Chapter 210 (1/2)

The heavy rain with loud thunder couldn’t drown out the quarrel in Tide-observing Pavilion.

Situated at the east of Mist City, Tide-observing Pavilion was built beside mountains and rivers with a height of about 333 meters. You could overlook less than half of the Mist City from here.

It was heavily raining at night, but the pavilion was ablaze with lights. On the spacious high platform therein was placed a long table.

By each side of the table were seated a dozen well-dressed practitioners, female or male. Each of them looked superior to ordinary practitioners.

Qi Tianxing lolled back in the easternmost chair of the table, carelessly stared at the dark night through the window, and didn’t participate in the quarrel.

As a member of Azure-light Pavilion, the matchless force in Mist City, he was the nephew of its master and the elder cousin of Qi Yunxiao, its young master.

Azure-light Pavilion, allied with more than ten forces of Mist City, took the lead in targeting Lin Xun tonight. Thus, Qi Tianxing was undoubtedly in charge of the operation.

Many forces held different thoughts about the operation, making the quarrel last.

He didn’t want to be part of it. The operation had been in motion, so what was the point of this quarrel now?

Most importantly, he clearly knew that the people present, who weren’t big shots themselves, but just the representatives of those forces.

Of course, he didn’t want to say more under the circumstances.

What made him frown was that without no sign of ending, the quarrel became more and more fierce.

“What a joke! We should gather so many people to deal with a teenager in the realm of Human-gang. If the outside world knows this, they’ll humiliate us to death!” said someone with a sneer.

“What do you mean by gathering so many people? This is a warning! To kill Lin Xun is to let those poor juniors know what horrific consequences they will bear after offending us!” someone refuted.

“Ha ha! Guys, Lin Xun is no more the former Lin Xun, and he’s registered for the Province Test. Even if we want to kill such a poor practitioner, we shouldn’t launch the raid in a big way. If the whole world knows this, the consequence is hard to say.”

“Yes, you guys should recall that our empire began to carry out the talents-selecting system featuring rounds of selection after the ‘Bloody Ten Days’ over a hundred years ago in order to prevent such a tragedy from happening. If we kill a practitioner of poor origin who can attend the Province Test, who will bear the consequences if the high authorities blame us?”

“You’ll make me laugh to death. How can a dead Lin Xun be related to the ‘Bloody Ten Days’? Do you attach too much importance to him?”

Qi Tianxing felt a pain in his head on hearing this. He couldn’t help sitting upright, smacked his hand down on to the table, and said with a grave look, “Guys, I’m just asking if your opinions can stand for the forces behind you?”

As if a bomb was dropped among them, his words shocked the practitioners present, making them fall into silence with their look slightly changing.

Qi Tianxing said in a muffled voice with a hint of scorn flashing across his eyes, “Remember, you guys are just representatives. You only need to remember what happened tonight and report it to the forces behind you!”

In other words, they were just messengers, so they shouldn’t consider themselves too important. Had they asked the forces behind them for the permission to express themselves?

His words were full of sarcasm, making the practitioners present feel uncomfortable, but they didn’t dare to refute.

Silence reigned the pavilion immediately.

Qi Tianxing then pulled back his sight and lolled back in the chair like before, saying, “The operation has started as planned.”

As he spoke, a burst of ghastly laughter as if a snake hissed suddenly arose beside the window in one side of the high platform. “What Childe Qi said is right. The target has been besieged, and the assassination has been in motion… Guys, you can just wait and see. I’ll bring the boy’s head back soon. Bye.”

Qi Tianxing couldn’t help but feel hair-raising on hearing the voice. But, as he became normal again, the voice had long gone.

All the other practitioners wore a strange expression with more or less antipathy and horror.

“Is it Residual Wind?” asked someone involuntarily.

Qi Tianxing nodded his head.

Residual Wind!

A creepy assassin who always acted swiftly and wittingly and was held accountable for countless people’s death. It was rumored that he once brutally killed 108 children and used their fresh blood as the guiding drug to practice one mysterious technique.

If there were other options, no one wanted to have a relationship with such a horrific man. However, no one had expected that Azure-light Pavilion invited Residual Wind to annihilate Lin Xun!

Many people present looked at Qi Tianxing with shock and doubt instantly, for they couldn’t figure out the relationship between Residual Wind and Azure-light Pavilion.

Qi Tianxing didn’t explain to them about that but said with a smile, “Guys, it’s guaranteed that Lin Xun will die tonight. Let’s wait and see a good play.”

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The heavy rain accompanied by the cold wind poured down.

Standing under the eaves, Cao Yunxiu said with excitement, “Those lackeys affiliated with the noble finally make a move!”

Those practitioners of Qingyun Commune beside him felt joyful as well.

“As long as Lin Xun dies tonight, we will put in action, spreading the news. I really want to see if the present noble forces dare to act like Blood-slaughterer General the other year, making another ‘Bloody Ten Days’!”