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Li Yanchu looked off into the distance, and with his Qi Sight he quickly detected a surge of malevolent qi.
It was coming from an estate in the southern quarter of the city. Above the gate hung a plaque that read “Liu Residence,” and two imposing stone lions flanked the entrance.
Li Yanchu’s brows knitted. Without the slightest hesitation, he vaulted over the wall and slipped inside.
In the rear quarters! The instant the thought surfaced, his figure vanished into the night.
The rear compound was normally reserved for the household’s women.
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Inside one of the rooms, the eldest young master of the Liu family lay in a pool of blood, pinned beneath a very strange child.
The “child” looked like a warped, broken rag doll, its body covered in crude stitching. Its skin was corpse-blue, its belly grotesquely swollen, while its limbs were thin and spindly.
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