Ma Liang's face instantly turned pale with shock, and he hastily threw a punch.
But Ning Beichen grabbed his arm.
With a snap, his arm bone broke, the pain piercing to the bone. Before Ma Liang could even cry out, Ning Beichen had already gripped his neck and lifted him up.
"Do you know? No one in this world has ever dared to threaten me! What are you?"
Ning Beichen squeezed his fingers, and Ma Liang's neck began to creak.
Just as Ning Beichen was about to snap Ma Liang's neck, a woman's panicked shout suddenly rang out.
"Ning Beichen, let him go!"
It was Chen Mingyue. She had rushed over upon receiving the news and saw Ma Liang, like a little chick, being choked by Ning Beichen, suspended three inches off the ground, his face already turning black.
Ning Beichen remained unmoved.
He never showed mercy to those who wished to kill him.
Ma Liang thought he could do whatever he pleased relying on the Ma family behind him. Today, Ning Beichen would teach him a lesson, to let him know there were plenty of people in this world he couldn't afford to offend.
Chen Mingyue was also frantic. She knew the consequences would be severe if Ma Liang died. Seeing Ning Beichen refuse to release Ma Liang, she immediately attacked him, intending to rescue Ma Liang from his grasp.
"Scram!"
Ning Beichen had no good feelings towards Chen Mingyue either. This woman was just another Ma Liang. Don't think you'll get away with it just because you have a pretty face.
Chen Mingyue had no idea how Ning Beichen moved. She only felt an terrifying force land on her, and she was sent flying backward like a rag doll.
However, Ning Beichen didn't intend to kill Ma Liang. This was not overseas, and killing people in the ancient Eastern Kingdom was still troublesome.
But Ning Beichen wouldn't let Ma Liang off so easily.
If you don't teach such people a profound lesson, they'll only think you're easy to bully and come back to trouble you again and again.
While death was forgivable, life was not. Just as Ma Liang was about to suffocate, Ning Beichen released his grip and slapped him in the stomach.
With a crack.
Ma Liang's internal energy in his dantian deflated like a leaky ball. Ning Beichen had directly crippled his cultivation.
Then, Ning Beichen threw Ma Liang away as if he were garbage.
Compared to Ma Liang's fate, Chen Mingyue was the most shocked.
Although Chen Mingyue was sent flying by Ning Beichen, she wasn't injured. She got up from the ground, looked at Ma Liang whose internal energy was crippled, and then looked at Ning Beichen's face in disbelief.
Was this really the person she and her father had treated like an ant?
Chen Mingyue found it utterly absurd. If he was an ant, then what was Ma Liang? And what was she?
"Ning Beichen, you... you shouldn't have crippled Ma Liang's cultivation. You'll anger the Ma family by doing this."
Chen Mingyue no longer dared to attack. She just looked at Ning Beichen and said with a complex expression.
"If they don't offend me, I won't offend them. If the Ma family dares to come, I dare to destroy them. Having money doesn't mean you can do whatever you want. Whether it's the Ma family or your Chen family, you'd better remember my words."
Ning Beichen glanced at her and said.
When Chen Mingyue met Ning Beichen's gaze, she felt as if he had seen right through her, making her feel flustered.
After Ning Beichen finished speaking, he turned and returned to the house with Liu Yilin, ignoring Chen Mingyue outside.
Chen Mingyue's expression changed multiple times. This incident was too unexpected. She had to rush back and tell her father immediately.
However, no matter what, Ma Liang was someone she knew. Chen Mingyue worried that if Ma Liang stayed, Ning Beichen might kill him in anger. So, she helped Ma Liang into her car and drove him away.
As Chen Mingyue drove, she thought incredulously in her heart.
"Who exactly is this Ning Beichen?"
"If I had known he was so powerful, I would have persuaded my father to meet him no matter what."
Chen Mingyue's face flushed with embarrassment when she recalled their first meeting, where she had looked down on him. In the end, she couldn't even withstand a single move from him.
As she thought, she began to worry about Ning Beichen.
Ning Beichen had crippled Ma Liang's cultivation, and the Ma family would definitely not let it go.
It wasn't that the Ma family would call the police or anything; the Ma family wouldn't stoop that low. But Chen Mingyue, knowing the Chen family of Gusu, understood that the Ma family's success was not without reason.
She had heard her father say that the Ma family also had an ancestor, whose cultivation was already at the Grandmaster level, although he didn't live here.
If the Ma family brought back their ancestor, Ning Beichen would be in danger. She didn't believe Ning Beichen could be a match for the Ma family's ancestor.
However, she couldn't prevent these things. She could only send Ma Liang back first, and then rush back to discuss with her father.
Not long after, Chen Mingyue had sent Ma Liang back to the Ma family and left immediately without lingering, driving back to find her father.
"You're saying that Ning Beichen crippled Ma Liang's cultivation? And even Wang Shi wasn't his match?"
Chen Chuli heard his daughter's words and was somewhat taken aback.
Fortunately, Chen Mingyue didn't know that Wang Shi's cultivation had also been crippled by Ning Beichen, otherwise, the father and daughter would have been even more shocked.
"Dad, do you think we should meet him?"
Chen Mingyue asked.
She was now curious about Ning Beichen. Possessing such powerful martial arts at such a young age, she wondered about his background.
"No. If it were before, meeting him would be fine. But now that he has thoroughly offended the Ma family, if I meet him now, we might fall out with the Ma family."
Chen Chuli shook his head.
"Dad, the Ma family is not weak, but we also have an ancestor. Why should we fear their Ma family?"
Chen Mingyue said.
"This is not about fear, but about not needing to fall out with the Ma family over an outsider. Besides, do you think an ancestor intervenes so easily?"
Chen Chuli shook his head. At the ancestor's level, unless the Chen family faced utter annihilation, their ancestor would not easily appear.
"Then we just don't care?"
Chen Mingyue asked somewhat unwillingly.
"Care about what? We have no relation to him. This is his business. Let's just not get our Chen family involved."
Chen Chuli said.
"Forget it. If you don't care, I'll go find Ning Beichen and ask him myself."
Seeing that her father had no intention of intervening, Chen Mingyue turned to leave. Chen Chuli called out to her a few times from behind, but she ignored him, making Chen Chuli shake his head helplessly.
"My Liang'er!"
"How did you get beaten like this?"
At this moment, in the Ma family, a beautiful middle-aged woman looked at Ma Liang lying on the bed, weeping heartbrokenly.