Chapter 48

While Le Xaan's eyes still gave a hint of his fierceness, he could not help but fall to his knees with a loud thud.

A mouthful of dark blood was ejected from his mouth.

With shaking hands, he picked up the shattered blade and then supported himself by jamming it into the ground.

He activated both Jade Crane Skill and Dark Shadow into their speedy modes in an attempt to heal his injuries.

Due to the palm strike that Le Xaan had sustained, his meridians were now largely broken. And his muscles were also overly strained due to his continuous full-strength blows.

With the two injuries, he couldn't even muster the strength to stand up when he relaxed.

After a long while, those guards and servants plucked the courage to approach Le Xaan from far away.

By then, Le Finn and other people also arrived here.

Upon seeing the messy scene, all of them were taken aback.

At the moment, Le Xaan was still half-keeling on the floor, the corners of his lips tainted with blood and a pool of dark-red blood at his feet.

At the sight of this, Le Finn hurriedly hurried over to Le Xaan and helped him up.

"Xaan! Are you alright?" Le Finn displayed his panic on his face and then looked over his shoulder at the group of people behind him. He shouted, "Hurry and call the doctor over! Why are you still standing around? Come and help!"

Only by then did the other people jolted back to their senses and rushed to help Le Xaan stand up.

Le Pyan surveyed the surroundings, seeing the shattered blade, the corpse, and the breached wall.

Then, he looked at Le Xaan, who had a menacing aura about him and was gulping in air violently. To tell the truth, Le Pyan was now a little frightened.

How could such a frightful scene have been caused by his eighteen-year-old nephew? He was more inclined to believe that a wild beast had rampaged through the place.

Le Pyan had once witnessed a wild bear trespass a compound, leaving behind a scene no more terrifying than the one currently before him.

"Nobody is allowed to leak out the event that happened here! Otherwise..." Le Pyan swept his cold gaze across the surrounding people.

"Clean this place and repair the wall. Don't leave behind any trace."

The guards and servants were greatly intimidated by his icy glance. Furthermore, the corpses before them also sent a shiver up their spines.

The group of people helped Le Xaan back to his bedroom, and the doctor soon arrived and checked his body thoroughly.

Before long, the doctor finished it.

"Nothing serious. He just suffers from exhaustion and a heavy blow at his abdomen. Young Master Xaan is strongly built. His vital organs are unharmed. I believe that he will soon be fully recovered."

Le Finn then heaved a breath of relief.

This time, Le Xaan was somewhat reckless by fighting such a fierce battle himself.

He was Le Finn's eldest son, the Le family's future head. Le Finn hated to consider what might have happened if something irreversible had happened to Le Xaan.

"Finn, this is something we can't help."

Le Pyan said with a sigh.

"I will report the events here directly to the royal court, bypassing Soan Danqy(the City Head). Soan Danqi had talked several times about reporting these abnormalities, yet the situation has remained messy till now... As the Deputy Commander, I had asked Commander several times to report these matters to the court, yet he brushed me aside."

"Could there be some inside information that we do not know?" Le Finn queried in a deep voice.

"I am not clear on that... By the way, Cinci hasn't returned yet until now, and those went missing are still undiscovered." Le Pyan shook his head.

The two of them stood outside the door, feeling inclined to do something yet having no idea what they could do.

These recent issues were something that they had never experienced before.

Although he had heard of such weird occurrences from other people before, they still lacked sound solutions when it happened to their own family.

"How about..." Le Finn pondered for moments before proposing, "How about posting a bounty notice to enlist people capable of solving these issues?

A handsome sum of bounty will definitely attract some competent experts. Such an approach might work; who knows?"

Le Pyan nodded in agreement.

The two of them negotiated for a while and then decided to carry it out.

Soon afterward, the Le family's servants took stacks of red papers and headed to all the public notice boards throughout the city to plaster them.

These notices drew many passers-by's attention.