Xiao Tian was speechless. How could this big sister Xiao Yu be so brainless, charging straight out like that? Still, he had to admire her courage.
"Hmph! So I've been discovered! Then I'll just have to finish you off first! What a shame to waste such a budding beauty!" The male intruder grinned viciously, greed in his eyes. His sword slid from its sheath with a flash of cold light.
Xiao Yu was inwardly alarmed. Dazzled by that flash of cold light, her vision instantly blurred, and she instinctively sensed danger.
But the danger never came. She only heard a wet squelch, and the sword in her hand shifted slightly. When Xiao Yu's vision recovered, she saw that her sword had actually pierced the intruder's chest. She saw his dim, unfocused eyes.
"Dead! He's dead?"
Xiao Yu was dumbfounded!
"Ahahaha! So weak, yet you dared invade our Xiao Clan? Hmph!" After a moment of bewilderment, Xiao Yu's confidence soared. She kicked the male intruder aside and gave chase in Jia Lie Lan's direction.
"Little Brother Xiao Tian, what are you doing here so late at night? Did you see anyone sneaking around earlier?"
Looking innocent, Xiao Tian blinked, pointed at the bloodstained sword in Xiao Yu's hand, and swallowed. "Do you count? Also, Sister Xiao Yu, did you go slaughter a chicken?"
Xiao Yu hurriedly hid the bloodstained sword behind her back and instructed Xiao Tian, "Come with me. There are intruders, and one still hasn't been found. We need to get the clan's experts to search."
"All right." Xiao Tian yawned. As if there's anyone left to find and kill. I finished off Jia Lie Lan ages ago.
Still, he had exposed his strength to Yao Lao. He wondered whether Yao Lao was awake at this point.
At that moment, Yao Lao, inside the ancient ring hanging around Xiao Tian's neck, was very surprised.
This little Xiao Tian is quite interesting. What frightening talent-to have reached the Dou Shi realm at such a young age. Though his fighting style is a bit like a street thug's, his strikes are truly underhanded. He has the makings of a powerhouse! I've decided! I must hold nothing back and teach him every last one of my supreme techniques!
Afterward, as Xiao Yu called the clan's adults, lights blazed in household after household throughout the Xiao Clan in the dark of night. They cast a net that covered heaven and earth, searching for those who had invaded the Xiao Clan estate under cover of darkness!
However, aside from the man Xiao Yu had "killed," the other intruder had mysteriously disappeared.
As for how she had disappeared, time rewound to the moment Xiao Tian pursued Jia Lie Lan!
Jia Lie Lan cautiously approached a covered well, looking around from a prone camper's position. Seeing no one, she inwardly breathed a sigh of relief and took a packet of potent crane's-crown red poison wrapped in oiled paper from inside her clothes.
"Xiao Clan, after today, you'll be holding one funeral after another! Our Jia Lie Family's funeral supply shop can make a tidy fortune."
"Hey, big sister, what are you doing?"
Suddenly, a warm breath against the back of her neck made Jia Lie Lan go rigid, horror rising within her.
Someone's here! No, wait!
That voice sounds very young!
Jia Lie Lan breathed a sigh of relief and turned to look. Seeing a handsome, sunny little boy with red lips and white teeth, she lowered her guard even further, and malice sprang into her eyes.
"Little boy, you have only yourself to blame for courting death. Big sister will send you on your way."
Xiao Tian blinked and smiled at Jia Lie Lan. His black, jewel-like eyes instantly transformed into the Sharingan. Jia Lie Lan's body grew even stiffer, her pupils going blank as she was dragged into an illusion.
Jia Lie Lan, an Eight-Star Dou Zhe, was killed in an instant. As for her corpse, Xiao Tian used the Transformation Technique to turn into a middle-aged guard, stuffed it into a burlap sack, and took advantage of the night to dump it into a river not far outside the Xiao Clan estate.