God Emperor

Zhang Ruochen was a bit curious. He asked, “How did you know so much about the God of Death Palace as a subsidiary assassin?”

Le said, “It’s a long story, but I know more secrets and have more privileges as a subsidiary assassin than those elders among the key assassins.”

Zhang Ruochen reckoned that it might have to do with the God of Death Palace Leader’s intention to admit him as a disciple, so he didn’t ask more questions.

Le then said, “This temporary contact spot is controlled by ten elders. Although Han Qiu, brother Qin Kai and I have some say here, we still need evidence to acquit you.”

Zhang Ruochen could understand them. He said, “It’s not that difficult to find evidence, is it? Elder Qi must’ve left some traces in the weapon-refining pavilion, and besides, hasn’t the God of Death Palace already known that there was something wrong with Elder Qi?”

Qin Kai said, “It’s an elder who got killed after all. It isn’t that simple. We must provide hard evidence for you to get out of this tomb alive.”

“What kind of evidence is hard enough?” asked Zhang Ruochen.

Qin Kai said, “Let’s see how Han Qiu did with her work.”

During the next half an hour, the space in this tomb tumbled.

After the chaos was over, Han Qiui walked into the stone cave, covered in blood as her long hair waved, looking like a bloodthirsty demonic woman.

Bang!

A monk wearing a God of Death black cape was thrown out like a dead dog, rolling toward Zhang Ruochen.

Zhang Ruochen recognized him from his forces. It was the killer heavenly king who’d led him and Ji Fanxin to meet Elder Qi.

Han Qiu’s black saint blouse was soaked in blood, turning crimson. There was still heavy murderous Qi flowing on her curvy body. She said, “I’ve killed all who worked for Elder Qi, except him.”

Han Qiu then looked at Zhang Ruochen immediately after which she dispersed all her anger and hostility, hurrying toward him happily.

She found that Zhang Ruochen’s face had paled, and his left arm was dimming. She asked, “Were you poisoned?”

She grabbed Zhang Ruochen’s wrist. After seeing what she saw, she was glum. “Goddamn Qi Yunfeng. If he were still alive, I would definitely pull away his saint soul and torture him with thousands of ghosts. Senior brother Qin Kai, you have the antidote to Mirage Venom, don’t you?”

Qin Kai said calmly, “I do, but it’s not the time to cure him yet as this is also a piece of evidence. Can you still hold it, Zhang Ruochen?”

Zhang Ruochen smiled. “It’s not hard to suppress the poison.”

Han Qiu also knew that it wasn’t the time to cure Zhang Ruochen, so she kicked the killer heavenly king harshly, waking him up.

That killer heavenly king was called Qi Yunhai, and came from the same clan as Elder Qi did. He was a second-step saint king.

Qi Yunhai was obviously injured seriously. He couldn’t help coughing after waking up. After seeing Qin Kai, Le, Han Qiu and Zhang Ruochen in the stone cave, he immediately realized what was happening.

Qi Yunhai turned into a group of black vultures, trying to fly out of the cave.

“How dare you.”

Han Qiu released Power of Darkness, forming a giant black whirlpool, sweeping through all the black vultures.

Qi Yunhai’s voice came out of the black whirlpool. “Han Qiu, you’ve killed so many key assassins. If you kill me, the nine elders will never forgive you… You…”

Han Qiu sneered and grabbed the space.

At the next moment, Qin Yunhai’s head was caught by Han Qiu’s hand, pressed on the ground. He groveled in front of Zhang Ruochen.

Qi Yunhai was a saint king indeed. He knew that he couldn’t make it today, so he immediately mobilized his saint Qi, which rushed to his lower abdomen, trying to blow up his saint source.

Poof!

Han Qiu penetrated Qi Yunhai’s head with a hand, and five dark forces rushed into Qi Yunhai’s body.

Suddenly, Qi Yunhai yelled in agony as his eyes bled. The light in his eyes withered away.

“His saint soul has been locked by me, and his mind power has been eroded by the darkness power. He’ll answer any question I ask him. Let’s meet the other nine elders now!” said Han Qiu coldly.

All ten elders who were in charge of this tomb were incredible beings.

Elder Qi was only one of the weaker elders.

The other nine elders were all alerted after what happened. They showed up outside the stone cave, but seeing Qin Kai walking out, they tried to look calm instead of interrogating them.

Qin Kai could probably defeat all nine of them combined.

Qin Kai, Le and Han Qiu were the people dealing with the issue. As for Zhang Ruochen and Mo Yin, they were standing in the distance, waiting for the result.

“How could I forget about this? It can probably cure me of the Mirage Poison.”

Zhang Ruochen took out a blue lotus seed and infused his saint Qi into the seed. Suddenly, a layer of blue light was released, spreading from his palm to his wrist, his arms, his shoulders, and eventually, his entire body.

After a short while, the Mirage Poison was gone completely.

“No wonder it’s a valuable left by Saint Monk Xumi. Indeed marvelous.”

Zhang Ruochen operated his saint Qi for one circle, after which he completely recovered. He pinched the blue lotus seed and smiled vaguely.

After a while, the nine elders all left. Qin Kai and Le walked toward Zhang Ruochen.

Qin Kai threw a small white bottle to Zhang Ruochen and said, “Qi Yunhai has told the elders everything that happened, so they won’t come examine the Mirage Poison in your body. Take the cure here.”

Zhang Ruochen took the small white bottle, smiled, and returned it back to Qin Kai. He said, “No need! I’ve gotten rid of the Mirage Poison already.”

“How is that possible?”

Qin Kai stared at Zhang Ruochen, and he found that Zhang Ruochen was all vigorous and healthy again.

Qin Kai knew that even he could only suppress the venom and had to take a cure to get rid of the Mirage Poison completely. How did this kid who was only a fourth-step saint king do it?

Le and Han Qiu were already special beings. Where did this special being come from?

“Ah!”

Qi Yunhai who was kneeling on the ground screamed in anguish as his face twisted.

It turned out that Han Qiu was absorbing Qi Yunhai’s demonic Qi and rules of heaven and earth using the power of darkness, turning them into her own power. After a short while, Qi Yuanhai turned into a black corpse, falling to the ground.

As for Han Qiu, her body was wrapped in a powerful black power.

After spending one hour refining, the black power slowly flowed into her body. Suddenly, Han Qiu’s cultivation surged.

She needed to keep taking other people’s power as she practiced one of the nine ancient ways, the Way of Darkness.

Qin Jin said, “I reckon you guys have a lot to talk about. As for me, I need to leave and see who’s worthy of my killing on the ‘Bounty Rank’.”

After getting back to the cave, Zhang Ruochen asked Le and Han Qiu about their experiences in the God of Death Palace.

They must’ve gone through a lot and paid a huge price to have such incredible cultivation, and there were many stories that Zhang Ruochen didn’t know of.

After a long talk, Zhang Ruochen had learned a lot.

Le and Han Qiu gained different identities because of their connection with the God of Death Palace, which were those of the monks of ‘Yuan Field,’ one of the top ten large fields.

Because of that, they had the opportunity to refine the Way of Truth in Truth Heavenly Domain.

It was almost impossible for them to come to the Truth Godly Palace because the imperial government would never allow the two of them.

Han Qiu said, “Your highness, you’re being too merciful for only wanting four lives, including Shang Ziyan. Shang Ziyan hired Heavenly Kill Organization to kill everyone who’s related to you. Countless half saints from Sacred Central Empire were assassinated. This is pure animosity, and we must retaliate against them. We must let Shang Ziyan know how it feels to lose his family and best friends.”

Zhang Ruochen looked to Le and said, “What do you think?”

“It’s all up to you, your highness. I’ll support any decision you make.”

Han Qiu knew Zhang Ruochen very well, so she knew that he wouldn’t do as she said, as he would never betray his principles. Before Zhang Ruochen said anything, she took out a small notebook and handed it to Zhang Ruochen.

“I know you don’t want to kill the innocent people, so I sneaked into the intelligence organization of the God of Death Palace and obtained lots of confidential information. The book records all the monks connected to Shang Ziyan, and those with ticks on either participated in that assassination or did horrible things.”

Zhang Ruochen started to read the book.

After finishing it, he closed the book, stared at Han Qiu, and said, “You must’ve taken a lot of risks finding these names, didn’t you?”

Han Qiu rejoiced a bit in heart and said, “Because I know how painful it is to you that Bai Su, Zhu Hongtao and the others from Sacred Empire died. There’s no way you don’t want revenge, but you’re destined to be an emperor. You shouldn’t be the one who does the killings, otherwise, people will think of you as a despot. Let me do the killings for you.”

“Count me in too,” Le said apathetically.

Zhang Ruochen gazed at them for a long while and said, “Then do what you want to do. Kill everyone on the list with a red tick beside their name.”