My disciple, you are now invincible. Go down the mountain and wreak havoc on the world!

Ye Xunhuan stood there without moving, a strawberry-flavored lollipop dangling from his mouth and his hands casually tucked into his pockets.

The tone was drawn out and soft, sounding more like someone teasing a wagging pug on the street than someone showing fear.

Master Zhou slapped his palm into the air, and upon hearing this, he almost suffered internal injuries from suffocating.

He, Zhou Xuanqing, is a dignified martial arts master at the mid-stage of the Xuan rank. He has been in the Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei region for over thirty years. Not to mention a family like the Ye family, even the disciples of reclusive families in Beijing have to respectfully call him Master Zhou.

Today, I was actually humiliated in public by a country bumpkin dressed in plain clothes with a lollipop in his mouth.

"You ignorant fool!"

Master Zhou's beard and hair stood on end, and the murderous intent in his eyes almost solidified into a tangible form.

The already fierce and unparalleled palm strike suddenly intensified, unleashing its full power without reservation!

"Buzz—!"

A muffled explosion resounded in the courtyard.

The bluestone pavement in the courtyard creaked under the pressure of the invisible energy, and fine pebbles, dust, and fallen leaves were swirled up and flew everywhere, forming a visible wave of energy that pressed towards Ye Xun's welcoming face.

The Ye family members and guards standing on both sides felt as if they had been hit in the chest with a heavy hammer, making it hard to breathe, and they involuntarily staggered backward.

Several of the weaker cultivators collapsed to the ground, their faces pale and their breaths weak.

This palm strike represented the pinnacle of Zhou Xuanqing's lifelong cultivation.

Today he's going to show this arrogant brat that the master's authority cannot be challenged!

"Good! Well done!"

"Master Zhou's divine power!"

"That kid's dead meat!"

On the steps, Ye Hongtu watched with fervor, arms crossed, and grinned maliciously.

He spent 30 million yuan of his annual salary plus a large river-view apartment to invite Master Zhou to come and serve as his revered master, all for a moment like today.

That bastard Ye Xunhuan dares to come back and try to seize his family fortune; he's practically courting death!

Ye Shaofeng, standing beside him, covered his mouth, which was swollen like a bun, with blood still dripping from between his fingers, but his eyes were full of resentful pleasure.

He screamed wildly in his heart:

dead!

Kill him!

I'll knock out your teeth, and I'll make sure you die a horrible death!

Once you're dead, I'm going to have some fun with that vixen by your side!

The Ye family members around him nodded in agreement; no one believed Ye Xunhuan could survive.

A full-force attack from a Xuan-rank Grandmaster would break the bones of even a strong ox, let alone a young man in his early twenties.

Even Su Qingyuan, who was standing next to Ye Xunhuan, subconsciously took half a step forward, her pale fingertips tightening slightly, and a hint of worry flashed in her cold phoenix eyes.

She had witnessed Ye Xunhuan's skills, but the power of Zhou Xuanqing's palm strike was truly terrifying.

Just as the palm strikes were making his cheeks ache and his breathing difficult, Ye Xunhuan made his move.

He neither raised his palm to block, nor did he dodge, and his nonchalant expression didn't even change.

He merely tilted his head slightly, as if afraid the wind from his palm would blow the lollipop out of his mouth, then slowly pulled his right hand out of his pocket, casually pointing forward the clean, transparent plastic candy stick between his fingertips.

"Is that all you've got?"

The five words, "light and airy," accompanied by the easily broken plastic candy stick, landed precisely on Zhou Xuanqing's Laogong acupoint in the center of his palm.

"puff--"

A barely audible muffled thud.

The powerful palm strike that was just now overwhelming and unstoppable deflated completely, like an inflated ball that had been punctured!

Zhou Xuanqing felt a tingling sensation in his palm. Then, the surging internal energy within him seemed to crash into an invisible dam and was violently pushed back.

My entire right arm went numb and lost all feeling instantly. My chest heaved with blood and qi, my throat tasted sweet, and a metallic taste rushed straight to my head.

His forward momentum came to an abrupt halt, followed by a recoil that caused him to stagger backward involuntarily.

"Thump!"

"Thump!"

"Thump!"

Three steps, a full three steps.

With each step, the bluestone slabs beneath our feet emitted a dull thud, and the surface of the slabs cracked with dense, spiderweb-like patterns.

It wasn't until he retreated to the edge of the steps and his heels hit the steps that Zhou Xuanqing managed to regain his balance.

He raised his head, and in his eyes looking at Ye Xunhuan, there was no longer any contempt or arrogance, only shock and disbelief.

"Who...who are you?!"

Zhou Xuanqing's voice trembled, and his right hand, behind his back, couldn't help but shake slightly.

Just now, the opponent didn't use brute force at all, but a sophisticated force-dissipating technique that he had never heard of before. It precisely targeted the key point in his internal energy circulation, instantly disintegrating all of his power and even causing a backlash against his meridians.

Even a Grandmaster of the Earth Rank might not be able to do this, right?

A broken plastic candy stick?

So you broke his full-force palm strike?

If word gets out, the entire martial arts world will laugh their heads off!

The entire room fell silent.

The wind stopped, the pebbles fell, and the crowd that had been shouting and fighting just moments before were now frozen in place, mouths agape, eyes wide, unable to utter a single word.

The courtyard was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.

Ye Hongtu's sinister smile froze completely, solidifying into a comical expression.

His mind was buzzing, completely blank.

How is that possible?!

This is impossible!

Master Zhou is a Xuan-level Grandmaster! He is the pillar of the Ye family!

How could they not even be able to stop a wild boy in his early twenties with a single finger?

Ye Shaofeng was so frightened that his legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground with a thud.

He had just been planning how to humiliate Ye Xunhuan's corpse after he died.

But now, I just feel a chill on the back of my neck.

He only just realized that Ye Xunhuan had only held back when he knocked out two of his teeth.

If you really anger this guy, crushing him is as easy as crushing an ant.

"Master Zhou, your kung fu seems a bit weak."

Ye Xunhuan took out another lollipop from his pocket, stuffed it into his mouth, shook it with the stick in his mouth, and smacked his lips with a look of disgust. "It's far inferior to Old Wang who feeds pigs in the back mountain."

"People who swing pig feed scoops all day long have more real strength in their swings than your palm strike."

"You... what nonsense are you spouting!" Zhou Xuanqing was so angry that his chest heaved violently, and he almost spat out a mouthful of blood on the spot.

He, a dignified Xuan-rank Grandmaster, was actually compared to an old man who feeds pigs?

"Don't you know whether you're talking nonsense or not?" Ye Xunhuan raised an eyebrow and strode up the steps.

"Alright, stop blocking the way. If you delay the old man's medical treatment, I couldn't afford to pay you back even if I sold myself."

Zhou Xuanqing subconsciously wanted to raise his hand to stop him, but halfway up his hand, he remembered the taste of that candy stick and didn't dare to reach forward.

He knew in his heart that if things really came to a head, he would be no match for this young man.

The opponent clearly held back with that move just now; otherwise, it wouldn't have been as simple as just taking three steps back.

In that brief moment of hesitation, Ye Xunhuan had already reached the door and was about to go in.

"Halt! No one is allowed in without my permission."