Scarface: I'm not a man anymore...

"Kick his little balls to pieces!"

At those words,

Scarface shuddered in fright and instinctively pressed his legs together,

Protecting that vital part of a man.

Then he watched Li Mubai warily, as if guarding against a thief.

He was terrified that Li Mubai would suddenly strike the next moment and hit him with a heavy blow before he could react,

And he would immediately lose his rights as a man.

At the same time,

He kept glancing at the little girl in the beautiful woman's arms.

He simply couldn't understand.

What had a child gone through

To speak words so many degrees below zero with a mouth that was thirty-seven degrees warm?

They made one feel the cold of winter even in the heat of June.

At that moment,

Scarface felt

That even the pleasant summer breeze in the air had turned into an icy, bone-scraping gale,

Making his hair stand on end!

When she said that,

Even Li Mubai couldn't help freezing.

Then he turned a puzzled gaze on the beautiful woman.

The question in his eyes was plain:

Did you teach this child to say that?

The beautiful woman was staring blankly as well.

She was so shocked by what her daughter had just said that she was utterly speechless.

How could she say something like that? She had never taught her daughter to speak that way!

She was very puzzled herself.

Then she looked up

And met Li Mubai's questioning gaze.

At once,

She understood the meaning in his eyes.

The beautiful woman hurriedly shook her head and denied it outright.

"Young Master Li, don't misunderstand. I've never taught Yu'er to say anything like that."

Li Mubai nodded, only half convinced.

The next moment,

Xiao Yu'er lifted her head from the woman's arms, looking as though she expected praise, and said proudly,

"Sister Xiao Qian taught me. She said that when dealing with bad men who mean you harm, you mustn't hesitate. Just kick out and smash their balls!"

Li Mubai was utterly dumbstruck.

When Scarface heard the words "smash their balls," he couldn't help shuddering again, a look of terror appearing on his face.

The beautiful woman froze.

In her recollection, Xiao Qian had always been a poised and understanding girl.

Would a girl like that say such a thing?

Now,

She returned the same look to Li Mubai.

Their eyes met,

And Li Mubai understood the question in hers.

It made him think back.

Surely... I didn't teach Xiao Qian those words, did I?

A flash of inspiration struck him.

Li Mubai suddenly remembered a scene from several years ago.

When Xiao Qian had just become a Soul Master, a few hooligans had stopped her.

He had been furious at the time.

Then he had warned Xiao Qian:

"If you run into lechers like that again, don't show them any mercy. Just kick those bastards between the legs so they can never be men again!"

Li Mubai suddenly realized.

I think... I did teach her that.

He just hadn't expected

Xiao Qian to pass those angry words on to Xiao Yu'er.

The torch really had been passed down!

Ahem...

Li Mubai lowered his head and coughed twice, avoiding the beautiful woman's questioning gaze.

Then he looked straight up at Scarface.

"Sister Zhao, how do you intend to deal with this man?"

The beautiful woman turned her gaze on Scarface.

He,

On seeing the opportunity, immediately acted.

He burst into loud sobs.

"Spare my life, miss! Please spare my life!"

As Scarface spoke, he kowtowed heavily.

Li Mubai released him at that moment.

The streets of Spirit City were paved with extremely hard bluestone slabs.

Even so,

Scarface's head struck them with loud thuds.

After several heavy kowtows, no matter how hard Scarface's head was, it was becoming a bloody mess.

Under the flickering streetlights,

A small dark patch soon appeared on the pavement.

It was blood, but the lights were so dim that it looked like a dark shadow.

Scarface still didn't stop. He kowtowed and wailed,

"Have mercy, miss! I have an eighty-year-old mother who can't care for herself and a three-year-old child waiting for me to provide for them. Please be magnanimous, miss, and let me off. Spare me!"

When Scarface raised his head again,

His face was streaming with tears and snot.

Li Mubai stared.

Good grief.

That acting...

If he'd been in my previous life, wouldn't that Oscar have been his for sure?

It truly was lifelike!

With tears and snot running down his face and fresh blood on his forehead,

How could it not be lifelike?

Even though the beautiful woman was burning with anger, Scarface's realistic performance had softened her heart somewhat.

Scarface seemed to notice the expression on the beautiful woman's face.

At once,

He kowtowed even harder.

Even Li Mubai could feel the faint vibrations coming through the pavement.

He really was putting his life into it!

The woman hesitated, seemingly moved by the sight.

But

When she saw Xiao Yu'er in her arms watching Scarface with sympathy, her heart hardened again!

If Li Mubai hadn't saved her and her daughter today,

Who knew what would have happened tonight?

But it wasn't hard for her to guess.

She would certainly have become a plaything beneath the members of the Wild Wolf Gang.

And her adorable daughter, the apple of her eye, wouldn't have escaped their clutches either!

After they had bullied her this far,

How could she soften just because he was kowtowing so hard?

At that thought,

The pity in the woman's eyes gradually faded, replaced by a trace of ruthlessness.

"Young Master Li."

Hearing the woman's voice, Scarface knew

That whether he lived or died depended on what she said next.

But

He had put on such a convincing act. Surely a woman overflowing with motherly love would soften and let him go?

Scarface kept his head lowered, secretly delighted.

He also waited for the woman to plead with the expert on his behalf.

Li Mubai waited to hear her decision as well.

He had given the woman full authority to decide how to deal with this man.

"Do as Xiao Yu'er said!"

The woman spoke decisively.

What?

Scarface immediately lifted his head from the pavement and straightened up.

But

While he was still startled and unable to react,

In the space of a spark,

A streak of white sword Qi shot from Li Mubai's hand.

It flew straight between the kneeling Scarface's legs.

Pfft-

With a muffled sound,

The sword Qi sank into the pavement.

Scarface felt a chill between his legs and looked down at the sound.

The next moment,

He saw that something had sliced through the fabric between his legs.

Now,

Thin traces of bright red blood were seeping through his trousers there.

Before long,

The fabric between his legs was stained scarlet.

Immediately afterward,

A burst of excruciating pain shot through his groin.

Unable to bear it, Scarface fell to the ground, curled up and rolled about.

At the same time, pig-slaughtering screams came from his mouth.

"Aahhh..."

"Ah... I'm a eunuch, aahhh..."

His voice rang through heaven and earth.

Everyone living along the street heard those screams.