Chapter 67.1

At this time, the City Master, Yang Gaomin, also arrived with a team of high-level guards. It seemed casual, but in fact, he had already gained control over the people of the Hou family. He had heard the conversation of several people just now. The battle for the aristocratic family was initiated by him, and he couldn’t just sit back and watch if the situation turned out to be troublesome.@@novelbin@@

“Jinghuai and I saw with our own eyes that he even wanted to attack us,” Shang Ruifeng replied to his father, but suddenly saw Lu Jinghuai winking at him, leaving him momentarily confused.

Before Shang Ruifeng could comprehend, Lu Yuanfeng behind Lu Jinghuai exploded, “What? This guy actually wants to harm my son. Huai’er, tell me, where did he hurt you? How dare he touch you; I must seek justice for you.”

“Father, I’m fine,” Lu Jinghuai said helplessly.

When Shang Ruifeng saw Lu Yuanfeng so nervous, he recalled the rumors outside that the owner of Lu Qi Trading Store had a child, and he protected his only child tighter than his eyes. Then he understood what Lu Jinghuai meant just now and hurriedly said, “Uncle, don’t worry. At that time, someone happened to come to the rescue and captured Hou Kangyu.”

But Hou Yuanju was unconvinced, “You are becoming more and more audacious with your words. If what you say is true, who in the secret realm can be the opponent of my Hou family’s ancestor? Our ancestor has been practicing in seclusion all year round. How can we allow you two to slander us like this? Shang Zhishen, how do you intend to compensate for the reputation of our Hou family? Who captured this person? Do you have any other evidence?” After hearing Hou Yuanju’s argument, Yang Gaomin also felt that it made sense and turned to Shang and Lu families, asking if it could be just a misunderstanding.

“Back to City Master Yang, it’s…” Shang Ruifeng subconsciously searched around the crowd but couldn’t find Li Tianyan. He was a little confused, “It’s strange, why didn’t the two come out?”

It stood to reason that Li Tianyan was so strong. With such strength, even Hou Kangyu was no match. It was impossible for him to have an accident in the secret realm. Could it be that he encountered something that delayed him?

“It seems that there are a lot of people missing.” At this time, someone in the crowd said something, and the surrounding people immediately echoed one after another. No one came out from the secret realm for a while and there were obviously still a lot of people missing from the team.

“That’s right, our Jiang family has lost two people, and one of them is a ninth-level warrior.”

“My Chen family’s eighth-level warriors haven’t come out either.”

“The Yin family still has eighth-level and seventh-level warriors. They have not been seen.”

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Someone from the team of participants who had just came out of the secret realm said, “I remembered that on the third day after entering the secret realm, I saw a burnt corpse.”

“I’ve seen it too, I’ve seen more than one, and the death state is exactly the same.”

“Yes, yes, I saw it too.”

Only then did everyone realized that the matter was serious. The people who entered the battle this time numbered about two hundred and thirty, but now there were about forty fewer people, and most of them were powerful warriors carefully cultivated by their families.

Cheng  Feiyue noticed that neither Li Tianyan nor Cheng Qi showed up and thought they had also been killed. He walked to Li Tianzhou and sighed softly, “I thought that with Li Tianyan here this time, at least the Li family in our Jincheng would be able to secure a quota. It’s really a pity now.”

Li Tianzhou glanced sideways at him. He couldn’t tell whether Cheng Feiyue was gloating about his misfortune or expressing pity, but he was sure that Li Tianyan would not die in the secret realm like this.

Shang Ruifeng saw the opportunity and took out the three corpses collected in the storage bag, “City Master Yang, these are the charred corpses we saw in the secret realm. It’s hard to tell to whom the two belong, but there is still one corpse that was not destroyed in time to eliminate traces by the murderer. It can be seen that he died after being drained of his life span.”

Yang Gaomin already had an ominous premonition when he saw the three corpses covered by robes on the ground. He squatted down and looked at them one by one. When the last corpse was uncovered, their pupils could not help but shrink. “This…”

Shang Zhishen and Lu Yuanfeng also went over to take a look, and they were both shocked and speechless. There was actually someone who dared to stand in front of so many aristocratic families and did hideous thing. How could this kind of thing happen right under their noses?

“Okay, don’t tell me you want to slander others with some corpses to fool us.” The evidence was in front of him, but Hou Yuanju still spoke harshly.

“This body has been dead for no more than fifteen days,” Shang Zhishen said to Yang Gaomin next to him after inspecting the body.

Seeing that he could no longer hide it, Hou Yuanju looked fierce and reached out to grab Lu Jinghuai, who was closest to him. Suddenly, he faced the pressure of a fifth-level innate warrior. Lu Jinghuai was a little unable to react in time. Shang Ruifeng noticed Hou Yuanju’s movements and pulled Lu Jinghuai back violently.

Others also reacted and took action to stop Hou Yuanju. Lu Yuanfeng even fought angrily with Hou Yuanju. “Old thief Hou, you are going too far. Do you really think that the Lu family is a soft persimmon?”

Hou Yuanju lost his temper. Seizing the opportunity, he was suppressed by Lu Yuanfeng, a seventh-level innate warrior. The elders of the Shang family and the guards of the city master also captured all the Hou family members. Only then did the matter finally come to an end.

Seeing that a promising battle turned out like this, Yang Gaomin was not expecting it. In the end, he could only handle the matter in batches. While having people counted the results of the battle, he sent others into the secret realm to find all the corpses inside and discussed with the many family heads present how to deal with the Hou family’s affairs.

Hearing that the Hou family might be colluding with the cultivator of Zhenlan Peak, it sparked the anger of many families, and they all geared up to attack.

On the contrary, the outcome of the battle was not that important anymore. There would be no shortage of benefits for the family after this scandal, after all, the Hou family had two fine veins of minerals in their possession.