He said to the masked man, “Is this the one? Is he a virgin?”
The masked man seemed somewhat impatient. “I don’t know. Just name a price based on his face.”
“Let me check his skin first.” The mouse-whiskered man walked toward Lian Li, the lewd smile on his face growing even more repulsive. He reached out, intending to tear off Lian Li’s clothes.
Lian Li: !!!
He immediately sent a kick straight between the mouse-whiskered man’s legs.
He knew his body was weak and lacked strength, so he showed no mercy at all, putting every ounce of his power into the strike.
In an instant, he seemed to hear the sound of something shattering.
He even wobbled slightly from the sheer force he exerted, and his unshod feet throbbed with pain.
“Ah—!” The mouse-whiskered man let out a blood-curdling scream, clutching his crotch as he collapsed to the ground. He curled up like a dried shrimp, rolling back and forth on the floor.
No one expected Lian Li to have such a violent reaction.
After all, from the moment the mouse-whiskered man entered and spoke to the masked man, Lian Li had been perfectly quiet. He was completely different from those who, upon learning they were about to be sold, would scream their lungs out or hurl abuse.
The mouse-whiskered man, in particular, had thought Lian Li was already broken and submissive. That was why he had approached so carelessly, only to be kicked directly in his vitals by Lian Li.
Fearing the mouse-whiskered man might get back up, Lian Li ignored the pain in his feet and delivered a flurry of heavy kicks to the man’s groin.
Seeing that the mouse-whiskered man was nearly being kicked to death, the masked man finally snapped out of it and tried to seize Lian Li.
By now, Lian Li’s eyes were red with adrenaline. He grabbed a nearby wooden stick and swung it with all his might.
The masked man was also caught off guard. He was struck squarely in the head, instantly becoming dizzy as blood began to flow down.
Lian Li froze for a second, suddenly realizing that the masked man’s martial arts weren’t all that impressive either.
He immediately shook off the masked man’s hand. Before the man could recover, Lian Li gripped the wooden stick with both hands and rained down a chaotic barrage of blows onto the masked man’s head.
If this were the modern world, he would have worried about whether such a beating would kill someone.
But now, he had freaking transmigrated into a book. The imperial court of this world was useless, and he was about to be sold.
Looking at the mouse-whiskered man’s attire, he didn’t look like a servant from a wealthy family, but rather a pimp.
Dammit, he was about to be sold as a male prostitute. If he stayed timid and afraid, he would probably end up dead in some brothel.
He didn’t hold back in the slightest. While he beat the masked man, he kept one foot busy kicking the mouse-whiskered man.
After taking several hits, the masked man quickly found it unbearable and tried to flee out of Lian Li’s reach.
How could Lian Li let him run away and wait for him to recover?
If the man got better, Lian Li would be the one in trouble.
Seeing that the mouse-whiskered man could no longer stand, Lian Li stopped kicking him and instead chased after the masked man, continuing the assault.
The masked man didn’t even get a chance to use his Lightness Skill before Lian Li knocked him unconscious on the ground.
Just as Lian Li was about to breathe a sigh of relief, more voices came from outside the temple.
He turned his head and saw two men much sturdier than himself. They seemed to have rushed over after hearing the mouse-whiskered man’s screams.
As soon as they entered, the mouse-whiskered man shouted at them, “What are you standing there for? Grab him! When the time comes, I’ll hand him over to the most difficult master to be tormented!”
“I’ll fck your mother, you dead pimp! Don’t you dare fall into my hands, or I’ll definitely feed you aphrodisiacs and then give you medicine for impotence!” Lian Li cursed furiously.
The most troublesome one, the masked man, had already been knocked out by Lian Li.
He bent down, ripped off the masked man’s face covering, and reached into the man’s lapel to grab a half-exposed packet of medicine.
He looked at the two men already charging toward him.
Without a second thought, he ran toward the Buddha statue.
It was a pity there were two of them; otherwise, he could have pulled off a “King Qin circling the pillar” maneuver.
In this situation, trying to kite them around a pillar would be a surefire way to seek death.
Therefore, he didn’t hesitate for a moment and began climbing the Buddha statue.
With the wooden stick clenched between his teeth, he hummed indistinctly, “Lord Buddha, it’s not that I’m being disrespectful to you, I really have no other choice. You have always been merciful; surely you won’t mind this tiny offense.”
“If you want to punish someone, punish these bastards. They’re actually conducting the business of forcing people into prostitution inside your temple. As a monk, you definitely can’t stand the sight of this.”
He kept talking as he climbed upward.
Unexpectedly, as he climbed to the level of the statue’s hand, he suddenly smelled a foul odor. He glanced to the side.
He didn’t know which immoral person had actually taken a crap on the Buddha statue’s hand. He had almost—just freaking almost—grabbed it with his hand.
The two men brought by the mouse-whiskered man clearly didn’t know martial arts. If they did, they wouldn’t be following a pimp to collect a single piece of “merchandise.”
Thus, by the time Lian Li reached the top of the dilapidated Buddha statue, they had only just reached the base.
Lian Li saw that while these two couldn’t be called warriors, they were much sturdier than him. He knew that even if he held the high ground, he might not successfully repel them.
So, he narrowed his eyes, gripped the stick in his hand, and poked it into the feces on the Buddha statue’s hand.
Once he finished coating the stick, the one among the two henchmen who had smaller eyes and a thinner build had already climbed to the level of the statue’s hand.
Lian Li took the stick and poked the end covered in filth toward Small-eyes’ mouth.
Sure enough, as the stick reached his face, Small-eyes was about to grab it with his hand when he smelled the stench.
He looked up and saw the yellow-stained tip of the stick nearly poking into his mouth.
He instinctively let out a “yue” sound. He didn’t want to touch the stick anymore; he only wanted to get away.
Seeing this, Lian Li seized the opportunity and unleashed a barrage of strikes. The stick danced in his hands like a Sky-piercing Halberd.
At this moment, the other one with a strawberry nose approached. That man had circled to the back of the Buddha statue, intending to launch a sneak attack from behind. However, the back was harder to climb, so his movements were slower.
Lian Li saw that he had only just started climbing. While keeping an eye on the distance, he dealt with Small-eyes in front of him.
Occupying the high ground gave him too great an advantage. Small-eyes was eventually poked down by him, a suspicious smear of yellow appearing at the corner of his mouth.
The moment he hit the ground, the sound of Small-eyes vomiting rang out. It sounded as if he were going to retch his very internal organs out.
The mouse-whiskered man was still crying out in pain while shouting, “You two useless wastes! Get him down here! When the time comes, I’ll use the most poisonous methods to torment him!”
Lian Li shouted back directly, “So you’re not satisfied with just being shattered, are you? Just you wait. Once I’ve dealt with these two grandsons of turtles, I’ll stuff this whole pile of sht into your mouth, then castrate you clean and send you into the palace to be a eunuch!”
“And I’ll burn the parts I cut off into ash, mix it with water, and force you to drink it!”
He cursed like this, but his complexion was very poor.
He was naturally less healthy than an ordinary person. To protect himself, he had already dealt with the masked man and the mouse-whiskered man.
Then, with a burst of potential, he had climbed the Buddha statue. Now, his physical strength was beginning to fail.
Furthermore, he was thinly dressed, and it was now the middle of the night. He was freezing.
His hands and feet were now as cold as ice blocks. His lips, which were naturally pale, now looked completely white.
