Chapter 244: Heavy Injuries Flare Up, A Beauty Bathes

"Run, keep running, why aren't you running anymore?"

Chen Che was cornered in the corridor, and Fang Shaokun looked at him with a playful smile, as if sizing up a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

Fang Shifeng took a step forward and asked, "Who are you? How do you have Lu Renjia's invitation? And why are you targeting the Fang Family?"

Chen Che gave an answer that ignored the question: "The dirty business the Fang Family does will eventually be impossible to cover up."

"Since you were able to kill our Fang Family's garden guardian, you must be an expert. For an expert like you to target the Fang Family, if you weren't sent by someone, then there must be profit to be made."

Fang Shifeng narrowed his eyes: "What exactly is your goal?"

Chen Che remained silent, instead quietly pulling a Ghost Gate Needle from his jaw and inserting it into his chest; the pain immediately eased somewhat.

"Dad, why are you wasting so many words on him? So what if he's an expert? He's suffered such heavy injuries, and we're in the Fang Family estate—he can't run! Let's peel a layer of skin off him first before asking; I don't believe he won't talk!"

True Qi surged on Fang Shaokun's body as he slowly pressed toward Chen Che.

"Hoo—"

Chen Che clutched his chest, exhaled a breath, and launched an attack first.

"Careful!"

Fang Shifeng let out a startled cry, clearly not expecting Chen Che to strike suddenly, and the violent power that erupted in that instant was completely unlike the weakness he showed while fleeing from his heavy injuries just moments ago.

Fang Shaokun was only at the Acquired Master Realm; there was no way he could withstand this strike from Chen Che!

The reality was exactly as Fang Shifeng had anticipated.

Chen Che approached Fang Shaokun, but Fang Shaokun clearly did not see the situation clearly, merely assuming Chen Che was a cornered beast putting up a final struggle, and he looked down on the heavily injured man even more, naturally treating Fang Shifeng's warning as wind past his ears.

"You're courting death!"

Fang Shaokun let out a disdainful cold snort, swung his long arm, and lashed out at Chen Che, wrapped in surging True Qi.

Chen Che's expression was calm; he seized Fang Shaokun's wrist with one hand and slapped his shoulder with the other, ripping the entire arm straight off as fresh blood sprayed out.

Fang Shifeng and the other members of the Fang Family were stunned, their faces filled with incredulous shock.

Fang Shaokun's eyes widened abruptly, with terror, shock, and disbelief appearing on his face all at once.

"My arm! My arm!"

Fang Shaokun screamed in agony.

"Damn it!"

Fang Shifeng roared in anger, but he was still a step too late.

Chen Che's speed was too fast; in an instant, he had removed Fang Shaokun's arm and followed up with a kick, slamming it into Fang Shaokun's chest.

Fang Shaokun flew backward, and Fang Shifeng had no choice but to change direction to catch him.

Chen Che then threw Fang Shaokun's severed arm out, blocking the rushing Fang Family members for a moment.

Afterward, Chen Che crashed into the wall to the side, breaking through the wall with a bang and fleeing.

"Chase, chase him for me! You absolutely cannot let that bastard get away!"

Fang Shifeng gritted his teeth and roared while holding Fang Shaokun.

The Fang Family members began their pursuit again, yet this time, there was none of the previous intensity.

Chen Che's act of removing Fang Shaokun's arm was too bloody, and the Grandmaster-level combat power he displayed was also daunting.

Originally, the Fang Family members all thought that although Chen Che was strong, he was already at the end of his rope after the battle with the garden guardian.

But the scene just now made them realize that even if Chen Che was at the end of his rope, he was not someone they could handle.

Fang Shaokun was a living example—

He thought he could handle Chen Che, but ended up having his arm dismantled by the other party with ease!

With that precedent, the Fang Family members held back significantly while pursuing Chen Che again; when they could have caught up, they deliberately slowed their pace, terrified that Chen Che might suddenly make a sharp turn and, just like he dismantled Fang Shaokun's arm, remove their own heads!

And this was also Chen Che's goal, intended to buy himself a little more time; as long as he could hold out until Tang Ying returned, the danger would naturally be resolved!

Fang Shifeng also realized this, and aside from cursing and ordering them on, he could only hand Fang Shaokun over to the servants to care for and join the pursuit himself.

However, after a few leaps across the rooftops, Chen Che had vanished without a trace, which left Fang Shifeng's face livid and filled with uncontrollable rage!

"All of you, guard every entrance and exit of the Fang Family, and the rest of you search inch by inch; he cannot run out of the Fang Family!"

Fang Shifeng leaped onto the roof and commanded with a voice like a booming bell.

Hasty footsteps wandered nearby; Chen Che hid in the shadows of a wall corner, concealing his aura, with a terrified Fang Family member clamped in his hand.

With a force of his wrist, he snapped the Fang Family member's neck with a crack, then took off his own blood-stained clothes, changed into the Fang Family member's attire, removed all the Ghost Gate Needles he had used to alter his appearance, and then walked out acting as if nothing had happened.

Chen Che successfully blended into the crowd of Fang Family members to conduct the search, following behind a team of them as they leaped across various rooftops and courtyards, and when no one was paying attention, he slipped into a dim room.

Chen Che leaned against the door, vigilantly observing the situation outside, and only let out a sigh of relief after discovering no one had noticed him.

"Pfft!"

However, the moment he let out a sigh of relief, the pain in his chest struck again, and he couldn't help but spit out a mouthful of blood.

His injuries were actually very severe, especially the palm strike the garden guardian had left on his chest; the internal injuries caused by the hidden energy were constantly affecting the circulation of his meridians.

Coupled with the fact that Chen Che had been fleeing for his life and had no time to rest or heal, his previous strike against Fang Shaokun was actually very risky.

If not for the Ghost Gate Needles temporarily healing the pain and allowing his body to recover to the Grandmaster Realm for a short time, that strike would never have achieved such an effect, nor would it have been possible to remove Fang Shaokun's arm.

But the pain had never been healed and only grew worse; the effect of the Ghost Gate Needles weakened accordingly, and the pain assaulted his body even more violently—he was ultimately unable to hold on.

"What was that sound?"

"It seems to have come from here."

"This is the Young Mistress's room; we cannot go in to search, let's go ask the Young Master for instructions first!"

The commotion had still attracted the attention of the patrolling Fang Family members outside.

Hearing the conversation outside, Chen Che quickly used his True Qi to absorb the blood on the floor and staggered inside to hide.

His consciousness wavered for a moment, and Chen Che followed a glimmer of light as he broke into a room filled with misty water vapor.

"Pfft!"

Chen Che closed the door, but could not hold back another mouthful of blood that sprayed out.

Before he could even wipe away the bloodstains, he suddenly looked up; Chen Che froze on the spot, and then, even more vigilantly, he clenched his fists, a trace of killing intent emerging in his eyes.

Before him, a stunningly beautiful woman with her hair coiled up was lying in a bathtub, soaking.

His nerves tightened and his dazed consciousness returned; only then did Chen Che realize that the place he had blundered into was a bathroom, and it appeared to be the room of this beautiful woman before him.

Upon seeing Chen Che, the woman merely showed a slight look of surprise on her face, but she did not panic or scream, remaining seated in the bathtub and staring back at Chen Che.

Faint footsteps came from outside the bathroom; Chen Che realized he could not afford to be soft-hearted at this moment and was about to step forward to seize the woman by the throat.

Unexpectedly, a wave of sharp pain struck his chest, and Chen Che let out a "wah" and spat out a large mouthful of fresh blood.

The woman in the bathtub was startled, and surprise and confusion appeared on her otherwise calm face.

Seeing that the woman did not cry out even after witnessing this scene, Chen Che stopped caring about so much, sat cross-legged on the floor, and inserted all the Ghost Gate Needles into his chest to heal his wounds.

The footsteps outside became hurried, and with a creak, the outer door was pushed open.

Immediately following were the sounds of other room doors being pushed open, and then the dense footsteps converged into one, arriving outside the bathroom door.

"Creak!"

The footsteps did not pause in the slightest; the bathroom door was opened directly, and Fang Shifeng walked into the bathroom, his gaze sweeping around the room before finally landing on the face of the woman in the bathtub.

The woman lay in the bathtub with white bubbles floating on the surface of the water, revealing only her full head.

The woman turned her head to glance at Fang Shifeng before turning back, her expression not changing in the slightest; instead, she closed her eyes, looking as if she were enjoying her bath, as if the person caught bathing were not her at all.

"Does Father have something to attend to?"

The woman asked as if nothing were the matter.

Fang Shifeng frowned and asked, "Have you seen anything or heard any suspicious people or movements?"

"No."

"Truly none?"

"Is Father suspecting that your daughter-in-law is secretly hiding someone? You are overthinking it; since I came to the Fang Family, your son has never allowed me to step even half a step outside the Fang Family threshold. I have had no opportunity to meet outsiders."

The woman looked at Fang Shifeng and continued, "As for suspicious people... does a father-in-law who breaks into his daughter-in-law's bathroom count?"

Fang Shifeng's brows twitched, and his tone softened by a fraction: "It was my rudeness. Something happened in the Fang Family. Shaokun is also injured; go see him in a while."

After speaking, Fang Shifeng turned and left, though if he had been just a little more careful, he would have discovered the bloodstains under his feet that had not been completely washed away.