80: Chapter 80 The world's most ruthless and powerful nine-star assassin guild—Shadow Bone!

Yunlan City.

Inside the secret room of the City Lord's main hall.

City Lord Yun Xiangtian, who was in the middle of a meal, suddenly received several urgent messages. The lizard-like features on his face—his eyes, skin, claws, and tail—faded away.

He put down his "delicious meal".

It was a Genius female job-changer who still had a faint breath left, her stomach already hollowed out.

At this moment, his identity information was revealed.

[Name: Yun Xiangtian]

[Identity: President of Yunlan Guild, City Lord of Yunlan City, Blood Lizard Yiren]

"I hate getting urgent messages at this time!"

Yun Xiangtian clicked on the information panel.

[City Lord, your record in the 5-star exploration secret realm, the Black Bone Tower, has been broken. The record-breaker's information is hidden, and their whereabouts are unknown. The opponent is suspected to be of the Assassin class!]

"So the record I intentionally left behind has been broken? It seems a decent Genius has appeared in Yunlan City! Heh!"

There are two ways for Yiren to level up: one is by killing Invading Monsters, and the other is by devouring job-changers. Both can provide experience for leveling up.

Genius job-changers with high potential—including professional potential, combat potential, talent potential, etc.—provide even more experience.

[Issue a bounty, find the record-breaker!]

...

[City Lord, strange events occurred around Six Ring Mountain outside the city tonight. There was huge commotion. According to eyewitnesses, there was fire burning in the sky, and a huge golden light emerged.]

[After investigation, there are large amounts of ice crystals on the ground, as well as numerous traces—at least a million creatures' activity traces—and quite a bit of fresh blood. However, this only appeared around Six Ring Mountain.]

[Additionally, someone had used a one-time shielding item in the Six Ring Mountain area.]

[Preliminary judgment: It is suspected that a mysterious and powerful Beast Tamer summoned a large number of pet beasts, which is the only way to cause such a commotion, only to disappear without a trace!]

Seeing the information sent by the Yunlan City patrol, Yun Xiangtian frowned deeply. What was this about fire, ice, and golden light, plus a million pet beasts?

This was simply impossible!

Even a 9th-rank legendary Beast Tamer, who has contracted 9 hatchable special legendary pet beasts, could not hatch a million of them!

He was so certain because he was a Beast Tamer himself and followed the pet-hatching path!

His seven pet beasts all had hatching talents and could hatch in large quantities, but each pet beast could hatch at most a thousand offspring at a time.

Based on his own analysis, a 9th-rank legendary-level hatching pet beast could hatch at most tens of thousands of offspring at once. Even with 9 of them, at most, it would be hundreds of thousands. A million was impossible.

Unless there were two 9th-rank legendary Beast Tamers at Six Ring Mountain, and both followed the pet-hatching path.

But that was even more impossible.

Because in the world today, there is only one 9th-rank legendary Beast Tamer, and that is the King of the Yiren, the supreme ruler of the Yiren Kingdom, but he does not exclusively follow the pet-hatching path.

[Investigate carefully, confirm whether this was done by a powerful Beast Tamer, how many Beast Tamers were involved, and check if there are any special invading secret realms nearby!]

Yun Xiangtian gave the orders.

...

[Reporting to the City Lord, Pavilion Master Tang Hai of our Yunlan City branch of Jinbao Pavilion has gone missing. Garrison personnel discovered he left the city urgently, heading in the direction of Six Ring Mountain.]

Hm?

Pavilion Master Tang Hai has gone missing?

This matter could be significant.

After all, Jinbao Pavilion is one of the top 9-star guilds in the Great Xia!

Although they mainly focus on business, their strength cannot be underestimated.

If a 7th-rank Pavilion Master goes missing and they send experts to investigate, he would be quite restricted, because Yiren are the most unwelcome job-changers in the world.

Furthermore,

Why would the direction of Tang Hai's disappearance be Six Ring Mountain?

[Gather men, track Tang Hai's whereabouts!]

...

[City Lord, a job-changer outside the city reported discovering a mysterious mount heading towards Six Ring Mountain. It had fire special effects along the road as it ran. It is suspected to be an Epic-tier mount, or even a Legendary-tier mount!]

Six Ring Mountain again???

Yun Xiangtian was stunned.

Why does every emergency tonight, besides the record-breaking, have to do with Six Ring Mountain?

[Send a squad to investigate clearly!]

Feeling that things were not simple, Yun Xiangtian, who had wanted to continue his meal, decided he had to go to Six Ring Mountain himself. He beckoned, summoned a human-faced spider pet beast, and let it devour the girl.

"Remember to remove her skull and embed it nicely after you finish eating. This is my souvenir!"

"Squeak! As you command, my master!"

The walls of the secret room were embedded with skulls. If one were to count them, the number would not be less than 100,000!

Three meals a day, two people per meal—he had been eating like this for 50 years!

"Ah!!!"

A shrill scream echoed in the sealed room, making one's hair stand on end.

...

On the other side.

After Lu Chen and Yu Linglong returned, they held a simple funeral for Aunt Ying and buried her remains on a small hill within the guild territory.

If there was anyone most heartbroken, besides Yu Linglong, it was Lu Chen's mother, Chen Rou.

She and Night Shadow were of similar age, and after spending these days together, they had begun calling each other sisters and chatting happily.

She just hadn't expected that they would be separated by life and death so suddenly.

She understood in her heart.

In this world today, death is a very normal thing.

It happens every moment!

Death and the eternal separation of loved ones are staged all over the world.

"Son, this world is just this cruel. If you aren't strong, let alone protecting your family, it's hard to even protect yourself!"

Lu Sen said with deep emotion: "That's why, when I was young, I always adhered to one principle: develop low-key, grow strong low-key, and never act recklessly until you have absolute strength!"

"Dad, I understand."

But unlike his father, after the battle last night, Lu Chen had fully realized his own strength.

With the Titan Beast Soul possessed, plus the Celestial War Body, the attributes granted to his pet beasts were strong enough to make the pets ignore the pressure of a 7th-rank powerhouse and easily deal with one.

As long as a 7th-rank powerhouse is completely surrounded by his pet beasts, they would absolutely be unable to escape!

Therefore,

He already had the confidence to look down upon the powerhouses of Yunlan City!

After all, he was in a young man's body; he would be low-key when necessary and high-profile when necessary, as long as his tracks weren't completely exposed!

"Sister Linglong, what was going on with those three assassins?"

After comforting Yu Linglong, Lu Chen asked.

"They were assassins from Skeleton Shadow, who had accepted an assassination mission from the First Lady of Jinbao Pavilion to assassinate me."

"What? Skeleton Shadow?"

Lu Sen and Chen Rou's expressions changed drastically upon hearing this.

Skeleton Shadow!

That was known as the most brutal and powerful 9-star assassin guild in the world.

For the sake of a mission, they could even assassinate their own family members; they were extremely inhumane!

Furthermore,

Once they accepted a mission, they would pursue it relentlessly until the target was successfully assassinated!

Yu Linglong told Lu Chen and the others about her past, and only then did the three of them understand why the First Lady of Jinbao Pavilion would have Skeleton Shadow take action against Yu Linglong.

This was to maintain her image, not wanting to be criticized or labeled with the title of killing her own daughter, even if it wasn't biological.

After all, Yu Linglong's identity had already been announced by Head Pavilion Master Ye Lingxiao of Jinbao Pavilion; this was the only way he could protect his beloved daughter.

Therefore,

Jin Nihuang had Skeleton Shadow take action.

This was being a whore while still wanting to set up a memorial arch!

"It's all my fault. I shouldn't have risked going to Jinbao Pavilion to buy Materials for the 5th-rank Beast Tamer advancement mission. Otherwise, Pavilion Master Tang Hai wouldn't have noticed the information, and Aunt Ying wouldn't have died tragically!"

"Even though you, Brother Lu Chen, had told me to try not to go to Jinbao Pavilion, and even though Aunt Ying had warned me there was a risk, I still went in order to collect the Materials for your advancement mission as quickly as possible, which led to Aunt Ying's tragic death. It was me who caused Aunt Ying's death, wuwuwu!"

Yu Linglong wept bitterly.

"This is partly my fault as well!"

Lu Chen sighed.

At this moment,

Lu Sen said slowly: "Son, you're going to have big trouble from now on. Skeleton Shadow assassins have a blood pact on them. If you kill them, you will be tainted with the blood pact effect, and they can use this effect to find your location!"

Lu Chen also frowned; this was indeed a big problem.

Right now!

He had to finish reaching the 5th rank before other powerful Skeleton Shadow assassins came, then unlock the fourth rule item to see if he could unlock something that could clear the blood pact.

Otherwise!

No matter where he hid, it wouldn't be safe. Skeleton Shadow assassins would find him one after another, and the ones coming would be increasingly powerful!