The moon hung high overhead, and silence blanketed the surroundings.
Wenren Luoshui woke from her sleep to rustling sounds outside.
Since there were not enough superior rooms for all five of them to have one each, the three young women had chosen to share a room.
Wenren Luoshui shook Yunjian awake from her sound sleep. Still groggy, Yunjian was about to ask what was wrong when Wenren Luoshui and Tu Hua each clapped a hand over her mouth.
They took out a Teleportation Talisman and silently recited the incantation.
In an instant, the three women vanished from the room.
Standing in a concealed spot in the corridor, they saw several of Ruan Xi's children splashing something onto the door of their room.
Tu Hua sniffed the scent drifting through the air and confirmed that they were splashing tung oil.
[Yunjian: They aren't trying to burn us to death, are they?]
[Wenren Luoshui: Obviously, that's exactly what they're doing.]
The eldest child took a fire striker from inside his clothes and blew on it, making its ember burn brighter.
The other five children all wore devilish smiles.
He poked a hole through the window paper and tossed the fire striker inside. In the blink of an eye, a raging blaze erupted.
[Yunjian: Aren't they afraid of burning the other guests too?]
Yunjian could not understand why they had to drag everyone else in the inn into their revenge against Wenren Luoshui.
[Wenren Luoshui: Perhaps, to them, dragging other people into it doesn't matter as long as they get revenge on me.]
That might be true, but there were still plenty of guests staying at the inn.
Once the six little devils left, the three women rushed to wake everyone else. Before the fire could spread throughout the inn, all the guests