Chapter 240: No Longer Wanting To Be A Punching Bag
“You’re Yun Ce from Xiangcheng?” The He Clan Butler, who had lost one hand, said while retreating.
“The He Clan helped the Cao Clan take Pingzhou. Look, this beast is how he treats us. Aren’t you afraid that today you help him, and tomorrow he’ll come to kill you?”
Yun Ce shook his head and said, “You’re mistaken. I’m not from the Cao Clan. However, taking you down today will bring Xiangcheng a lot of benefits. This is a business deal, not one helping the other.
Surrender with hands bound, to avoid suffering.”
Yun Ce’s feat of slaughtering three thousand in open battle had long spread near the Great Wall. No matter who it was, facing Yun Ce this killer god, they couldn’t help but feel terrified.
Although he was now unarmed, still wearing wide-sleeved robes made of silk brocade unsuitable for battle, he alone blocked the gate of the City Lord’s Mansion.
Just as the He Clan Butler neither dared to advance nor retreat, intense battle suddenly erupted inside the City Lord’s Mansion. The sound of weapons clashing was clearly audible even at the main gate.
The He Clan Butler dared wait no longer, shouted once, and a group of people charged toward Yun Ce in the middle of the main road.
Killing with a meteor hammer and killing with a fist were absolutely two different experiences. Especially when the fist smashed into the opponent’s head, one could clearly feel the opponent’s brains shaking inside the skull, then with the continuous addition of strength, the skull would deform, and the back of the head would burst open from the violent shock.
Yun Ce also discovered that his own body was already an excellent killing tool. Hands, feet, elbows, knees, even the head could easily kill.
1 Not long after, a pile of corpses accumulated in front of Yun Ce. Except for the He Clan Butler locked by Yun Ce’s gaze, the others shouted once and went to support battles elsewhere.
1 Overall, the fighting of this group at the gate wasn’t high-level. Currently, only the He Clan Butler, a thousand-man general level warrior, was found; the rest were not worth mentioning.
1 Yun Ce moved his foot to avoid blood staining his new shoes. Although the He Clan Butler loudly shouted for people to come support him, no one came after half a day. Seeing Yun Ce smiling at him, whether from extreme fear bursting into courage or wanting to end this torment early, in any case, he swung his blade single-handedly and charged over.
1 Yun Ce once again accurately grabbed his left arm. Doggy’s tentacle quickly drilled in along the severed arm. In a few breaths, the He Clan Butler was already dead. Doggy also contentedly retreated into the bracer.
1 Yun Ce dragged the He Clan Butler’s corpse preparing to enter the City Lord’s Mansion. Passing that horse carriage, out of curiosity, he lifted the curtain and glanced inside.
1 After glancing once, he quickly pulled down the curtain. Inside the horse carriage sat a heavily made-up little girl. One could vaguely see this was a very pretty little girl. The only pity was that this little girl was cooked.
1 Yes, literal meaning: she was steamed and sent to Cao Kun.
1 Not long ago, Yun Ce had discussed with Cao Kun how to cook He Tian to be tasty. Now, they steamed their own daughter and sent her over, first letting Cao Kun taste the flavor.
1 Seeing this tragic scene, Yun Ce decided never to eat meals from Cao Kun’s house again. A guy with the active willingness to eat people would sooner or later get his wish.
1 The chaos at the City Lord’s Mansion gate was just one point. After Yun Ce reached high ground, he discovered many places in Pingcheng starting to smoke. It seemed Cao Kun wanted to use his engagement ceremony to gather He Tian’s Tiger Guards, while He Tian also wanted to take this opportunity to kill Cao Kun and seize Pingcheng.
2 The Cao Clan Old Butler Zheng Tianshou guarded the second gate. Seeing Yun Ce drag over a corpse, he glanced at the corpse and said to Yun Ce, “He Clan Second Butler He Ping, broke through to thousand-man general realm two years ago, deeply trusted by He Tian. Now dead by your hand, this old man has one fewer old friend here.”
2 Yun Ce dropped the corpse and said, “Then bury him properly, fulfilling your friendship.”
2 Zheng Tianshou shook his head and said, “No friendship to speak of. Rather, the Cao Clan owes you another favor.”
2 Yun Ce pointed to the thick smoke rising in the city and said, “All part of the plan?”
2 Zheng Tianshou gave a bitter laugh and said, “Where do so many expected things come from? It’s the Eldest Son wanting to test his own stratagem, to see if it could succeed. Now it looks like it succeeded. He Tian has fallen into the trap; wanting to leave is harder than climbing to heaven.”
2 Yun Ce found a spot to sit and said, “Why do I feel like it failed.”
2 Zheng Tianshou laughed and said, “If just looking at gathering the Tiger Guards, it indeed failed. But from the bigger picture, the Eldest Son succeeded.”
2 Yun Ce pondered for a moment and said, “I saw the girl in the horse carriage was steamed.”
2 Zheng Tianshou said with some sigh, “He Yu was infatuated with the Eldest Son, willing to do anything for him. After her stratagem was discovered by He Tian, her nightmare began. I thought it would just be killing her; didn’t expect He Tian to be capable of such a vicious hand.”
2 Yun Ce nodded, indicating understanding. In the world, women sacrificing for their lovers, He Yu wouldn’t be the first, nor the last.
3 Yun Ce didn’t like talking much with Zheng Tianshou. Seeing him busy commanding and directing, he went straight to his resting guest room. Since the Cao Clan already had countermeasures, as a guest, it was best not to interfere randomly.
3 After the guest room door closed, the outside clamor had nothing to do with Yun Ce. Until the red date horse sniffed his scent and found him, Yun Ce planned to take advantage of the early time to sleep well. Last night, drinking and playing too long meant he hadn’t slept much.
3 Yun Ce lay on the bed, the red date horse lay on the floor. It slept well last night and now had no sleepiness, so it boredly chewed the fruit plate in Yun Ce’s room.
3 The ground would faintly shake once in a while, but not severely—likely the sound of heavy objects falling. The two maids originally guarding outside the room had at some point come in. Not daring to disturb the sleeping Yun Ce, they gathered around the red date horse to groom its fur.
3 Yun Ce was probably exhausted; not long after lying on the bed, he fell asleep. In his dreams, the ground still jumped unsteadily a couple times.
3 The City Lord’s Mansion was actually a military fortress, more like a city within the city. Every building, wall, passageway, corridor was related to war.
3 Cao Kun had Cao Ling send those burly great Han to the inner chamber living room; there must be sufficient considerations. This time should be when the war was most intense.
3 In the afternoon, Yun Ce woke up. The maids brought meal. Yun Ce didn’t eat the Cao Clan’s famous meat soup; he ate two bowls of rice with some vegetables, and directly rewarded the meat soup to the two maids.
3 Being able to attend to the meals for guests in the guest rooms at noon showed the City Lord’s Mansion battles were under Cao Kun’s control. Probably wouldn’t be long before the battle stopped.
3 Many people lived in the guest rooms here, but everyone seemed to have no intention of gathering to talk, which disappointed Yun Ce somewhat. Talking with them, Yun Ce could get a lot of information he couldn’t access before.
4 In the afternoon, Cao Kun came over. He first went one by one to console the guests staying with the Cao Clan, finally coming to Yun Ce’s room, shooed away the maids, plopped his buttocks on the ground, leaned his back against the wall, and said to Yun Ce, “Those Tiger Guards people are unwilling to surrender.”
4 Yun Ce tossed Cao Kun a fruit and said, “Your stratagem wasn’t thorough; He Tian knew, so the people he sent naturally wouldn’t surrender to you.”
4 Cao Kun threw the fruit back into the red date horse’s mouth and said somewhat dejectedly, “This time I failed. He Yu did very well; it was the person I sent to pass the message to He Yu who had the problem.”
4 Yun Ce bit into a fruit and said, “Inside traitor?”
4 Cao Kun shook his head. “Couldn’t endure torture.”
4 Yun Ce said, “Then it’s not his fault. In theory, no one can endure cruel torture.”
4 “He should have suicided. Not suiciding means he had thoughts of clinging to life. Uncle already dealt with his whole family. I wanted to speak for him, but Uncle wouldn’t.”
4 Yun Ce suddenly brought his face close to Cao Kun and said, “You don’t hate the old butler?”
4 Cao Kun gave Yun Ce a white-eyed look and said, “Overly clumsy provocation.”
4 Yun Ce laughed and said, “You have no plan for revenge for He Yu?”
5 Cao Kun shook his head and said, “The reason He Tian treated He Yu in such a vicious way was precisely to provoke my anger, to make me lose reason and eagerly send troops for revenge for He Yu. I think he’s already prepared; as long as I send troops recklessly, I’ll fall into his trap and suffer failure again.”
5 The smile on Yun Ce’s face slowly faded. He sighed and said, “Pitiful person.”
5 Cao Kun shook his head. “Not pitiful. He Yu will live in my heart, and at the same time, she is my wife. This position I promised to her; from now on, it’s hers.”
5 Yun Ce looked at Cao Kun doubtfully and said, “She was already steamed to death.”
5 Cao Kun lowered his head, somewhat sadly, and said, “He Tian will pay a price for his viciousness beyond his imagination. I will definitely revenge for He Yu; just not now.
5 Yun Ce, if you encountered such a thing, would you endure?”
5 Yun Ce shook his head. “No, not for a moment.”
5 “What if they use this to set a trap?”
5 “Trap or not, I’d jump right in. Think about it: if I don’t jump, how disappointed would that girl who likes me be.”
5 “I think you’d choose to endure like me.”
6 “Impossible, I won’t endure.”
6 “What about your grand ambitions?”
6 “Screw the grand ambitions. I want my wife! Grand ambitions can rise again anytime.”
6 “Yun Ce, don’t force me like this, okay? I can’t right now…”
6 “You can. Cao Kun, don’t make me look down on you. A man standing between heaven and earth—if he can’t live freely, can’t live happily, even if he gains imperial ambitions, so what?”
6 Cao Kun jumped up, pointed at Yun Ce’s nose, and roared angrily, “Today, let you have your way once. I’m going right now to get justice for that woman.”
6 “Your uncle will stop you.”
6 “He won’t this time. I’ve really endured enough, including enduring you this bastard. I’m clearly one of the top good han in the world. Why endure? On what basis endure?”
6 Seeing Cao Kun storm off in rage, Yun Ce shouted at his back, “Come back alive.”
