643 Fully Deserved! (1/2)
Bai Wu Xin stood rooted to the ground, completely motionless. He tried his best to struggle and escape, but he completely lacked the strength. He could only look on hopelessly as Zhen Ci Bei's palm landed on his head. With a light pa sound, his entire head flattened and his brains flowed out of his ears. His death was extremely sorry to behold!
Everyone fell as silent as cicadas in the dead of winter.
Du Jue stood quietly to the side, watching coldly as his face flickered with a strange expression.
A Superior Supreme was killed so easily simply because Zhen Ci Bei wanted to. There were basically no grounds for face or past relations!
Bai Wu Xin's body had barely hit the ground when a chorus of gasps rose out.
Zhen Ci Bei and Du Jue turned and looked over. A large hole had appeared on the cliff to their left. It was completely black and squarish, the size of a room. It was not clear how deep it went.
”There's something off, as expected!” Zhen Ci Bei stroked his long beard as a gleam flashed through his eyes, ”Let's go, we'll go and take a look!”
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Underground, Chu Qi Hun looked at Jun Mo Xie as if he'd seen a ghost.
”You won!” The Supreme Assassin Chu said with a sigh. ”I'm inferior to you! You're the real King of Assassins! Fully deserved! The name Supreme Assassin will no longer belong to me!”
Chu Qi Hun's voice was mixed with disappointment, shame, admiration, and respect.
Chu Qi Hun had clearly seen everything that had happened, and he understood that he had lost completely. And he'd lost convincingly! On the surface, he had killed two Supreme Masters of the Supreme Golden City and a Superior Supreme from the Illusory Blood Sea. Jun Mo Xie had also killed three and injured one by way of sneak attack; as for Ma Jiang Ming's death at the end, that was not counted into the score. On the surface, Jun Mo Xie had only gained a small edge over Chu Qi Hun, and the difference between them was very minor.
But Chu Qi Hun knew in his heart that he had lost utterly and completely right from the start!
Because the set-up of this entire scenario had been fully designed by Jun Mo Xie! All the chances to perform hits on their targets had only appeared because of Jun Mo Xie's manipulations. Otherwise, such a result would have been nigh impossible!
Chu Qi Hun was good at accessing his opportunities, and grasping them; no matter how small the opportunity was, he would grasp them instinctively, using his elusive techniques to deal a deadly strike! For an assassin, this was seemingly sufficient!
He had always been proud of his talent at grasping even the tiniest opportunity and timing, and he thought that this was all he needed!
But today, he was given a lesson by the youth before him; for an assassin—the best assassin—not only does one need to have a perfect eye for opportunities, one must be able to create an opportunity when there is none!
If Chu Qi Hun was by himself, he would find it hard himself to even escape safely after he sneak attacked one of the eight experts because he would be immediately surrounded by the other seven and tied down!
But Jun Mo Xie was actually able to create a scenario where they had the opportunity to kill all eight of the experts, wiping them out! This kind of methods was bordering on miraculous!
The difference between their methods was completely impossible to describe with just words!
Making use of opportunities was a reactive action, but creating one's own opportunity was a proactive action!
Only by creating one's own opportunities could they grasp it best!
On the other hand, waiting silently for one's opponents to make a mistake was just akin to waiting every day under a tree, in hopes that a hare would kill itself by crashing into the tree trunk!
Chu Qi Hun was sure that even if Ma Jiang Ming and the Ruan brothers did not have any personal conflicts between them, Jun Mo Xie would still be capable of using other methods to divert their attention. Or he would make use of any points of disagreement among their group to draw them into fighting each other!
He was fully capable of that!
But as for himself, he had never thought of things in this way before. Not even once!
Not only had he never tried to orchestrate a suitable scenario to act in, this thought had never even crossed his mind before!
This was the gap between them!
An extremely difficult gap to close!
”Thank you.” Jun Mo Xie smiled, not bothering with hypocritical pleasantry.
Because he could clearly feel that Chu Qi Hun was indeed extremely lacking in this aspect. A King of Assassins, a Supreme Assassin, was not something one could assume just by being good at killing people.
There was similarly a vast field of study for this profession.