Ethan Yates spread out his palm; the broken silver and teeth were mixed with blood, making it impossible for Ethan Yates to tell which were teeth and which were pieces of silver.

"Morgan Yates, you're asking for a beating!" Ethan Yates shouted angrily, flinging what was in his hand to the ground, and his hands darted toward Morgan Yates like agile snakes.

Serpent Hands!

A low-grade spiritual martial art of the Ye family, suitable for Body Refinement and Qi Creation stage practitioners. The hands transform into spirit snakes; those who master it can use their hands to strangle their opponents.

However, Ethan Yates's somewhat unstable stance clearly showed he had only achieved minor mastery.

Although Morgan Yates hadn't opened a single meridian in five years, his martial skills hadn't deteriorated. Watching the Serpent Hands attack coming at him, Morgan Yates leaned back, dodging Ethan Yates's strike.

Ethan Yates was startled, but sneered, his hands wrapping around Morgan Yates's arms like vines.

But Morgan Yates had deliberately held back; Ethan Yates's hands only had the strength of one stone, while Morgan Yates, having absorbed a strand of dragon force, possessed the strength of two stones. How could Ethan Yates possibly restrain him?

Morgan Yates's right arm gave a slight tremor, causing Ethan Yates's left arm to go numb, and the left hand wrapped around Morgan Yates's arm loosened a bit.

Before Ethan Yates could react in surprise, Morgan Yates's right hand switched from defense to offense. With Serpent Hands mastered to perfection, he wrapped directly around Ethan Yates's left arm. With a burst of strength—two stones' worth—a cracking sound of bone breaking rang out.

Ethan Yates immediately screamed in pain, his right hand instinctively letting go. Morgan Yates grabbed Ethan Yates's arm, flinging Ethan Yates away like trash.

"Bang!"

Ethan Yates fell to the ground, scrambled up at once, clutching his left arm, pain mixed with astonishment. Wasn't this Morgan Yates supposed to be a useless waste? How could his right arm have such strength?

"If you come to the alchemy room to steal again, I'll beat you every time I see you."

After saying this, Morgan Yates ignored Ethan Yates. Crippling one of his hands was a lesson. In the Ye family, such minor scuffles between disciples happened often; as long as no one died, the elders would turn a blind eye.

"Morgan Yates, you useless trash, I'm going to kill you." Ethan Yates was furious. This waste had opened a meridian and was acting so arrogant. Ethan Yates charged at Morgan Yates, his right fist swinging hard at him.

"Trash? If I hadn't gone five years without training, you lot would be nothing but clowns before me!"

Sensing the shout behind him, Morgan Yates sneered inwardly, sidestepped, and countered with a punch, directly meeting Ethan Yates's fist. The two fists collided with a dull thud.

A surge of force rushed into Ethan Yates's right arm, making Ethan Yates howl in pain and stagger back repeatedly.

"You really just can't help yourself, can you? Today, I'll make you crawl home." Morgan Yates charged forward, throwing a punch straight at Ethan Yates's face.

"Bang!"

With one punch, Ethan Yates rolled several times on the ground, his nose knocked crooked. Feeling the aura radiating from Morgan Yates, Ethan Yates was suddenly overcome by fear.

He had never expected that Morgan Yates, who hadn't opened a single meridian in five years, would suddenly turn the tables.

"Morgan Yates, you useless trash, I'll make you pay sooner or later." Ethan Yates threatened, then fled in panic.

Morgan Yates didn't chase after Ethan Yates. After teaching him a lesson today, Ethan Yates should restrain himself for a while.

Then, Morgan Yates was startled, suddenly realizing that his last punch seemed to lack the strength of two stones. Sure enough, Morgan Yates discovered that the strand of dragon force his right hand's meridian had absorbed had already disappeared.

"Are you kidding me?!"

Morgan Yates calculated: from the moment he absorbed that black dragon force, at most a minute had passed. In other words, after one minute, his right hand's attack power would return to normal. One minute—not long, not short—but definitely a pain.

Now that Morgan Yates had opened one meridian, he still had two strands of dragon force left. After using one, he could use the second. If Morgan Yates opened another meridian, the dragon force wouldn't be enough.

Currently, Morgan Yates's strength was barely enough to fight Body Refinement stage martial artists, but he was no match for those at the first level of Qi Creation.

"Wait, the Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar is automatically absorbing the energy of heaven and earth!"

Just as Morgan Yates finished using that strand of dragon force, the black dragon awakened by the Trapped Dragon Ascending Pillar actually began to automatically absorb energy, and it did so directly from the air, without needing to circulate through the dantian. When the dragon had absorbed enough, another strand of black dragon force shot out, and now two strands of dragon force coiled in the air.

"Haha, it can actually absorb energy automatically! That means I don't have to worry about running out of dragon force. As long as I keep spare dragon force in my dantian, I can replenish it in battle at any time."

At present, with the help of the Essence Cultivation Pill, Morgan Yates could awaken two strands of dragon force. Normally, he could use one, keeping the other in reserve. When one was depleted, the reserve would take its place, and another strand could be automatically refined.

Even more crucially, the power of this dragon force was very strong and could be stacked. When facing a powerful enemy, both could be used together.