Streaks of inner qi shot out in an instant. The people of the Ten Thousand Treasures Commerce had no time to react, let alone sound an alarm. Even after everyone downstairs had been cleared out, those upstairs remained completely unaware that anything was amiss.
In the spacious guest room upstairs, Granny Qian, the Chief Steward of Azure Cloud Commandery, and several trusted aides had only just settled their nerves and were still quietly discussing their future plans.
"With the Chief Manager taking us in, we'll simply carry on in a different place."
"Right. No matter how powerful Lin Fan and the Azure Elixir Sect are, they can't touch us now. We're finally safe."
"Thank goodness we ran quickly. If we'd fallen into the Azure Elixir Sect's hands, we would certainly have died..."
Before the words had even faded!
A flurry of faint yet hurried footsteps suddenly came from the end of the corridor!
They moved with incredible speed, as though they had rehearsed this countless times, bringing with them an icy, bone-piercing aura of slaughter!
Their expressions changed drastically, and they whipped their heads around.
Several expressionless warriors from Prince Gao's Manor, clad in fitted black outfits, had already rushed before them in an instant like black panthers!
They were right in front of them!
Granny Qian and her companions were merely ordinary martial artists in the muscle refinement realm and bone tempering realm, stewards and advisers whose cultivation had largely been piled up through sheer expenditure of martial resources. They had practically no actual combat experience.
Before the elite warriors of Prince Gao's Manor, they were lambs facing ravenous wolves, utterly incapable of fighting back.
There was no time for terror, no time to beg for mercy, not even time to utter a single question!
A bright force realm