Your Turn

Just as those two rough hands were about to touch Liu Wanwan's arms.

Fang Yuan moved!

He was as fast as lightning. Everyone's vision blurred, and they did not even see how he had kicked!

"Bang!" "Bang!"

Two heavy, muffled impacts erupted almost at the same time!

The two burly men who had received the Clan Elder's orders and were about to force Liu Wanwan aside were like men struck head-on by a charging wild bull.

They screamed as they flew backward, crashing heavily onto the frozen ground several steps away. Clutching their chests, they curled into balls, baring their teeth in agony. For a while, neither could get back up!

The entire scene fell instantly silent!

Every noisy discussion, hypocritical rebuke, and whispered gossip from the onlookers caught in their throats.

Wang Meng lowered the arms he had folded over his chest, suspicion appearing in his eyes for the first time.

The satisfaction and gloom on the Clan Elder's face froze instantly.

Fang Yuan was even stronger than everyone had imagined!

The two burly men he had carefully chosen had been beaten so easily?

Fang Yuan withdrew his foot and stood firm, gently pulling the pale, still-shaken Liu Wanwan behind him.

His gaze passed over the two groaning men on the ground and stabbed straight at the Clan Elder, who stood frozen in place.

His voice was not loud, yet it struck clearly into everyone's ears, carrying undisguised mockery.

"You old fool, are you so old your brain no longer works and your ears have gone deaf too?"

The Clan Elder nearly choked on his breath at those merciless words. His old face flushed crimson as he pointed at Fang Yuan with a trembling finger.

"You... you..."

Fang Yuan gave him no chance to speak. His voice abruptly rose like thunder exploding.

"Yesterday! In Li Mazi's courtyard! I said it crystal clear! Your old heart is crooked, and you are unfit to be Clan Elder! I told you to expel me from the ancestral hall, and you did not even fart back then!"

"Now!" He suddenly stepped forward, glaring into the Clan Elder's terrified, retreating eyes.

"You brought people to block my doorstep. What kind of stinking airs are you putting on? What fucking Family Law are you enforcing?"

"My legs are right here!" He pointed at his own legs, his gaze sweeping over Wang Meng before passing over the dumbfounded Fang Clan members.

Finally, his eyes nailed themselves back onto the Clan Elder's face. "Whoever has the ability, come and take them!"

"But you want to use the name of Family Law to crush me? Pah!" He spat. "I do not recognize you as my elder! And you cannot control me!"

Every word landed like a hammer, tearing away every hypocritical fig leaf!

The Clan Elder's face turned from red to purple. He trembled all over in rage, unable to squeeze out a single word.

Only then did the Fang Clan members behind him snap out of it, and the crowd immediately erupted. Several elders of high seniority jumped and pointed as they berated him.

"Fang Yuan! How dare you!"

"Outrageous! All those books you read went into a dog's belly!"

"No wonder even your scholarly title was stripped away! What an unfilial, rebellious creature!"

"Seventh Uncle-Grandfather! This madman must be severely punished!"

Watching this internal farce within the Fang Family, the faint mockery on Wang Meng's face turned completely into impatience.

He cracked his knuckles, producing teeth-grating sounds, then interrupted the Fang Clan members' accusations in a coarse voice.

"Enough! Stop putting on this fucking show!" He raised his jujube-wood club and pointed it straight at Fang Yuan.

"Old man, I have no interest in hearing your family's rotten little mess! If you cannot control this bastard, then I will!"

The seven or eight brothers and hired hands behind him immediately loosened up their limbs, gripping their weapons as they pressed several steps forward, bloodthirsty ferocity shining on their faces.

They had spent years brawling and fighting viciously. Though Fang Yuan's two kicks had been astonishingly fast, they had strength in numbers and did not take him seriously at all.

The air immediately filled with the gunpowder stench of swords drawn and bows taut.

The Clan Elder shuddered at Wang Meng's roar. Seeing that these baleful figures from the Wang Family were truly about to make a move, he felt relieved instead, even secretly hoping they would hurry and cripple Fang Yuan.

He immediately put on a heartbroken, helpless expression. Beating his chest, he loudly called out to the surrounding Fang Clan members.

"Everyone has seen it! It is not that this old man punishes without teaching! It is this wretch who has severed himself from the clan, stubbornly refusing to repent!

"Now that he has brought disaster from outside upon himself, he has only himself to blame! My Fang Clan... my Fang Clan is powerless to help!"

He spoke as though he deeply regretted it, but every sentence was meant to distance himself and push Fang Yuan completely out.

At the same time, he kept a close watch on Wang Meng and the others from the corner of his eye, waiting for them to swarm forward.

Wang Meng gave a savage grin and stopped wasting words. With a sweep of his large hand, he shouted, "Brothers! Get him! Cripple both his legs first!"

Just as Wang Meng's men roared and prepared to pounce, one of the burly Fang Clan men brought by the Clan Elder actually shamelessly called out to Wang Meng.

"Brother Wang! Go ahead and do it! Fang Yuan is a menace! Getting rid of him would be ridding Fang Family Village of a scourge!"

"That's right! Brother Wang is mighty! Something that disrespects its ancestors deserves a brutal beating!"

They feared Wang Meng might go easy on Fang Yuan out of respect for the Fang Family, so they hurriedly spoke up.

Since he wanted to leave the family, he should not think of enjoying the privileges of being a Fang Family member!

At those fawning words, even Wang Meng paused in surprise before an even more arrogant sneer spread across his face.

The Clan Elder nodded from behind them. Their words had struck straight into his heart. Since Fang Yuan had broken away from the clan, Wang Meng should not have to consider the Fang Clan's dignity.

Deep down, he faintly hoped the Wang Family men would truly strike to kill.

In that brief moment of distraction.

Fang Yuan moved!

He did not hesitate in the slightest, nor did he hold anything back.

Facing the first man to rush before him, who swung a machete toward his knee, he advanced instead of retreating.

His body slid sideways at an eerie angle, and the blade grazed his trouser leg before missing completely.

At the same time, his left hand snapped out like iron pincers and clamped around the man's knife-wielding wrist, twisting viciously!

"Crack!" The teeth-grating sound of bone breaking rang out clearly!

"Aah—!" The man let out a pig-slaughtering scream. His machete clattered to the ground, and his entire arm dangled at a grotesque angle.

Before the scream had faded, Fang Yuan's right leg sprang up like a venomous python that had been coiled and waiting for its prey, delivering a heavy side kick.

It smashed brutally into the chest of another man charging in with a pitchfork!

"Bang!" That brawny man, nearly two hundred pounds, was kicked clean off the ground and sent flying backward.

The bloody froth spraying from his mouth traced a glaring red arc through the air before he crashed heavily into the men charging behind him, knocking down a whole swath of them!

In the blink of an eye, two of the fiercest thugs had been crippled!

It had happened too quickly, too viciously! The obsequious smiles on the faces of those Fang Clan members who had just been shouting to curry favor with Wang Meng froze instantly.

It was as though someone had gripped their throats. The excitement in their eyes transformed into terror.

The savage grin on Wang Meng's face also froze completely, replaced by a trace of shock.

He had never expected the seemingly thin Fang Yuan to act with such ruthless decisiveness!

After kicking one man away, Fang Yuan did not pause. He smoothly snatched up the fallen machete from the ground.

The blade turned, its icy gleam illuminating his expressionless face and those eyes burning with ghostly fire.

Without even looking at the two men screaming and rolling on the ground, he raised the blade's tip and pointed it straight at Wang Meng.

"Your turn!"

The Clan Elder watched helplessly as the two fiercest thugs of the Wang Family were crippled by Fang Yuan in a single exchange. Frightened out of his wits, his old legs went weak, and he nearly collapsed to the ground.

The rest of Wang Meng's men were also intimidated by that thunderous display. For the moment, none dared step forward again.

The Clan Elder's cloudy eyes rolled about in panic before he suddenly caught sight of Wang Meng beside him, his face dark as iron and his gaze filled with uncertainty.