Killing Dao Fruit
Chapter 179 - 176: Fishing Enforcement, Playing Both Roles

Chapter 179: Chapter 176: Fishing Enforcement, Playing Both Roles

"The formation of the Innate Divine Ability, Water and Wind Attire, further propelled Wang Yuan’s advancement in Military Skill Cultivation."

His Qi-Blood surged forcefully within his body, sweeping through every inch of his minute corners."

As his body shrank and expanded three times, the second stage of Military Skill, ’Refining Marrow and Changing Blood,’ was declared completely accomplished."

At the same time, the power within Wang Yuan involuntarily condensed into a stream and fiercely drilled towards a mysterious acupoint in his body."

Boom—!

Although there was a quake inside, he ultimately failed to break through this acupoint associated with the ’White Tiger’, and the power returned to various parts without further anomalies."

This signaled that his second-stage Military Skill was indeed perfect, but it had not reached the level of the third stage, ’Spirit Communication Transformation.’"

Wang Yuan was not in a hurry."

He just needed to wait until his own practice, tactics, and thoughts became unified, reaching an indistinguishable state."

Then he could naturally open this secret channel in his body, completely change his bodily nature, and ascend to the third stage: ’Dao General.’"

Now, he was just lacking an opportunity."

In the future, as long as he sought more good-hearted people for crowdfunding, he would eventually overcome this threshold."

But of course, the most urgent matter now was not the breakthrough in Military Skill but rather this sudden and deadly assassination attempt!"

"The assassination targets are the twenty Forbidden Spell Colonels of the Imperial Dragon Guard?"

"The executors are this group of foreign Fox Demons, along with their backing Assassin Organization, but who then is the mastermind behind them?"

"Having just arrived in Dengzhou Prefecture for half a month, whom could the Imperial Dragon Guard have offended?"

Guess after guess popped up in Wang Yuan’s mind, each negated by him."

Soon, only one possibility remained."

"If it were simply assassinations of all Imperial Dragon Guard members, it could be understood as infringing some wicked interests, causing them to adopt the most ruthless method of hiring murderers."

"But now even Zheng Wan, a third-stage ’Dao General’ is on the list of these Fox Demon assassins."

"All are within Yunhe County’s territory, and almost simultaneously set in motion."

"Putting the two sides’ information together, only one possibility remains."

"—This is retaliation from the Xue family following Xue Donglou’s death!"

"Because Water Patrol General Zheng Wan was the last outsider to have close contact with him before his health issues emerged."

"Only with this purpose in mind would they include him in the assassination of the Imperial Dragon while at it."

"The Xue family’s style is precisely to vent their anger over Xue Donglou’s death onto others."

"However, Wang Yuan, even with deep thought, couldn’t conclude."

"Although this guess was very close to the truth, what he couldn’t imagine was that it was Xue Donglou himself, resurrected, who added Zheng Wan to the assassination list!"

"Probably because of the proximity to the sea, this group of foreign assassins had turned Yunhe County’s Ningxiang Restaurant into their den, where they could quickly flee to sea at any sign of trouble."

"Thus, upon receiving the assassination mission, their first targets were us, located within the territory of Yunhe County, and Zheng Wan who had just gone there seeking pleasure."

"This group is meticulous and well-trained, focusing purely on results without adhering to any particular form."

"Their average Taoist Ability might not be very high, yet they’re the most chilling type of professional assassins."

"Moreover, with Buddhism flourishing in the Western Regions, including many Buddha countries, how could this group of Fox Demons not practice having in their possession strong techniques like the Vajra Spirit Sword?"

"Even Zheng Wan, a ’Dao General,’ died without clarity and couldn’t bring back any useful information, indicating there are experts in their organization."

"Precisely because of this, Wang Yuan halted Old Black’s attempts to track them."

"If this first assassination attempt were successful without their members being exposed,"

"they would likely deliberately leak information, attracting the Imperial Dragon Colonels of Dengzhou Prefecture to come investigate in batches to Yunhe County."

"Then just like playing with Qiu Shaobai and Jin Shengshui in the Deceit Market, they would employ all sorts of unexpected tactics to annihilate them one by one!"

Fortunate among misfortunes."

"Perhaps these nearly extinct good people were protected by divine spirits, which led Zheng Wan, this evildoer, to take the hits for them."

"It also alerted Wang Yuan in advance to the enemy’s presence at the Prime Minister Xue’s mansion!"

Turning his head towards the direction of Shanyang City, his eyes cold:

"Daring to violently resist the law! Are you so eager to hasten your own deaths?"

"Then... as you wish!"

Half a Two Hours later, the sky began to brighten."

Located at the junction of two counties and one state, the old Mountain Spirit Temple, now the Imperial Dragon Government Office, hosted them."

Aside from Wang Yuan, Qiu Shaobai, Yuan Lang, and Gao Minghan, eight more oil lamps were placed on the table."

As the bright yellow flames erupted, the figures of sixteen other full-time Forbidden Spell Colonels from the eight counties successively emerged."

Earlier, Wang Yuan had used one gold lamp that had acted as a Long-Burning Lamp in the Mountain Spirit Temple for hundreds of years as raw material to refine a Soul Nourishing Lamp."

"Using Incense Fire Vow Power as the lamp oil, he had nourished the ’Wet Nurse.’

"Following Old Black’s attainment of form, catalyzed by Huang Wu’s ’Taiyin Refining Form,’ she became like a spirit of the lamp."

"Apart from Huang Wu who continued to call her Wet Nurse, others referred to her as: Granny Denghua."

"She awakened the Innate Divine Ability— ’Stealing Light Peeking Path.’"

Granny Denghua was inherently not strong and had almost no combat ability, yet she could easily shuttle through the flames of oil lamps as if walking on flat ground.

She could also freely control the propagation of light and simulate sounds, using them to transmit messages as fast as lightning.

Due to the urgency of the situation, she was immediately deployed to gather everyone for a remote conference.

"The Xue Mansion hired assassins to kill us, audacious!"

After hearing Wang Yuan explain the causes and consequences of this matter, the Imperial Dragon Guard Colonels were all shocked and furious.

"Is this after Xue Donglou’s accumulation of evil deeds, that the Xue family has turned their suspicions towards us, the newly appointed Imperial Dragon Guard Colonels?

Absurd! Ridiculous! They show no respect for the law!"

"I actually want to kill that bastard, but he is protected by the clan energy of the Xue family, and I need the ability to do so."

"I’ve heard Old Wang talk about those fox demons before.

This assassin organization, based in the Western Regions, is called ’Killing Temple,’ a heretical branch of Buddhism.

They often use Western Region merchants and dancing girls as covers, biding their time to assassinate.

Before executing a mission, they definitely make thorough preparations, and if the mission fails, they immediately flee, never attempting a second assassination.

But since the one who hired the assassins is still around, it’s not necessarily them who will make the next move."

"..."

After a bustling discussion, suddenly someone’s expression turned fierce:

"Others are after our lives, are we just supposed to wait to die? Boss Jiang! What do you say?"

Everyone promptly looked towards Jiang Feipeng and Bai Mo, stationed in Shanyang City.

Although everyone was at the same level, since they were in charge of the Prefecture City, they were considered half a level higher than the others and naturally had stronger abilities.

Before General Wu Yi, who was in charge of Dengzhou Prefecture affairs, arrived, Jiang Feipeng was indeed the leading figure.

At this moment, he also showed his mettle, slamming the table and declaring:

"Retaliation! We must retaliate!

But our objective is not mutual destruction; we must strategize in advance like the ’Killing Temple.’

Although the essence of the Xue family is in the Capital, this place is still the ancestral home of Prime Minister Xue, making it extremely difficult to retaliate openly.

Not to mention how many of the local garrison are from the Xue family, how many Daoist Soldiers they secretly breed, and how many Divine Weapons and Divine Generals the family temples maintain with incense fire.

Just the Long Water Camp stationed in Ninghai State, consisting of one thousand eight hundred people, could suppress us with ease.

Although nominally belonging to King Jing, it is also a border army strangled by Prime Minister Xue, who knows how much he has interfered within it?

Our only advantages are our Daoist skills and our duty to inspect weird incidents.

Who has a good strategy, speak up, and let us all consider it."

With this analysis, the group of Imperial Dragon Guard Colonels suddenly felt like a bucket of cold water had been poured over them, instantly falling silent.

No matter how they thought about it, it was a situation of an egg smashing against a rock.

Their hearts could not help but feel extremely frustrated, as the indignation inside them burned fiercer and fiercer.

Facing the power of the Xue family, could they only take a beating and not fight back?

What was the point of cultivating the Dao then?

At that moment, Wang Yuan suddenly spoke:

"Boss Jiang, although I don’t have any clever strategies,

I have received a tip-off, with reliable information, that something weird is very likely to occur soon in Prime Minister Xue’s mansion, and we are needed to protect the citizens.

If we stand by idly, the Xue Mansion might be in dire straits."

Although everyone present would be unable to escape the upcoming ’Fallen Dragon Incident,’ Wang Yuan had taken initiative to eliminate Xue Donglou in advance to prepare for it.

But ultimately, these brothers had been implicated by him.

At this time, he naturally could not hide behind everyone else, but instead needed to take on more responsibility.

Upon hearing this, the group suddenly burst into excitement, as there had never been a time when news of a weird disturbance made them so happy.

"The Xue Mansion will have a weird disturbance? Excellent! Dealing with weird disturbances is our specialty.

No, hold on!"

Jiang Feipeng immediately realized something was amiss in that statement, and wide-eyed, he pressed:

"Old Wang, you need to clarify for your brothers, what does ’soon’ mean?!"

Wang Yuan smiled mysteriously and calmly explained:

"It means that as soon as Boss Jiang gives the nod, the disturbance... will start immediately."

The group instantly understood, their eyes shining brighter than lanterns.

Killing people is illegal, but killing a weird disturbance is not.

When the Xue Mansion eventually turns into a river of blood, no one would be able to hold them accountable.

The Xue family members themselves would probably have to kneel and thank these members of the Imperial Dragon Guard for their "lifesaving" grace.

"Being despicable is contemptible, but when it comes to themselves, what they care about is:

’There’s actually such a good thing in this world? Old Wang, I’m not well-educated, don’t you deceive me!’"