Purple Tenuity Eternal Realm of the Ninth Realm: Divine Birds Alight on the Parasol Tree!

"Murder... murder!"

The guard's scream had barely torn through the night when two black shadows swept into the courtyard like phantoms.

The collapsed wall, blood gleaming in the moonlight, made Xie Renfeng's twisted body look all the more horrifying—his arms were broken at unnatural angles, blood seeping from all seven orifices.

One of them blocked your path while the other hurried to Xie Renfeng's side and pressed a palm against his neck.

"His meridians are severed, but he still has a breath left!"

"I'll take him away first."

Having said that, he hoisted Xie Renfeng onto his back and leaped away by stepping across the beast-head ornaments at the eaves. His afterimage flashed past and vanished.

The household guards Xie Renfeng had brought retreated in terror. No one knew who threw down their club first, but dozens of men immediately scattered like birds and beasts.

Only the man before you remained: a short, thin old soldier dressed in black.

He sized you up, surprise on his face. At such an age, you had already reached the Martial Middle Three Realms, and your aura was astonishingly deep.

The small old soldier slowly said, "Young Master Guan, where did your martial cultivation come from? Without the permission of the matriarch and the master, no one in the lineage may cultivate martial arts!"

"For a descendant of the lineage to secretly practice martial arts—they must suffer the punishment of having their knees gouged out!"

"Young Master Guan, do you understand?"

You slowly dispersed a breath of Innate Qi, and the boiling blood qi around your body calmed like a receding tide. You looked toward the old soldier before you—those two black shadows had come from the direction of the Grand View Garden in the blink of an eye.

The old man's back was