Where’s the lightning coming from?
That one assassin’s heart was startled and he immediately had to retreat.
“Boom!”
Zhang Ruochen carried the Soul Flash Sword, crashed through the wall, and struck with the fastest speed possible, stabbing at that one assassin’s brow.
That one assassin dressed in black, hearing the sound of breaking wind, kept retreating, one point faster than Zhang Ruochen, dodging Zhang Ruochen’s sure-fire sword.
“Swish!”
Zhang Ruochen’s arm swung, chopping past the side of that one assassin’s neck with a piercing sound, chopping off a piece of black sash.
That one assassin touched his neck and realised that his head was still on his neck before he let out a slight sigh of relief, “Worthy of being the number one freshman, you’ve got some skills. Can you tell me what happened with the lightning just now?”
Knowing that he was stalling for time, wanting to wait for the one assassin in the distance to shoot himself, Zhang Ruochen continued to strike his sword, saying, “Go to hell and ask the King of Hell!”
“Humph! A mere freshman in the late Xuanji Realm, still wanting to kill a strong person in the great circle of the Xuanji Realm? You are also too arrogant!”
A cold light appeared in that one assassin’s eyes, and from inside his sleeve, he drew out an extremely thin sword.
The Fish Intestine Sword in the Sleeve.
“Swish!”
The sword light flashed and the sword energy was like a white rainbow as it stabbed towards Zhang Ruochen’s heart.
His speed reached fifty metres per second, unbelievably fast, and almost in an instant, he stabbed Zhang Ruochen’s heart position.
Just when he thought he would definitely be able to kill Zhang Ruochen, suddenly, the space in front of Zhang Ruochen distorted. His sword unexpectedly stabbed off course and passed through Zhang Ruochen’s armpit.
“How could this happen? No!”
That one assassin was horrified to the extreme.
For two martial arts experts who were exchanging blows, there couldn’t be any mistakes. The slightest mistake would be a death sentence.
“Pfft!”
Zhang Ruochen stabbed into the ankles of that one assassin’s legs, picking off the hamstrings of both his legs.
Immediately after, with a twist of his body, Zhang Ruochen came behind that one assassin, and with two fingers joined together, he pointed towards the Heavenly Heart Vein in that one assassin’s spine.
“Snap!”
The Heavenly Heart Vein snapped, and his cultivation was nullified.
That one black-clothed assassin fell heavily to the ground!
Zhang Ruochen did not have time to inspect the looks of that one black-clothed assassin, and carrying the Soul Flash Sword, he leapt down from the pavilion and darted towards the other assassin, who was forty metres away, one step at a time.
That one assassin was hiding in the foliage of a giant Iron Pine tree, and seeing Zhang Ruochen rushing towards her with his sword made her heart skip a beat.
“How did he discover my hiding place?”
The female assassin drew out two green poisonous-hardened long arrows from her back and simultaneously hitched them on top of the bowstring, drawing the black longbow into a full moon.
She was very confident in her archery skills, within a distance of forty metres, even a Xuanji Realm Grand Circle martial artist would not be able to dodge her arrows.
“Meow!”
Just then, she heard a cat’s cry from behind her.
A dark shadow that quickly flashed past her eyes.
That one black shadow, stretched out a sharp claw and swiped at her wrist.
“Pfft!”
The female assassin’s right hand was cut off by the claw and fell down from the tree.
From her wrist, scarlet blood gushed out, staining the black robe she was wearing red.
A sharp pain came from her wrist, causing that one female assassin to let out a muffled sound.
“Boom!”
Below, Zhang Ruochen swung his sword, and the trunk of the Iron Pine Giant Tree was chopped off and fell down with a roar.
The female assassin crashed down from the twenty-odd metres high tree, landing heavily on the ground, and had just tried to escape when she found a sword with a cold light pointing above her head.
“Still want to escape?”
Zhang Ruochen’s used his sword to pick off the veil on that one female assassin’s face, revealing a rather beautiful face.
“Surprisingly, it’s you?” Zhang Ruochen was slightly surprised.
That one female assassin was the Western Academy’s number one freshman six years ago, Hua Ren.
Hua Ren clenched her teeth and revealed a cold smile as she glanced towards Xiao Hei, who was not far away, and said with great reluctance, “I didn’t realise that you also raised a powerful savage beast, it was our miscalculation!”
“Who is a savage beast? Your old ancestor wasn’t even born when this Emperor was mighty.” Little Black said with great displeasure.
Zhang Ruochen said, “Tell me, who else in the Western Courtyard is an assassin of the Hellmouth Sect?”
“Zhang Ruochen, you underestimate me too much!” A wry smile appeared on Hua Ren’s face.
“Boom!”
Beneath Hua Ren’s feet, a blood formation with a diameter of five metres was formed, emitting a piercing blood light that shook Zhang Ruochen and Xiao Hei out at the same time.
“Die!”
Hua Ren drew out a thin sword from her sleeve and stabbed at Zhang Ruochen’s brow in a windy manner.
It was too fast.
Zhang Ruochen could barely see the stance of her strike.
“Oh no, lightweight enemy. Hua Ren was the number one freshman six years ago, her cultivation must be very deep, even if she isn’t a Xuan Ranked Martial Artist, she probably isn’t much weaker than a Xuan Ranked Martial Artist.”
Zhang Ruochen hurriedly revolved his body’s true qi and prepared to execute the power of Spatial Distortion once again.
“Pfft!”
A sound of a sword blade entering flesh rang out.
Hua Ren’s footsteps came to a violent halt, her eyes staring blankly at Zhang Ruochen in front of her, her body trembling as she fell straight to the ground.
Huang Yichen stood behind Hua Ren, retrieving his bloody sword and snorted coldly, “The assassins of the Hellmouth Sect are becoming more and more rampant, how dare they come into the Dragon Martial Hall to kill people.”
Zhang Ruochen looked towards Hua Ren on the ground, just now, Huang Yichen’s sword was very precise, piercing through Hua Ren’s heart from behind.
Zhang Ruochen stared at Huang Yichen and said, “Why did you kill her?”
Huang Yichen’s eyebrows frowned slightly as she said with great displeasure, “If I hadn’t killed her, the one who would have died by now would have been you. Were you able to dodge the sword she used just now?”
Zhang Ruochen said, “You could have completely broken her Heavenly Heart Vein and wasted her cultivation just now, so why must you kill her. By leaving her alive, you might still be able to ask something from her mouth.”
Huang Smokey laughed, “You’re too naive to actually want to ask something from the mouth of an assassin from the Hellmouth Sect?”
“Swish!”
Yellow Smudge took his sword back and turned around.
Zhang Ruochen stared at Huang Yichen’s back with great doubt in his eyes, “Is she an assassin of the Hellmouth Sect or not?”
“Thinking about what?”
Duanmu Xingling stood beside Zhang Ruochen and followed his gaze, staring at Huang Yichen’s beautiful back and said in shock, “You don’t suspect that Sister Dust is also an assassin of the Hellmouth Sect, do you?”
Zhang Ruochen gently shook his head and said, “It just feels like too much of a coincidence!”
“Very coincidental indeed.”
Duanmu Xingling nodded and said, “However, you don’t need to be suspicious of her, there’s absolutely no way she’s an assassin from the Hellmouth Sect.”
“Why?” Zhang Ruochen said.
Duanmu Xingling said, “First of all, the Hellmouth Sect’s assassins mainly operate in the Nine Counties of Lingxi, and Sister Dust is not from the Nine Counties of Lingxi. Secondly, assassins kill mainly for money. However, Sister Dust doesn’t lack money or cultivation resources at all. Do you know that Sister Dust has another identity?”
Zhang Ruochen asked, “What identity?”
“She is one of the favourite county lords of the Thousand Water County King. You should have heard of the Thousand Water County Kingdom, right?” Duanmu Xingling said.
Zhang Ruochen nodded and said, “I know. It really didn’t occur to me that she actually has such an honourable status.”
The Thousand Water County King was a superior county that did not belong to the Nine Counties of Lingxi, however, it was very close to the Nine Counties of Lingxi.
The territory of the Nine Counties of Lingxi combined was less than a quarter of the territory of the Thousand Water County Kingdom.
The eastern part of the Yunwu County State bordered the Thousand Waters County State, and in a sense, the Yunwu County State was even dependent on the Thousand Waters County State.
Every year, Yunwu County would send a large amount of tribute to Thousand Waters County in order to get the shelter of Thousand Waters County, otherwise, the Four Direction County would have already annexed Yunwu County.
Since Huang Yichen was the County Lord of the Thousand Water County Kingdom, the possibility of her being an assassin from the Hellmouth Sect was also ruled out.
“Senior Sister Huang’s temper is too violent, not at all like a County Lord.” Zhang Ruochen shook his head.
“Sister Dust’s character is straight and doesn’t know how to disguise herself, if you come into contact with her for a long time, you’ll realise that she’s actually a very nice person.” Duanmu Xingling laughed.
Zhang Ruochen returned to Xuan Character Number 1 to inspect that one assassin whose cultivation he had ruined.
When Zhang Ruochen returned, he found that one assassin, who had already been killed.
“It was killed by someone shattering his heart with a palm.” Zhang Ruochen’s hand touched the location of that one assassin’s heart and found that that one assassin’s heart was shattered into pieces.
Duanmu Xingling also caught up and saw that one slayer who was killed and said, “How could this happen? We were clearly in the courtyard, only thirty metres away from the attic, who on earth was able to kill him without God knowing? ”
Zhang Ruochen’s face was grave as he said, “The other party are all at least at the Earth Extreme Realm Grand Circle cultivation level, and there is even a possibility that they could be a Heavenly Extreme Realm Martial Myth.”
Duanmu Xingling’s face changed as she said, “In the Western Courtyard, there is such a terrifying assassin lurking, this matter must be reported to the Courtyard Master immediately.”
“No need! The big fish has already fallen into the net!”
With his hands behind his back, the Western Academy Master walked in from outside, a faint smile on his face.
Zhang Ruochen asked, “Who is it?”
The Western Courtyard Master’s gaze looked towards the wigwam in the distance as he said, “Elder Situ, since you’ve already come, why do you still need to hide? Is there still that need?
