Chapter 72: You Actually Did What to Me

Xue'er felt like she was going insane. What kind of karma from her past life led her to encounter such a person? "Not only will I kill you today, but I'll also cut out your tongue and feed it to the dogs."

Rage from Xue'er: +500!

Zu An wanted to extract a bit more rage, but before he knew it, his opponent attacked him like an arrow shot from a bowstring.

"So fast!"

He had no time to dodge and quickly channeled all his cultivation power to block in front of him.

Their fists and palms met. Zu An immediately felt as if he had been struck by a speeding car; his entire body was sent flying a great distance. His hands felt as if they were about to break. He struggled to get up but coughed up a large mouthful of blood.

This little girl, with her small arms and legs, actually possesses such strength!

At that moment, Xue'er was no less surprised than he was. She looked at the red mark on her palm, recalling his earlier strength, and couldn't help but exclaim, "Huh, your cultivation has actually reached the third rank!"

Zu An felt his inner energy churning wildly, yet he still grinned and said, "What do you think? Did you realize I'm actually a hidden genius, and seeing how exceptionally handsome I am today, you've involuntarily developed a crush on me?"

"Crush, my foot!"

Rage from Qiao Xueying: +211!

With a grim expression, Xue'er rushed over and kicked him again, sending him spinning several times in the air before he landed on the ground.

"You, Zu, have successfully enraged me. Today, I won't let you die easily; I'll make you suffer so much you'll wish for death but be unable to find it!"

Zu An thought, "This little girl holds quite a grudge." He secretly took out his Rich Woman's Joy Orb and was about to polish it when his face suddenly stiffened. He had just remembered something crucial.

He now carried an enormous IOU for 7.5 million silver taels. There were probably few people in the entire Bright Moon City richer than him. Even if these 7.5 million taels weren't counted towards his wealth value because they couldn't be cashed in immediately, he still had 150,000 silver notes on him.

The Rich Woman's Joy Orb had a prerequisite for activation: it was only effective against women who were wealthier than he was.

Xue'er was a maid; no matter how one looked at it, she couldn't possibly be richer than him, could she?

The reason he had been so calm earlier was precisely the existence of this item.

One must know that when he previously faced Pei Mianman, a fifth-rank master, he managed to endure by infinitely combining the Rich Woman's Joy Orb and the Phoenix Nirvana Scripture. No matter how powerful Xue'er was, she couldn't possibly be stronger than the renowned genius Pei Mianman, could she?

However, he had completely overlooked the fact that he had just acquired a huge sum of money, making the situation suddenly perilous.

Thinking of this, he still asked persistently, "Um, if I may ask, how much wealth do you possess in total?"

Xue'er was taken aback. She had considered many possibilities but never expected him to ask such a question. "Why do you care how much money I have? But I know that after I kill you, I'll become very rich."

Zu An secretly sighed. It seemed he really couldn't use the Rich Woman's Joy Orb. Having experienced its power, he was reluctant to waste an opportunity under uncertain circumstances.

"Why do you want to kill me?" Zu An's mind raced, devising a countermeasure, while also trying to extract information from his opponent. Now that she was so confident of victory, she might inadvertently reveal something.

"Everyone wants to kill a despicable, shameless, and lewd person like you!" Xue'er said through gritted teeth.

Rage from Qiao Xueying: +99!

Zu An was stunned, not expecting her resentment towards him to be so deep. "Am I, the handsome and graceful one, actually so annoying?" he wondered.

"Are you trying to stall for time? Don't dream about it!" Xue'er snorted coldly and rushed directly towards him, determined to break his limbs first.

To her surprise, Zu An flipped and dodged. They exchanged several more blows. Although he was now coughing up blood, Xue'er found herself questioning reality: "What's going on? His injuries are clearly getting worse, yet his strength and speed seem to have increased significantly, even becoming almost comparable to mine?"

Zu An knew this was the effect of the Phoenix Nirvana Scripture, which allowed him to unleash immense power even when severely injured. However, without the protection of the Rich Woman's Joy Orb, he didn't know when he might truly kick the bucket, so he was ready to summon the power of Brother Chun at any moment.

"Do you have some secret art?" Xue'er asked. There were skills in the world that could unleash immense combat power in a short time, but each came with significant negative effects. She wondered which one he possessed.

"If you call me 'Good Brother' a few more times, perhaps I'll tell you," Zu An said with a smile.

Rage from Qiao Xueying: +111!

"You're asking for death!"

A silver needle suddenly appeared in Xue'er's hand, and the next second, countless silver needles seemed to materialize before Zu An's eyes.

"Holy crap, the Pear Blossom Storm Needles?!"

Zu An desperately dodged, but unfortunately, he was still struck many times. Blood continuously flowed from his wounds, and he couldn't even hold onto the dagger in his hand, which clattered to the ground.

Xue'er sneered, "You only have brute strength but no combat skills, like a fat pig waiting to be slaughtered."

Zu An fell silent. "Was that a combat skill just now?" he wondered. He had indeed never learned anything of the sort. He could clearly feel that with combat skills, similar strength and speed could unleash vastly different levels of power.

"A good-for-nothing will always be a good-for-nothing. I don't know where you learned your cultivation, but this is the end," Xue'er said, a cold sneer playing on her lips. "Any last words before you die?"

Zu An spat out a mouthful of blood and chuckled, "Today you jabbed me with needles; sooner or later, I'll jab you back."

"But you don't know how to use needles..." Xue'er's smile abruptly froze as she finally understood what he meant by "jab." Her face turned frosty. "I don't know whether to admire you or ridicule you, daring to take advantage of me even when death is imminent."

Rage from Qiao Xueying: +404!

Zu An wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and looked at her with a strange gaze. "How do you know I'm going to die?"

Xue'er snorted. "Do you have another trump card? Bring it all out then. I'll let you see what I can do."

"I'm afraid you won't be able to handle it if I do," Zu An said, by now almost out of strength, barely managing to sit upright by leaning against the wall. "Have you ever been pregnant?"

Xue'er first froze, then erupted in fury. "What kind of nonsense are you talking about?!"

Rage from Qiao Xueying: +303!

As an unmarried maiden, to be asked by a man if she had been pregnant, she decided in her heart that she would skin him alive and pull out his tendons later to truly vent her hatred.

A strange smile appeared on Zu An's lips. "I can make you pregnant."

Xue'er was completely numb by this point, too lazy to even get angry, looking at him as if he were already dead.

She walked directly towards him, looking down. "Hand over the IOU, and perhaps..."

She had only spoken halfway when she suddenly froze, then instinctively touched her abdomen. "What's happening? This distended, heavy feeling?"

Immediately after, she felt her stomach swell, yet her eyes told her it remained perfectly flat. Then her whole body involuntarily leaned backward as waves of back pain and soreness washed over her.

"What have you done to me?"

Xue'er finally felt a surge of panic. This sensation was unprecedented and utterly beyond her comprehension.

Zu An smiled. "I told you I could make you pregnant. Why didn't you believe me?"

He had just determined he couldn't turn the tide with his own strength, so he seized the opportunity to use "Stare-and-Impregnate." He was secretly cautious, realizing that the skill didn't immediately cause intense pain but first induced the sensation of pregnancy. "Looks like I'll need to account for this delay when using it in the future," he thought.

Xue'er naturally didn't believe anything about pregnancy and was about to attack when a sudden, intense pain shot through her lower abdomen.

"Ah~"

Although she tried her best to control it, the pain was utterly unbearable. She instantly doubled over and squatted down, even feeling an urge to lie down and roll around.

Seeing her clutching her lower abdomen in agony, her small face deathly pale, and fine beads of sweat appearing on her smooth forehead, Zu An seized the opportunity and lunged towards her.

Having just been beaten so miserably by her, Zu An dared not be careless in the slightest and immediately engaged her in close-quarters combat.

Xue'er's expression changed. She hurriedly raised her hand to push him away, but the bone-deep pain from her lower abdomen caused her to hesitate, slowing her movement by a step, and she was consequently tackled directly to the ground.

Pinned directly beneath him, Xue'er's face went pale with shock. She desperately reached back to strike his heart, but the intense pain wracking her body made her strength and speed immeasurably slower than before.

The moment she raised her hand, her wrist was firmly pinned to the ground by him. She wanted to struggle, but for some reason, his strength had suddenly become no less than hers, while she couldn't exert her full power. Coupled with his weight pressing down on her, the dynamic shift meant her constant squirming served no purpose other than giving him further advantage.

Zu An had to admit, although this young woman was a bit fierce, her figure was truly good. While not as exaggerated as Pei Mianman's, she excelled in being slender and supple, her entire body radiating the vitality of a young girl.

For a moment, he actually felt a bit reluctant to kill her.

"What exactly did you do to me?" Xue'er's face was flushed. She had already realized that her struggles and twists were having no effect other than giving him pleasure.

"I told you I'd let you experience the feeling of pregnancy, so why didn't you believe me?" Zu An watched her, weak with pain, and thought, "This thing is truly exaggerated. I wonder what it would be like if it affected a man."

"Shameless!" Xue'er was both ashamed and furious. She was unaware of the "Stare-and-Impregnate" ability and simply thought he was deliberately taking advantage of her, as in her understanding, there was only one way to become pregnant in this world.

Rage from Qiao Xueying: +798!

"You want to kill me, but my resistance is shameless?" Zu An sneered. "Tell me, who sent you?"

Xue'er turned her face away, secretly accumulating strength, waiting to unleash a sudden strike to turn the tables. But just as she gathered some primordial energy, another wave of sharp pain shot through her lower abdomen, and the primordial energy she had painstakingly gathered immediately dispersed again.

"What exactly is happening? Not only is this pain continuous, but it also comes in waves, with peaks of intensity?"

But as an innocent young maiden, no matter how hard she racked her brain, she couldn't possibly imagine that this was the unique sensation of pregnancy and childbirth.

"You won't tell me? Then I'll strip off your clothes and leave you outside for everyone in Bright Moon City to see," Zu An threatened.

Xue'er was both shocked and furious. "You wouldn't dare!"

Rage from Qiao Xueying: +999!