Zhang Tie remained at Xu Family Settlement for a full day.
Over the course of that day, his fifty-three level-nine disciples, led by Liu Xing, Zhao Bing, Wu Yinhui, and the others, swept through the area within fifty kilometers of Xu Family Settlement. Sure enough, they captured another six bloodmen alive.
When Liu Xing and the others brought those six living bloodmen back, all four of their limbs had been broken. Only their heads could still move. Adding these six to the two Zhang Tie had left behind in Xu Family Settlement, he suddenly had eight captives in his hands.
As reinforcements from Xingyu City arrived, the blaze at Xu Family Settlement was quickly extinguished, and the aftermath work at Blood Family Settlement also picked up pace.
Xu Family Settlement had originally held a population of 769. After that night of slaughter and fire, only eighty-three people remained alive, including those rescued from severe injuries. Everyone else had either died beneath the blade or been buried in the sea of flames. Worst of all, some of the children in Xu Family Settlement had become food in the bloodmen's bellies.
Xu Family Settlement had been completely reduced to ruins.
The officer who led the troops from Xingyu City was a deputy general surnamed Lu. After confirming what had happened at Xu Family Settlement, Deputy General Lu immediately sent word back to Xingyu City. In an instant, Xingyu City and the surrounding region were filled with the sound of wind and the cry of cranes.
Xu Family Settlement and Xingyu City lay in Upper Jaw Commandery of Bright Province. Upper Jaw Commandery bordered Dragon Creek Commandery of Central Province, but Xu Family Settlement and Xingyu City were over two thousand kilometers away from Flat Sand Valley in Dragon Creek Commandery.
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