broken!

Her life had been so peaceful these past few days that she had almost forgotten how important this day was...

The 22nd day of the twelfth lunar month, which is tonight, is the day when all the villagers of Xiaolin Village and the Xie family will be burned to death!

Xie Muqing, who was standing next to her, opened his eyes immediately. After seeing that Lin Yan was alright, he quickly got up and put on his clothes.

"It looks like there's a fire somewhere."

As Lin Yan quickly dressed and got off the kang (heated brick bed), she hurriedly gave instructions:

"Hmm, the smoke is coming from your house. You're good at light footwork, so hurry up and check if someone started the fire. I'll go put it out."

"good."

In the blink of an eye.

Xie Muqing then disappeared into the night.

It's a cold winter day.

Everyone slept very well, except for a few martial arts practitioners like Yang Jiayi and Zhang Li, who were able to get up and gather in the courtyard immediately.

At this moment, the fire at the Xie family's house next door was getting bigger and bigger, and even seemed to be spreading to the house next door.

Without even exchanging pleasantries, the group rushed to the Xie family's residence, bursting through the gates and shouting as they searched for water to put out the fire.

Strangely enough.

Despite the large fire and thick smoke, and their loud shouts, the entire Xie family home was eerily quiet, and not a single person woke up!

A bad feeling rose in their hearts, and disregarding the proper separation between men and women, they chose to ram the door.

After bumping into them twice, they realized something was wrong.

"Damn it! Madam, this is clearly arson. The doors and windows are not only locked, but also blocked from the inside by something. We can't break them open at all!"

Just then.

As the fire intensified, the main room where the Xie sisters lived suddenly collapsed!