31 Chapter 31 – Assassination (2/2)
He shouted ”I need to talk to the leader Eagle claw and inform him something very important. Let me talk to him fast.”
Eagle claw woke up from his sleep due to the commotion and found it was the close subordinate of Lion claw. He was shocked to find the bloodied bandit in front of him and asked ”Did something happen? Where is Lion claw and the rest of the members?”
Zhu Xuan replied with a low voice ”Can we speak alone Leader Eagle claw? I can't speak the details in front of others”
Eagle claw thought about it and moved a little distance away, where they won't be able to hear their conversation but still in their eyesight. Zhu Xuan cursed in mind that he couldn't take him away in distance and kill him off like Lion claw. But he still calmed himself and said with a low voice ”I'm sure you have already received news from commander about not receiving any contact from Wolf claw and have been asked to move fast towards the stronghold.”
Eagle claw nodded because few hours before sunset his scout returned with a message from commander about Wolf claw.
Zhu Xuan continued ”We also started moving fast towards the stronghold, but we were surrounded by the Wolf claw and his group. There were some masked men with him and they started killing us suddenly. Even some of the people from our own group started killing us. Leader Lion claw draw the attention of Wolf claw and the masked man towards him and ran towards the stronghold. He asked us to inform you and rush towards the stronghold as soon as possible and inform the commander in case he wouldn't be able to make it.”
Eagle claw was terrified of the information. He didn't expect Wolf claw would betray them and brought some people to kill their group.
Zhu Xuan continued with an urgent tone ”We need to leave for the stronghold immediately LeaderEagle claw, and it's better to take only your most trusted subordinates and leave the rest to follow us later.”
Eagle claw fell hook, line and sinker for Zhu Xuan's plot and only took ten of his trusted subordinates and moved fast towards the stronghold informing the rest to move towards the stronghold once the dawn arrives.
Since it was still night time, it was easy for Zhu Xuan to kill these people when they moved quite a distance away from the group of bandits. Though, Eagle claw created some trouble since he had sharp battle instinct and the moment Zhu Xuan attacked he avoided the kill blow, but he still got injured heavily in his chest and bled profusely. With that heavy injury, he and the rest of his trusted subordinates didn't last long and was killed soon by Zhu Xuan.
He collected their loots after killing them and was surprised to find a Red Ginseng in the possession of Eagle claw. He was in the verge of breaking through to ninth stage for a while now. He is sure he can breakthrough with this Red Ginseng. He stored it away safely, now is not the time to break through; he needs to kill the rest of the bandits soon.
He moved fast towards the resting bandits and started killing them in silence of the night without making any sound.
When he killed more than half of the resting bandits silently, he unfortunately came across a patrol. Since he was discovered, he started killing with even more ferocity and speed, went all out and started another brutal killing frenzy. It was already dawn when he finally tracked down and killed the few bandits that escaped.
When he was planning to leave towards the stronghold, he came across a fierce storm. So he found a cave nearby and stayed there until the storm subsides. At the same time, he decided he should use this time breakthrough to the ninth stage.
So he sat down and swallowed the red ginseng and started to run his mantra and absorbing the Qi from elemental stones and pills.
After a few hours of cultivation, he successfully broke through to the ninth stage of Body purification stage.