Chapter 527 (1/2)

Chapter 527: 527

The sound was extremely light, almost imperceptible, but Long Chen smiled . He knew that his guest had arrived .

Activating his divine sense, he could instantly see everything within several miles . He clearly saw a figure concealed within a corner of his residence .

That figure was like a lizard, crawling on the wall . Because of the darkness of night, even if someone walked right past them, they wouldn’t notice them .

Furthermore, that person had concealed their aura perfectly, making themselves appear just like a lifeless rock .

That person continued to hide for a quarter hour before slowly beginning to wriggle .

If Long Chen hadn’t been personally watching it, he definitely wouldn’t have believed that there was such a movement technique . The person was like a snake, wriggling themselves forward, looking like they didn’t have any bones in their body . The odd movement didn’t cause any sound .

“This is what it means to be a professional . ”

Long Chen couldn’t help feeling some praise . That person wriggled their way in, glanced into Long Chen’s room, and began to rush towards the corner .

But his foot had only just touched the ground when he felt something like a thin string, and without hesitation, he turned and fled .

However, three arrows show out, and one of them struck him dead-on .

Realizing he had fallen into a trap, he was about to flee when his body suddenly stiffened, and he collapsed to the ground .

Long Chen opened the door and walked into his room, putting away the corpse and setting up the mechanism again . Then, patting his hands, he once more began to consume medicinal pills .

Time pa.s.sed quickly . Long Chen spent all day consuming pills and setting up his mechanism . In the blink of an eye, ten days had pa.s.sed, and he had tempered a total of one hundred and twenty-eight bones .

His cultivation base had also reached the seventh Heavenstage of Bone Forging . During these days, he had also obtained eleven corpses . Without exception, they were all Bone Forging experts with a bronze badge .

Those a.s.sa.s.sins had raised Shui Wuhen’s alert, and she had personally gone to tell Long Chen that these were simply the Bloodkill Hall’s amateurs . The Bloodkill Hall had sent them after Long Chen merely as some tempering .

Within the Bloodkill Hall, there was a mission distribution system, and a.s.sa.s.sins could pick their own missions . If a mission was failed too many times, the Bloodkill Hall would increase the rank of the mission .

Once the mission rank was increased, then higher-ranked a.s.sa.s.sins would come to kill him . Right now, he was merely encountering the weakest bronze-rank a.s.sa.s.sins of the Bloodkill Hall .

The Bloodkill Hall’s a.s.sa.s.sins were ranked bronze, silver, gold, and dark gold .

But she did tell him one thing that comforted him a great deal . The Bloodkill Hall had their own integrity . They never a.s.sa.s.sinated anyone of a lower realm than them . What they sought was using their a.s.sa.s.sination arts to kill those stronger than they were .

a.s.sa.s.sinating targets in the same realm as them was their bottom line . In other words, Long Chen would not encounter any Meridian Opening a.s.sa.s.sins .

So he decided to turn down Shui Wuhen’s good intentions and focus on refining and consuming pills . Occasionally, he would go check on the current state of the Dragonblood Legion .

Long Chen was extremely grateful towards Zheng Wenlong . The medicinal pills had been coming in a steady supply . This time, he had sent him ten million Bone Tempering Pills .

He had directly told the sender that they didn’t need anymore . This was enough for everyone to undergo complete tempering .

At the same time, Zheng Wenlong sent Long Chen news that they had already set their plan fully into motion half a month ago . On the same day, all the Huayun Sect’s auction houses announced that the Huayun Sect could also refine Bone Tempering Pills, and that their effect was twice as high as the Pill Tower’s .

The thing that made Long Chen clap in praise was that the Huayun Sect wasn’t selling them in an auction style, but selling them at a ten percent lower price than the Pill Tower .

The entire cultivation world was greatly shaken . For countless years, only the Pill Tower had possessed the formula for the Bone Tempering Pills . They had monopolized all the profit . Now, the Huayun Sect had somehow developed their own formula .

Although the appearance and pill fragrance were all the exact same as the Pill Tower’s, the effect was double . That had caused countless sects to send people to the Huayun Sect . What kind of joke was that? Double the effect for only ninety percent of the cost? Only an idiot wouldn’t go .

It went without saying that the Huayun Sect truly knew how to do business . They didn’t immediately release too many of the pills . They only gave people a taste to let them see the pill’s effect .

They first created contracts for the various sects . Once those sects signed, they gained a large down payment for a long-term purchase order . Those contracts were all for at least a hundred years, and some sects even sighed thousand-year contracts, which required an immense down payment .

One reason was because Bone Tempering Pills were too hard to obtain . Who wouldn’t turn greedy when facing one with double the effect at a fair price?