Chapter 63

Chaos reigned across the hundreds of acres of the Gong Family Estate, particularly near the martial training grounds. Scores of people who had come today to collect their medicinal broth lay scattered across the ground. Servants and maids wept and cried out everywhere, running about like headless flies to beg for help. A few who fancied themselves clever scrambled blindly to hide in cellars or haystacks, little knowing that traitors would soon come around to set fires, with the haystacks slated as the very first targets. Underground, a demon rat the size of a civet cat had already sneaked beneath the third courtyard of the Gong residence, waiting only for the right moment to emerge and begin a bloody massacre.