Chapter 062 – Not Out of the Woods Yet
Li Yuan spent two full days in Little Ink Village. On the third day, he finally pieced together what had happened in Silver Creek.
On the very day Li Yuan faced Zhao Zimu in their duel, the Blood Blade Sect launched a surprise attack on the main Wei Family estate.
The Wei family head himself was a seventh rank martial artist. Although he resisted fiercely, he was ultimately beheaded. Once the Wei Family understood what was happening, their counterattack proved vicious.
In a fit of desperation, they unleashed two seventh rank demonic beasts—a pair of flame blaze leopards they had kept captive, one male and one female.
Originally, the Wei Family had intended to breed and tame the demonic beasts, but now they’d thrown caution to the wind, setting them loose in a suicidal attack.
Meanwhile, Wei Family spies scattered throughout the three townships under the Blood Blade Sect’s control also sprang into action, sowing chaos.
But at last, the dust began to settle. The Blood Blade Sect lured the two demonic beasts outside the county and let them loose in the wilderness, while systematically rooting out each spy. Order was gradually restored to Silver Creek.
Having learned what happened, Li Yuan decided it was time to return. The most dangerous days had passed, and as a disciple of the Blood Blade Sect, he ought to show his face.
Together with Yan Yu, the proprietress, and her two bodyguards, Li Yuan said farewell to the Qian brothers at daybreak and rushed back to Silver Creek.
Armed with his longbow over his shoulder and a long blade in hand, Li Yuan led Yan Yu straight toward their old neighborhood of rickety shacks.
The mood there was grim. People wandered about, faces pale and downcast. Blackened ruins marked places where houses once stood, and on open ground, one could glimpse bodies lying under thin mats of straw—sad evidence of the many casualties.
Yan Yu clung anxiously to Li Yuan’s arm. “I hope Auntie Wang’s all right,” she murmured, trembling at the sight of so much destruction.