Chapter 327 One Punch, Instant Kill!

• The guy hadn’t even thrown a single punch. He just used the Gold Bell Shield’s rebound force and knocked Huai Kong out cold. That was the big-shot fist master everyone in Azure City knew! The man who could ring a twenty-ton bronze bell like it was nothing! I spent three hundred million to get him here, and he got wiped like that? Ye Xiangnan’s mind went blank. His legs shook. “How… how is this possible… My dad can’t lose…” Huai Yu collapsed to the floor, limp, her eyes full of shock and disbelief. In her memories, her father was the definition of invincible. Losing wasn’t even on the table—let alone losing that miserably just now. “Ka-ka-ka…” Ishiguro Ryū rolled his neck with a nasty grin, turned, and fixed his bloodthirsty gaze on Ye Xiangnan. “Warm-up’s over! Game on!” Ye Xiangnan was frozen in fear, and Tang Yuyan trembled as she looked at Darius Harrington. At this point, even Tang Yuyan wasn’t sure if he could win. “Mr. Harrington… can you… can you do it?” Darius stayed sprawled lazily on the sofa, watching a short video. Only when he heard her plea and the last second ticked away did he stretch and stand up, unhurried. “Hm?” Ishiguro finally noticed the man on the sofa. Then he got a good look—and burst out laughing. “Kid, don’t tell me Ye Xiangnan called you in to help.” “Beat it! I don’t kill brats!” He didn’t even have the interest to trade blows with Darius. A guy in his twenties was just a punk to him. Darius ignored him. He set his phone on the sofa and walked over to the granite wall… Then he punched. Boom!!! One punch. Just one. The entire wall caved and shattered. Everyone froze, jaws dropping into perfect O’s. That wasn’t some flimsy plaster—that was solid granite. Huai Kong had just managed to scratch a crack with his best shot. Darius lit a cigarette and smiled at Ye Xiangnan. “Patriarch Ye, think I’ve got the right to help now?” Silence. Dead silence. You could hear a pin drop. Ye Xiangnan’s mind stayed blank for several seconds. Tang Yuyan was stunned stiff. Even Ishiguro Ryū’s pupils shrank hard. This… This was insane. Terrifying. Even Huai Kong, half-conscious with his eyes about to close, twitched and stared wide. Huai Yu’s thighs pressed tight; she couldn’t stop trembling. Thump! Ye Xiangnan dropped to his knees in front of Darius. “Mr. Harrington, I was blind just now. Please forgive me!” Smart men read the room. Ye Xiangnan was a born power player; dignity didn’t mean a damn thing to him. Darius nodded slightly, then let his aura roar free and locked his gaze on Ishiguro. That single look made Ishiguro feel like some ancient beast had marked him. Huai Kong had gone all out earlier, and his full-power punch hadn’t forced Ishiguro back even half a step. But one look from Darius made Ishiguro recoil two steps, scared out of his mind. “Who the hell are you?” Gone was the swagger. Ishiguro’s face turned grim as he asked for Darius’s background. “The guy sending you to meet the Eternal Judge.” Boom! As the words fell, Darius struck like lightning. His punch came so fast and hard that the air spat sparks. “Useless!” Ishiguro roared. He slammed both feet down and drove them inches into the ground. His qi surged, and a round, golden shell snapped into place around him. “Gold Bell Shield, Fifth Tier!!!” He opened with his strongest technique. That alone showed how much he feared Darius. “Dong!!!!” “Crack! Crack!!!” Darius’s fist crashed against the shield. The golden shell split with jagged cracks, then blew apart in a burst. The force hurled Ishiguro backward, ragdolling him through the air. Before he hit the ground, Darius was already on him, shadowing him step for step. Midair, he hammered a punch down into Ishiguro’s chest. “Boom!!!” Another deafening blast. Dust exploded everywhere, stones flying—like a bomb had gone off. When the dust finally settled, Darius’s fist had punched clean through Ishiguro Ryū’s chest. Darius shook the body off his arm like shedding a glove, dragged him off his fist, and tossed him outside like a dead mutt. Too fast. From Darius’s first punch to the finish, the whole thing took five seconds. With blood still wet on his hand, Darius pulled out a cigarette, lit up, took a slow drag, then turned to Tang Yuyan. “Tang Yuyan, I did you this favor. Now I want you laser-focused on building the Pangu Chamber of Commerce for me.” Tang Yuyan and Ye Xiangnan were still in shock. This… This couldn’t be real, right? One move to crush the Tongbei master Huai Kong, and that demon-god Ishiguro got wrecked just like that? He couldn’t even fight back in front of Darius. It felt like a fairy tale. By the time Tang Yuyan and Ye Xiangnan snapped out of it, Darius had wiped his hands, grabbed his phone, and was heading out. Ye Xiangnan jolted and hurried after him. “Mr. Harrington, please wait!” “Hm?” Darius frowned. Ye Xiangnan dropped to his knees, grateful. “Thank you for saving our lives, Mr. Harrington! But even if you beat Ishiguro, Jiang Beihe won’t let this go. With him, guys like Ishiguro barely make the list. In two days, Azure City’s biggest sea arena bout kicks off. You know us—we settle everything with a fight. Jiang Beihe will use it to take back the turf he lost and rule Azure City again. If that happens, the Ye family won’t survive. Please, help us through this!” Darius shook his head. “I promised Tang Yuyan I’d step in once. That’s it.” “Mr. Harrington, name your price. I’ll pay anything!” “Heh. Ask Tang Yuyan—do I look like I need money?” He crushed his cigarette, stepped forward, and kept going. He was about to walk out the door when Ye Xiangnan started sweating bullets and grabbed Tang Yuyan, pleading. “Yuyan, please! Do it for me! Get Mr. Harrington to step in one more time! If he won’t, the Ye family’s done for!” Tang Yuyan drew a deep breath and stepped up. “Mr. Harrington, please. I’m begging you. If you’ll help, I… I’ll be your servant. Laundry, cooking, bathhouse, warming your bed… Whatever you want me to do…” As she spoke, her face flushed red. She lowered her head, shy and desperate. Darius looked at the woman in her early thirties—mature, lush, and dangerously sexy, like a sun-warmed peach ready to burst. Yeah. Tang Yuyan was the kind of woman whose every smile could set a man’s blood on fire. But he wasn’t tempted. Back when he fought overseas, there wasn’t a kind of woman he hadn’t seen. Queens and princesses had cried and begged, kneeling to marry him, willing to give up their thrones just to be with him. And you, Tang Yuyan, a mere businesswoman—what does that count for? Besides, his heart belonged to Lenora Nelson. “Tang Yuyan, you think you can compare to my wife?” Darius let out a mocking laugh and turned to leave without a second thought. He helped Tang Yuyan this once so she’d focus on growing the Pangu Chamber of Commerce for him. If it meant draining his time again and again, he’d rather ditch her. Seeing he was dead set on leaving, Tang Yuyan panicked. “Hoo… Hoo…” Her breathing went rough, chest heaving hard, like she was weighing a make-or-break choice. A few seconds later, Darius had already stepped out of the villa gate. Right then, like she’d made up her mind, Tang Yuyan chased after him. “Tang Yuyan, you think I’m easygoing?” Darius’s face went dark, his aura flaring like wildfire.