You were driven out of the capital at the start, and you ask me why I rebelled?

Night quietly fell, and the whole world seemed to be shrouded in a veil of mystery...

The moonlight was enough to barely make out things in the city; of course, that was only for ordinary people. Cultivators, on the other hand, could see clearly at night, ignoring the darkness...

Outside the Liang Prince's Palace.

A group of assassins arrived first.

"Once inside, leave no one alive in the Liang Prince's mansion. Make sure everything is done cleanly, and don't leave any evidence!"

"It was an assassin who said in a deep voice."

"Here!"

The assassins around them suppressed their voices and spoke in low voices.

Click~~

Just then, another set of footsteps sounded.

The group of assassins immediately drew their weapons and prepared for action.

The people on the other side also took out their weapons and confronted them.

The scene froze for a moment, the two groups staring at each other blankly...

"Are you here to kill the Prince of Liang too?"

A moment later, the leader of the first wave of assassins spoke.

"That's right! Are you guys like that too?"

He nodded, his expression grave. There were other assassins too. He thought to himself, "This is troublesome." The bounty for killing the Liang King was extremely high; there would definitely be many assassins coming. Who knew how many assassins were still lurking in Shuoyang City...

He needed to finish the fight quickly and not give others an opportunity. Then he looked at the assassin opposite him, a thought flashing through his mind.

"We can work together. After it's done, the bounty will be split 70/30, I'll get 70% and you get 30%!"

"No way, I get seven, you get three!"

The assassin on the other side clearly disagreed with his method of distribution and immediately raised objections.

June 4th!

The assassin leader spoke in a deep voice, making some concessions.

"No, at most it's fifty-fifty!"

The assassin opposite spoke, his eyes gleaming, and the assassins behind him were ready to fight; if they couldn't reach an agreement, they wouldn't mind fighting their own kind first...

"Deal! In a moment, await my command, and we'll storm the Liang Prince's residence together!"

The assassin leader gritted his teeth and spoke.

He knew that the longer they delayed, the greater the risk. If the other assassins arrived, they would be out of a job!

"it is good!"

The assassin on the other side nodded in agreement.

Moments later, all the assassins were ready. At the leader's command, hundreds of assassins charged towards the Liang Prince's residence...

"Break into the palace, kill the Prince of Liang, brothers, glory and wealth are within your grasp..."

The assassin leader flew through the air, shouting to boost morale.

That's right, he's a Golden Core cultivator, definitely one of the top assassins who came this time...

"kill!"

The assassins shouted loudly.

The attack has already begun, and there's no longer a need for concealment.

Boom~~

The gate of the Prince's mansion was blasted open by a Foundation Establishment cultivator with a single punch, scattering wood chips all over the ground.

"Hahaha! Liang Wang's head is mine..."

This Foundation Establishment assassin was the first to enter the Liang King's mansion, laughing loudly.

They then headed deeper into the Prince's mansion. They had already thoroughly investigated the layout of the mansion beforehand, so they knew the routes inside very well...

The other assassins were not to be outdone and flocked into the Liang Prince's mansion.

In the air, the leaders of the two groups of assassins watched the scene below, both with satisfied expressions. It seemed the intelligence was accurate; there were indeed no experts within the Liang Prince's mansion, otherwise, no one would have come out to resist for so long...

"Let's make our move! The commotion here has probably alerted the other assassins in the city. If they all come, our chances will be slim..."

One of the leaders spoke to the other.

The other leader nodded in agreement.

Then, the two transformed into streaks of light, instantly surpassing all the assassins and heading towards Ying Chen's room...

"Strange, why is no one here?"

Inside the Liang Prince's mansion, an assassin searched several rooms but found no one, prompting him to ask a question.

"Hey, what's the big deal? This Prince Liang is out of favor. When he came to Liangzhou, he only had some servants who had always followed him. Before, he had the Imperial Guard protecting him, but now that the Imperial Guard has left, there are naturally no experts left in the Prince Liang's mansion. With so many of us attacking together, those servants naturally hide and dare not come out..."

His companion next to him said dismissively.

The assassin found it strange, but also felt his companion was right. He turned to look at his companion, and suddenly his face turned to terror...

His companion was puzzled and was about to say something when he felt a light flash around his neck. The words he was about to say were cut off, and then the world spun around him. In the blink of an eye, he seemed to see a headless body still standing in the same spot...

After that, he lost consciousness...

Seeing his companion's head chopped off, his face turned deathly pale. He turned to flee, but a blade pierced his abdomen...

The spiritual energy instantly flowed into his body through the tip of the blade, churning his internal organs into a chaotic mess...

Phew~~

The knife was pulled from his body, and he collapsed to the ground, blood gushing from his abdomen. He finally saw the figure behind his companion: a person dressed in strange clothes, wielding a long knife that was still dripping blood. The person glanced at him coldly, then ignored him and walked away...

"what!"

"what!"

"There are enemies!"

Meanwhile, screams echoed throughout the Liang Prince's mansion as all the assassins who had entered were attacked...

The two assassin leaders who were searching for Ying Chen also noticed what was happening inside the mansion, and their expressions changed simultaneously. However, they were already quite close to Ying Chen's residence, and giving up now seemed too tempting...

A moment later, they made a decision: they could always recruit more men; once they completed this mission, they could expand their forces several times over...

Then, without looking back, the two continued their charge forward...

"Your Highness, the prey has been caught in the net!"

Inside the cultivation room, Ying Chen was unusually not cultivating. Lu Bing and Guo Jia were by his side. Lu Bing sensed what was happening in the mansion and respectfully reported to Ying Chen.

Ying Chen nodded, his expression unchanged.

"Let's wrap this up! This farce should end now..."

"Here!"

Lu Bing respectfully acknowledged the order and then left the cultivation room.

Meanwhile, the Imperial Guards of Shuoyang City received orders and rushed towards the assassins' stronghold.

The entire city of Shuoyang was plunged into chaos.

The people of Shuoyang City stayed in their homes, trembling with fear, hoping that the chaos would not affect them...