Aunt Wang was preparing breakfast, smoke curling up from the chimney, with freshly steamed buns in the steamer.

The three children, Niannian, Xiaosheng, and Niuniu, were early risers practicing cultivation, but now they were curiously looking at the sky.

They saw fireworks bursting in the city first, and then it seemed to also explode outside the city and in the distance.

In front of the dressing table, the boss lady's silk pouch was still on, her shoulders and calves exposed with fair skin, wrapped in a silk robe that still carried a woman's fragrance, as she tied her sash unhurriedly.

But Lady Yan got up early and went outside to help prepare breakfast with nimble hands and feet.

Yet Lady Yan returned not long after, exclaiming, "Husband, there are fireworks outside; is there a celebration in the city today? I've never seen this before... Husband?"

"Husband?"

The boss lady glanced sideways, only to see Li Yuan lowering his head, dressing quickly.

She was about to speak, but noticed her husband's face was ashen, looking extremely grim.

Li Yuan also heard the fireworks, and instinctively borrowed the ant's vision.

Yesterday, one ant was at Blood Fury Hall, and there were two others.

One was flung off midway, and the other successfully followed Elder Liu to her study.

He glanced at Blood Fury Hall; it was quiet and still.

Then he looked at Elder Liu's study and saw two corpses lying in a pool of blood—wasn't one of them Elder Liu?!!

He couldn't possibly monitor the ant's vision for the full twelve hours without a break, so he didn't know what happened earlier, but at this moment... he felt a chill run down his spine, sensing intense danger.

Elder Liu died in the Inner City, and fireworks were set off in the Inner City.

Elder Liu was Seventh Grade, but she died, and she died in the Inner City!!

Thinking back to last night's events, Li Yuan felt two intertwined emotions surface in his heart: fear and frenzy...

"Husband? What's wrong with you?"

Lady Yan and the boss lady looked at him with concern.

Li Yuan quickly snapped back, murmuring, "Cellar."

Then he said loudly, "Sister Xue, get dressed quickly, and go to the cellar once you're ready!"

"Sister Yan, go directly to the cellar! Don't ask anything!"

After saying that, he grabbed the Horse-Cutting Blade, slung the Beast Horn Bow on his back, grabbed a bag of arrows, placed it beside him, and rushed into the yard, shouting, "Aunt Wang! Xiaomei, Xiaolan, and Xiaojie, quickly move the quilts, take water, take salted meat into the cellar!!

Xiaozhu, take the three kids to the cellar!!"

"Sir, what's happening?"

"Young Master Li? This..."

"Uncle?"

The maidservants and children were all bewildered, not knowing what was happening.

Li Yuan didn't explain, but sternly said, "If you want to live, hurry up! Don't speak once you're in the cellar!"

In an instant, everyone realized the gravity of the situation, and without speaking, everyone quickly sprang into action.

Before long, the two ladies, five maidservants, and three children were huddled into the cellar, while Li Yuan fetched some ants from the yard.

He hesitated, wanting to warn Senior Sister Zhao at her house, but her place was a distance from his, and turning back and forth might lead to trouble.

But thinking again, he was now Shanbao County's hidden combat power pinnacle.

The invaders wanted to first lure Sect Leader Tie away, clearly because Sect Leader Tie would pose a threat to them.

Sect Leader Tie would pose a threat to them.

Then...

In Li Yuan's mind, thoughts raced like lightning, analyzing swiftly, suddenly... he was no longer afraid.

"Then go and see, if I hide in the cellar again and use ants to probe, it's too passive.

Ants move slowly, coupled with the current rain, water flowing on the ground is like great rivers to ants, who knows how long it would take just to crawl out from my house."

"First go out and take a look, at least I still have Tracking Skill, Tracking Technique, and... seeing others' combat power.

My reconnaissance and anti-reconnaissance skills should still be decent."

Li Yuan instantly made up his mind.

He quickly established a "Divine Soul Connection" with the dozen or so ants in his hand, then scattered them around the cellar of his house to observe the situation at home at any time.

Having finished these, he didn't use an umbrella, charging madly yet silently into the rain, like an enraged leopard leaping over the stone wall.

He then began directly using the Perfection Level of the Tracking Technique, starting to search for the scent of blood.

The world seemed to quiet down, waves of blood scent grew thicker, coming from the direction of the Inner City gate, and soon Li Yuan heard the sounds of fighting, shouting, coming closer and closer.

"The city gate... has fallen..."

Li Yuan's voice carried some bitterness.

He swiftly changed course toward the Demon Breeding Pavilion.

As he went there, he immediately smelled the scent of blood from the direction of the Demon Breeding Pavilion.

"The disciples of the Demon Breeding Pavilion... likely dead too..."

"This was a premeditated siege."

"The enemy first lured Sect Leader Tie away, then assassinated Elder Liu and Elder Tian, such that once the city gate was breached, they could capture the Inner City in one move... by the time Sect Leader Tie and the others come back, there would be no home to return to, leaving them entirely passive."

"Therefore... there must be a traitor."

Li Yuan quickly shrank into a shadow, using the ant's vision to glance at his home.

Nothing happened!

He continued towards the Demon Breeding Pavilion.

As he reached the entrance, he hid himself, spotting two Mantle Guests standing by the pavilion, one with "60~65" above his head, and the other "64~70," both clearly Eighth Grade.

While the Tower Guard Disciple lay in a pool of blood, blood trickling from his neck.

Li Yuan exhaled, planning to advance, only to stop abruptly.

He thought for a moment, using the Divine Soul Connection to directly contact the Demon Beasts of the Demon Breeding Pavilion.

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