TFWYH – Chapter 398 Eavesdropping Discovered

Tang Hongba nodded. Thinking back on the past, realization finally dawned on him.
“I should have noticed earlier. Not long after Wan-niang got married, her temperament changed. She must have already awakened at that time!”

Tang Tiansheng grew anxious. “Then what should we do? Will those people find her? I heard that once someone from that lineage awakens their bloodline, they can sense each other within a certain range!”

Tang Hongba frowned deeply. “If she’s found by people from that clan, it might actually be fine—they wouldn’t harm Wan-niang. What I’m worried about is them cooperating with the imperial family. Have you forgotten how your mother died?”

Tang Tiansheng’s face darkened at those words. “Then what do we do? Are we just supposed to watch and do nothing?”

“For now, we can only take things one step at a time. That clan forbids marriage with outsiders. Your mother violated that taboo back then. No matter how noble her status was, death was the only outcome. Now we can only…”

At this point, Tang Hongba’s expression turned cold. He suddenly stood up. “Who’s there?!”

Tang Tiansheng reacted instantly as well. He rushed to open the door, only to see a shadow flash past and disappear in the blink of an eye.

Tang Hongba also caught sight of the figure. His expression changed slightly. Forgetting about hiding his abilities, he immediately used his lightness skill and gave chase!

Anyone witnessing this scene would have been shocked.

A butcher—yet his qinggong was astonishingly superb.

Su Xi was indeed a member of the Dragon Shadow Guards, but just as Yan Cheng had said, she was likely ranked near the bottom among them.

Even though she retreated quickly, Tang Hongba still caught up with her.

Dressed in black nightwear, Su Xi watched helplessly as the distance between them rapidly closed, her heart collapsing in despair.

She had once been part of the Dragon Shadow Guards. It was one thing that her martial skills were inferior to Yan Cheng’s. Fine, her lightness skill being worse than Mu Qingfeng’s was acceptable too. But now she couldn’t even shake off a butcher!

At that moment, Su Xi began to seriously doubt her own strength.

Was she really that useless?

Just then, Tang Hongba caught up and struck out with a powerful palm attack.

The sound of tearing air rang out, faintly accompanied by the roar of a tiger.

An invisible force rushed toward Su Xi. By the time she sensed the danger, it was already too late to dodge. She took the blow head-on.

Blood spilled from her mouth, soaking the black cloth covering her face.

Tang Hongba snorted coldly and launched another palm strike.

Su Xi’s pupils widened, sorrow filling her heart.

From the day she became a Dragon Shadow Guard, she had known she might die someday—but she never imagined she would die at the hands of her own people!

Just as despair consumed her, another shadow rushed in at lightning speed, grabbing Su Xi and counterattacking with a palm strike.

The two streams of palm force collided midair.

A thunderous explosion erupted, sending sand and stones flying everywhere.

The newcomer didn’t linger to fight Tang Hongba. Using the force of the collision, he swiftly retreated. In only a few breaths, he had already become a tiny black dot in the distance.

Tang Hongba’s face darkened, but he did not pursue.

The opponent’s martial arts were formidable. He knew his limits—there was no point chasing.

It seemed he would have to find an excuse to persuade Wan-niang’s family to leave this place.

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Elsewhere, the mysterious figure brought Su Xi into an alley.

Once she realized they were safe, Su Xi endured her injuries and dropped to one knee.
“Thank you, Young Master, for saving me!”

The man pulled down his face covering.

That face—it was none other than Ling Yu.

He did not blame Su Xi. Instead, he said, “This was my oversight. I never expected my father-in-law to possess such profound inner strength.”

In his previous life, after Tang Wan died, he had cut off contact with the Tang family, so he never truly understood the depth of their background.