The Basic Rules Don't Apply Anymore?

After a great deal of persuasion, they finally managed to talk Wife-lover Cao down. Once Xiahou Dun had received fifty strokes, the matter was considered settled. As for Cheng Yu, they let it go. The old man was no longer young, and if they really brought down heavy boards on him, he might have died on the spot.

As for the fifty strokes Xiahou Dun received, they were merely a show—a way to give the outside world an explanation. After all, he was a close general and a member of the family. If he received no punishment at all, how could anyone be satisfied?

In reality, for a formidable master at the level of externalized Qi, fifty strokes were nothing. Even without using externalized Qi to resist them, his physique could withstand the damage. And even if he were injured, the recovery speed of a master with externalized Qi was far beyond that of ordinary people.

As for the Liang Wan army they had lost, things had already come to this. What else could they do?

Old Cao had truly never expected Liu Bei to be such a beast, or to strike so viciously. Sending seven top-tier masters with externalized Qi to charge into battle—was that something a human being could do?

Could you act like a person for once?

How many masters with externalized Qi were there in the entire world? How many warlords did not even have one under their command? Yet you had released seven of them at once to charge into battle. Were you insane? No, seriously, were you insane?!

Did you know what a commander-in-chief was for? To command a great army and direct battles—not to show off his personal martial strength by charging into battle!

Did the soldiers not need to be commanded anymore?!