World-Ending Demon Emperor
Chapter 623 - 314: Devouring the holy relic?

Chapter 623: 314: Devouring the holy relic?

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Inside a brothel in Tianshui City.

No one knew that there was a secret dungeon beneath the brothel.

When the night grew quiet and the bustling noise of the brothel finally settled down, what remained were the faint sounds of breaths and moans.

Over a dozen shadows appeared silently in an abandoned woodshed of the brothel. They moved aside a large box and lifted the mat on the floor to reveal a hidden door.

Opening the hidden door revealed dark underground steps.

These shadowy assassins made their way down the steps into the secret dungeon.

At that time, the only person inside the dungeon was a deaf and mute old man who was dozing off. He didn’t even notice the arrival of several shadows.

However, the elder in the cell suddenly became alert and raised his head, revealing his gaunt face.

The original Lord Tuli Yun of Tuli Ming City had a short beard, each hair as stiff as a steel needle.

But now, his beard had grown several inches, and he had lost a considerable amount of weight.

Yet one could recognize him at a glance, he was indeed Lord Tuli Yun of Luan Yang City, father of Tuli Yang.

His tall, straight, and sharp nose, eyes like an eagle’s, and his chiseled cheeks were all very distinctive features.

"What, Count Suo Lun has finally decided to finish me off?" Count Tuli Yun said coldly.

Several shadowy assassins looked towards one among them, who nodded and said, "Yes, that’s Tuli Yun."

Upon hearing this, Count Tuli Yun’s eyes immediately flashed with a sharp light, "You are not from Tianshui City, who exactly are you?"

Suddenly, one of the assassins said, "Lord Tuli Yun, someone doesn’t wish for you to live in this world anymore."

"Move!"

At a command,

"Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh, swoosh..."

Several shadowy assassins launched bolts from their crossbows, shooting a deadly fusillade of poisoned arrows.

Count Tuli Yun originally had high martial skills, but after being imprisoned and having his muscles and veins sabotaged by drugs and other methods, he was completely unable to dodge the dense volley of poisoned arrows.

"Pfft, pfft, pfft..."

Instantly, he was struck by dozens of poisoned arrows, and the blood that spattered was black.

Almost without a scream, he met his untimely death.

A dignified Earl, a lord of the Rage Wave Kingdom with a century-old lineage, met his end in this manner.

"He’s dead," said an assassin. "Go and chop off his head."

Approaching the cell, they were surprised to find there was no cell door; the thick steel bars were embedded directly into the stone slabs of the solid floor and ceiling. This prevented outsiders from entering the cell and the prisoner from escaping.

"Truly a death cell, impossible to rescue anyone from," an assassin said. "But the people from Tianshui City probably never thought that we didn’t come here to rescue but to kill!"

Just then, faint footsteps echoed from above.

"Someone’s coming, let’s go," whispered an assassin.

The lead assassin picked up a crossbow and shot a bolt straight into Count Tuli Yun’s forehead with a forceful thud.

"Piercing..." The poisoned steel arrow shot straight into Tuli Yun’s skull.

The already deceased Count Tuli Yun was now dead beyond any doubt.

"The deed is done, let’s go!" ordered the lead assassin.

The dozen shadowy assassins swiftly retreated, passing by the dozing deaf and mute old man without him noticing.

One of the assassins was about to shoot an arrow to kill him, but the lead assassin stopped him.

"Leave him, he makes things more interesting."

Then, the dozen assassins quickly left the secret dungeon.

After returning to the surface, several figures rushed over, shouting, "Who is it?"

The assassins, without a word, shot poisoned arrows towards the source of the noise.

"Run fast, don’t tangle with them, don’t alert the experts of Tianshui City," the lead assassin ordered.

In the blink of an eye, the assassins had vanished without a trace.

Turing Duo, who viewed Count Tuli Yun as a thorn in her eye, had him assassinated just like that. From then on, there was nothing to stop her husband Tuli Yang from inheriting the position of City Lord.

Once Tuli Yang took his place as the Lord, and she and Zhi Li had their child, then Turing Duo would kill Tuli Yang.

That way, Luan Yang City would be completely in the hands of Turing Duo.

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Half an hour later, at the camp of the Tianshui City Guard,

"Mrs. Yan, the enemy has taken the bait and killed the fake Lord Tuli Yun," a eunuch from the Shadow Cabinet reported respectfully.

Yan Nai’er nodded and asked, "Did the assassins sent by the Turing Clan suspect the fake Lord Tuli Yun?"

"No," the expert from the Shadow Cabinet replied. "The double we selected for Lord Tuli Yun was one in a thousand, and after the Magician’s transformation, there were absolutely no flaws. It won’t take long before both Turing Duo and Zhi Li believe that Lord Tuli Yun is indeed dead."

Yan Nai’er nodded and said, "Well done."

"Your servant shall take leave now," said the eunuch of the Shadow Cabinet as he departed.

Fen Mo should have left as well, but after a moment’s hesitation, he said, "Turing Duo personally told me that Lord Suo Lun is dead."

"Impossible," Yan Nai’er said, her expression unchanged.

Fen Mo continued, "But there is no sign of Lord Suo Lun either in Rou Ran City or the royal city. More than twenty days ago, he left the royal city to return to Tianshui City, and there is a terrible site of attack in Black Furnace County Mount Calamity, which is on the very path that Lord Suo Lun had to take."