Chapter 106 - The Blood Blade Patriarch - Part 3
By dusk, a red glow stained the horizon.
Blood Scissors returned in a hurry to the place where his followers were gathered. Visibly shaken, he shouted, “Tell the Fragrant General, do not move yet! I repeat, stand down for now!”
“W-what happened, Boss?”
“The Blood Blade Sect has a patriarch, a living ancestor of sorts! Sun Jiangang, Sun Shufeng, Wei Yang, plus another Sun Family elder...all killed in an instant.
“Instantly, do you hear me? No chance to fight back!
“Hurry and tell the Fragrant General we can’t attack Gemhill now! Absolutely not!”
Blood Scissors’s voice grew hoarse with panic, and a chill swept over the gathered thugs.
˙·٠✧🐗➶➴🏹✧٠·˙
In the cramped cellar beneath Residence No. 38, Li Yuan sat quietly with Yan Yu and Xue Ning on either side.
The stale air stifled everyone; they had only cold steamed buns to eat, anxiously waiting for news.
“Dearest,” Xue Ning murmured, voice trembling. “I asked around among the merchants. They have nowhere else to go.
“They say just getting to this out-of-the-way county was already the safest option. Where else could they flee? The south is a demonic beast playground. The east means sailing across open seas in search of some remote island—but there are pirates, sea beasts, and who knows what else. Even if luck brought them to some isolated isle, there’s no guarantee it’d be safe.