ghost since her death, had received considerable care from the black-clothed ghost in this place. Seeing the two people fighting each other who both wanted to take her with them, she was very afraid...Chapter 488: Fight If You Must (Part 2)

Although his palm power had weakened, a normal person struck by it would still likely suffer broken bones and torn tendons.

When the middle-aged man's palm was only inches from Xiao Yu, seeing that Xiao Yu remained motionless, he couldn't help but feel delighted. His smile gradually spread across his face.

Suddenly, before his smile could fully blossom, it froze, and a look of horror quickly replaced it.

It turned out that when his palm reached the spot where Xiao Yu was standing, he suddenly sensed a shadow darting past him, causing his palm to strike empty air. Before he could react, two gusts of fierce wind struck his arms from the side.

The moment he felt these two sharp gusts of wind, the smile on his face vanished, and horror took its place.

He wanted to dodge but found that these gusts were faster than his reactions. Just as he was about to move, he felt both his arms being grabbed by hands like iron tongs; no matter how hard he tried with his dark force cultivation level, he couldn’t break free.

"Ah..."

The middle-aged man, feeling his arms seized, tried his hardest to escape from Xiao Yu's grip. However, before he could, a searing pain shot through his arms, and he let out an anguished cry.

After a moment, as the iron-like grip on his arms loosened, he hastily backed away several steps, staring dumbfounded at Xiao Yu.

The middle-aged man drew in a sharp breath, looking at Xiao Yu with disbelief. He had lost; he was defeated by Xiao Yu in one move. At forty-two years old and already at the dark force level, his cultivation wasn't weak within his family; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been entrusted to manage the Northern City Martial Arts Hall.

But now, he couldn't believe that a young man barely over twenty had defeated him in one move. This made him feel humiliated and indignant.

He looked down at his arms which were bent unnaturally. He knew some special hand techniques and recognized this injury as being caused by such a technique, though he couldn't identify which one it was.

"Teacher..."

"Master......"

Upon hearing the middle-aged man's cry of pain, these young men standing on both sides shouted out. They still did not understand what was happening; just now, they saw their master attacking Xiao Yu, so how could it be that in a blink of an eye, he was the one crying out in pain

Xiao Yu's exchange with this middle-aged man happened in an instant. Moreover, both their movements were extremely swift. By the time these young men got a clear view, Xiao Yu had already stood several steps away from the middle-aged man and was looking at him.

The middle-aged man was drawing cold air through his teeth, sweat beading on his forehead as he glared angrily at Xiao Yu. He did not expect it to end this way for him.

"You're asking for death! How dare you hurt our master..." Upon seeing their situation, these young men rushed over and surrounded Xiao Yu, each of them shouting furiously at him.

These young men never expected that the invincible master in their eyes could be defeated. Before they even understood what happened, their master was beaten by this young man. How could they accept such a thing

"Scoundrels! Who told you to come over All of you go back to your original positions!" These young men were ready to teach Xiao Yu a lesson with their fists clenched and hands rubbing against each other, but as soon as the words left their mouths, they were stopped by the middle-aged man's loud shout.

"Master... This..." Upon hearing the middle-aged man's shout, these young men's faces turned pale. Turning to look at him, they said in a reluctant tone.

"Go back! Anyone who doesn't listen won’t come here tomorrow!" Seeing their expression, instead of calming down, the middle-aged man shouted even more sternly.

Sighing, these young men looked at each other. They finally took several deep breaths and returned to their original positions.

These young men were extremely puzzled; although the middle-aged man was injured, they were in such great numbers that couldn't they hold Xiao Yu back Therefore, even though they had retreated, the hatred and resentment in their eyes did not dissipate!

In fact, these young men didn’t know that the middle-aged man was doing this for their own good. They all knew how powerful Xiao Yu was; he wasn't something they could deal with as martial arts practitioners who hadn’t reached the stage of true energy or had only recently entered it. Hence, the middle-aged man called them back.

"Great, wonderful! I didn’t expect to be wrong about someone like this!" After seeing these young men retreat and due to his pain in his arm, the middle-aged man drew several cold breaths through his teeth and said with gritted teeth as he stared at Xiao Yu.

The middle-aged man never expected that Xiao Yu's strength was so high. Although he became careless when he saw Xiao Yu not moving, it didn’t change the fact that Xiao Yu’s abilities were outstanding. Otherwise, how could a person of dark energy cultivation be defeated with one move

Yes, his arm is now crippled by Xiao Yu's techniques. He is familiar with these methods and knows that his arm was injured by such techniques. Moreover, this technique feels similar to the ones he knows—both are aimed at crippling joints and tendons.

However, Xiao Yu, being so young, possesses such skill and effortlessly crippled him. This means that Xiao Yu's level of martial arts should be in peak stage of Dark Power, right

It's important to note that even though he is at the initial stage of Dark Power, defeating him with just one move requires peak-level Dark Power. Even if Xiao Yu wasn't slightly careless, it wouldn’t have been easy for him to win.

Xiao Yu glanced at this middle-aged man once, a faint smile playing on his lips as he turned and walked out.

"The Chen family won't take this lying down!" the middle-aged man said as he watched Xiao Yu's back walking away.

"I'll be waiting," Xiao Yu paused in his steps while walking out, not looking back but casually replied to the man’s words.

After saying that, Xiao Yu continued on his way out. As for what this person said about not giving up easily, he had no intention of caring either; he wouldn't fear them if they did come.

When Xiao Yu reached the door, something suddenly occurred to him and he turned around to look at the middle-aged man: "What is the name of your method of striking people"

Xiao Yu was very curious about their techniques for injuring people. That technique was extremely domineering, not only dislocating someone's arm but also damaging their tendons and nerves. If one had a deep cultivation or was proficient in the technique, the injured person would definitely be crippled.

"It is our family's secret skill, 'Dislocated Bones and Injured Tendons Hand'!" Upon hearing Xiao Yu’s question, this middle-aged man looked at his crippled arm and replied.

This young man could help set the injured person's dislocated arm back in place and even prescribed medicine for treating tendons, so there was no reason to hide anything. Even if he did conceal it, it wouldn't have much significance, hence why he readily told Xiao Yu without hesitation.

Xiao Yu nodded, turned around and left the Chen Family Martial Arts Academy.

"Ah..."

As soon as Xiao Yu walked out of the martial arts academy, the middle-aged man who had been standing there let out a painful cry and fell to the ground.

Jiao Yu was just here, and he had been enduring the pain all along. Although he lost to Jiao Yu in one move, martial artists still value face; therefore, even though the pain went bone-deep, he didn’t cry out.

Only after Jiao Yu left could he no longer bear the pain and let out a piercing scream. After sitting down on the ground, the middle-aged man secretly circulated his internal energy in an attempt to alleviate the pain, but unexpectedly, it hurt even more once he used his internal energy, with his two arms feeling increasingly swollen. He felt as though they were about to burst.

He quickly dispersed his internal energy and was afraid that if he continued using it, it might coagulate in his arm’s meridians and cause them to shatter.

The middle-aged man didn’t know why this happened; the only reason could be due to Jiao Yu’s special technique. This is actually where Jiao Yu’s bone-setting hand excels.

For ordinary people, it causes dislocation of bones, but for those practicing internal martial arts techniques, it mainly disrupts their meridians by creating pressure points in the tendons, preventing the flow of internal energy through his arms.

"You all can leave now! Saner, take me back to the big house!" After dispersing his internal energy, the middle-aged man stood up and told the young men present.

"Yes, Master!" The young men responded with a chorus and dispersed.

"Little Three, wait a moment. Drive me back to the big house," the middle-aged man called out to one of the young men who was walking last in line.

The young man replied briefly and left. Soon after, he returned driving a car which stopped right at the entrance of the martial arts academy.

In a villa community on a half-mountain slope in the outskirts of Northern City, an elderly man around his fifties or sixties was sitting on the sofa, sipping tea from a purple clay teapot while reading a newspaper and living life leisurely.

"Uncle Three, Uncle Three..." The old man was drinking tea when he suddenly heard hurried calls outside.

The old man paused in his tea-drinking upon hearing the shouts, then looked at the villa’s entrance with puzzlement.

In an instant, a middle-aged man walked into the house. His arms were irregularly shaped and hanging limply by his sides without any movement, and beads of sweat rolled down from his forehead onto his cheeks as he wore an extremely painful expression.

“Jing Bin, what happened to you” The old man was startled upon seeing the middle-aged man's appearance. He quickly put down his teapot and stood up to ask.houldn't have acted so rashly; however, upon seeing how Xiao Yu accepted his one million-dollar check and only examined his son for less than a minute, anger instantly filled his heart, causing him to...