Chapter 5 (1/2)

Translator: Larbre Studio  Editor: Larbre Studio

After missing the blow, Hawk Nose landed briefly on the ball of one of his feet and leapt at Xu Yi again.

Although Xu Yi was encumbered by Mutton Chops, there were plenty of “shields” for him within the crowd of horses and men. With his nimble body, he dodged each and every one of Hawk Nose’s killing moves by the narrowest of margins.

Hawk Nose was indeed an expert at the peak of the Body Forging stage. The amount of strength that he possessed was shocking. With Young Master Zhou cheering him on, he had to display his strength to the fullest. These heavy blows were easily thrown, but not easily retracted. Xu Yi could avoid them, but the group of riders could not. In the blink of an eye, he had caused Hawk Nose to obliterate seven of them.

Whoosh!

The tip of Xu Yi’s foot landed right in the middle of the last rider’s throat. With a cracking sound, the rider’s neck bent unnaturally as he fell off the horse.

With that, aYoung Master Zhou’s eight riders had all perished!

At that moment, Young Master Zhou finally realized that the young villager in front of him was no longer the meager ant whom he could bully for fun as he wished. Looking into his cold eyes, he actually felt a chill run down his spine.

When the chill had passed, shame began to well up in Young Master Zhou’s heart.

He was a noble, born to a distinguished family. Even without his uncle Zhou Daogan, who was renowned across Guang’an, his own house had dozens of retainers, with many experts among them. Even he himself had already reached the later levels of the Body Forging stage, and he was only a step away from the peak. For an ant like Xu Yi to instil fear in him was a great insult!

With that thought, Young Master Zhou flew into a rage, shouting back with bloodshot eyes. “Very well, you are scheming indeed. To think that you actually secretly trained your skills. My uncle was right that you Xu’s were all born from criminals. Forever employing despicable and underhanded means. You want revenge, don’t you? I’m right here; come at me!”

“Why the hurry to die? Let me get rid of your lackeys first!” Xu Yi roared in reply.

Sticking his left thumb out, his simple yet sharp fingernail became a sharp knife. With a stab and a pull, he drew a thin and shallow white line right down from the top of Mutton Chop’s head, which began leaking blood a moments later. Xu Yi twisted his left hand, and a flap of skin rose up from the edges of the red line. In the next few moments, his large hand struck all over Mutton Chop’s body more than a dozen times. His rapid strikes were like the sound of popcorn. With two fingers of his left hand twisting and grabbing onto that flap of skin, he pulled hard, and at the same time, a sickening sound like that of a cloth ripping entered everyone’s ears.

Xu Yi had actually ripped off Mutton Chop’s entire scalp, all the way to the base of his neck, leaving him in a miserable, half-dead state!

Ever since he had been subdued by Xu Yi, he was held by the throat, and his spine had been shattered. He was both unable to move and unable to cry out. At this moment, under such horrific torture, even as an expert at the later stages of the Body Forging stage, he was convulsing in pain. Tears streamed down his face, and he was only able to gurgle as his throat was being crushed. It was truly an unbearable sight.

Both in his past life and in this present one, it was the first time Xu Yi had performed such a torture, but there was no a hint of mercy or uneasiness in doing so. Instead, the flames of anger in his heart was almost burning up his brain.

Even with such punishment, it was not enough to ease the Xu Yi’s hatred. With a stomp of his leg, he broke both of Mutton Chops legs, then tossed him up into the air like a rag doll. Mutton Chops ended up at the top of a large tree around a dozen meters tall. Like a giant de-shelled prawn, he lay there curled up, dripping blood and wailing desperately.

It may have been a long description, but all of that happened in a flash. Young Master Zhou and Hawk Nose had no time to even react, and Mutton Chops had already ended up in a miserable half-dead state.

“AHHHHH!” Hawk Nose screamed in rage!

Normally, even he did not think much of Mutton Chops. He had always thought that he lacked air and dignity of a pugilist. But for Xu Yi to carry out such a gruesome act right under his nose, it was simply a blatant slap in the face!