126 Betrayal of Ye Chen (1/2)

One of the security forces of the caravan suddenly turned and pounced towards Ye Chen and the caravan owner. But suddenly a very powerful force originated from Ye Chen and he slightly moved his sword, and a small line was drawn on the caravan owner's neck.

”Who are you?” Security leader asked Ye Chen, feeling his cultivation at the peak of foundation establishment. ”Someone like you shouldn't be a nameless person.”

”I am Ye Chen.” Ye Chen said. ”The deputy leader of the rumbling bandits.”

”See how smart I am.” The leader of the rumbling bandits said. ”Knowing that you might have some tricks up your sleeve, I told Ye Chen to infiltrate your group. The original plan was to poison you all, but somehow it failed. But I think that taking hostages will work too.”

”How exactly is this worse for us?” Huang Yao suddenly asked. ”You are going to kill us all anyway. If we surrender because of the hostages, you will kill us all including the hostage. If we don't surrender, then you will kill the hostage. Either way, the hostage dies. Thus you taking the hostage has no meaning.”

For a moment the everyone went silent. No one could refute that reasonable argument. The leader of the rumbling pirates was confused, and everyone watched as he tried to come up with something to say. ”Idiot.” The leader of the sky pirates mumbled under his breath.

”Forget about me.” The caravan owner shouted. ”Just fight with all you have. Or else you will all die.”

”Shut up.” Ye Chen said as he kicked the caravan owner to the ground. The caravan owner was not someone with a high cultivation base, and could not resist Ye Chen. ”Actually I have a better idea. The reason we wanted to kill them all is so that we could have time before the city lord finds out about what we did right. In that case, why don't we just take them hostage for a couple of weeks while we flee the area? Once a couple of weeks pass, even if the city lord finds out the truth he won't be able to find us.”

For a moment everyone was silent as they thought about Ye Chen's plan. ”It seems that your deputy has more brains than you.” The leader of the sky bandits grumbled.

”Don't believe him.” The caravan leader said. ”Once you surrender they will only kill you. Even if I die, you must fight to the end.”

Once the caravan owner said this, the surroundings got even tenser. Everyone was then waiting for the decision of the two core formation cultivators of the security team.

Suddenly the shadow behind Ye Chen rippled. Then, before anyone could warn him, a dagger was thrust into his back, right at the position of his heart!

When the group had stopped because of the poison, Bai Yun quickly moved towards Ye Chen. Everyone only that Bai Yun was standing near someone he trusted due to his age and no one thought much of this. When the caravan was setting up the defensive perimeter, Ye Chen had taken it upon himself to stand near the caravan leader. Seeing this Bai Yun was even more sure of his guess. So Bai Yun went and stood right behind Ye Chen.

Bai Yun had also used the Assassin gods teaching to full effect. Bai Yun made no movement and no sound. He was standing like a shadow. Bai Yun had noticed the eye line of everyone and hid in such a way that he would be easily missed. Since Bai Yun had not made any friends in the entire time he was here, no one missed him. So no one noticed him standing there. And even if they did, the expression on his face made it look like he was panicking.

When Ye Chen took the caravan leader Bai Yun was the only person who saw it coming. So Bai Yun took his place behind Ye Chen and slowly took out his dagger. When Bai Yun took out his dagger from his storage ring, everyone's attention was on Ye Chen, and thus no one noticed him.

Bai Yun then waited till Ye Chen's attention was elsewhere. As the tension grew, Ye Chen was more and more focused on a sneak attack by the security team. Soon Ye Chen was almost entirely focusing his attention on them. He had almost given up on the people of the caravan. Most of them did not have a high cultivation, and they did not walk the path of fighting. He overlooked Bai Yun even more due to his age.

And thus his wariness towards the members of the caravan was decreasing second by second. And it was in the moment that he finally gave up on looking at the caravan members that Bai Yun finally struck.

Bai Yun held the hilt of the dagger in his left hand, and his right hand covered the base of the hilt to give extra strength to his attack. Bai Yun used both the Assassin God's technique, as well as what he had learned of windless motion to move as fast he could, as silently as possible. There was no sound at all in Bai Yun's movement.

But the reflexes of a peak foundation establishment realm cultivator was indeed too much. Ye Chen found out about Bai Yun the moment his dagger touched Ye Chen's clothes. In an instant, he turned around to swing his sword at Bai Yun.