The Extreme Alchemist of the Mighty Cauldron
Chapter 1095 - Chapter 1095 Chapter 1094 Murder on a Rainy Night

Chapter 1095: Chapter 1094: Murder on a Rainy Night Chapter 1095: Chapter 1094: Murder on a Rainy Night Ling Country, one of the Middle Three Kingdoms.

In the City of Chiyang, an important location in the eastern region of Ling Country, stood a significant branch of Hidden Kill Hall.

The power of Hidden Kill Hall spread throughout the Nine Countries, deeply rooted and complicated, just like leeks that grow back after being cut, impossible to completely eradicate.

Unless Hidden Kill Hall were to be utterly uprooted, its branches would continue to appear across the Nine Countries.

Although Ling Country was merely one of the Middle Three Kingdoms, Hidden Kill Hall had many operatives there, especially in the eastern region, where there were as many as a hundred branches.

The City of Chiyang was a vital stronghold in the eastern territory of Ling Country, leading directly to Tang Country once one left the city.

In this City of Chiyang lurked a branch of Hidden Kill Hall, not a typical one, as numerous A Assassins were stationed there.

The vast City of Chiyang, lively and bustling on the surface, hid a bloody and cruel underworld, with people from Hidden Kill Hall moving in the shadows every day and night.

It wasn’t an exaggeration to say that the fate of the entire City of Chiyang and all its inhabitants lay in the hands of Hidden Kill Hall.

The last two Lords of Chiyang City had been silently killed within the City Lord Mansion, and the current Lord had managed to keep his position to this day by being extremely cautious and completely inactive.

With such a massive branch of Hidden Kill Hall lurking in Chiyang City, the royal family of Ling Country was naturally not oblivious to it.

However, even if the Ling royal family wanted to remove this major cancer from the cities in the east, it was difficult to achieve.

In the style of Hidden Kill Hall’s operations, even if the Ling royal family concentrated its forces to eliminate the branch in Chiyang City, it wouldn’t take long for a second branch to re-emerge within the city.

Moreover, the Ling royal family would definitely suffer retaliation from Hidden Kill Hall. Although Hidden Kill Hall could not openly oppose an entire royal family at the moment, killing off a few significant members of the royalty, such as a Prince or two, would still be quite easy for them.

Therefore, the Ling royal family had no option but to turn a blind eye, as long as the branch of Hidden Kill Hall in Chiyang City didn’t do anything overly outrageous.

Of course, the Ling royal family hadn’t done nothing; behind the scenes, they were still contacting Tang Country, hoping they could work together to eliminate the branch of Hidden Kill Hall in Chiyang City.

While Tang Country had agreed to help Ling Country, every time its powerful figures arrived, the branch of Hidden Kill Hall in Chiyang City would vanish without a trace, having fled before anyone could act.

After several failed attempts, Tang Country also came to understand that Hidden Kill Hall’s influence within its borders was not insignificant and that every move was known to Hidden Kill Hall in advance.

At the end of September and the beginning of October.

The eastern region of Ling Country was plagued with rain, and several days of continuous overcast and rainy weather in the City of Chiyang had hidden the sun, casting a somewhat gloomy atmosphere over the usually vibrant and bustling city.

Under the pouring rain, a grey-clad man with an ordinary-looking face held a cyan-colored oil-paper umbrella, his steps composed as he entered the City of Chiyang.

There weren’t many people coming and going within the city, some clad in straw raincoats, others holding oil-paper umbrellas, with most hurrying along their way.

The grey-clad man glanced around and then headed towards a street with very few people.

Night fell quickly, and within an extremely concealed building in Chiyang City, numerous figures gathered, each emanating a chilling and eerie aura.

“The order from above has come down, experts from Tang Country will arrive again in seven days. To guard against the possibility that Tang Country’s experts arrive early, we will all go into hiding starting tomorrow. Avoid stirring up any trouble, and after the storm passes, we will regroup here,” said the man at the forefront, a purple-clad figure with his face shrouded in a mask, his voice carried a certain age and a tinge of vicissitude.

“Yes,” a group of black-clad assassins responded in unison.

“There’s no need for that, you’re all going to die here today; there’s no need to hide anymore,” a languid voice rang out, startling everyone present into turning around abruptly.

“Kill!” The purple-clad masked man uttered no other word but a command to kill. After all, no matter who the sudden speaker was, by discovering the gathering place of a Hidden Kill Hall branch, they left no choice but to a path of death; they absolutely could not afford to let him have any chance of survival.

A swarm of black-clad assassins sprang into action, murder in their steps as they went to locate the sudden speaker.

To their shock, a long spear sliced through the night, instantly piercing the throats of a dozen black-clad individuals.

Another figure appeared, with a sweep of his hand, an imposing aura surged forth, causing the entire building to collapse thunderously, accompanied by the agonized screams of numerous black-clad assassins.

Boom!!!

The collapsing building alarmed the nearby townsfolk, who all woke up, and many experts from within the city reacted to the disturbance.

The purple-clad masked man was no weakling, possessing the strength of a Spirit Bone triple-layer cultivation, he was an A Assassin; yet, he had little power to resist and was impaled through the heart by the spear of the assailant, dying a grisly death on the spot.

By the time the city’s martial artists hurried over, the battle had already ended; the sight of the collapsed building and bodies strewn about left all onlookers trembling with fear.

When the Lord of Chiyang City hurried over, he jumped in shock, realizing that someone was clearly exterminating Hidden Kill Hall.

The Lord of Chiyang City instantly broke out in a cold sweat, daring to lay hands on Hidden Kill Hall; was this not a death wish? Or was there another scheme at play?

“Quickly report this to the royal family!” sensing that a major event was unfolding, the Lord of Chiyang City immediately ordered his trusted subordinates to notify the royal family.

No one expected that overnight, three gathering places of Hidden Kill Hall in Chiyang City would all be annihilated by one man wielding a spear.

As the day passed, the Chiyang City, which had been shrouded in rain for days, finally saw some sunlight, as if heralding that this city, long held in the clutches of dark forces, was seeing the light once more.

The three gathering places of Hidden Kill Hall were breached by one man with a spear, resulting in the deaths of over a hundred Hidden Kill Hall assassins, including five A Assassins.

Five A Assassins, that is five Spirit Bone experts, all perished in one night.

For Chiyang City, this was equivalent to eradicating a long-standing malignancy in one fell swoop.

The martial artists of Chiyang City were astounded: who could have done this? Who had such audacity? To kill even the people of Hidden Kill Hall?

It was known that even the Ling Country royal family was helpless against the branches of Hidden Kill Hall within their territory, fearing retaliation from Hidden Kill Hall, yet someone single-handedly destroyed a major branch, seemingly tired of living?

On Hidden Kill Hall’s side, when they learned that their branch in Chiyang City had been wiped out overnight, they were furious, assuming at first that it was the work of high-level experts secretly dispatched by the Ling Country royal family.

But upon investigation, they discovered it was not the act of the Ling Country royal family but of a mysterious individual wielding a long spear, leaving his identity unknown.

Outside the borders of Ling Country, upon a desolate mountain, a man in grey with a long spear in hand walked slowly to the peak, where a person wearing a black iron mask stood.