After conquering the Empress, I proved my Dao with the Heaven and Earth Spirit Furnace!

"Okay, I promise you!"

After a moment of silence, Qin Chuan looked down at Yan Liu and said, "As long as you tell me these things, I will absolutely not kill you with my own hands!"

Upon hearing Qin Chuan's words, Yan Liu's spirits lifted.

Just as she was about to bargain, she saw Qin Chuan's cold gaze sweep over her.

He immediately swallowed all the words he wanted to say.

"Okay, then I'll tell you!"

After a moment of contemplation, Yan Liu slowly said, "The Star-Picking Tower will naturally investigate the assassin's identity, but not their appearance. Instead, they will investigate three things."

"Three things?"

"Hmm." Yan Liu nodded. "The assassin's token, mask, and personal token are the three things that can prove the assassin's identity. Without any one of them, the identity cannot be proven."

Upon hearing this, Qin Chuan took out a token engraved with the character for "kill" from Yan Liu's storage ring.

Adding the bronze mask from before, that makes two types.

"What is the last type of personal keepsake?" Qin Chuan asked.

“Yes…” Yan Liu hesitated, then suddenly couldn’t speak for a long time.

Seeing this, Qin Chuan frowned and said coldly, "Speak quickly!"

"It's an earring..."

“耳环？”

"Hmm." Yan Liu nodded, and said apologetically, "When I joined the Star-Picking Tower, I didn't bring anything else with me."

She used a pair of earrings that she always carried with her as a personal keepsake.

"You're still quite the romantic."

Qin Chuan's lips twitched, and he finally understood why the man had acted so coy earlier.

A moment later, Qin Chuan found an apricot-colored earring in Yan Liu's storage ring.

The style is very ordinary, with nothing special about it.

After putting away the three tokens, Qin Chuan continued, "And what about the contact information for the Star-Picking Tower?"

When Qin Chuan asked for the contact information of Zhaixinglou, Yan Liu stiffened and his expression became somewhat unnatural.

Although you can come and go freely from the Star-Picking Tower, if you betray it, they will hunt you down no matter where you flee.

This is what makes the Star-Picking Tower so terrifying.

Now that the secret of the Star-Picking Tower is about to be revealed, Yan Liu can't help but feel a little apprehensive.

After a moment of silence, Yan Liu said in a deep voice, "You must promise me that you absolutely cannot kill me!"

"Do not worry!"

Qin Chuan's face showed impatience, and he said coldly, "Since I have already promised you, I will naturally keep my word. If you keep dawdling, I might go back on my word."

Upon hearing this, Yan Liu no longer hesitated and quickly spoke up.

"The strongholds of the Star-Picking Tower have been constantly changing. As long as you see the Star-Picking Tower mark in a restaurant in the city, that is the Star-Picking Tower's meeting point."

He paused for a moment before continuing, "And as long as you exchange a secret code with the owner of this restaurant, someone will take you to the temporary base of the Star-Picking Tower."

"So troublesome..."

Qin Chuan frowned and asked, "What kind of code is that?"

Yan Liu said, "There are plenty of beautiful flowers everywhere under the sky."

Qin Chuan: "..."

Seeing Qin Chuan's expression gradually turn cold, Yan Liu quickly explained, "Everything I said is true. Although this code is a bit strange, it is the code of the Star-Picking Tower. I have no reason to lie to you."

Qin Chuan thought about it and agreed that there was some truth to it.

Yan Liu looked at him hopefully and said, "I've told you everything I know, now you can finally let me go, right?"

"Ah."

Just as Qin Chuan was about to say something, Yan Liu suddenly opened his eyes wide and looked at Qin Chuan's back with a shocked expression, "Patriarch Huang!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Chuan quickly turned his head away.

"Haha... Go to hell!"

The moment Qin Chuan turned his head, a cold glint flashed in Yan Liu's eyes, and he suddenly launched an attack.

He gathered all his profound energy and suddenly shot out several silver needles, aiming them at Qin Chuan's head.

The reason he told Qin Chuan everything he knew was to gain his trust; he had been waiting for this moment.

He didn't believe in any bullshit oaths; the only truth was that one's life was in their own hands.

However, just as Yan Liu shot out his silver needle, he saw Qin Chuan turn around and look at him with a half-smile.

"Oh!"

The next moment, Yan Liu crashed into a large rock behind him like a cannonball, letting out a scream.

"Don't come any closer, don't come any closer..."

Before he could recover from the excruciating pain, Yan Liu was horrified to see Qin Chuan walking towards him step by step.

Qin Chuan smiled slightly and shook his head, saying, "It's a pity. I never intended to let you go from the beginning, so naturally I won't completely believe what you say."

So... I'm going to die whether you ambush me or not.

Upon hearing Qin Chuan's words, Yan Liu turned pale and exclaimed in panic, "You...you promised you wouldn't kill me!"

Qin Chuan smiled and then said, "That's right, but I meant personally."

"What's the difference? It's still the same..."

Yan Liu had only spoken half a sentence when his expression suddenly changed, and he finally understood what was meant.

"No...don't kill me, I have a younger sister, she..."

Qin Chuan shook his head, interrupting him, and said, "If I had mentioned these things when you were trying to kill me, I wonder if you would have spared my life?"

Upon hearing this, Yan Liu's face turned deathly pale.

As Qin Chuan said, as an assassin, he naturally encountered many situations where people begged for mercy.

If he always softened his heart and let them go, he wouldn't have needed to be an assassin.

Having figured all this out, Yan Liu had resigned himself to his fate.

He stared intently at Qin Chuan and suddenly said, "I know I will die today, but I still have a blood feud to avenge. If possible, could you please avenge me, brother?"

Qin Chuan smiled but did not answer.

Instead, he went to Yan Liu, picked him up since he couldn't move, and then walked towards a certain place in the mountains.

During this journey, Yan Liu spoke to himself.

"I was originally a member of the Yan family in Yunmeng City. Sixteen years ago, a friend of my father learned of a secret of our Yan family and slaughtered our entire family. Only my sister and I escaped through a small door under the protection of a loyal servant."

Since then, my sister and I have depended on each other for survival. Until a few years ago, we joined the Star-Picking Tower by chance, and that's when we developed a heart full of revenge.

Later, for some reason, my sister and I lost contact in the Star-Picking Tower, and we had no idea where she went.

As he spoke, Yan Liu's eyes turned bloodshot, filled with murderous intent.

Seemingly because of his genuine emotions, he was already in tears.

After a long pause, Yan Liu looked at Qin Chuan and pleaded, "So I want to ask you for two favors: kill the enemy who wiped out my entire Yan family, the Demon Cloud Ancestor!"

As for the other matter, if possible, please help me find my sister's whereabouts…

Qin Chuan remained expressionless and silent throughout.

They carried Yan Liu to a cave, where they could faintly hear the roars of beasts coming from inside.

Realizing he had missed the point, Yan Liu swallowed hard and quickly said, "That Demon Cloud Ancestor was at the ninth level of the Profound King realm. He wiped out my entire Yan family for our family's ancestral secret treasure."

"Two keys are needed to unlock the secret treasure, and one of them is with me!"

Upon hearing this, Qin Chuan paused, finally showing some interest.