Chapter 171 - Perfect Assassination (2/2)

Ye Chen had reached outside of the study room. The locations of both beginner Tenth Level and top Ninth Level combatants were locked by Ye Chen’s Astral Body. With a swoosh, Little Tanuki lunged toward them.

After just a short while, both the beginner Ninth Level combatant and top Ninth Level combatant had fallen into Little Tanuki’s Illusion.

Little Tanuki was now top Tenth Level. People below top Tenth Level had no resistance at all to Little Tanuki’s Illusion.

Ten steps – it was this distance that had separated Ye Chen and Qiu Ying. Ye Chen took out the Hell Rupture Sword and kicked open the study room door violently. The sword light was swift as it pierced toward Qiu Ying.

Qiu Ying heard the loud sound and instantly opened his eyes. He saw Ye Chen’s bright star-like gazesaw in the darkness and was startled. He yelped and said, “It’s you, Ye…”

Little Tanuki, who was hiding on the other side, had its gaze brightening up with a mystical light.

Qiu Ying had only managed to mutter a half of Ye Chen’s name. He was still struggling to get up and his eyes were filled with shock.

A single moment like that was all that mattered. Between two combatants, a split-second was all it took to determine life and death!

Just like an electric or a flint!

That incredibly sharp Hell Rupture Sword turned into an afterimage that could not be captured even by the eyes.

Pierce!

There was a muffled sound.

With a single sword, Ye Chen had penetrated the point between Qiu Ying’s eyebrows. Qiu Ying’s expression instantly froze on his face. Blood dripped slowly from his forehead and his gaze turned from bright to dim.

Qiu Ying had been in power for several decades. As a top Tenth Level combatant, he had experienced thousands of battles. He had a high position in the Xiwu Empire and he had climbed through the ladders to the Left Prime Minister position. He probably had never expected that he would one day die in this study room, in the hands of a mere seventeen-year-old boy.

The moment Ye Chen’s sword penetrated his forehead in between the eyebrows, Qiu Ying had already lost his ability to think. There was not even enough time for him to change to a reluctant expression!

Ye Chen’s sword strike was too quick. Coupled with Little Tanuki’s Illusion, Qiu Ying did not have any chance to fight back.

With a swish, Ye Chen jumped out of the window behind the study room. Before long, he had disappeared into the vast darkness of the night.

Qiu Ying remained sitting on the cattail hassock as if he was still cultivating in meditative absorption. A while after Ye Chen had disappeared, only did his head drop with a thud.

About half a minute after Ye Chen had left Qiu Ying’s mansion, Little Tanuki jumped onto Ye Chen’s shoulder. Ye Chen grabbed Raven Hawk’s claw and it soared up into the sky.

About ten minutes later, a guard had noticed something amiss in the study room and rushed in only to realize that the Left Prime Minister, Qiu Ying, was dead!

“An assassin!” a loud yell rang out.

Very quickly, Qiu Ying’s mansion was illuminated brightly but Qiu Ying’s assassin was already long gone.

“Perfect! When a man accomplishes his mission, fame and fortune become irrelevant. Is this what it feels like to be an assassin in the legends?” Ye Chen muttered to himself and chuckled as he looked at the mess in Qiu Ying’s mansion below him.

Qiu Ying’s death also meant one less worry for Ye Chen. Anyone would feel uncomfortable being targeted by someone as malicious as Qiu Ying.

Ye Chen returned to the side courtyard and changed his clothes. He threw his clothes into the space in his armguard. Little Tanuki, too, washed away the ink on its body at Lake Ming. Ye Chen looked at the time, realizing that it had only been fifty minutes. It was a lot faster than he had expected. He walked toward the alchemy room.

“Ye Chen, why are you back here?” Li Xu smiled gently when he saw Ye Chen.

“When I was cultivating in my room, I suddenly thought of some doubts in alchemy. So, I’m here to take a few books back and have a look,” Ye Chen answered. After a moment’s rummage, he took a few books, turned around and went back to the side courtyard. In this way, both the Master Apothecary and Master Li could testify for him that he had not left the Xuan Pavilion tonight. He would not have to worry even if Great Emperor Mingwu investigated him.

When Ye Chen returned to the alchemy room, he saw a Heaven-Earth Pouch on the table with a “Qiu” word embroidered on it. He could not help but laughed.

Little Tanuki’s speed was always much faster than him. The reason why she had lagged behind Ye Chen by half a minute was because Little Tanuki turned around to find Qiu Ying’s belongings. It brought back Qiu Ying’s Heaven-Earth Pouch!

When he came back earlier, Ye Chen had noticed that there was something in Little Tanuki’s mouth but he was too occupied to take a close look at it. He opened the Heaven-Earth Pouch. At one glance, Qiu Ying’s Heaven-Earth Pouch contained many good stuff. There were more than twenty thousand Soul-amassing Pills, five hundred Soul-consolidating Pills, a Tier One Spirit Artifact sabre, and several books about cultivation systems and martial arts techniques. Besides that, there were also some Capital City property title deeds. Indeed, he was the Left Prime Minister. He was much richer than the Second-rank Prince of Donglin, Liu Xun.

Ye Chen sorted those things and stuffed them into his armguard space.

“Well, what’s this?” Ye Chen found something in the corner of the Heaven-Earth Pouch. It seemed to be a tooth from some kind of mystical beast. The tooth was the size of a thumb. It was entirely pure white, very sharp, and the surface texture was delicate and smooth. There were all kinds of weird symbols on it and it looked very rare.