Chapter 96: The Strongest Four Tigers Mountain Tiger!

Ye Tianci stood in place without moving so much as a single muscle. He did not even blink as he looked at Poppy.

"Ah!"

Poppy's arm swung halfway through the air before she let out a cry of pain. Her arm snapped back as if electrocuted.

Her face turned instantly deathly pale!

"I can't use my poison either? You... what exactly did you do to me?" Poppy asked, her voice shaking with terror. The way she looked at Ye Tianci was now full of fear.

"You are now a weak woman without the strength to bind a chicken."

"From this day forward, you will never again be able to harm people with gu arts or poison."

Ye Tianci said with a grin.

"Even a martial arts grandmaster couldn't destroy my cultivation without a trace! How... how did you manage it?"

"Who exactly are you?"

Poppy's eyes were filled with disbelief.

"I already told you. You're not qualified to know."

Ye Tianci ignored her and walked over to Tang Ying. He pressed his finger to the spot on Tang Ying's neck, and Tang Ying let out a miserable howl before opening his mouth wide.

A small green worm crawled out of Tang Ying's mouth. This was the gu insect Poppy had just planted inside his body.

"Smack!"

The small green worm was shot and burst apart by Ye Tianci's silver needle, splattering fluid all over Poppy's face.

Poppy clutched her chest and collapsed to the ground, blood seeping from the corner of her mouth. "Damn you! You even destroyed my life-bound gu worm!"

Tang Ying's eyes regained their clarity, and he looked at Ye Tianci in confusion. "Brother, my head just felt dizzy. What happened?"

"You were just cast under a heart-charming gu by that woman."

"Your mind was under her control. Whatever she told you to do, you would have obeyed. She tried to cast one on me too, so I crippled her."

"Now she truly is a weak woman with no strength to bind a chicken."

Ye Tianci pointed at Poppy on the ground.

Tang Ying looked at Poppy and gnashed his teeth. "Fine! You vicious woman, you actually dared to cast a gu on me!"

"Smack!"

Tang Ying delivered a vicious slap across her face, showing no pity for her beauty at all.

Poppy's delicate face instantly swelled up.

Poppy screamed for help, and Wu Fangyan burst into the private room with his men.

"Manager Wu, I... I've been crippled by them. Save me!" Poppy cried out in desperation.

Wu Fangyan was furious. "Just now I already thought you two looked like troublemakers. I didn't expect you to actually dare make a scene in our Qitian Mansion!"

"Poppy is the number one flower card of Qitian Mansion. Since you've crippled her, you two will only be leaving on stretchers!"

Tang Ying grabbed a wine bottle from the table and snarled, "I paid five hundred thousand for this private room! You first tried to fob us off with fake liquor, then you sent this so-called flower card to cast a gu on me? Crippling her is the lightest punishment she deserves!"

Hearing this, Wu Fangyan's expression shifted. He waved his hand coldly. "Quick, go fetch Brother Hu. Tell him we've got tough customers."

The bodyguards behind him hurried out. Within two minutes, a man in his forties charged in with a group of men.

The man's face looked as if it had been carved by knives and axes, rugged and stern. His eyes were fierce and menacing, his very presence carrying an invisible killing aura.

"Making trouble in Qitian Mansion—did you ask me, Mu Shihu?"

The man's voice was icy, dripping with murderous intent.

"Brother, this man is the most fearsome of the Four Tigers of Shu City—the Mountain Tiger, Mu Shihu."

"Mu Shihu is extremely powerful himself. I've heard he's a strong expert on the Mystic Ranking. The number of men under his command is no less than Lionheart Hall's!"

"Yuan Zhonghuang is the head of the Three Dragons, but even he yields to Mu Shihu."

Tang Ying said in a low voice.

Wu Fangyan also whispered a few words into Mu Shihu's ear.

Mu Shihu looked at the crippled Poppy off to the side, and his face turned dark and sinister.

"Cripple my people? No matter which of you did it, you will both be crippled!"

Mu Shihu waved his hand coldly.

"Clatter!"

Four underlings raised their guns at once, black muzzles leveled at Ye Tianci and Tang Ying.

Tang Ying's face changed drastically. He hadn't expected there to be so many guns in Qitian Mansion. He didn't dare move a muscle.

Ye Tianci said calmly, "Tang Ying, with me here, there's no need to be afraid."

Mu Shihu heard this and looked at Tang Ying in surprise. "Tang Ying? You're the young master of the Tang family?"

Seeing that Ye Tianci was completely unruffled, Tang Ying steadied himself and said proudly, "That's right. My father is Tang Yunyi, my grandfather is Tang Zhenguo."

Mu Shihu let out a cold snort. "So what if you're the Tang family's young master? If you dare cause trouble in Qitian Mansion, you'll still get more than you bargained for!"

"Take them both down to the first-floor lobby!"

The bodyguards, guns trained on the two men, escorted them down to the lobby.

The music immediately stopped. The central stage was cleared, and Ye Tianci and Tang Ying were pushed into the middle of it.

Mu Shihu wanted to make a public example of them, intimidating anyone who might think of causing trouble in Qitian Mansion.

Even more, he wanted to publicly humiliate the Tang family's young master and Ye Tianci, to forge his own reputation.

When Mu Shihu stepped onto the stage, everyone around fell silent, watching curiously.

"Tonight, these two came to Qitian Mansion to cause trouble. I'm going to chop off the legs of one of them in public!"

"This one here is the Tang family's young master. I can spare him out of respect for the Tang family. As for this cripple beside him—the young master's follower—I, Mu Shihu, will use him as the warning!"

Mu Shihu pointed at Ye Tianci and roared, his eyes savage.

"Chop off his legs? Is that for real?"

"Tiger Lord always means what he says. That follower of the Tang young master won't be keeping his legs."

"Tiger Lord, chop his legs off!"

"Chop them off! Chop them off!"

...

Below the stage, the crowd of guests shouted with excitement.

Many more people ran down from the upper floors to watch the spectacle.

Everyone was eagerly waiting!

"Bring me a blade!"

Mu Shihu bellowed.

A subordinate immediately handed him a machete.

Clutching the blade, Mu Shihu walked to a spot three meters in front of Ye Tianci amid the piercing whistles and frenzied cheers.

"Tang Ying, he's here for me. Step back," Ye Tianci said calmly.

Tang Ying obediently retreated. He didn't want to become a burden to Ye Tianci.

Ye Tianci took one step forward. Mu Shihu's four underlings immediately aimed their guns at his head and shouted in unison, "Don't move! Move an inch and we'll blow your head off!"

"Kid, if you dare resist, my men will turn your head into a smashed watermelon!"

"If you don't resist and obediently let me chop off your legs, you might just keep your life."

Mu Shihu sneered viciously.

Ye Tianci smiled faintly as well, a cold and charming arc curving at the corner of his lips. "Are you sure the one whose legs get chopped off will be me?"

"Kid, at this point, you still dare to act cocky in front of me?"

"Get down!"

Mu Shihu let out a thunderous roar, lunging with his machete and hacking savagely at Ye Tianci's waist!

This was hardly the stance of someone aiming to cut off a pair of legs. He was clearly trying to cleave Ye Tianci in two!

The instant he moved, Ye Tianci moved as well, trailing a blur of afterimages!

At the same moment, gunfire erupted!

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

...

The gunshots rang out in a chaotic volley, one after another.

When the gunfire died down, the four gun-wielding bodyguards crashed heavily to the ground.

All four had their hands clutched over their throats, blood gushing out from between their fingers.

A single strike to the throat, every one of them!

At the same time, Mu Shihu let out a miserable scream and flew backward, landing several meters away. His blade was nowhere to be found!

Ye Tianci's ghostly afterimages vanished, his body solidifying beside Mu Shihu. In his hand, he was now holding Mu Shihu's machete!

"What the hell?"

"What just happened?"

"Is he a man or a ghost? How could anyone move that fast?"

...

Everyone around stared at Ye Tianci in shock.

None of them could believe what they had just witnessed.

"Mu Shihu, do you believe my words now? The one whose legs are chopped off isn't me—it's you!"

The moment the words left his mouth, the blade in Ye Tianci's hand swept toward Mu Shihu's legs with a piercing whistle!

"Stop!"

"If you dare to chop off Shihu's legs, I, Qi Changhe, will make your entire family die with him!" An old voice suddenly rang out!