"Don't panic. First, tell me what happened." Li Chen stood up and unhurriedly wrapped his sleeping robe tighter around himself, an indescribable calm lending weight to his childish voice.
The guard froze for a moment, then answered instinctively, "Enemies took advantage of the old master's absence to come seeking revenge!"
The old master he spoke of was Li Chen's grandfather in this life, the only expert in Ming City to have reached the late stage of the Innate realm.
The patriarchs and guardian experts of the other aristocratic clans were only at the early or middle stages of the Innate realm, a considerable distance below him.
Recently, the Li Household's old master had taken Li Chen's father, one of the Li Family's Three Heroes, out of town to attend an old friend's sixtieth birthday celebration. Hearing the news, the Li Household's enemies had stirred and actually attacked their gates.
At this, Li Chen immediately said, "What are you panicking for? They won't get in."
Hearing the commotion, Li Chen's maid Xiangling hurried over from next door, almost in tears. "Young master, how can you not be worried at all? Hurry over to your mother!"
Li Chen sneered. "Nonsense. Staying here is safest."
For his own convenience, Li Chen had moved into this separate courtyard at a very young age.
The Li Residence was so large that even if the intruders were allowed to search freely, they might not find this place anytime soon, much less inflict any collateral injuries here. Even if intruders did break in, the household retainers were hardly wooden dummies. They were loyal servants capable of fighting to the death.
Blundering about in the pitch-black night would only be more dangerous.
Perhaps influenced by Li Chen's composure, the two guards stayed outside his door and no longer