After Su Que skimd over the heads of a group of guards, he darted across the rooftop.
Heading straight towards the depths of the Xin family mansion.
The residence of the patriarch is usually easy to recognize.
The most luxuriously decorated, or the most spacious and secluded courtyard, is often where the patriarch resides.
Since it was late at night, the vast Xin family mansion was illuminated by only a few lanterns, swaying in the wind.
The guards patrolling the mansion were listlessly walking back and forth.
As Su Que slipped past them, they only felt a gust of wind but couldn’t see Su Que’s shadow at all.
Su Que dashed across the roofs, gazing into the distance.
After a while, he saw a serene courtyard built halfway up the mountain.
This courtyard was very different from the others, not only luxuriously decorated but also with a layout subtly reflecting the principles of heaven and earth.
Although Su Que had not learned profound sect techniques, at this mont he had reached the peak of the Divine Realm, breaking the barrier between his physical body and the heavens.
Therefore, when he saw the layout subtly reflecting the principles of heaven and earth, he felt a strange sensation in his heart.
Besides, he also sensed that the heaven and earth spiritual qi gathered in that courtyard was more abundant than in other places.
Su Que’s toes tapped lightly on the rooftop.
His body, extrely nimble, traced one arc after another between the rooftops.
In just a mont, he was within that courtyard.
...
The head of the Xin family, Xin Sha, had just celebrated his seventy-third birthday three months ago.
Unlike other seventy-three-year-olds, his appearance showed no signs of aging.
His hair and beard were still entirely black, with no wrinkles anywhere except around the eyes.
Anyone unfamiliar with him, just looking at his appearance, would think he was no more than forty-five years old.
He maintained such an appearance at such an advanced age.
Not only through martial arts, but also thanks to the exotic beast kept by the Xin family, the "Celestial Bird," and nurous luxurious elixirs.
The "Celestial Bird" was bred in the Imperial Palace, a crossbreed between a phoenix and other exotic beasts.
The phoenix blood is second only to the Black Tortoise in the Four Great Auspicious Beasts for life extension.
But for preserving youth, the phoenix blood ranks first among the Four Great Auspicious Beasts.
Not only did Xin Sha look young, but he also appeared quite handso and dashing.
His mustache and beard were ticulously grood.
This made him look like an extraordinarily charming middle-aged man.
At this mont, he was sleeping on a vast bed that could accommodate ten people.
Entangled with him were so flower-like beauties.
Among these beauties, so were his wives, while others were his concubines.
As a Divine Realm Martial Artist, his body was robust.
Every night it was like this, yet he remained energetic.
Next to his large bed was an ancient wood sword rack.
On the rack was a treasure sword made of special tal, nad "Heaven-Piercing."
The Heaven-Piercing Sword was sheathed in a scabbard made of special tal.
To prevent the murderous aura from the blade from harming those delicate beauties.
While Xin Sha was in deep sleep, suddenly his eyes opened wide.
His martial arts cultivation was at the level of Divine Intent One God, making him exceptionally perceptive.
He awoke abruptly, his heart pounding, an unsettling and irritable feeling welling up from his core.
’What is going on?’
Xin Sha disentangled himself from the group of beauties.
Hearing the commotion, the beauties faintly awoke, murmuring softly.
Getting out of bed, Xin Sha donned his clothes and took the sword from the wooden rack, holding it in his hand.
All drowsiness vanished, his eyes shining with vigilance.
Since reaching the Divine Realm, he had never encountered danger.
Therefore, he had never experienced the sensation of impending danger.
However, the Xin family has lasted for hundreds of years, amassing so cultivation books.
Reading them, he learned that this uneasy and irritable feeling was a martial artist’s instinctive response to impending danger after reaching the Divine Realm.
The deeper the cultivation in the Divine Realm, the stronger the sense of danger becos.
’Could it be that soone is attacking our Xin family?’
Recently, the destruction of the two major noble families, the Wu family and the Murong family, has left other noble families besides the Xiao, Lin, and Ou families on edge.
These families, though above the common people of Liang Kingdom, fear annihilation by other families.
’Better to alert first!’
Though not knowing where the enemy was, Xin Sha filled his dantian with qi, preparing to let out a long howl.
His inner strength was profound, and soon a long howl echoed from within the house, resonating throughout the entire mansion.
The won on the bed sat up one by one.
Xin Sha, with his left hand holding the Heaven-Piercing Sword’s scabbard and right hand on the hilt, gently pushed open the door and stepped outside.
After leaving the room, he still saw nothing.
The outside was pitch black, with only a few lanterns swaying with the wind.
Yet the sense of unease and irritability in his heart was growing stronger.
At that mont, because of his long howl, the windows of the Xin family’s houses began to light up one after another.
Xin Sha walked outside into the courtyard.
His right hand still rested on the hilt.
The sensation in his heart intensified once more, yet he saw no sign of anyone.
Suddenly, he felt a gust of wind.
Imdiately, he turned slightly to look in the direction from which the wind ca.
Only to see a shadowy figure, moving at great speed, passing through a moon gate, heading towards him.
The newcor was Su Que.
The mask he wore was exceptionally fierce, looking like a death-dealing demon in Xin Sha’s eyes.
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