"Ow! Forget it, forget it! You can't beat him!"
"National Preceptor, don't underestimate me. That old bastard? I could knock him down easily!"
"Ah...! Which bastard who'll have a son without an asshole keeps specifically hitting my face? I've got such a handsome face—what if I get disfigured?"
"Who? Who was it? Who keeps kicking my ass? Dare to step out and fight me one-on-one!"
"Old bastard, how vicious! Why do you keep attacking below the belt?"
"Old man! Take this punch!"
"Eat my kick!"
Watching this "anything-goes free fight" before him, Li Shimin, Emperor of the Tang Dynasty, could only shake his head and rub his brow helplessly!
Though he knew that the officials before him all knew a few martial moves, and though he himself had likewise fought his way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, having seen plenty of grand scenes in his time—
Even so, this "grand scene" before him was something he was seeing for the first time, even as emperor!
Li Chengqian, watching from the side as well, had long since gaped open-mouthed, his face full of disbelief!
Especially when he saw those civil officials who ordinarily looked so kind and benevolent, every gesture steeped in scholarly elegance!
Now they were fighting more viciously than anyone, all of them gritting their teeth in fury, with quite a few already sporting injuries across their faces!
As the pinnacle of Tang Dynasty power, the entire Hall of the Supreme Ultimate could currently only be described as a pot of porridge gone utterly chaotic!
"Enough! Enough! Stop it, all of you!"
"Li Junxian, where the hell did you die off to? Hurry up and have someone pull them apart for Us!"
At Li Shimin's command, Li Junxian, commander of the palace guards, hurriedly led