in leaden clouds, Cheng Yi felt a sudden surge of irritation.

This emotion came abruptly, as if something was stirring in the shadows, making him uneasy for a moment.

Without further hesitation, his Longevity Qi surged within his dantian, and he abruptly stomped his feet, instantly activating the "Riding the Wind in the Void" effect.

Without changing his form, he transformed into a pale blue afterimage, like a leaf swept up by a gust of wind, silently sweeping across the densely packed rooftops of Kowloon Walled City.

The moss on the tiles was stirred by the airflow, making a soft "rustling" sound. In the blink of an eye, he had landed on the bluestone slab at the entrance of the fortress, his heel making only a soft sound when it touched the ground.

Just then, the commotion at the city gate came into view—three thugs were shoving and shouting at a middle-aged man, cursing as if they were demanding payment.

The man surrounded was wearing a faded short jacket with frayed cuffs and several bruises on his face. He was Uncle Kai, the father of Xindi, Wangdi, and Aidi.

"Uncle Kai?" Cheng Yi frowned slightly, somewhat surprised.

Hong Kong hadn't fallen yet, so why wasn't he at home tending his pawnshop? What was he doing running off to the Walled City? His wife, Ah Yue, was nowhere to be seen either.

Uncle Kai stumbled from the push and was about to argue when he looked up and saw Cheng Yi. He shuddered like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, then his eyes widened and his sorrow was instantly replaced by wild joy: "Brother Yi? It really is you! You finally came out!"

The three gatekeepers wanted to shove each other a few more times, but when they heard the words "Brother Yi" and saw Uncle Kai's desperate look, they froze on the spot.

The group of people swallowed hard, then stood awkwardly to the side, not daring to even breathe loudly.

Cheng Yi stepped forward, his gaze falling on the wounds on Uncle Kai's face: "You were looking for me? What happened?"

Uncle Kai seemed to have been touched on the tear duct by those words. His mouth twitched and he burst into tears with a "waaaaa." Tears mixed with the ash and mud on his face streamed down his face. His crying was so earth-shattering.

"Snapped!"

Cheng Yi raised his hand and slapped Uncle Kai across the face, but he controlled the force perfectly, leaving only a red mark on Uncle Kai's face, but forcefully silencing the crying. "If you cry again, I'm not going to take care of this anymore."

Uncle Kai's crying stopped abruptly, like a duck being choked, leaving only sobs. He timidly looked up, his lips trembling, "Son-in-law..."

"Call me Brother Yi." Cheng Yi interrupted him, his tone calm but carrying an undeniable authority.

Uncle Kai was rebuffed and dared not try to get closer to her again. He could only say with a bitter face and a trembling voice, "Brother Yi, I can't go on living... My home has been taken over by that slut!"

"Hmm?" Cheng Yi raised an eyebrow. "Tell me slowly, what exactly happened?"

Uncle Kai sniffed and then recounted the whole story in fits and starts—

It turns out that ever since Cheng Yi left behind two gold bars, his life has been completely thrown into chaos.

That night, his third daughter, Ai Di, disappeared, leaving only him and his wife, A Yue, at home.

Ah Yue said she wanted to "celebrate" and bought two bottles of Wujiapi (a type of herbal medicine), but before they even finished their meal, the two of them started arguing fiercely over the two gold bars.

The argument almost escalated into a physical fight, but thankfully a neighbor heard the commotion and ran over to separate them, preventing a fatality.

Uncle Kai was furious, so he grabbed the bottle and drank heavily until he was completely drunk. When he woke up the next day, A-Yue was nowhere to be found.

At first, he didn't take it seriously, assuming that his wife had gone back to her parents' home in a fit of pique.

But when noon came and no one was seen, he started to panic. He ran to the wooden box where he had hidden the gold bars and found that not only were the gold bars gone, but also his savings from the years, the pawnshop's account books, and even a few pieces of jewelry he had kept hidden away were all gone.

“I went to the police station to report it, Brother Kai!” Uncle Kai pounded his thigh, his voice trembling. “But those policemen were only interested in taking bribes, saying things like ‘when couples quarrel, family scandals shouldn’t be aired in public,’ and told me to find her myself and ‘just give her a beating and she’ll behave.’ When I went to find her, she and her men blocked my way!”

At this point, Uncle Kai's voice trembled with tears: "That slut had been hooking up with Bo Mingqiu from the Chaozhou gang for a long time! She stole my money, and that wasn't enough. She brought Bo Mingqiu and a few of his men back to the pawnshop, beat me up, and forced me to put my fingerprint on a piece of paper—I only found out later that it was a document transferring the entire pawnshop and house to her!"

He wiped his face, tears mingling with dirt and grime, and said, "I'm penniless now, with nowhere to stay. I had no choice but to come to the walled city to find my daughter... but they're not here..."

Cheng Yi chuckled inwardly after hearing this.

He managed to stop the Japanese fleet, but he couldn't stop this messy domestic strife. It truly proves the saying, "When wealth is exhausted, people are at peace."

He turned to the group of young men from the stronghold who were still in shock and called out, "Go, gather some men and come with me."

The young man leading the group was called Abao. He was the manager of the north gate of the walled city and was the most clever of them all.

He quickly replied, "Okay!" and turned to run into the village, shouting at the top of his lungs, "Brothers at the North Gate, come out! The First Brother has given orders!"

Within two minutes, dozens of strong men poured out of the alley, each holding a steel pipe and a machete, some even carrying a carrying pole. They formed a dark mass and stood menacingly in front of Cheng Yi, their footsteps shaking the bluestone slabs.

Cheng Yi looked at Uncle Kai and said, "Lead the way, let's go see your good wife and that 'adulterer'."

Uncle Kai seemed to have been injected with chicken blood instantly, and his back straightened up a bit.

He didn't bother to brush the dust off his clothes or forget the pain on his face, and led the group of people in a grand procession toward his own pawnshop.

Along the way, he shouted to everyone he met, "What are you looking at! I'm going back to my own shop!"

His smug and confident demeanor made him look like a general who had won a battle.

It took us almost half an hour to reach the entrance of Uncle Kai's "Rongheng Pawnshop".

The shop's mahogany signboard hung crookedly, with most of the paint peeling off, giving it a dilapidated look.

Hearing the commotion, the neighbors peeked out from behind doors and windows. When they saw Uncle Kai returning with a group of fierce-looking men, they knew he was there to settle scores. They perked up immediately, stopped working, and gathered at the street corner, eagerly waiting to see what would happen.

Uncle Kai rushed to the pawnshop door and kicked the door panel with his foot. The sound was loud and the door knocker jingled.

"You slut! Get out here! Give me back my shop! Or I'll kill you and your lover today!"

A flurry of noise came from inside the shop. A young shop assistant, dressed in coarse cloth and shorts, trembled as he opened the door. Seeing the large crowd at the entrance, his face turned pale, and he stammered, "Boss... please wait a moment, I... I'll go and call the boss's wife out."

After saying that, he turned around and tried to run inside.

"Wait a minute!" Uncle Kai glared at him, spitting all over his face. "When they were beating me up, why didn't you come to help? Now you want to curry favor? Let me tell you, if you piss me off, I'll chop you up too!"

The young waiter was so frightened that his legs went weak, and he almost knelt on the ground, shrinking behind the door, too afraid to move.

Just then, a shrill woman's voice rang out from inside the shop, carrying a hint of arrogance and bravado: "What's all the noise about? You old codger, how dare you act so arrogantly here? I'm sparing your life out of consideration for our past marriage, and you still dare to come back and cause trouble? You're really tired of living!"

As the voice spoke, a woman in her thirties swayed out.

She was wearing a floral cheongsam with a very low neckline, her face was covered in thick makeup, and her eyes were drawn long and thin, giving her a deliberately seductive look. She was none other than Uncle Kai's wife, A Yue.

A-Yue first caught a glimpse of Uncle Kai's disheveled appearance, curled her lips, and was about to curse when she caught a glimpse of the group of burly men behind Uncle Kai out of the corner of her eye.

They all had fierce looks on their faces, and the knives and clubs in their hands gleamed coldly, which made her heart skip a beat.

Looking further ahead, when she saw Cheng Yi's ambiguous smile, she felt as if she had been doused with a bucket of ice water. Her whole body stiffened, the curse words that were about to come out got stuck in her throat, and her teeth chattered.

Seeing this, Uncle Kai immediately felt more confident.

He rushed forward and slapped A-Yue hard across the face. The sharp "smack" made her spin around on the spot, and one of the buttons on her cheongsam popped off.

"You stole my money! You hooked up with other men!" he cursed as he raised his foot to kick, but his body had long been worn down by alcohol and women, and after being beaten, he was panting heavily after only a few kicks, his face pale, and he was dizzy and leaning against the wall, groaning.

He managed to stand up straight, took a few long breaths, pointed at Ah Yue and cursed: "Where's your adulterer? Tell him to get out! I'll beat him up too today!"

A-Yue covered her swollen cheek, her hair disheveled, all traces of her earlier arrogance gone. She sobbed and begged for mercy, "Qiu... Brother Qiu is lying inside, please stop hitting me, please..."

Uncle Kai puffed out his chest and was about to rush into the shop, but was forced back by seven or eight men who poured out from inside.

These men were all shirtless, revealing crooked tattoos on their arms, and carrying steel pipes and chains in their hands; they were clearly gangsters.

At the very back was a burly man, easily 1.9 meters tall, shirtless, with a ferocious tiger tattooed on his chest, picking his teeth with a toothpick as he slowly walked out.

He glanced at Uncle Kai, then at the burly man at the door, a disdainful smile playing on his lips: "You miser, instead of finding somewhere to hide, you dare come back looking for trouble? Did you get your head stuck in a door?"

When Cheng saw this face, his eyes suddenly lit up—wasn't this his boss from the "Young and Dangerous" movies—Big B? How did he end up here as the Chaozhou gang's Deadly Qiu? This plot is interesting.

Bo Mingqiu didn't notice Cheng Yi's expression. He pointed at A Yue with a toothpick in his hand, then glanced at the bandits behind Uncle Kai and shouted at the top of his lungs, "Which gang are you from? I'm Bo Mingqiu from the Chaozhou Gang, and I'm with Jin Ya Cheng! State your name, or we'll ruin our harmony when we start fighting!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the men of the stronghold were stunned for a moment, and then burst into laughter.

Ah Bao stepped forward, banging the steel pipe against his palm, the scar on his face gleaming in the sunlight: "I'm Ah Bao from the North Gate of Kowloon Walled City! Remember this, when you go down to see the King of Hell, give him my name and he'll burn you extra paper money!"

"Do it!"

At Abao's command, dozens of men from the stronghold surged forward like a tide.

They were constantly fighting and killing in the walled city, and in terms of ruthlessness and skill, they were far superior to these street thugs.

Steel pipes were swung up, machetes fell, and screams of agony instantly rose and fell.

The Chaozhou gang thugs had never seen anything like this before. In no time, they were beaten to a pulp, some clutching their heads and cowering on the ground, others trying to get up and run, only to be kicked over and then subjected to another round of punches and kicks.

Within a minute, the pawnshop entrance was filled with groaning thugs, like an overturned anthill.

Uncle Kai was so excited that he rushed over and kicked Bo Mingqiu, who was lying on the ground, a few times.

Bo Mingqiu was also a ruthless character. Although he was beaten until he was dizzy, he suddenly raised his foot and kicked Uncle Kai in the stomach.

Uncle Kai cried out "Ouch!" and fell to the ground, clutching his stomach and groaning.

But he was also stubborn. He struggled to get up, ignoring the pain, and rushed over to kick and curse until Bo Mingqiu curled up in a ball, motionless like a dead dog. Only then did he retreat to the side, panting heavily, his face covered in tears and sweat, but a smile on his lips.

"Alright." Cheng Yi's voice wasn't loud, but it clearly drowned out the surrounding chaos.

The men of the stronghold immediately stopped and dragged the bruised and swollen Bo Mingqiu and the crying and screaming A Yue to Cheng Yi like chickens, forcing them to kneel on the ground.

Bo Mingqiu spat out a mouthful of bloody saliva, struggled to raise his head, and glared at Cheng Yi with resentment in his eyes: "Who exactly are you? The people of the walled city have never interfered in the affairs of local gangs. This has been the rule for decades! How dare you break the rule?"

Cheng Yi looked down at him, her tone indifferent: "I'm not here to reason with you."

He kicked the bundle on the ground. "Return the stolen money and property, and I'll spare your life. Otherwise, you two illicit lovers will become dead lovers today."

"You dare!" Bo Mingqiu roared, his neck stiff. "We, the Chaozhou Gang, are not to be trifled with! My boss, Jin Yacheng, will not let you get away with this! He will definitely go to the City Walled Village Mutual Aid Association to argue with you, and you'll be in for it!"

Ah Bao laughed loudly from the side, kicking Bo Ming Qiu on the back of the head: "Let you die knowing why, you idiot—the man in front of you is the number one boss in Kowloon Walled City! The Mutual Aid Society? They don't even know what they're doing with the number one boss!"

"The number one boss in the walled city?" Bo Mingqiu was stunned, as if struck by lightning.

He whirled around to look at A-Yue, his eyes wide, and he cursed, "Why the hell didn't you say so sooner? This miser actually knows Brother Yi? You've got me killed!"

A-Yue cried even harder, her face covered in tears and snot: "I...I don't know either...who would have thought he could actually find the stronghold..."

Bo Mingqiu panicked, the fierce look on his face vanishing instantly, replaced by a forced smile that looked more like a grimace: "Brother Yi, it's a misunderstanding, all a misunderstanding! I really didn't know Uncle Kai was one of your men..."

Cheng remained expressionless, uttering only three words: "Give it back."

"Return it! Return it right now!" Bo Mingqiu snapped out of his daze and scrambled into the pawnshop. A moment later, he came out carrying a bulging blue cloth bundle and quickly untied it.

The contents were revealed—two gold bars gleamed heavily in the sunlight, next to them were stacks of silver dollars and banknotes, as well as some jewelry such as pearl earrings and silver bracelets, and at the bottom were land deeds, house deeds, and a dark iron box.

Bo Mingqiu opened the iron box with trembling hands, and inside lay a rusty revolver.

Just when everyone thought he was about to surrender and beg for mercy, he suddenly grabbed a pistol, turned around and pointed it at Cheng Yi's head, a crazed grin spreading across his face: "What kind of gang leader is he? He's just a target for me! Today I'll kill you, then storm into the stronghold, and see who dares to underestimate me, Bo Mingqiu!"

Ah Yue seemed to see a glimmer of hope. She stopped crying, rolled over and got up, her eyes gleaming with malice: "Brother Qiu is mighty! Kill him!"