Chapter 652: Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion

So one could imagine that finding them on the seabed wouldn't be easy, let alone dealing with them in the sea.

But fighting and killing underwater was not something Lin Zhangqing was good at, so he was now considering whether there was any method to lure the mission targets to the sea surface.

But just as he was thinking, Chu Yi suddenly sent a warning, meaning that three cultivators in black clothes were rushing over from behind at high speed! Lin Zhangqing hurriedly turned around to look; indeed, ten li away, three black figures were flying over! He hurriedly communicated with Chu Yi and Chu Er to adjust their direction slightly to make way for them.

Doing this normally, the two sides should pass each other at a distance of about two li, thus avoiding trouble for each other.

However, the intention of these three people was too obvious; they were coming straight for Lin Zhangqing.

Because he had Chu Yi adjust the direction, and those three people also followed and adjusted; the meaning of this didn't need to be said!

Lin Zhangqing didn't think much and immediately released the eighty-eight Purple Crystal Scorpions from the Spirit Beast Bracelet.

But he didn't let them fly out immediately; instead, they all landed on Chu Yi's back and then directly became invisible!

Since it was confirmed that the people were coming for him, Lin Zhangqing didn't intend to hide; he communicated with Chu Yi and Chu Er to let them slow down slightly.

Afterwards, he mobilized his thunder mana and began to prepare; the other side soon approached to a distance of about four li.

But Lin Zhangqing held back his plan to give them a combined divine thunder first, fearing that he would startle the snake and scare them away! However, although he didn't take action, Lin Zhangqing had already sensed the cultivation bases of the three black-clothed men clearly!

They were all uniformly Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivators; he waited for a small while longer, and the distance between the two sides narrowed to two li.

By this time, there was no misunderstanding or anything, because they were coming straight for Lin Zhangqing.

So with a thought, eighty-eight purple rays immediately divided into three groups and pounced toward their targets!

And the combined thunder technique he had prepared long ago, the Golden Ripple Water Thunder, also left his hand immediately after locking onto the target! The distance of two li was really too close; the Golden Ripple Water Thunder arrived in an instant with a loud "Boom!"

It directly blasted the black-clothed man in the middle into a cloud of blood mist.

This sudden change scared the other two people, and they immediately turned their flying swords with all their might, wanting to leave this place!

However, at this time, the Purple Crystal Scorpions also approached them; these little fellows flew very fast.

The distance of more than a li was covered in the blink of an eye, and now there were only two enemies left.

So each of them endured more than forty purple light rays, and the defensive means they had prepared were all broken! Afterwards, shrill screams resounded through this sea area.

In fact, from start to finish, it took less than thirty breaths of time for the enemies to be dealt with! However, Lin Zhangqing was very curious; the attire of these three people was a bit strange, all black from head to toe, and as soon as they appeared, they came straight for him.

So Lin Zhangqing had two guesses in his heart: either they were all robber cultivators, and meeting him was just a coincidence.

Or someone didn't like him and wanted to take action against him, so they issued a bounty mission to hunt him!

To prove whether his guess was correct, Lin Zhangqing immediately went over and salvaged the three storage bags from the three black-clothed men. And the Purple Crystal Scorpions were very smart, helping Lin Zhangqing salvage several spiritual artifacts that had fallen into the sea.

And Lin Zhangqing himself checked the two relatively complete corpses, but didn't find anything on them that could prove their identity.

Thus he considered it and used an empty storage bag to collect the two complete corpses and any corpse fragments he could find! Then he recalled all the Purple Crystal Scorpions, sat back on Chu Yi's back, and quickly left this sea area.

After flying for a distance and discovering that everything was calm and he didn't find any more black-clothed men,

Lin Zhangqing began to refine the three storage bags he had just obtained; not long after, he finished them all!

But he discovered that the things inside the three storage bags were very few; one could even say there wasn't a single bit of extra miscellaneous items! The things inside were also very similar: each contained one hundred mid-grade spirit stones, three bottles of pills, and each person had prepared six upper-grade spiritual artifacts.

The rest were just a few miscellaneous items, but he did find three strange identity jade tokens.

The front of the jade token featured a black lotus flower, with the character "Hidden" carved into the center, while the back bore a six-digit serial number! There was nothing else; the three identity jade tokens were identical in every way, save for their different serial numbers.

Seeing this, Lin Zhangqing already knew what was going on; he had once seen an introduction to the Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion in the sect's Scripture Pavilion.

He knew they were a very specialized assassin organization that had been entrenched in this realm for over ten thousand years!

And the strength of this Black Lotus Hidden Pavilion was also very thick! Now knowing that they had accepted a mission to come and hunt him, Lin Zhangqing knew he was in trouble!

Because according to their regulations, after the first batch of assassins failed, they would send another batch of assassins with higher cultivation bases to carry out the second mission.

But if they failed again, they would terminate the mission and return the mission reward to the person who issued the mission.

However, the assassins who came to hunt Lin Zhangqing this time were three Foundation Establishment Great Perfection assassins, so according to their regulations,

the next ones to come should be Purple Mansion stage assassins; he just didn't know if one or three would come? If three came, then he would truly be in big trouble, because if they attacked together, there was a high possibility that Lin Zhangqing wouldn't be able to hold them off!

Thinking of this, he almost wanted to turn around and return to the sect, but he thought he couldn't do that.

At the very least, he had to complete the three missions on hand before returning to the sect, but he couldn't travel like this without any preparation anymore!

Thus Lin Zhangqing immediately took off the Tianshui Sect Inner Sect Disciple attire he was wearing.

And changed into a set of ordinary clothes without any markings, directly becoming the appearance of a scattered cultivator.

Next was to compress his cultivation base to the Foundation Establishment mid-stage through the Hidden Spirit Secret Art, and then he put on the only remaining Hidden Spirit Mask.

After doing these things, he was like a different person! Afterwards, he summoned Chu Yi and Chu Er back and changed to controlling the Yi Wood Yin Thunder Sword to travel! With this speed, it increased by three or four times at once, which should be considered safe for the time being! (End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 653 =====