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Chapter 56 - Step to Madness

When got home after the meeting Shen Wei was angry, mainly with Shen Hua. Previously he wanted to bring Shen Hua back, with his talent he could become a medium or maybe even high level cultivator, even with his lousy affinity. But now the only thing he wanted to do was kill Shen Hua in the worst possible way.

When he got home, while treating his wounds, he ordered his servants to cause problems on one of the Min family properties in another city, to get Min Feng out of town. He had his servant summon his assassins, scattered throughout the cities of the Empire.

He could not leave them in the Imperial city because the Min family, the Imperial family, and other enemies of the Shen family, like Itachi, could kill them. He could not complain because he cannot admit that it is his men, after all, this information is kept secret. The only reason Min Ji knows is because his father also does business in the underworld, and this information is known to some prominent figures there.

In the middle of the afternoon one of his servants informed him that Itachi and another cultivator, named Bakugou, burned one of his properties. He was furious and sent his guards after them. However the guards were not fast enough and more and more properties were burned. He had the guards protect the rest, but it was no use, and all his property in the city was burned.

He had no cultivators close enough to pursue Itachi, and with his injury he could not go personally, so he could only observe his properties being burned. When the assassins arrived all the properties had already been burned and there was no way to chase Itachi, so he just sent them to the Min property to kill Shen Hua.

In total there were twelve cultivators all low level bronze, he hoped it was easy, after all, Shen Hua is only a twelve year old child, the only reason he sent so many is because of the size of the property and so they could defend themselves if they found one group of cultivators of the Min family.

He is lying on a bed in the hospital now, Li Xiao Lin is sitting next to the bed, "By now Shen Hua must be dead.", Shen Wei laughed maniacally, recent events were too much for him. More and more he becomes more unstable, he is going crazy, little by little.

"Darling, calm down. You're still hurt.", Li Xiao Lin supported him, with a concerned face, but internally she's ecstatic. 'This boy is going to die! The son of Bi*ch dared to threaten me! He must die as painful as possible! '

While talking a servant entered the door, without even knocking, annoying Shen Wei. "How dare you come in like this! Want to be killed !?", Shen Wei shouted angrily.

The servant's face, which was already pale, turned even whiter, "Lord, forgive me!" The servant first bowed to apologize, "But the matter is urgent! The assassins who master sent-", the servant was about to tell about what happened.

Before the servant could finish speaking Shen Wei laughed again, "So he's already dead! That's what he deserves for what he did to me! Go call who killed him, I want him to tell me how that Sh*t died.", Shen Wei shouted, and laughed again.

"Master-", the servant said, again annoying Shen Wei.

"Are you still here !? Go do what I said!", Shen Wei interrupted his servant again.

"Master, Shen Hua killed the assassins you sent.", the servant said quickly, he did not want to prolong the situation more.

"What!" Li Xiao Lin shouted, while she got up from her chair.

"What do you mean, Shen Hua killed all the killers?" Shen Wei stopped laughing and wonder to servant. He listened to what his servant said but could not accept.

Seeing Shen Wei's expression the servant, who has been by his side for years, waved the other, outside the room, to enter. The other servant came in with a sack with a red spot underneath. The servant who had spoken earlier took the bag and threw what was inside it on the floor. The heads of the twelve cultivators rolled across the floor.

Li Xiao Lin felt sickness watching the scene and ran out of the room. Shen Wei was silent watching the beheaded heads, he recognized everyone as the killers he sent to kill Shen Hua. Staring the heads he said to servant, without stopping look at heads, "Tell me everything."

The servant recounted what happened at the gate, including the threat Shen Hua made. After hearing everything Shen Wei sent the servant out. As soon the servant closed the door Shen Wei grabbed the chair that Li Xiao Lin had sat on before and threw it at the wall, after which he started screaming and throwing everything in his power.

In the next room Shen Xua had been listening to everything since the servant's arrival. Earlier that day a girl talked to him, she said Shen Hua sent he. He didn't believe it at first, but then she said Shen Hua is Itachi, making him believe her. He told her everything he found out, he managed to find out all three pieces of information Shen Hua asked for, and he was really surprised by what found.

When he returned home he saw Shen Wei without one arm and very angry. He later found out what happened at the meeting through Shen Mu. First he was terrified, then congratulated himself on choosing to side with Shen Hua. He also discovered that 'Itachi' burned all of Shen Wei's properties in the city.

Shen Xua was not stupid, in fact he is very smart. He just pretended not to be, because of Shen Mu and Li Xiao Lin. His affinity, though not as good as Shen Mu's, is still considered above average, if he proves clever he could threaten Shen Mu's position as young master. Making Shen Mu and Li Xiao Lin plan against him. So he acted like a delinquent to protect himself.

He understood that Shen Hua wanted to leave Shen Wei without any source of income. 'Now that I've chosen one side I can only do everything for him to win, or I'll end up with nothing.', Shen Xua headed for Shen Wei's office.