Along the path to the main house, there were two rows of spears and on each spear, there was a severed head.
Paul immediately recognized these people as they were the guards, maids, and even the ladies from the Qi family including the small girl Qi Yue.
Everyone in the mansion was slaughtered and Paul was terrified when he saw this.
Tossing caution to the wind he rushed into the house to look for Mia and Maya desperate to find them.
He took three steps inside before he was struck from behind and the darkness claimed him.
Once he opened his eyes again a beautiful mature woman was standing before him and he was tied to a chair and gaged.
His head was aching like all hell but his first thoughts were about Mia and Maya so he looked around trying to find them and hoping that they were still alive.
-You don't have to be so worried about my daughters.
The woman said, her voice soft and melodic but it was clear that she was used to giving orders.
Paul was shocked, was this woman their mother?
Looking at her now he discovered some resemblance between them.
-You saved my daughters' lives and that is the only reason you are still alive now, you also took liberties with them and for that, there is a punishment.
The people in this mansion were only the first part of the punishment since they were your people and I know by now that you cherish your own.
The lady said with a voice colder than a winter storm.
-I don't know why you thought that you were good enough for them but a worm like you needs to learn its place and for the crime of touching my daughters I will castrate you personally.
She said taking out a sharp black dagger.
-This dagger is cursed and no matter what it cuts it can never be restored or regenerated even with the most powerful spells.
Paul tried to summon his mana but discovered that it wasn't responding to his will.
The woman laughed, amused by his struggles.
-Don't even try it, I sealed your mana pool so there is no way for you to resist.
This was bad as the woman's cultivation was so high that he could not even sense her stage which meant that she was at least At a Supreme magus stage or possibly even higher as for her qi he did not sense it at all so either she did not have any or she was at a Smell refining stage or higher.
-You see, I know you are a multi-affinity mage and a healer.
So I will let you live but you won't be able to be a man anymore as punishment for touching my daughters.
The woman said and started to approach Paul slowly with a sadistic smile.
Paul's mind was racing ignoring the pain and looking for a way out of this situation.
The last thing he wanted was to lose his manhood forever because the woman was a fucking lunatic.
When she was about to cut his pants there was a knock on the door.
-Madam we have prepared everything and both young ladies are secured and ready to be transported back.
Another female voice said from behind the door.
The woman approached the door opening it and talking with the female guard outside.
This was the chance he was waiting for.
His mana was blocked but his Qi was not as he scarcely used it so no one knew he was a dual cultivator.
Now this was his last hope to escape this place in one piece.
Paul mobilized his Qi and used it to cut the ropes that bound him, it took only a fraction of a second but that was enough to alert the woman outside and he heard her gasp right before the door was kicked and flew across the room smashing against the wall on the other side.
But it was already too late as by that time he had already taken his spatial device that was placed on the table along with some other of his things, stored everything hastily along with the dagger that the woman left there, and took out the shadow jump spell card activating it with his Qi since it already had the mana necessary to make the jump stored inside and could be activated at any moment with mana, Qi, or even a drop of his blood.
The whole action took him little more than a second and the activation of a spell was fast so before the woman could stop him he was already sent to the random jump coordinates at the maximum range of the spell.
The moment he emerged from the shadow in a dark alley. Paul felt a sharp stabbing pain in his leg his torso and his shoulder.
He looked down to find three throwing knives sticking out from his body all of them on his left side and if they had struck a bit more accurately then the one in his chest would have pierced his heart.
-So much for letting me live.
Paul said grimacing from the pain as he removed the weapons from his body storing them in his storage space to keep and return the favor one day.
Suddenly he detected the search magic activation so without losing any time he took out a big sheet of paper with a very complicated circle on it and activated the spell.
It was risky but if he got caught again then he would most likely die.
This was something he was working on with the girls during their studies of magic and all three of them poured their mana into it for three days to make it useful.
The spell was created as a precaution if they needed to leave the town in a hurry.
The spell activated within five seconds and a pillar of blue light enveloped Paul before he disappeared without a trace
The last thing he saw before disappearing was the woman claiming to be Mia's and Maya's mother launching a big fireball his way.
If that attack hit him then he would be turned into a pile of ash on the spot but fortunately, he was sent away by the spell right before the impact.
The woman was furious at this and used another search spell to find him but there was no trace of him within the twenty-kilometer radius which was her limit.
-Damn him.
She cursed as there was no way to find him if he was this far away since he would most likely change his location immediately to avoid any pursuit and she had no idea how many of these things he had left.
-Madam where is he?
The guards asked once they caught up a few seconds later.
-He got away and now he will become our enemy.
The woman said grimly.
She never wanted to castrate him since her daughters were in love with this man and he loved them too but she wanted to scare him to make sure he would never betray them or mistreat them.
The people at the mansion had to die because she didn't want to leave any witnesses of her daughters living in this place and her guards didn't even flinch when killing them all even the little girl.
The heads were put on the spears to make it look like a blood feud was settled there and to cover their tracks they even intended to burn the mansion to the ground.
Unfortunately, this man was a dual cultivator which she was unaware of till now and he escaped.
What's worse she even injured him as she panicked when he was disappearing from the room and she almost killed him while trying to scare him into exiting the transportation circle.
With all that happening, it would be strange if he did not consider her an enemy now. The worst of it all was that when her daughters heard about this they would most likely resent her for her actions.
-What are your orders? Should we search for him?
The guard asked.
-There is no point, he already left the radius of my search magic, and if he has more transportation circles like the one he just used then we won't find him even if we try.
The woman said after a moment of contemplating this course of action.
-Forgive me for being blunt madam but the young ladies will be extremely dissatisfied when they learn about this.
The female guard said.
-Yes they will and I'm sure that he is also angry right now but for the time being he is not a threat to us, what's more, I think that my daughters may be able to convince him to drop his enmity towards us.
The woman was hoping that this would be the case as she didn't want to have a dual cultivator as a mortal enemy and she did not want her daughters to hate her for separating them from him.
-Did you take all the things that belong to my daughters from the mansion?
She asked her guards.
-Yes we did, we even took the thing they called the swing.
-Good, burn it all down to the ground, and let's go home.
The woman said returning to the mansion to look at her daughters she had not seen for many years and hoping that they would understand once she explained everything to them.
Both Mia and Maya had to be knocked out as they tried to defend the people in the mansion and they were now lying unconscious in the woman's carriage.
A few moments later they left the town leaving behind the mansion, now covered in flames that devoured it completely before morning.