What's going on?!

Fang Yue froze on the spot for a moment.

In just this short time, the sounds of fighting had already spread over.

In the distance, he could see a Ning family servant running towards him, using both hands and feet, looking back from time to time, his face filled with terror, as if he was afraid of something.

Fang Yue was still puzzled when he saw a dark shadow suddenly dart out from the corner behind him. Its movements were so swift that it left afterimages, and it flashed past the man in an instant.

A head flew up, and the headless body ran two steps due to inertia before collapsing to the ground.

Fang Yue frowned, watching the black shadow lock onto him as its next target and rush over.

*Whoosh!*

The fire blade suddenly appeared. Fang Yue didn't retreat but advanced, charging forward with a slash!

Under the fierce flames, the black shadows wrapped around the outside scattered like they'd encountered a natural enemy, revealing a grotesque creature with a wolf's head and a human body, its stomach split open with a gaping maw, from which a mass of tentacles wriggled outwards.

"Roar!!"

Amidst its roar, Fang Yue had already plunged his blade into its torn stomach, directly cutting open a huge gash.

Burning in the flames, the grotesque creature wailed miserably, staggered past Fang Yue, and tumbled to the ground in a sorry state. Before it could regain its footing, Fang Yue's figure had already rushed to its side again, and a flash of fire.

The wolf's head rolled to the ground.

After glancing at the system notification, Fang Yue frowned slightly.

No reward at all. It seemed to be just a third-rate Houtian (Acquired Realm) grotesque.

*Dong, dong, dong.*

The ground was trembling slightly.

Turning his head to look back, Fang Yue's pupils shrank.

He saw nearly a hundred Ning family servants running towards him.

And behind these Ning family servants was an ever-increasing army of grotesqueries!

It was a dark mass that made Fang Yue's scalp tingle.

If all these grotesqueries were of the same strength as the wolf-headed grotesque just now, Fang Yue naturally wouldn't be too afraid.

But the problem was... in that dark mass of grotesqueries, there was actually one with a faint red glow on its forehead, embedded with a blood-red stone!

Bloodstone exposed!

This was a Blood-grade grotesque that had just been promoted!

Fang Yue suddenly felt a little panicked.

Blood-grade grotesqueries corresponded to the Xiantian (Innate) realm.

But although they were at the same level, Blood-grade grotesqueries and Xiantian realm humans were two completely different concepts of strength!

Humans, under the same level, were, in most cases, incapable of soloing a grotesque of the same level! Fang Yue was an exception to the exception.

In other words, the Blood-grade grotesque who dared to advance in the grotesque army would only be stronger and more difficult to deal with than Steward Liao!

Adding in the grotesque army, Fang Yue really had no intention of fighting head-on.

At this moment, the Ning family servants who had run over also noticed the corpses on the ground, the chaotic scene, and the only living person standing on the field.

Immediately, their speed faltered, and they were somewhat frightened.

"How… how is this possible?! That's Steward Liao?!"

"Steward Liao is dead? Killed by that guy?!"

"It's over! Without Steward Liao, and with Steward Niu and Steward Ma not in the manor, we're done for! No one is a match for the group of grotesqueries behind us!"

"No! We still have the underground chamber! That door is specially made, and ordinary grotesqueries can't break it at all!"

"Right… right! Go! Let's escape to the underground chamber!"

With Fang Yue in front and the grotesque army behind, in their urgency, they discussed the problem without even considering that Fang Yue might hear them.

This was definitely an unexpected surprise!

Fang Yue was immediately somewhat pleased.

Watching the group of people change direction and flee, Fang Yue quickly jumped onto the wall, monitoring their direction from a high place while trying to avoid the grotesqueries.

However, when Fang Yue followed them from above as much as possible, arriving at the last courtyard at the back of the Ning manor, he found that the area was already packed with people!

Everyone was jumping down into the wide-open mouth in the ground, like dumplings being dropped into a pot.

But Fang Yue could see clearly that there were stairs leading down, but the stairs were crowded with people, making it far more convenient to jump down.

"Everyone, get out of the way!"

Shouting loudly, Fang Yue leapt down, heading straight for the entrance, but he saw two iron doors extending from both sides of the entrance, slowly merging together. Above the iron doors were fake mountains used for camouflage. The fake mountains were divided into two, and only when these two iron doors were merged together would they form a perfect whole.

Fang Yue saw this rhythm and knew something was wrong!

It would still take him some time to rush over, but judging from the speed at which the iron doors were closing, he faintly felt that he might not make it in time.

Misfortune never comes singly. While he was still on his way, the grotesque army next to him suddenly seemed to smell something, abruptly stopping their pursuit of the Ning family servants in front. After a moment's pause, they all rushed towards Fang Yue, as if Fang Yue was carrying something good on him.

Fang Yue: ???

These grotesqueries only like to chew on tough bones?

His expression sank, and Fang Yue accelerated to the extreme. As a result, a black shadow actually chased after him at an even faster speed!

Fang Yue looked back and, sure enough, it was the Blood-grade grotesque with the red stone on its forehead, shaped like a centipede!

With the secret chamber door about to close in front of him and the Blood-grade grotesque chasing behind him,

Fang Yue gritted his teeth and had no choice but to increase his speed to the maximum.

"Charge, charge, charge!!"

One breath, charge past!!

Regardless of whether there were grotesqueries blocking the way in front or people blocking the way, Fang Yue only did one thing, and that was to draw his blade.

Any obstacle that stood in Fang Yue's path was cut in two by his fire blade!

With his speed at least constant, Fang Yue's distance from the entrance was getting closer and closer.

While others were still pushing and screaming, Fang Yue had already rushed to the entrance and leapt up.

However, the increasingly smaller entrance below, judging from the distance and time, he might not make it in time and would not be able to rush into the underground chamber.

"Roar!!"

Just at this moment, the centipede-shaped Blood-grade arrived from behind and directly crashed into him.

With a thought in his heart, Fang Yue's face lit up with joy.

"Nice shot!"

He turned around in mid-air and blocked.

*Dong!*

His arms felt as if they weighed a thousand pounds, and his palms were numb. At the same time, his entire body flew backwards, daring to be struck into the underground chamber below just before the iron gate closed completely!

The centipede-shaped Blood-grade grotesque was clearly stunned for a moment, watching helplessly as he fell into the underground chamber, and then the iron gate closed heavily.

Those who were blocked outside cried and screamed.

Those who entered the underground chamber secretly rejoiced that they had survived.

The Blood-grade grotesque came back to its senses and immediately roared, slamming into the iron gate.

But the iron gate, which clearly didn't look very sturdy, seemed to have been blessed by an array, and no matter how the Blood-grade grotesque slammed into the iron gate, it remained motionless!

At this moment, if one were to look down at the Ning manor from a bird's-eye view, one would definitely see that all the grotesqueries that had invaded the Ning manor were gathering towards this gate.

They used their lives, their abilities, roaring and roaring, wanting to open this 'iron can.'

However, apart from making booming sounds, there was no other effect.

The two unremarkable iron gates at the entrance of the underground chamber had actually blocked the grotesque army outside!