My Ability Pool is Superior - Chapter 200: Five Major Factions

“Yes, yes, yes.”

White Shark Gang Leader nodded frantically like a little chick pecking at rice.

No matter what Lu Bai said, he didn’t dare show any intention of refuting it.

He now felt like he was fucking dreaming; who knew why a random little fat sheep he bumped into on the street suddenly transformed into a powerful martial artist.

But things had come to this point, so he could only accept his fate.

“Since you’ve come, then help me do a bit more.”

Lu Bai chuckled as he put his arm around White Shark, adding: “I’m hungry anyway.”

He looked up, his gaze sweeping over the White Shark Gang members who could still stand, finally landing on Fat Brother, who had a rather bulky build: “You, go cook me two dishes.”

Fat Brother shuddered when Lu Bai nodded at him, then reacted to the content of Lu Bai’s words and was stunned.

“Big Fat! Didn’t you hear the Big Boss’s order?! Hurry up and go!” White Shark urged impatiently.

It couldn’t be helped that he was scared; the temperature from Lu Bai’s arm on his neck made him severely lack a sense of security, fearing that Lu Bai would twist his neck off if he got unhappy.

A complicated expression appeared on Fat Brother’s face.

However, being able to temporarily leave the inn for some fresh air was somewhat consoling.

In the corridor, after seeing Fat Brother off, the dozen or so pairs of eyes of the White Shark Gang members neatly returned to Lu Bai.

White Shark, this gang leader, didn’t even dare breathe heavily, his tone strained: “Big Boss, we…”

“I told you, no need to be nervous.”

Lu Bai casually patted White Shark’s shoulder, startling this gang leader into his heart trembling.

Fortunately, Lu Bai had no intention of deliberately teasing these thugs; he instead asked: “Tell me, how much operating funds does our gang have left now?”

……

At the same time.

In a fitness training room in Chikan Bay.

A young man with his upper body bare lay on the ground, holding a plank position, sweat sliding down his sharply defined muscles.

It was worth noting that it was hard to sense much ferocity from him; instead, his overly pale skin made him seem somewhat sickly.

Moments later, the young man rolled onto his side and lay on his back, gasping for breath.

“How is it? Did you feel it?”

Seeing this, the burly man who looked like the shop owner walked over and sat down next to the young man.

Xiao Xueyin shook his head: “It seems like it’s still a bit short.”

The burly man laughed heartily: “These things can’t be rushed; your progress is already quite frightening. When I first sensed internal energy back then, it took me a full few months to get started.”

“Brother Fengze, you don’t understand.”

Xiao Xueyin sat up, sighing faintly: “If the cultivation speed is like this, it doesn’t have much meaning for me.”

“I don’t know what you’re in such a hurry for.”

The burly man called Brother Fengze shrugged and added: “But I think you’re probably overthinking it; often, the more anxious you are, the harder it is to achieve your goal.”

Xiao Xueyin took a deep breath: “I understand the reasoning.”

“How about shifting your attention? Have you heard? There was quite a big trouble in Heping Lane tonight.”

“In Chikan Bay, the news is when there’s no trouble any night, right?”

“It’s not that simple; the local tyrant there is called Snake, even his red pole was killed, and neighboring factions are all busy swallowing up Snake’s territory, forcing Hei Jinbao to step out and maintain the situation. And rumor has it that this farce has the Dao Master’s hand behind it.”

Brother Fengze’s words really drew Xiao Xueyin’s attention.

He said thoughtfully: “I know the Dao Master is the biggest leader in all of Chikan Bay, but what’s the deal with this Hei Jinbao? Can he manage the situation?”

“Right, you just arrived in Chikan Bay yesterday; I don’t think I told you.”

Brother Fengze scratched the back of his head: “Mainly, the Dao Master’s Dao Sect doesn’t manage things; currently, five major factions are jointly managing Chikan Bay District.”

Xiao Xueyin couldn’t help but sigh: “Sure enough, with power like this, if you don’t take it, others will come and devour it.”

“That’s how it is; the balance among the five major factions is actually quite delicate, with no written protocol between them, just a tacit mutual non-aggression.”

Brother Fengze paused, then continued: “After all, at their scale, once conflict erupts among the five major factions, it will definitely trigger huge chain reactions, making the already chaotic Chikan Bay go completely crazy—a result none of those five want to see.”

“However, I guess this fragile balance is also something the Dao Master is happy to see, better than Chikan Bay having another colossal dominant faction.”

Xiao Xueyin wiped the sweat beads from his forehead and said in a bewitching tone.

“Brother Fengze, have you ever considered building such a colossal dominant faction? In terms of strength training levels, you should be a grandmaster, right?”

……

“This is Grandmaster Realm?”

Lu Bai sensed the internal energy in his body that had condensed into a solid state, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously curved into a smile.

Although compressing internal energy from liquid to solid was more difficult than Lu Bai had imagined.

But after spending a full two days, he had finally successfully stepped into this realm.

High talent was just that unreasonable.

In two days, he had crossed over countless martial artists’ decades of diligent cultivation.

In a sense, Lu Bai could now be considered a martial arts grandmaster of this world.

Compared to a normal grandmaster, what he lacked was merely the quenching of his body by solid-state internal energy.

“Brother Bai, are you in?”

The house door was gently knocked, and White Shark hunched over as he pushed the door open and entered.

As soon as he entered, White Shark complained with a mournful face: “Brother Bai, this can’t go on; the brothers in the gang are about to not be able to keep the pot boiling.”

Lu Bai was no longer in that rundown inn from before.

In fact, ever since that night when he took over the White Shark Gang, he had quickly moved into the only luxury hotel in Heping Lane.

Every day’s menu consisted of expensive high-energy ingredients.

His ability to compress internal energy into solid state so quickly was probably one-third due to the food aspect.

The problem was that these all cost money.

The White Shark Gang was just a low-tier small faction with little savings to begin with; how could it sustain such expenses?

Lu Bai knew White Shark wasn’t bluffing him; no matter how much you squeezed a scrawny pig, you couldn’t get much oil out of it.

In just these two days, quite a few gang members couldn’t endure such a miserable situation and chose to leave the gang.

Probably understanding such an action, White Shark hadn’t followed convention by taking people to seek revenge.

Lu Bai propped his cheek with one hand, sizing up White Shark in front of him.

“So tell me, where can we get money?”

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