Da Xuan Martial Saint

Chapter 107: Chapter 103: 50 Steps

"Hmm?"

Chen Mu slightly narrowed his eyes as he looked towards the courtyard entrance.

When a martial artist advanced to the Tendon Changing Perfection, it wasn't merely about cultivating a strength strong enough to twist steel. The abundant Qi-blood also rendered their senses, especially hearing and sight, much keener than an ordinary person's. They might not be able to hear a mosquito flapping its wings, but they could detect nearby rustling in the grass with relative ease.

The strange noise was coming from the direction of the Yu family's residence.

If it were during the day, Chen Mu might not have cared, but at this point in time, it was deep into the night. He had been in his bedroom comprehending the Thunderclap Diagram and hadn't rested until now. He had come out to the courtyard merely because he was a bit fatigued from the intense focus and wanted to look at the moonlight to relax, planning to rest afterward.

A glint of light flashed in Chen Mu's eyes, and without any signal, he effortlessly leaped several meters in a single bound and landed outside the courtyard, then vanished into the darkness.

...

Under the dim moonlight.

A figure swiftly moved through the darkness, stealthily avoiding a patrol team from the Yu Family. Heading north, it wasn't long before he reached the outermost area of the Yu residence.

He wore a black headband and donned pitch-black nightwear. Seeing he had reached the outer edge of the Yu family's area, he glanced back with a sneer in his eyes before quickening his pace to swiftly exit the Yu family's territory.

But.

Just as he was about to step over the last alley surrounding the Yu residence.

A figure suddenly appeared in the darkness ahead, standing silently as if they had been waiting for him for a long time.

"Hmm?"

The black-clothed man's gaze shifted slightly.

His first instinct was to avoid them immediately, but at that moment, the clouds obscuring the moonlight parted slightly, brightening the moon's glow, which illuminated the figure in the darkness.

The person was dressed in a thin sleeping robe, appearing to have just woken up, and looked quite young, in his early twenties at most, with an odd and perplexed expression as he looked on.

The black-clothed man's heart settled.

It's handled.

He had thought it was some skilled expert from the Yu family that had appeared, which had given him a fright, but it turned out to be, seemingly, just a younger member of the Yu family who had gotten up in the middle of the night.

Although he wondered why someone would wander about in such flimsy attire at this late hour, whether for romance or other reasons, it clearly seemed like an accident, not a threat.

Once past this street, it would no longer be Yu territory. He could then hide with ease, and by the time the Yus realized what had happened and turned their residence upside down, they would not find him. Moreover, the person he had kidnapped was merely an infant girl from a collateral branch of the Yu family.

It was unlikely that they would muster all their forces, facing pressure from other families, to conduct a widespread

"How..."

Using the last of his strength, the black-clothed figure laboriously turned his head to look behind him, but Chen Mu was too far to make out his features, barely discerning a faint outline in the night.

Thump.

He finally fell to the ground, his eyes growing dim.

A small pebble, a Martial Artist with Tendon Changing Major Achievement... struck dead from fifty steps away!