While the Hidden Sect is indeed a fearsome name, the Qu family cannot allow themselves to be humiliated and left without uttering a sound!

"Quickly carry this person and come with me to see the patriarch," Qu Huaisong hurriedly ordered the two city guards to carry the person.

The three of them took a shortcut and hurried to the small living room where the head of the family, Qu Jinxian, was.

Qu Huaisong had two city guards leave the body in the courtyard and wait there, while he went in and briefly explained the situation to Qu Jinxian.

"What?! How could such a thing happen?" Qu Jinxian stood up abruptly.

Qu Jinxian was 243 years old, but he looked like a middle-aged man in his early forties. His face was thin and long, his eyebrows were sparse and his eyes were narrow. Even when he smiled in the most amiable way, he gave people a sense of indifference and coldness.

He stood up in shock and anger, his gaunt face revealing a sinister and ruthless look that sent chills down one's spine.

“It’s absolutely true. The city guards who witnessed it and the one who was forced to his death are now waiting in the courtyard outside, awaiting the master’s instructions.” Qu Huaisong has always been loyal to Qu Jinxian.

After the music ended, he quickly walked out the door and onto the veranda.

The two city guards immediately bowed and greeted him with their hands behind their backs: "Lord of the City!"

Qu Jinxian's gloomy gaze fell directly on the city guard who was dead on the ground. Looking at the small, not particularly horrifying blood hole between his eyebrows, his divine sense could clearly detect that the man's sea of ​​consciousness and inner brain structure had been completely destroyed.

The truth was exactly as Qu Huaisong had reported to him.

"The Hidden Sect is an unparalleled great sect. In the past, it has made several trips, but it always sent invitations to the families of its destination in advance, showing great courtesy." Qu Jinxian's voice was unusually cold and sharp, containing great anger.

"Master, do you mean that this second young lady is an imposter?" Qu Huaisong, trying to figure out Qu Jinxian's thoughts, immediately replied.

"Everyone knows that young masters and ladies from prominent families are well-mannered and extremely polite. Even if they have conflicts with other noble families, they would never kill a lowly soldier on someone else's territory. This would do them no good, and it would be tantamount to provoking another race, directly inciting conflict between the two races. They are not unaware of this," Qu Jinxian said viciously, his eyes narrowed.

Upon hearing this, the two city guards felt it necessary to reiterate:

"Reporting to the city lord, the girl who calls herself the second young lady is just a child who is not even ten years old."

"Reporting to the city lord, the boy who came with that girl is also quite young, about twelve or thirteen years old."

Qu Jinxian's cold, serpentine gaze instantly fell upon the two men, as if he wanted to pierce through their doubts: "When have you ever seen a direct descendant of a prominent family, no older than fourteen, go out for training alone?"

"You pig-brains! Those wicked rogue cultivators, lurking demons, and the descendants of the Yun family who are threatening the entire Danling Continent—aren't they all eyeing the Four Sects and Eight Great Families, waiting for an opportunity to pounce and take a bite? If the direct descendants of the great families all went out like this, the Four Sects and Eight Great Families would have been in chaos long ago," Qu Huaisong added obsequiously on behalf of Qu Jinxian.

The two city guards were already filled with awe.

After being lectured by Qu Jinxian and Qu Huaisong in a back-and-forth manner, he felt that he had made a huge mistake and was filled with anxiety.

This was exactly the effect he wanted to achieve. His gaze softened deliberately, but his expression became more solemn and dignified: "Do you know where they've gone now?"

"Reporting to the city lord, they have entered the city," the two city guards replied respectfully.