Chapter 10: What Am I Supposed to Do to You?

At the same time, she raised her palms and shifted her feet, assuming an attacking stance.

Upon hearing this, Li Hao was slightly surprised, but then he let out a sneer of disdain.

The words uttered by Ye Zhenghuang were, in truth, filled with a genuine sense of threat.

Yet, in front of Li Hao, he merely treated it as if he had heard some grand joke.

As for Ye Zhenghuang’s attacking stance, he simply dismissed those two palms as the bluffing of a good-for-nothing, not taking them to heart at all.

"You’ll be impolite to me? Ha! You are nothing but a piece of trash who cannot cultivate Yuan energy. Even if these soft, weak palms were to strike, what could they possibly do to this General?" Having said that, Li Hao strode forward rapidly.

The tip of his heavy blade dragged along the ground, creating a sharp, grating sound with every step he took.

"Go to hell!" Li Hao suddenly leaped into the air, letting out a roar!

Amidst the roar, Li Hao’s sinister face twisted into a hideous expression. The heavy blade in his hand surged with chilling killing intent, as if in the next moment, it would sever Ye Zhenghuang’s head.

However, in the next instant, a sudden, inexplicable numbness struck both of Li Hao’s elbows. His grip loosened, and the heavy blade hit the ground with a "clang." He himself lost all strength and collapsed to the ground.

This sudden accident startled Li Hao. Just as he was about to struggle to his feet, the wind from Ye Zhenghuang’s palms whistled toward him.

"Slap! Slap!"

Two crisp, clear sounds of slapping rang out from under Ye Zhenghuang’s palms.

She struck Li Hao twice in succession, the fluctuations of Yuan energy grazing his otherwise handsome face.

Bright red handprints were branded onto his cheeks.

Within a single breath, Li Hao’s entire face swelled up, showing a tendency to bloat into the head of a pig.

Li Hao felt as if his cheeks had been scraped raw by an extremely coarse blade, burning with a dull, stinging pain.

What shocked him even more was that Ye Zhenghuang, the well-known good-for-nothing who could not cultivate Yuan energy, had actually unleashed Yuan energy!

The ripple of Yuan energy caused him to lose his balance, his feet stumbling backward as he looked ready to fall.

Seeing this, Chu Jinchen moved in front of him like a phantom, raising his palm to strike Li Hao’s chest.

The blow hit a vital point, and a wave of agony surged through Li Hao, causing him to vomit a mouthful of blood.

Lifting his head, Li Hao looked in disbelief at Chu Jinchen, who stood silently before him.

Clearly, this strike had indeed been delivered by Chu Jinchen.

Beyond the pain, Li Hao felt as if his heart were about to leap out of his throat from sheer, overwhelming shock!

He could never have dreamed that not only was Ye Zhenghuang no good-for-nothing, but even Chu Jinchen was hiding his true strength!

"Damn it, I’ve been deceived by you two today! How dare you hurt me? I will tear you into ten thousand pieces!" Li Hao cursed viciously.

Gritting his teeth, he intended to pick up the heavy blade on the ground and stand up to deal with the two people beside him.

However, as he struggled to rise, besides the persistent numbness in his arms, Li Hao’s heart began to panic uncontrollably.

The Yuan energy in his body suddenly began to leak out incessantly, just like a deflating balloon.

Soon, the Yuan energy he had cultivated for over a decade was completely drained.

"My Yuan energy! Where is my Yuan energy!"

Li Hao shouted, only to feel that his once-full Dantian was now completely empty.

"A piece of trash who cannot cultivate Yuan energy? Heh, General Li, look, haven't we two 'pieces of trash' done something to you after all? How is it? The feeling of the Yuan-Draining Powder is quite nice, isn't it? Now, tell me, who is the real piece of trash?" Ye Zhenghuang walked up to Li Hao mockingly, standing with her arms crossed, looking down at him from above.

Li Hao, who had been shouting for blood just a moment ago, was now at the mercy of others.

"Yuan-Draining Powder! You vicious, useless fool! You actually used Yuan-Draining Powder on this General! Damn you! I’ll kill you!"

As soon as he heard the words "Yuan-Draining Powder," Li Hao immediately clawed at Ye Zhenghuang with both hands in a fit of rage.

"Hmph, overestimating yourself!" Ye Zhenghuang remained motionless, sneering.

With a flick of her finger, a pebble guided by her mental energy "whooshed" through the air, mercilessly piercing through Li Hao’s left shoulder!

With his left shoulder punctured by the bell-sized stone, blood immediately gushed out.

Li Hao’s arm went limp. His eyes widened suddenly, and he shrieked, "My arm! Why can’t I feel my arm? What did you do to me!"

Ye Zhenghuang did not answer. A wicked curve touched her lips as she placed one hand on Li Hao’s right shoulder, which had just lost all sensation.

"Crack!"

Ye Zhenghuang dislocated his right arm instantly.

Even though his arm was numb and he couldn't feel the pain, hearing the sound of the dislocation and seeing the unstoppable flow of blood, Li Hao was terrified, a look of fear appearing on his youthful face.

He had never known that Ye Zhenghuang, always regarded as a good-for-nothing, possessed such decisive ability and a ruthless side.

Piercing his shoulder and breaking his arm—she hadn't even blinked.

The orders from Fenglan City stated that Ye Zhenghuang was accustomed to bluffing and using others' power to intimidate, a mere fool not worth fearing.

But based on his personal experience, he felt that Ye Zhenghuang was nothing less than a female Asura who had walked out of purgatory, having killed countless people!

"General Li, both the anesthetic powder and the Yuan-Draining Powder will rapidly invade your body as you circulate your Yuan energy, remember? When I nearly fell getting off the carriage earlier, you helped me, and I grabbed your shoulder. I sprinkled both powders on your arms then," Ye Zhenghuang said, picking up the heavy blade from the ground.

The bright surface of the blade reflected a beam of light that pierced into Li Hao’s eyes.

"If you hadn't harbored evil intentions, you wouldn't have used your Yuan energy, and the powders wouldn't have taken effect. I would have even given you the antidote later. Unfortunately, you truly wanted to kill me and His Highness, so your Yuan energy being drained and your arms being paralyzed is your own fault." Ye Zhenghuang looked at the pathetic Li Hao on the ground, but felt no sympathy for him.

As the saying goes, one should not have the heart to harm others, but one must have the heart to guard against them.

From the moment she saw Li Hao at the Imperial Mausoleum, she knew he could not be trusted, so she naturally had to keep an ace up her sleeve to guard against him.

Facts proved that her precautions were necessary.

"You wanted to kill me, so I drained your Yuan energy and broke your arms, making you unable to hold a blade," Ye Zhenghuang said as if it were only natural.

"You called me vicious, so tell me, General Li, would it be good if I chopped off your arms and legs, turned you into a human stick, and sent you back to your home?"