"Liu Ruoxi, you’ve gone too far."
Off to the side, Gongsun Yanran was finally enraged.
From the very beginning until now, she hadn’t taught Liu Ruoxi a lesson because she considered the girl a junior. But this junior was getting a bit too arrogant, repeatedly trying to lay a hand on Xuan’Er. Did she really think she didn’t exist?
Just then, Ye Xuan’s voice rang out. "Mother, don’t intervene. I’ll handle this. She wants to kill me, and I want to kill her too!"
A bloodthirsty smile spread across Ye Xuan’s face.
"Xuan’Er, you want to handle this? I know you are at the 4th Layer of the Super Spirit Realm, but she is in the Demon Spirit Realm. The gap between you two is simply too vast!"
Gongsun Yanran had seen geniuses before, but even the greatest genius could at most fight across major realms when they were at the 9th Layer. Ye Xuan’s cultivation was still too weak; he was only at the 4th Layer of the Super Spirit Realm.
Ye Xuan said calmly, "Vast? I don’t think so."
He didn’t say anything else, standing tall and facing Liu Ruoxi squarely. This woman was far too arrogant. He originally wanted his mother to step in and kill Liu Ruoxi for him simply because he felt doing it himself was too troublesome and a waste of time. Now, he chose to step up himself to show her that even if she was the privileged daughter of a major city—someone whose one year of cultivation rivaled ten years of a normal person’s—it didn’t matter. He, Ye Xuan, merely came from a small town, yet he could still trample her beneath his feet!
He thought, "You think you’re so high and mighty? Then I will crush your pride with my own two hands!"
"You dare face me alone?" Liu Ruoxi was somewhat surprised. She never expected Ye Xuan to meet her head-on.
Ye Xuan let out a cold laugh. "I also dare to kill you. Do you believe that?"
"Kill me? Hehehe..." Liu Ruoxi laughed continuously. Though her smile was beautiful, it brimmed with killing intent. "Ye Xuan, you’re courting death!"
With a cold shout, Liu Ruoxi gathered Beast Soul Power throughout her body and threw a punch at Ye Xuan. Before she even reached him, a storm surged forward like a roaring dragon. In that instant, the courtyard walls collapsed, and the earth fractured inch by inch. The terrifying spiritual pressure forced everyone from the Ye Family to their knees. Some even spat blood, looking as if they might bleed out from all seven orifices and die. Being too close to a Demon Spirit Realm battle was simply seeking death.
Gongsun Yanran immediately unleashed her Spiritual Qi, shielding the Ye Family members behind her.
"Bring it on!" Ye Xuan was just about to counterattack, but Gongsun Yanran sighed instead.
"Enough!" With those words, she placed herself between the two of them.
Ye Xuan frowned. "Mother, didn’t I say I’d handle this?"
Gongsun Yanran shook her head. "Xuan’Er, the gap between you two is too vast. You are no match for her. Even if you were, could I just stand by and watch you kill her? Wouldn’t that ignite a feud between Dapeng City and Chasing Moon City?"
Her words were clearly meant to give Ye Xuan an out, because she truly didn’t believe he could match Liu Ruoxi.
Ye Xuan opened his mouth, but before he could speak, Liu Ruoxi’s furious voice rang out. "Gongsun Yanran, don’t get in my way! Get out of my face! Scram!"
This remark completely infuriated Gongsun Yanran once more. Her gaze turned icy. Without another word, she raised her delicate hand and delivered a resounding slap.
SMACK!
A crisp sound echoed out. Gongsun Yanran’s hand struck Liu Ruoxi’s face with pinpoint accuracy. Even though Liu Ruoxi tried to block it, she couldn’t stop it at all. The slap was simply too fast.
CRASH!
Liu Ruoxi’s body flipped through the air several times, flying twenty meters before finally crashing into the ground.
"Liu Ruoxi, you insolent brat. Setting aside the fact that I am your future mother-in-law, how dare you address me by my full name as your elder? Were you raised with no manners? Since your parents failed to teach you properly, I’ll just have to do it myself!"
Gongsun Yanran had wanted to act earlier, but Ye Xuan had stopped her. Yet this Liu Ruoxi was far too ungrateful and ignorant, actually telling her to scram! No matter how good-natured Gongsun Yanran was, she still had a temper. If Liu Ruoxi weren’t a child of the Liu Family, she would have long since slapped her mouth to pieces.
"You... you hit me?" After scrambling to her feet, Liu Ruoxi was completely stunned. Her face was red and swollen. Growing up, when had she ever suffered such humiliation?
"I hit you. What are you going to do about it?"
"Gongsun Yanran, you ugly hag—"
"Hm? Ugly hag?"
Gongsun Yanran’s face twitched, and her body moved again. A split second later, there was another sharp smack as Liu Ruoxi took another hit, this time to her left cheek. But that was only the beginning.
SMACK SMACK SMACK!
In just a few breaths, Gongsun Yanran delivered a dozen more slaps. The sheer ferocity of it left everyone dumbfounded. As the saying goes, one shouldn’t hit a person in the face. But Gongsun Yanran rained down slap after slap without pause. Was she trying to beat Liu Ruoxi until her face swelled up like a pig?
As she struck, Gongsun Yanran spoke out.
"A woman’s patience always has its limits. As a woman yourself, do you not know this?
"You ill-bred little wench! You came to the Ye Family to cause trouble, and I was willing to let it slide, but you actually tried to kill my son! And now, you have the audacity to call me an ugly hag? I am your future mother-in-law! If I don’t enforce the family rules now, what will happen if you actually marry Xuan’Er in the future? You’d turn the whole household upside down!
"Say it! Say you were wrong! Otherwise, I’ll beat your face to a pulp!"
SMACK SMACK SMACK.
SWOOSH SWOOSH SWOOSH.
With every falling slap, a fierce gust of wind swept through the courtyard.
GULP.
Every man present swallowed hard. No one had expected Gongsun Yanran to be so violent. Ye Yizhou was also bewildered. The Gongsun Yanran in his memory occasionally threw small temper tantrums, but it was never anything like this.
Only the women of the Ye Family nodded in agreement.
"She actually dared to call Yanran an ugly hag. She deserves a beating!"
"As a woman, she should know that those two words are an absolute taboo."
"Those two words are incredibly hurtful to a woman. The impact is severe!"
Some middle-aged women even warned their children.
"Son, do you see this? Never offend a woman in the future. Unless you have the strength to back it up, you won’t even know how you died."
"Mother, stop scaring me. I’m going to develop a phobia of women."
Perhaps overhearing the surrounding murmurs, Gongsun Yanran realized she had lost her composure. She finally stopped her assault. Before her, Liu Ruoxi’s once beautiful face was now completely swollen. She really did look like a pig.
"You... you!" Liu Ruoxi was seething with rage. Her body trembled uncontrollably. After a long while, she roared.
"Die! Aw of you, die! Be dethtroyed!"
Perhaps because of her swollen face, her enunciation was slurred. But that didn’t matter. Suddenly, a Yellow Talisman appeared in Liu Ruoxi’s hand. This was a rare Tier 5 Thunder Talisman, and a top-grade one at that. Against a Thunder Talisman of this caliber, even someone at the 9th Layer of the Demon Spirit Realm would face grim odds; they would be stripped of a layer of skin, if they survived at all.
Seeing this, Ye Xuan was greatly alarmed. In the future predicted by the Dragon Capturing Cauldron, the Ye Family was destroyed by lightning! He hurriedly called out, "Mother, snatch—"
Before Ye Xuan could finish his sentence, Gongsun Yanran, who needed no warning, raised her right hand, leaving behind a trail of blurred shadows in the air. The Yellow Talisman that was originally in Liu Ruoxi’s grasp was now firmly held in her hand.