Sensing Dugu Qingshan's palm coming towards her, the girl instinctively turned her wooden sword and thrust it out, which thoroughly enraged Dugu Qingshan!
"You bastard! You dare to fight back!"
With another sharp shout, a powerful and fierce palm force erupted forth, and even a strange fluorescent light appeared on his palm, which was a manifestation of the true energy he had imbued it with.
Clearly, Dugu Qingshan has used his true energy this time. If the fight continues, the girl in her current state will undoubtedly die.
The gap between the two sides is simply too large!
However, just as the palm was about to strike the girl, a strong hand gripped Dugu Qingshan's wrist tightly, preventing him from harming her in the slightest.
At the same time, a tall figure blocked the girl's path; who else could it be but Wang Hao?
As a model citizen of the new era, he couldn't stand the act of hitting women, especially when the victim was a young girl.
If I weren't still unaware of the inside story and couldn't make a hasty decision, I would have kicked them long ago.
Why get so angry over a child?
Releasing Dugu Qingshan's wrist, Wang Hao calmly looked at the other man, his opinion of him immediately plummeting.
Regardless of the other party's reasons, it was wrong to kill a girl like that. Moreover, he didn't see anything wrong with the girl's behavior just now; on the contrary, it was Dugu Qingshan who was being unreasonable.
Although the girl ultimately stabbed the boy in the chest, she struck his sternum. With the strength of a girl wielding a wooden sword, she could at most pierce the flesh, but she couldn't even crack the sternum.
The sword strike that the boy delivered directly to kill, aimed at the girl's head, was far weaker; it could be said that he held back.
Otherwise, the girl's final sword strike could have been aimed at the opponent's throat, which would have been fatal.
With Dugu Qingshan's cultivation level, it's impossible that he wouldn't have noticed this, yet the other party still attacked, which means they have excessive prejudice against the girl.
"I'm sorry to have made you look so foolish, Young Master Zhu! You little bastard, get out of here right now!"
Having barely regained his composure, Dugu Qingshan apologized to Wang Hao, then reprimanded the girl standing behind Wang Hao, his words filled with undisguised disgust and a chilling murderous intent.
The girl didn't say much, but lowered her head and silently walked away.
"Wait a minute!"
With a slight frown, Wang Hao stopped the girl, his gaze sweeping over Dugu Qingshan and the old clan leader, and asked in a cold voice, "What exactly is going on here?"
He had to get to the bottom of this today, and this young girl was the promising talent he had chosen; how could he let her leave?
However, he was not entirely clear about the inside story, so he couldn't comment for the time being and would try to find out more first.
The people present looked at each other, and finally turned their attention to Dugu Qingshan. At this moment, Dugu Qingshan's expression was very strange, turning from green to red, but he did not say a word.
However, this scene also made Wang Hao realize that the girl's relationship with Dugu Qingshan was definitely not simple.
"Let me, the old man, speak!"
With a sigh, the old clan chief explained, "This child is Qingshan's daughter. Her mother and Qingshan were childhood sweethearts, very close. She was originally pregnant with twins, a boy and a girl, but a difficult childbirth resulted in the survival of only one child, and then her mother passed away..."
As the old clan chief explained, Wang Hao was completely bewildered. He didn't know that Dugu Qingshan was only twenty-nine years old, while the girl looked to be around fourteen.
According to the old clan chief, the girl's mother and Dugu Qingshan were childhood sweethearts and the same age. That is to say, her mother married Dongfang Qingshan when she was fourteen years old and was even impregnated by that beast.
Wang Hao recalled that when he was fourteen, all he could remember were countless textbook exam questions. Back then, he was still undergoing nine years of compulsory education!
He'd never even held a young girl's hand, let alone had a romantic relationship, let alone get married and have children.
Compared to that beast Dongfang Qingshan, I'm nothing but trash!
However, as he heard the rest, his face gradually darkened, and his expression became increasingly cold.
"Enough! I don't have such a bastard daughter!"
Suddenly, Dugu Qingshan seemed unable to bear it any longer and interrupted the old patriarch's narration with a sharp shout. Wang Hao was standing to the side, was also unable to bear it any longer.
"Bang!"
Unable to bear it any longer, Wang Hao kicked Dugu Qingshan, sending him flying and crashing through several trees before finally stopping his retreat.
" Young Master Zhu, what do you mean by this?"
The old patriarch, realizing what was happening, quickly moved to Dugu Qingshan's side. After confirming that Dugu Qingshan's injuries were not too serious, he turned around and glared at Wang Hao with hostility. The other Dugu Family elders also looked over with unfriendly expressions.
"It's nothing, I just don't like him!"
Wang Hao glanced coldly at Dugu Qingshan, who was coughing up blood, then ignored him, squatted down, and reached out to wipe away the two lines of tears on the girl's cheeks.
Although the girl maintained her indifferent demeanor, the two lines of clear tears revealed that her heart was not as calm as it appeared.
After all, no daughter can accept being called a bastard by her own father; it's like stabbing someone in the heart with a knife!
"Don't cry. You really don't have a father like that. I just happen to want a daughter. From now on, you will be my daughter, Zhu Yanzu, and I will be your father."
Wang Hao smiled and smoothed the girl's messy hair from her forehead, speaking in a Tyrannical Dao tone that brooked no refusal.
The girl showed the same expression for the first time, staring blankly at Wang Hao in front of her.
I'm too lazy to even talk about you ignorant fools.
Childbirth is a gamble with a woman's life; the slightest mistake can lead to death. Before the age of eighteen, a woman's body is not fully developed, and the risks of pregnancy and childbirth in this state are infinitely higher.
You actually let a fourteen-year-old girl get pregnant, and even more difficult than twins! This is blatant disregard for human life, it's murder!
And you scumbag! Your wife died in childbirth and you still blamed the child? I've never seen such a coward before. I'm already being very lenient by not kicking you to death."
Wang Hao grew angrier as he spoke, and a chilling murderous aura emanated from him.
In an instant, silence fell over a radius of a thousand feet. The insects and beasts seemed to sense some terrifying presence and dared not move an inch.
The old patriarch and the others also sensed a chilling feeling that terrified them. The anger that had risen because of Wang Hao's actions was as if it had been doused with ice water, and it was extinguished in an instant, leaving only deep fear.
Killing intent itself increases with one's strength and the number of people killed; it is an invisible force.
Those butchers who have been in the business for many years can instill fear in pigs, dogs, and other livestock because they themselves have acquired a certain murderous aura.
Wang Hao had annihilated a million-strong grassland army and millions of horses in the border regions, and his killing intent was astonishing. Once unleashed, not everyone could withstand it.
He had been deliberately suppressing this murderous aura, but what he saw today made him so angry that he unintentionally released it.
Not to mention the fear of the old clan chief and others, the young men and women were even more horrified, collapsing to the ground in disarray, some even wetting their pants, displaying a truly shameful state.
Only the girl remained staring blankly at Wang Hao, a hint of longing even growing in the depths of her eyes.
No one has ever been this kind to her before!
But this feeling—it's wonderful!
" Young Master Zhu calm down. Actually, it's not entirely Qingshan's fault. His lineage is the direct bloodline of our Dugu Family, and by his generation, he was the only one left."
In his youth, this young man, driven by greed and recklessness, ruined his yang meridians, rendering him impotent. Seeing that the direct bloodline of my Dugu Family was about to end, he took some extreme actions. I hope Young Master Zhu will not blame him!
Seeing that Wang Hao was once again showing signs of killing intent, the old patriarch hurriedly spoke up to explain and exonerate Dugu Qingshan, as he did not want this man to go berserk and kill him.
Judging from the overwhelming murderous aura emanating from him, this person was definitely not a kind soul, and must have taken many lives by his hand. Such a vicious person was not someone they could afford to provoke.
More importantly, they both sensed a deadly sense of crisis when the other was angry. This was an intuition they had developed over many years of martial arts training, and it was extremely accurate.
In other words, this kid has the power to wipe them all out, which makes them even more hesitant to confront him directly and provoke him.
After a long silence, Wang Hao couldn't help but sigh.
"I only knew that there was a preference for sons over daughters in ancient times, but I never imagined it would be this serious!"
Previously, it could be explained that Dugu Qingshan blamed everything on the girl because he loved his wife too much and couldn't accept reality after her death. But it's hard to believe that these old guys from the Dugu Family also showed disgust towards the girl.
Was the extinction of the direct line of the Dugu Family due to a young girl?
It was clearly Dugu Qingshan's own fault for cultivating himself to the point of being inhuman, yet you all blamed everything on a child. This goes beyond mere ignorance.
"Those two are not bad. You can let them try to get in touch with those two. As for this child, from today onwards, she is no longer a member of your Dugu Family, but my daughter, Zhu Yanzu."
Forget it, anyway, you've never treated her as a member of the clan or family!
Wang Hao casually pointed to the two teenagers who had fallen to the ground under his killing intent, then ignored the old patriarch and the others, and instead squatted down and began to grope the girl behind him.
Don't get me wrong, his groping wasn't because he had some weird uncle tendencies, but because he had already noticed something was off about the girl.
During the previous battle, the girl's body showed subtle inconsistencies. At that time, he guessed that the girl might have had a broken bone before and did not receive proper treatment, resulting in misaligned bone fragments and abnormal growth.
The reason he had previously hardened his heart and not stopped the girl from fighting was that he wanted to use the fight to break the bones that were healing misaligned so that he could then help them heal again.
But after carefully examining the girl's skeleton, his murderous intent surged uncontrollably once again, startling the old patriarch and the others, who became on high alert, fearing that Wang Hao would go berserk.
Fortunately, Wang Hao managed to suppress his murderous intent, but he still gave the old patriarch of the Dugu Family and the others a cold look.
The girl's condition was much worse than he had imagined; there were hundreds of misaligned places on her bones, meaning she had broken her bones hundreds of times.
Judging from the disproportionate healing, it's clear that she didn't receive proper treatment after the injury. Moreover, the girl has many gruesome scars on her skin, which are probably caused by not receiving medicinal herbs to soothe the wounds after the injury.
It's hard to imagine how this girl has survived all these years!
What angered Wang Hao the most was that the girl's internal organs were in a state of depletion, even worse than an old person on the verge of death. If this condition continued, she would not live for more than half a year.
"Phew! You don't need to send protectors to the place of the inheritor of the Peerless Sword Saint, Dugu Jian."
Wang Hao let out a long sigh and said coldly without turning his head.
He had originally intended to give the Dugu Family a chance, but now it seemed unnecessary.