The Path of the Martial Arts BOSS
Chapter 377 - 189 Sudden Assassination

Chapter 377: Chapter 189 Sudden Assassination

"Playing both god and devil, harming yet saving others. Host, your malevolent intentions and brazen shamelessness have truly astonished this System, thus rewarding you with one thousand Villain Points," the System stated with its usual mechanical voice in its usual unpleasant praise.

Qing Yu’s lips twitched slightly, ignoring the System’s critique with his strong mentality.

"How are things on the Eldest Prince’s side?" Qing Yu asked Feng Jiu.

"As before," Feng Jiu said, "though he constantly issues orders, dispatching his men to act, he himself stays holed up within the confines of the Eastern Palace, daring not to step half a foot outside the Imperial Palace. After all, who wouldn’t know or hear of Gong Ziyu’s fierce reputation?"

Gong Ziyu rarely made a move, but every strike was lethal, and every target met their death. Even with the Eldest Prince’s boldness, he wouldn’t dare disregard the reputation built upon stacked corpses and test Gong Ziyu’s methods on himself.

"This also reveals that there are no True Pill Realm masters protecting Feng Guanyu," Qing Yu stated.

If there were True Pill Realm masters to protect him, Feng Guanyu wouldn’t be cowering in the Eastern Palace bedroom and would have gone out fishing long ago.

"For the Sixth Prince, through the Shadow Market, the message was conveyed to double the reward and to have Feng Guanyu killed, the sooner the better," Feng Jiu continued.

"Double the reward? Ha, what Feng Chaonan gave was already plenty," Qing Yu said, patting the thick stack of papers in his hand.

What was recorded in this hefty stack of papers were all assets surreptitiously transferred from Feng Chaonan—it’s just that he himself was unaware of it.

"So, what do you plan to do? Are you really planning to risk it to assassinate Feng Chaonan?" asked Feng Jiu.

It’s embarrassing to mention, but because there are few truly rational people in the Azure Dragon Association, assassination, which needs precision, could only be performed by Qing Yu himself.

"Rest assured, I place great value on my own safety. However, now that there are no True Core Realm Martial Artists accompanying Feng Guanyu, this is an excellent opportunity."

The Cangsheng Sect wouldn’t likely lack True Pill Realm experts; this situation might just be an exception, but it could change at any moment.

Qing Yu turned, his hands behind his back, gazing up at the upper section of the bedroom, "This opportunity must be seized well."

"The chance may come sooner, perhaps tomorrow, or possibly, even today."

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It was also night in another bedroom of the Eastern Palace.

Eldest Prince Feng Guanyu asked a scholar in a white mask, Bai Guishan, "How long till the Protector of our sect can arrive?"

"Even if he can arrive, he wouldn’t dare act rashly. Both Xinyuan Abbot from the Great Zen Temple and Mountain Master Meng from Mountain River Academy are watching this place. If we make a move, we might very well lose a life as soon as we do," Bai Guishan said helplessly.

The Cangsheng Sect is a sect too, and when he and the people from Nalanda Temple in the Western Regions competed for the Star Map, it was a frantic struggle, almost maddening.

Having previously advanced into a Zen Sect was already impinging upon the Confucian space. If the Cangsheng Sect were also to join now, would Mountain River Academy still recruit new students?

If True Pill Realm masters really started fighting, the intense fluctuations of Primordial Energy could easily attract Mountain Master Meng, who was just outside the city on Datong Mountain.

Hence, the opportunity against Gong Ziyu might only come once and must be handled with extreme caution.

"Anyway, we just need to quietly wait for the Dharma Protecting King to come, then we can try to eliminate Gong Ziyu and regain control of the situation," Huyan Qian said cheerfully.

"Huyan Qian, don’t be overly optimistic. Gong Ziyu has many tricks up his sleeve," Bai Guishan advised.

"No matter how many tricks he has, they are all illusions. Bai Guishan, we just need to wait for someone..."

"Puu-ch—"

The slight and smooth sound, however, brought about unimaginably horrifying consequences.

Huyan Qian incredulously looked at the arm that had suddenly pierced through his entire chest from behind, his face filled with shock, "How... How is this possible..."

He had never imagined that someone would dare to sneak into the Imperial Palace to perform an assassination. Inside the Imperial Palace, there were countless experts—Huyan Qian knew that it was no place for assassins to run amok.

Not to mention, this unknown attacker had managed to pierce the chest of a Body Refining Martial Artist.

However, the reality was just so. Even if Huyan Qian found it hard to believe, it could not change what had already happened. His vision slowly dimmed.

"Indeed, no True Core Realm Martial Artists? I really thank you all for resolving my doubts."

The figure that had suddenly appeared behind Huyan Qian slowly withdrew his right arm that had pierced through the chest, and blood flowed along the sleeve, but it could hardly stain the black garment and pale hand with blood.

Finally, all the blood flowed from the dark garment onto the ground without leaving a trace on the person. The black sleeve remained luxurious and glossy, the pale hand untouched by any other matter.

With a gentle push, Huyan Qian’s robust body thunderously fell to the ground, revealing the figure clad in a black robe and wearing a bronze mask standing behind him.

"Gong Ziyu."

"Gong Ziyu."

Eldest Prince Feng Guanyu and Bai Guishan simultaneously named the dark figure. The bronze mask was Gong Ziyu’s most distinguished sign.

"Eldest Prince Feng Guanyu." Qing Yu’s gaze fixed on the startled Feng Guanyu.

Next, his gaze turned towards the ghostly-looking scholar Bai Guishan, "Once the seventh-ranking Poison Heart Scholar on the list, I never expected that you had joined the Cangsheng Sect.

Old ghost Bai, I heard that you once looked down on Zhang Yangping, who had just entered the rankings, and went to provoke him first, only to be injured by him and lose your foundation. Since then, you disappeared and did not even show your face when you were removed from the rankings, until today. You sure have the guts to face me."

Qing Yu stared at Bai Guishan, his eyes conveying a dangerous meaning, "In the past, you faced Zhang Yangping who had just entered the rankings and were utterly defeated. Facing me today, I wonder how it will turn out?"

The rhetorical question came out in a definitive tone, as if the end of the Poison Heart Scholar Bai Guishan was already determined.

This predetermined tone made Bai Guishan extremely uncomfortable, his body emanating a chilling coldness, and his cold True Qi covered the ground around him with a thin layer of black frost.

However, being the man known as "Poison Heart Scholar," while seemingly preparing to fight Qing Yu to the death, secretly sent a signal to Feng Guanyu.

Upon receiving Bai Guishan’s hint, Feng Guanyu quietly crushed a jade pendant hidden in his sleeve.

An invisible ripple spread out from around Feng Guanyu, diffusing in all directions. However, as the ripple moved beyond the bedroom, it was blocked by an invisible wall and disintegrated.

"Signaling devices or the like?" Qing Yu calmly watched the invisible ripple form and dissipate.

Qing Yu saw the ripple clearly under his Heavenly Son’s Qi Observation Skill.