Chapter 86: The Azure Cloud Gang

Lin Ming sidestepped to avoid that kick from his good brother.

He hurriedly waved his hands and said, “Brother Fan, don’t be angry. I was just joking.”

Su Yifan was not angry at all.

On the contrary, Lin Ming’s speed surprised him a little. The kick had been thrown casually, but not everyone could dodge it.

The fact that Lin Ming had managed to avoid it showed that he had truly put effort into his training these days.

“Oh, right. Did you come to the gang for something?” Su Yifan asked.

“Actually, I came here to have them help me gather spirit stones too. I just didn’t expect you to have already had them collecting them,” Lin Ming said, scratching his head.

Ever since he learned that cultivation required spirit stones, he had thought of this.

He just hadn’t expected his good brother to have been one step ahead and already put Crows and the others on the task.

Hearing this, Su Yifan looked at Crows. “In that case, from now on, hand over all the spirit stones you collect to Lin Ming.”

“How could that be?” Lin Ming said at once, repeatedly waving his hands in refusal.

Su Yifan ignored him and continued to Crows.

“That should be fine, right?”

“Handing the spirit stones over to the boss isn’t a problem, it’s just...” Crows stopped there.

Seeing him hesitate, Su Yifan pressed, “What is it? If you have something to say, then say it. Don’t act like a woman.”

At that, Crows no longer hid it and replied, “It’s like this. The price of spirit stones is simply too high, and our gang is having a hard time bearing it.”

Ever since they stopped collecting protection money and stayed away from gambling, drugs, and prostitution, the gang had been relying only on running bars and a few small businesses.

Those businesses did make money, enough to cover ordinary expenses.

But if the money was also used to buy spirit stones, then things would become tight.

Over the years, the gang had only accumulated several billion in total. If this went on for long, they definitely would not be able to keep it up for many more years.

So that was the problem.

Before Su Yifan could speak, Lin Ming said first, “Leave the money to me. You can just go ahead and do it with confidence.”

Su Yifan also nodded. “Lin Ming is right. If the money isn’t enough, just say so. You can come to Lin Ming or me.”

With his abilities, even without relying on his family, he could still have more money than he could ever spend.

To him, money was the least important thing.

“Since Young Master Su and the boss both said so, then we’ll handle the spirit stone collection,” Crows said, patting his chest.

“All right, since there’s nothing else, I’ll be going now.”

With that, Su Yifan did not linger and turned to leave.

Just then—

Crows hurriedly spoke up. “Young Master Su, wait.”

“Anything else?” Su Yifan asked, turning back to look at him.

Crows hesitated for a moment, then smiled. “It’s nothing much, really. It’s just that now the gang follows Young Master Lin.”

“As the saying goes, when there’s a new leader, there should be a new look. The brothers were thinking of changing the gang’s name.”

Hearing that they wanted to name the gang, Su Yifan was not good at such things, so he looked at Lin Ming. “This gang is yours, so you choose.”

Hearing this, Lin Ming shook his head repeatedly. “Brother Fan, you choose. I really can’t think of a good name.”

He had been making his way in the outside world all these years.

Managing the gang and such was one thing, but naming it was truly beyond him.

Seeing them push the decision back and forth without reaching any conclusion, Crows said at that moment, “Since Young Master Su and the boss can’t think of one, why not hear the one I came up with?”

Hearing that, Su Yifan and Lin Ming both looked at him.

The next moment, Crows coughed twice, cleared his throat, and said with great solemnity, “How about we call it the Heaven-Breaking Gang?”

As soon as those words fell, the underlings present all cheered and applauded.

The Heaven-Breaking Gang.

Just hearing the name made it sound mighty and domineering.

But Su Yifan and Lin Ming were both speechless.

As expected, they should have known sooner.

What good name could come from such a rough, burly brute?

“Young Master Su, is that not acceptable?” Crows asked.

This name should be pretty good, shouldn’t it?

It even breaks the heavens.

How overwhelmingly imposing that was!

Seeing that they were still silent, Crows had another idea and said triumphantly, “If that one doesn’t work, then let’s change it to the Sun-Slaying Gang. How about that?”

After speaking, he looked at the two of them with a face full of expectation for praise.

Su Yifan felt as though he could already dig out a three-bedroom apartment and a living room with his toes.

What was this?

Did the heavens offend you or something? First breaking them, then slaying the sun?

Helpless, he looked at Lin Ming. “You should choose something a bit more normal.”

Lin Ming also felt that Crows’ names were too low-class, so he decided to think of one himself and pondered seriously.

It was not long before a name suddenly surfaced in his mind, and he blurted out, “I’ve got it. Let’s call it the Azure Cloud Gang.”

He had drawn inspiration from the cultivation novels he had read.

Aren’t all those cultivation sects fond of names like Azure Cloud Sect?

If cultivators can have Azure Cloud Sect,

then it shouldn’t be too much for them, as martial artists, to be called the Azure Cloud Gang, right?

Su Yifan thought the name was not bad. At the very least, it sounded much more normal than that Heaven-Breaking Gang or Sun-Slaying Gang.

“Not bad. Let’s go with that,” he said.

Crows also felt the name was good, but he still preferred the two he had just thought of.

However, the gang’s boss was no longer him, so he could only agree.

“Good. Then starting today, our Red Star Gang will officially be renamed the Azure Cloud Gang. Everyone, applaud.”

Crows spoke while clapping on his own.

With him leading the way, the many underlings in the room also began to applaud.

Just as everyone was caught up in the cheerful atmosphere—

Boom!

From outside came the continuous sound of smashing and crashing, followed by the panicked cries of a crowd.

“What’s going on?”

No sooner had Crows spoken than—

Bang!

A thug was sent crashing in from outside, even knocking the private room door down with him.

“Boss... b-boss, someone is causing trouble...”

After saying that, the thug fainted on the spot.

“Damn it! They dare make trouble in our Azure Cloud Gang!”

As he spoke, Crows looked at Su Yifan and Lin Ming. “Young Master Su, boss, leave this to me.”

“Brothers, come with me!”

With that, Crows led more than thirty underlings from the private room and strode out menacingly.

Watching Crows and the others leave, Lin Ming, as the boss of the Azure Cloud Gang, naturally had to go out and see what was happening.

Though he had not yet broken through to the Qi Refining stage, his current physical condition was enough to let him take on some low-level martial artists.

With that thought, just as he was about to step out, Su Yifan’s large hand landed on his shoulder.

“Don’t rush in recklessly. Let’s see what’s going on first.”

He had just sensed that there were five fairly strong martial auras outside.

From the aura alone, those five should all be Grandmasters.

Hearing his good brother’s words, Lin Ming nodded.

Then the two of them went out of the private room together.