Chapter 1517: Chapter 1511: The Survivors (Part 1)

After that, more than a dozen cars drove out from the Lin family and headed straight for the Xu family.

When they arrived at the Xu family’s gate, they found that there wasn’t a single person at the entrance.

Still, all of them got out of the cars.

The Xu family’s estate was in a rather remote location.

Otherwise, seeing such a huge convoy, and all of them old men, it would probably attract a lot of attention.

People would think it was some kind of seniors’ tour group?

The group walked straight in.

They discovered that in the vast Xu family compound, there actually wasn’t a single person.

They immediately had a bad feeling.

Was it really like the intel said, that everyone in the Xu family was dead?

Right away, they headed first toward the Xu family’s ancestral shrine.

They found the ancestral hall in complete disarray, everything shattered everywhere.

As if a great battle had taken place here.

People!

Still not a single person.

Then there was only one place left: the Secret Realm entrance.

The ancestral shrine and the Secret Realm entrance could be said to be the most important places for the four great families.

If that place had also been taken down in an attack—

Then, most likely...

The entire Xu family really had been wiped out.

Wiped out?

For the other three families, that was enormous pressure.

Another kind of "when the rabbit dies, the fox grieves" feeling.

After all, for so many years, the four great families had always been there.

Who would have thought that in this supposedly peaceful era, one of them would actually be exterminated.

If you said this out loud, it would sound almost ridiculous.

You have to know, even back when the Eight-Nation Alliance marched into the capital, the four great families didn’t suffer much.

The Secret Realm entrance here wasn’t much different from the one at the Lin family.

It was also guarded by layer upon layer of Arrays.

As soon as the group arrived here, they discovered that the Array was active.

The Array hasn’t been broken?

Logically, if it had been breached, the Array shouldn’t still be intact.

Maybe...

There were still Xu family members alive.

Only, if they were inside the Array, why weren’t they coming out?

There was literally no one out here.

Suddenly!

One of the Innate Powerhouses frowned and said, "Something’s wrong!"

As soon as those words came out, everyone present tensed up.

They glanced all around, afraid that a crowd of enemies would suddenly appear and ambush them.

"What’s wrong?" someone asked.

That Innate Powerhouse stared closely at the Array and said again, "This isn’t a Defense Array!"

"It’s a trapping Array!"

Everyone present understood exactly what he meant.

After all, they were at least Peak Soldier King level experts, and had lived for decades.

Their life experience was frighteningly rich.

"So you’re saying the Secret Realm entrance has been trapped in an Array by someone!" someone said.

The man who had spoken earlier nodded.

At that moment, they all thought of one possibility.

That the Xu family’s old ancestors, seeing they couldn’t win, had led their people to escape into the entrance.

Those outside found it difficult to break in quickly.

And they were worried it would draw the attention of the other three families or of the Dragon King.

So they had someone set up several large Arrays outside to encircle this place.

Which left the people inside unable to get out.

Or rather, they didn’t dare to come out at all.

In that situation, forget about attacking the Array from within.

Otherwise, wouldn’t the people outside just be waiting for them to walk to their deaths?

"Break it!" one of the old Innate mid-stage experts said.

Immediately, several Innates stepped out from the group and attacked the Array at the same time.

This Array seemed to exist purely to cut off the people inside from sensing what was happening outside.

Its defensive power was actually extremely low.

Or rather, its defense was weak against attacks from outside.

If attacked from within, though, its defense was strong.

That did fit some of the principles of a trapping Array.

But regardless—

This wasn’t the time to be studying Arrays.

Before long, the Array was broken.

After all, there were simply too many people attacking it.

And it wasn’t a particularly powerful Array to begin with.

Only, once they broke this trapping Array, they ran straight into the Xu family’s Defense Array.

This Array’s defensive power was extremely strong.

Even seven or eight people attacking it at once couldn’t shake it much.

Of course, they were only testing it.

They weren’t going all out.

They just wanted to let the people inside know they had arrived.

If the ones inside were Xu family members, they would definitely open the Array.

If not, then they definitely wouldn’t.

Or if there was no one inside, naturally no one would take the initiative to open it.

Wait a bit first!

Wait one minute!

If no one opened the Array by then—

They would have to force it open.

They hadn’t even waited ten seconds.

The Defense Array suddenly vanished.

A foul stench wafted out from within!

That was—?

Corpses and some filth...

Anyway, it was extremely disgusting!

But the twenty-odd people present didn’t show a single change of expression on their faces.

In the next moment, they saw three gaunt, shriveled old men walk out from inside.

Their bodies were all severely damaged.

You could clearly see scars everywhere that had already scabbed over.

One of them even had an arm missing.

No need to ask; they had definitely gone through a brutal battle.

At the same time, they could also sense that there were still over forty people inside.

Men and women, old and young.

Some strong, some weak.

The strongest were only Peak Soldier King level, the weakest mere ordinary people.

Judging by the look of them, they were all Xu family members.

Except...

The Xu family was one of the absolute top families in all of Huaxia.

They definitely had several hundred people.

In their old estate in the capital alone, there should have been at least one to two hundred people.

Out of so many, now less than a quarter remained.

You could only call it tragic.

And right before them stood only three Innates, one Innate mid-stage and two at the Early Innate Stage.

From what they knew, the Xu family had seven Innate Powerhouses.

Utterly miserable.

"Didn’t expect it’d be you lot?" The Innate mid-stage old man showed a bitter smile.

And he also let out a deep sigh of relief.

He had thought the ones coming would be their disciples from various branches.

He hadn’t expected it to be people from the other three families.

Which meant the Secret Realm’s opening had already happened.

The three families had probably taken heavy losses too.

That sigh of relief, of course, was about safety.

They no longer had to constantly fear that they would all be wiped out.

"What exactly happened?" someone asked.

But the Xu family’s Innate mid-stage expert didn’t answer immediately. Instead he said, "Later."

"We’ll talk later."

"Right now, we have more important things to do."

Hearing this, the others had no objections.

Because they could also feel that among the forty-plus people in the wooden building, many had extremely weak auras.

That was not just injuries!

Many of them were starving.

You have to know, they’d been trapped in there for a full sixteen days.

In sixteen days, the water and food inside had long since been exhausted.

And that was with the King of Soldiers and those above that level barely consuming anything.

Otherwise, the ones below King of Soldiers level would definitely have died in droves.

About half an hour later, in one of the Xu family’s halls, the group sat down there.

The place was heavily damaged as well.

Not only had there been a fierce fight here, afterwards that bunch had clearly searched it thoroughly.

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