Chapter 958
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**BANG!!!**
At that very moment, Xu Boyuan could no longer hold on. Struck by the Thunder Palm, he was slammed to the ground, his entire body collapsing as his bones shattered and a torrent of blood gushed from his mouth.
Ye Wushuang paid no heed to Xu Boyuan. Instead, she strode up to Lu Cuishan.
“Y-you mustn’t act rashly,” Lu Cuishan stammered in terror. “I am the son of the Lu family’s patriarch…”
“Come here, you!” With a single motion, Ye Wushuang grabbed Lu Cuishan as if he were a lifeless dog and tossed him beside Xu Boyuan.
Now, one lay prostrate on the ground, while the other sat slumped, utterly devoid of the haughty and carefree demeanor they had displayed moments ago.
“Kneel!” Ye Wushuang commanded.
“Ye Wushuang, you…” Lu Cuishan began, but before he could finish, Ye Wushuang swiftly unsheathed her sword and, with a single stroke, severed one of his feet. Blood gushed forth, and Lu Cuishan let out a scream akin to that of a pig being slaughtered.
“Silence!” The stern rebuke rang out, and Lu Cuishan’s entire body trembled. He clenched his teeth, enduring the excruciating pain, and dared not utter another word.
“Will you kneel or not?” The tip of the long sword pressed against Lu Cuishan’s neck, and Ye Wushuang’s voice was cold and indifferent.
Gritting his teeth and enduring the agony, Lu Cuishan knelt to the ground.
“What about you?” Ye Wushuang gazed coldly at Xu Boyuan, who was lying half-dead on the ground.
Xu Boyuan forced himself to kneel, though his posture was barely maintained.
Ye Wushuang turned to Jia Tiancai and called out, “Brother Jia, come over here.”
“Ah?” Jia Tiancai hesitated.
“Come on…” Ye Wushuang smiled warmly.
Jia Tiancai took slow, hesitant steps forward.
Only then did Ye Wushuang turn back to Xu Boyuan and Lu Cuishan and sneer, “Kowtow to Brother Jia!”
As soon as these words left her lips, Xu Boyuan’s face twisted with rage. “It was Lu Cuishan who made me do it. It’s not my fault…”
Before he could finish, the sword swept through the air. A streak of sword energy severed one of Xu Boyuan’s feet.
“If I tell you to kneel, you kneel. If I tell you to kowtow, you kowtow. No more nonsense!” Ye Wushuang declared.
Jia Tiancai had never witnessed such a scene before. He immediately waved his hand and said, “Brother Ye, let it go… I’m fine.”
“Not fine!” Ye Wushuang insisted. “They made you kneel, made you call them grandpa, trampled on your dignity, and by extension, the dignity of our Lingjian Mountain!”
“A warrior who loses his dignity and doesn’t reclaim it will carry that burden as a lifelong torment!”
Hearing this, Jia Tiancai looked at Ye Wushuang and nodded slowly, choosing not to say anything further.
Ye Wushuang barked again, “Kowtow, nine times!”
At that moment, Xu Boyuan and Lu Cuishan dared not utter a single word of defiance. If they had, their other feet might have been lost as well.
After kowtowing nine times, Xu Boyuan muttered, “Is that enough?”
“Your heads aren’t even bleeding yet. How could that be enough? Do it again!” Ye Wushuang retorted.
Upon hearing this, the two men’s faces turned ashen, like liver-colored livers.
Thud, thud, thud…
They continued to kowtow until blood appeared on the floor, and only then did they stop.
“Call out! ‘Grandpa Jia,’ nine times!” Ye Wushuang commanded.
Enduring immense humiliation, Lu Cuishan and Xu Boyuan looked at Jia Tiancai.
“Grandpa Jia!”
“Grandpa Jia!”
“…”
After they finished, Lu Cuishan glared at Ye Wushuang, his teeth clenched, and growled, “Is that enough now?”
“‘Grandpa Jia’ sounds too fake. It’s not convincing. Call him ‘Uncle Tiancai’ instead,” Ye Wushuang said again.
“Ye Wushuang, don’t push it too far!” Xu Boyuan roared in anger, his eyes fixed fiercely on Ye Wushuang. “We are geniuses of the Tiyan Empire. If you treat us like this, you’ll be making a deadly enemy of the Lingjian Mountain!”
Ye Wushuang sneered, “Pushing it too far? What can you do about it? Besides, even if this does offend your Tiyan Empire, then your emperor must have a very narrow mind.”
“Stop wasting time. Call it out!”
Under Ye Wushuang’s stern authority, Xu Boyuan and Lu Cuishan struggled with their expressions, but in the end, they still shouted out.
“Uncle Tiancai!”
“Uncle Tiancai!”
“…”
Their voices echoed within the courtyard.
Yun Yin and the others felt a sense of vindication. Had it not been for Ye Wushuang’s intervention, the six of them would likely have become corpses by now.
Lu Cuishan and Xu Boyuan had never treated the six of them as human beings. They were merely playthings for the two men’s amusement.
Now, Ye Wushuang was repaying them in kind, and it felt… satisfying.
“Ye Wushuang, can you let us go now?” Lu Cuishan said through gritted teeth.
“Let you go? Did I ever say I would let you go?”
“You…”
“What?” Ye Wushuang feigned curiosity. “I’m a person of my word, but… I never said that if you knelt and called out, I would spare your lives!”
With that, Ye Wushuang raised her sword and struck.
Ting…
But at that moment, a figure leaped from outside the courtyard. With a flick of the hand, two daggers shot through the air, blocking the sword energy that Ye Wushuang had unleashed.
The figure stood on the courtyard wall, surveying the scene within. His expression immediately darkened.
