The leader of the men in black didn’t notice this. He ran out of the courtyard quickly.
The tactical deployment barrier in the yard made it impossible for him to fly even with his General Realm cultivation. He could only run with his legs.
Divine-winged Fox was not well but full of coldness and killing intent.
There was only one thought in his mind.
No matter what it took, he would never allow this person to escape.
Otherwise, his daughter would be in real danger.
Despite his internal injuries, he activated the Cultivation Method that he had not finished practicing and was to attack again.
His claws shone brightly again!
When his preparation was in halfway, his natural qi counterattacked and he lost control in an instant. His body swayed, and a gush of three-colored qi flashed across his face. Then, his qi completely disappeared, and he spat out another mouthful of blood.
However, the leader of the men in black was about to run out of the courtyard.
Divine-winged Fox made a decision with a firm look in his eyes, a decision that would cause an irreparable consequence.
Just then, all of a sudden.
Swoosh!
A saber suddenly shone brightly in the darkness without any signs.
“Ahh…”
The leader of the men in black suddenly screamed.
He found that while he was still rushing forward, suddenly his upper body split from his waist and fell to the ground, as his lower body was still running.
He was cut into two pieces.
The saber move was so fast that he ran forward five or six steps after being cut…
In the end, death drowned him.
At the last moment of his life, he saw a faceless person appear in the place where the saber shone and then disappeared.
Divine-winged Fox shifted his gaze elsewhere, and he did not choose to continue to activate the power within his body. Instead, he turned to look outside warily.
Li Mu came out from a dark corner.
“It’s you?”
Divine-winged Fox was quite surprised to see Li Mu.
He realized that this faceless man was the one who accompanied his daughter to meet him in the daytime.
Li Mu cupped his hands and said, “Since you are so powerful and already in the King Realm, why do you have to stay here and refuse to recognize your own daughter?”
At this time, even if Li Mu was a fool, he could tell that the little fox girl, Bi Yan, was definitely the daughter of Divine-winged Fox. Otherwise, Divine-winged Fox would not have taken the risk to kill the four black-robed men in the General Realm tonight to keep their mouths shut.
Furthermore, he could tell Divine-winged Fox was not well.
He seemed to have paid a certain price to have such great strength.
Especially at the last moment of the fight, he was so exhausted that he could not make a move to stop the leader of the men in black.
Fortunately, during the fight between Divine-winged Fox and the man, Li Mu had already figured out the weakness of the man with his Eye of Flaws. The man’s weak part was exactly between his waist and abdomen.
So he suddenly struck out and killed him with one blow.
Of course, he succeeded also because the man had been scared out of his wits by the outburst of Divine-winged Fox’s power and lost the will and vigilance to fight.
At this time, Li Mu was very curious about Divine-winged Fox.
In his eyes, this person had so many secrets.
Hearing Li Mu’s question, Divine-winged Fox did not answer immediately.
He looked Li Mu up and down and stared at the faceless mask on Li Mu’s face for a long time. His eyes were no longer dull as they were in the daytime, and instead, they were as sharp as swords now as if they could cut open Li Mu’s mask and see through his mind.
“Who are you? Why were you with my daughter?” asked Divine-winged Fox in a cold voice.
This was an admitting.
In that instant, a killing intent flashed across him.
Li Mu said, “I’m Li Yidao, from Brilliance Immortal Star Region. I’m here to attend the martial art contest that the youngest princess of the Heavenly Fox Clan held to look for a husband. Bi Yan used to be my maid when we were in the palace of the Baiyu Dynasty, and now, we’re friends.”
He briefly told him about what had happened in the Baiyu Dynasty, and finally added, “Bi Yan missed you very much. Today, you refused to recognize her, which made her very sad.”
Divine-winged Fox was silent for a moment.
In the end, possibly because he was convinced by Li Mu’s words or because he felt guilty for his daughter, he sighed and said, “I did it for her good.”
“What are you hiding from? You…” Li Mu was to ask for the reason.
Divine-winged Fox changed his expression and immediately interrupted him in a cold voice. “Don’t ask that again. Curiosity killed the cat. There are some things that you should not know, and once you know them, you would be in trouble.”
Li Mu was a little unconvinced.
However, when he thought of the strength that Divine-winged Fox had shown just now, and how he defeated the general-level experts effortlessly, he realized that he probably was in the King Realm. Yet, this man still stayed there cautiously, which showed that there must be some reasons behind it.
If the four men in black in the General Realm had not threatened Bi Yan’s life, Divine-winged Fox would have endured them and the humiliation even if he was stronger than them.
Even a great expert like Divine-winged Fox had to endure.
How big was the problem?
“He is right. I shouldn’t ask about it now.” Li Mu thought.
He did not ask any more questions.
“Thank you for taking care of Bi Yan.” Divine-winged Fox spoke again. “Tell her to take care of herself and not to come looking for me again.”
Li Mu nodded.
Divine-winged Fox glanced at the four corpses on the ground. He made a seal with his hands and threw it directly onto a rockery in the middle of the yard.
What happened next surprised Li Mu.
The rockery seemed to be activated. A few rocks rolled down and combined together, transforming into a two-meter-tall rock man. Then, he began to bury the corpses and clean up the bloodstains on the ground.
The rock man looked like a human being.
He buried the four corpses under four bamboos in the yard.
The four bamboos suddenly danced without wind. They stretched their branches and their leaves rustled, making Li Mu feel very weird as if there were four beauties dancing in the moonlight.
The poles and leaves of the bamboos became greener visibly.
“Are they absorbing the essence and blood of the general-level experts?” Li Mu wondered.
Looking at the flowers and grass in the yard, Li Mu suddenly had a creepy feeling, as if these beautiful flowers and plants had grown out of blood and bones little by little.
The shabby bamboo courtyard had an evil aura.
“You can go now. Don’t come to me again.”
Divine-winged Fox waved his hand coldly.
His aura rapidly declined, and his back bent a little, as if he were not the man who had killed those general-level experts.
Li Mu keenly found that Divine-winged Fox seemed to have aged.
Although he still had a lot of questions, he knew Divine-winged Fox would not answer anyway, so he did not ask him.
Li Mu cupped his hands and turned to leave.
However, at this moment, Divine-winged Fox suddenly said, “Wait.”
Li Mu was shocked and turned around.
Divine-winged Fox’s eyes suddenly became bright, and he seemed to have changed his attitude. He once again looked at Li Mu and became talkative. He said, “You are just in your early twenties this year, aren’t you?”
Li Mu was stunned and nodded subconsciously.
“I’ve been to Brilliance Immortal Star Region before. It’s remote and poor. I’m surprised that someone like you came from that kind of place. Are you… practicing broadsword-using method?”
Li Mu nodded again.
He was a little surprised. Divine-winged Fox, who was a man of few words, suddenly became talkative, and his words seemed to mean something else.
“The concentration of your natural qi is not bad, but your broadsword-using method is just ordinary.” Divine-winged Fox raised his hand and threw a small manual at Li Mu.
Li Mu caught it naturally.
He saw a word on the cover—broadsword.
He opened it and found that it was a broadsword manual.
“Read and practice it. I got this manual by chance during my practice travel 30 years ago. Its owner was known as the best expert in using broadswords in Ziwei Star Zone. It will be useful to you,” Divine-winged Fox said.
As Li Mu flipped through it, he could tell that it was really about a peerless and rare broadsword-using method. On some pages, there were some dense notes, which seemed to be about the gaining of practicing.
After hearing what Divine-winged Fox said, Li Mu knew that the manual could help him improve a lot, more than he could imagine.
“Keep practicing this broadsword manual. With your talent and age, you would be ranked among the top four among all masters using broadswords in Ziwei Star Zone within a year,” Divine-winged Fox said.
When Li Mu was to speak, Divine-winged Fox added in a meaningful tone, “If it’s convenient for you, please help me take good care of Bi Yan. She is a good girl but I got her into trouble.”
After that, he turned around and entered the shabby bamboo house.
The rock man cleaned up all the traces of fighting in the yard and came back to where the rockery was before. He laid down, and instantly, he split into rocks, which formed the rockery looking the same as the old one.
Li Mu stood outside the yard quietly for a while and then turned to leave.
He already had some answers in his mind, but it was not enough.
When he returned to the posthouse, it was midnight.
However, Dongfang Piaoliang stood at the door with a smile, looking like a servant. Li Mu greeted him.
Dongfang Piaoliang was very enthusiastic.
When Li Mu returned to his yard, he found that Bi Yan was sleeping and had not woken up.
He felt relieved.
When he returned to his practice room, practiced his daily lessons of the Cultivation Method first, and then broadsword-using methods in the broadsword manual.
A night passed.
The next day, an uninvited guest with a strange identity came for a visit.
