The Extreme Alchemist of the Mighty Cauldron
Chapter 1460 - Chapter 1460 Chapter 1558 Assassin vs. Assassin

Chapter 1460: Chapter 1558: Assassin vs. Assassin Chapter 1460: Chapter 1558: Assassin vs. Assassin Li Zhangyi was a prodigious Alchemy Taoist who rose to fame in the Nine Countries four hundred years ago, known for his mastery of various Ancient Alchemy Skills. He even once had the glorious feat of refining Pills with Seven Cauldrons simultaneously, which instantly elevated him to the forefront of all the talents of his time. Among his peers, only two or three could compare with him.

However, Li Zhangyi was also a person of high pride and arrogance, taking great pleasure in challenging and sparring with others. After each competition and victory over his opponents, he would take the opportunity to humiliate them greatly.

Because of this, Li Zhangyi’s popularity within the Pill Alliance was not good four hundred years ago, and many people disliked interacting with him.

Now that four hundred years have passed, Li Zhangyi’s proficiency in Alchemy Tao has naturally become even more profound and inscrutable, easily sufficient to assume a high-level position within the Pill Alliance.

The Western Moon King had dispatched him to a Pill Alliance branch in Yuan Country, to preside over this place and garner the hearts of the local Pill Refiners.

Li Zhangyi accepted this task, but he wasn’t very satisfied with it in his heart. However, he had no choice; after all, it was a mission arranged by the Western Moon King, and whether satisfied or not, he had to carry it out.

Moreover, for Li Zhangyi, this was also an excellent opportunity to showcase his abilities. As long as he could establish a firm foothold in this branch of the Pill Alliance and gather his own base of power, competing for high positions within the Pill Alliance in the future would be somewhat easier.

His high pride and arrogance made him unsatisfied with being just a branch’s chief. He aspired to be the controller of the Pill Alliance, climbing all the way to the position of Heaven King.

After emerging from seclusion and arriving at this place, Li Zhangyi had inquired other Pill Refiners about the impressive talents in Alchemy Tao of the current era.

The branch’s Pill Refiners naturally told Li Zhangyi about the geniuses of this era, among which Fang Lin was undoubtedly the most mentioned.

After all, Fang Lin was the youngest Master of Pill in the history of the Pill Alliance. He had entered the realm of the Five Cauldrons at less than twenty years of age and had repeatedly made significant contributions to the Pill Alliance, never once defeated in his Alchemy Tao duels.

All these things were enough to establish Fang Lin’s reputation as the number one young genius of his generation.

Not to mention Fang Lin’s other accomplishments, challenging the Hall Master of the Thirty-Two Halls, overturning the Inspection Hall, fighting injured against Taoist Sect Pill Refiners, and so forth – each and every event had enough shocking power to its name.

Although Fang Lin might already be dead and become a traitor of the Pill Alliance, in the eyes of many Pill Alliance Pill Refiners, Fang Lin was still very much worth mentioning.

Hearing other people’s stories, Li Zhangyi naturally felt a sense of unwillingness about Fang Lin, especially when he learned that this Fang Lin had become a Master of Pill before the age of twenty. Even someone as proud and arrogant as Li Zhangyi was taken aback deep down, despite keeping a straight face.

Nevertheless, Li Zhangyi still really wanted to compete with Fang Lin in Alchemy Tao, to step on Fang Lin and prove who was the true Alchemy Tao genius.

“What a pity, this fellow is already dead, lessening the fun,” Li Zhangyi murmured to himself, standing before a caldron of Pills he was currently refining.

Footsteps sounded, particularly abrupt within the spacious Pill Refining Room.

Li Zhangyi’s eyebrows furrowed, and anger surged in his heart. He had already instructed his subordinate Pill Refiners that they were absolutely not to disturb him by entering the Pill Refining Room while he was refining Pills.

“Damn it! Who allowed you to come in while I am refining Pills?” Li Zhangyi turned around and scolded, but his expression changed in the next moment.

The person who came was not one of Li Zhangyi’s subordinate Pill Refiners, but a mysterious individual wearing a Tiger-Head Mask.

“People from the Sky Swallowing Palace?” Although Li Zhangyi had only recently emerged from seclusion, he had heard about Sky Swallowing Palace and the masked individuals, knowing that it was a newly rising power that opposed both the Pill Alliance and Hidden Kill Hall, and every masked individual who appeared was an exceptional expert with extraordinary skills.

Although Li Zhangyi maintained a very calm facade, after all, he was not an ordinary person, his mind was rapidly considering how to deal with this masked individual.

The person in the Tiger-Head Mask didn’t say a word, his footsteps firm as he walked directly towards Li Zhangyi, the aura of killing intent unmistakable.

Li Zhangyi’s expression changed; this person had come to kill him.

If it were about refining Pills, indeed, Li Zhangyi was a genius among geniuses. But when it came to Martial Arts strength, he had only reached the second or third level of Spirit Source, and that too with the help of Pills, not exactly a solidly built foundation. Consequently, his strength was slightly weaker compared to his fellow Martial Artists.

To confront this masked person, he was definitely no match.

“People of Sky Swallowing Palace, we have been waiting for you for a long time.” Two figures stepped out from behind Li Zhangyi and positioned themselves in front of him, shielding him.

The Tiger-Head Masked individual stopped in his tracks, his cold gaze, hidden beneath the mask, focusing on the two people before him.

These two individuals, one dressed in a yellow robe with a sinister look about him, appeared to be in his twenties, with a blue left eye and a red right eye.

The other individual was lean and pale to a frightening degree, but dressed in a black robe which made his complexion appear even more ghostly white.

The Tiger-Head Masked person was unconcerned, his gaze lingering more on the individual in the yellow robe.

“Fire King, Wind Monarch,” the Tiger-Head Masked individual identified the two figures’ identities.

These two were indeed among the four grand Assassins of Hidden Kill Hall, known as Fire King and Wind Monarch.

Li Zhangyi stood behind these two formidable Assassins, his heart filled with trepidation.

To be honest, being protected by people from Hidden Kill Hall made Li Zhangyi quite uncomfortable. He, like orthodox Pill Refiners, detested Poison Pill Masters and Hidden Kill Hall.

Having been assigned these two grand Assassins as protection, Li Zhangyi could say he didn’t sleep well at all, since having such deadly Assassins lurking near him would unsettle anyone.

Nevertheless, since they were here to protect his life, especially at a time like this facing an unwelcome guest from Sky Swallowing Palace, these two grand Assassins indeed played their role.

“You recognize us, so you must be someone familiar. Why not take off your mask and let us see your true face?” Fire King asked with a faint smile, while his left blue eye suddenly lit up with a faint glow.

Fire King was using his Pupil Skill, trying to see the true face of the Tiger-Head Masked person, but even with his skill employed, all he saw was a blur.

“Interesting, a mask that can block probing. But can this mask truly hide your identity completely?” Fire King said, his lips curling into a light smile.

The Tiger-Head Masked person was silent, seemingly a man of few words. Facing the well-known Assassins, Fire King and Wind Monarch of Hidden Kill Hall, he didn’t show arrogance, his sword wrapped in gray cloth being unsheathed from his back.

“Let me be the first to receive you,” said the pale phibrows_kenchaos_sharp Wind Monarch, moving forward.

Hum!!!

The Tiger-Head Masked person didn’t remove the gray cloth, directly striking at Wind Monarch with his sword.

ps: Second update here, I continue to type away.