Bang!
As several chunks of shattered brick fell to the ground, Tai Nuo struggled to pull himself out of the human-shaped crater in the courtyard wall.
Covered in dust and grime, he collapsed onto the ground, clutching his chest as though more than a dozen ribs had been broken, then violently spat out a mouthful of blood mixed with fragments of internal organs.
At this moment, the young master of the Strength Clan wore a completely bewildered expression, as if questioning his entire life.
"Who am I? Where am I? Why was I embedded in a wall?"
Tai Nuo's mind buzzed incessantly, utterly unable to comprehend what had just happened.
He stared blankly into the distance at his father, a burly man built like an iron tower, someone whose word had always been law in the clan and whose authority was absolute. Yet now, his father was kneeling at a young man's feet with all four limbs on the ground, like a humble old dog!
Not only had he knelt, but his father was actually calling him "Young Master"?
And referring to himself as "this old servant"?!
"He's gone mad! Father has definitely gone mad!"
Tai Nuo roared wildly in his heart.
He was the young master of the Strength Clan!
He, Tai Nuo, was Tai Tan's only biological son and the future heir of the vast Strength Clan!
In this small corner of Heaven Dou City, who would dare make his father kneel?
But just as Tai Nuo was about to struggle to his feet and loudly demand whether his father had gone senile, an image suddenly flashed through his mind like lightning.
It was the Martial Soul that had briefly appeared in the palm of that blue-haired youth named Tang San when he introduced himself.
A small hammer,