Rain Listener House.
One of the zither strings snapped with a boom and the melodious tune came to an abrupt end.
Rain Listener sat upright, pondered for a moment, and said emotionally, “I didn’t expect the first time that Remnant Snow failed to complete a mission was to kill a youngster at the Human Dipper Stage and not a famous powerful figure.”
The attendant outside the door fell silent. His face was solemn, not knowing how to answer him.
In that night’s operation, the assassin Grey Marten came back with a completely destroyed sea of qi and a wrecked cultivation base. Assassin Ghost Moon was surrounded by dangers, and even until the end, couldn’t detect a trace of her opponent.
Remnant Snow also was defeated.
The wound he sustained was only an inch away from his heart. He would have died instantly if his heart was pierced.
Gray Marten, Ghost Moon and Remnant Snow all lost to the same person. And that person was precisely the teenager at the Human Dipper Stage who was about to take the provincial examination.
The result was so unbelievable and shocking that the attendant still couldn’t believe it.
“Even if the mission ended in a failure, it’s good that they are still alive.”Rain Listener rose to his feet. Clad in an azure scholarly robe, he looked particularly elegant and refined. He stood in front of a window with his hands behind his back. The torrential rain abruptly stopped and the stars in the night sky looked particularly bright.
“Lord, when Ghost Moon returned, she mentioned that a master intervened in the assassination operation at the time.”
The attendant at the door suddenly remembered something. “Also, the master asked Ghost Moon to pass a message back to us.”
“Oh.”
Rain Listener’s eyes gleamed with interest. “What did he say?”
“He asked if you still remember the blood sunset of blue mountain.”
Blood sunset of the blue mountain!
Rain Listener’s heart trembled as a purgatory world consisting of mountains of corpses and seas of blood flashed in his mind.
In that world, the sunset was red like blood as it enveloped the blue mountain. Thousands of cultivators were slaughtered on the ground and only a mighty figure, bathed in blood, stood tall and proud on the peak of the blue mountain.
“It’s him.”
A dazed look came to Rain Listener’s calm and indifferent face while his emotions constantly fluctuated.
After a long moment, Rain Listener suddenly turned around, calmness restored to his eyes. He ordered, “From tonight on, this mission is permanently canceled.”
Outside the door, the attendant was dumbfounded for a moment. The words ‘blood sunset of blue mountain’ completely changed the Lord’s attitude.
The fact that Remnant Snow, Ghost Moon and Gray Marten all failed their mission would no doubt have a tremendous impact on the reputation of Rain Listener House.
Given Rain Listener’s identity and wisdom, he must know about the negative impact but he still made such a decision. The attendant couldn’t follow his thinking.
“Go, you don’t need to understand the reason. You just need to know that we can’t touch Lin Xun.”
Rain Listener took a deep breath and sighed out loud.
Yao Susu and Lian Fei were waiting anxiously in the hall like ants on a hot pan.
A long time had passed but they still hadn’t heard back anything. They both couldn’t help but worry.
“Just to kill Lin Xun, they spent ten thousand gold coins to hire assassins from the Rain Listener’s House. But everyone, remember, the rich and powerful forces in the empire and the poor are like fire and water. Conflict will break out one day and that is when our Achievers Society will rise.”
The members of the Achievers Society bore looks of determination. They were born in a poor family and so they naturally didn’t want to be poor all their lives.
“Brother Cao, do you think Lin Xun is dead or alive?” someone suddenly asked.
Cao Yunxiu frowned and said expressionlessly, “It doesn’t matter whether he is dead or alive. Since he has refused to join our Achievers Society, he has nothing to do with us. Since he doesn’t follow the same path as us, then—”
Before he finished speaking, someone already understood what he wanted to say and interjected, “He’s our enemy.”
Cao Yunxiu smiled slightly, but shook his head and corrected him, “He’s not quite the enemy, but if he gets into trouble, he shouldn’t expect those also from lower-level poor families to stand on his side. I’m curious to know how he plans to gain a foothold in the empire now that he has angered the powerful major forces and has drawn a line with us. That’s only if he is still alive.”
It was unknown how long Lin Xun had been sleeping, but vaguely, he heard an ice-cold voice devoid of emotions ringing in his mind again.
“Dao Seeker, the Omega Secret Realm will open again in one year and the third test of the Great Azure Cloud Path is called Hundred Battles.”
“There are only three chances to pass. If you fail after three attempts, the Omega Secret Realm will fall back into a sealed state until a chance for it to open again in one thousand years.”
When the voice died away, Lin Xun suddenly quivered all over and his eyes sprang open.