Chapter 81: Has the Three-Color Pavilion Been Destroyed? (Seeking First Subscription!)

Seven days later.

Tianqing Prefecture, Tianji Restaurant.

"As expected of 'Two-Yang Finger' Li Huanyun; in yesterday's battle with the enchantress Tai Mei, with one Two-Yang Finger, the enchantress Tai Mei had her force neutralized and was ultimately defeated."

"Congratulations, Young Hero Li, your ranking on the Hidden Dragon Ranking has advanced once more; I fear it won't be long before you enter the top thirty of the Hidden Dragon Ranking!"

The top thirty of the Hidden Dragon Ranking and those after the thirtieth are two different levels.

The top thirty of the Hidden Dragon Ranking are all First Grade martial artists.

Of course, First Grade is also divided into high and low.

The current number one on the Hidden Dragon Ranking is named Liu Baiyuan, who is a High-Grade First Grade.

There are Grandmasters who assert that Liu Baiyuan has the potential to step into the realm of a Grandmaster before the age of thirty-five.

At this moment, Li Huanyun is still Second Grade, but he has already almost reached the Ultimate among the Second Grade.

Hearing the flattery of the crowd, Li Huanyun accepted it calmly.

The news of him defeating the enchantress Tai Mei will likely spread throughout Dayan before long.

His reputation for the Two-Yang Finger will rise once again.

He likes this feeling of being pursued and praised by ten thousand people.

Of course, he understands even more that to be pursued and praised by ten thousand people, one's own strength must be solid.

Li Huanyun has already made up his mind; once his strength has fully settled, he will challenge the young talent ranked thirty-first on the Hidden Dragon Ranking to step into First Grade in one battle.

Of course, this battle might have to wait one to two years.

Li Huanyun has patience.

The north wind howled, and Li Huanyun drank strong liquor.

In the Tianji Restaurant, many martial artists drank and chatted happily, and some even brought girls from the brothels directly here.

It was lively indeed.

"The Three-Color Pavilion is truly terrifying; I heard that some days ago, the twenty-seventh ranked on the Hidden Dragon Ranking, the Gun King, was assassinated by a Black-Edged Killer!"

"The Gun King, that Gun King who fought across Kyoto with a single silver spear?

What a pity, the Gun King was a member of the imperial family, always heroic, and had the potential to step into the realm of a Martial Arts Grandmaster within twenty years."

Many martial arts heroes sighed.

The Three-Color Pavilion is truly too powerful, like a formidable dark cloud hanging over everyone's heads.

More than ten years ago, the Three-Color Pavilion even assassinated a prince, shaking both the imperial court and the martial arts world.

However, anyone in the martial arts world with a bit of influence and well-informed sources knows that the Three-Color Pavilion is Su Yunqiong's sharp sword.

Su Yunqiong used the Three-Color Pavilion to assassinate the prince to pave the way for her son.

"The Three-Color Pavilion is truly too strong; if I could enter it and become a Black-Edged Killer, that would be great," a burly man said with envy.

The killers of the Three-Color Pavilion receive extremely high treatment.

Su Yunqiong occasionally organizes a Group Fragrance Banquet to feast the Gold-Edged Killers and Black-Edged Killers of the Three-Color Pavilion.

There are even rumors that Su Yunqiong had some ambiguous relationships with some Gold-Edged Killers.

"You? You can't even compare to a White-Edged Killer of the Three-Color Pavilion, let alone a Black-Edged Killer," someone laughed loudly.

The burly man smiled awkwardly: "Can't a person have ideals?"

"There is only one possibility for you to become a Black-Edged Killer.

That is for the Three-Color Pavilion to be destroyed and cease to exist.

You create a Three-Color Pavilion yourself and appoint yourself as a Black-Edged Killer."

"Hahaha, you would be dead and the Three-Color Pavilion still wouldn't be destroyed!"

"As long as the imperial family does not fall, how could the Three-Color Pavilion be destroyed?"

In the restaurant, the atmosphere was incredibly lively.

Everyone was laughing happily.

The Three-Color Pavilion has always been like a huge shadow pressing on everyone's hearts; only by drinking and making bold jokes can these mists of gloom dissipate a little.

Suddenly, the door of the restaurant was pushed open.

Outside, it was a vast expanse of white.

A cold wind blew in, and a chilling sensation struck, causing many martial artists to curse loudly.

"What is going on?"

"Why was the door opened completely?"

"Wasting my Qi!"

"The person who came seems to be from the Qiyan Workshop; has something major happened?"

The Qiyan Workshop, in terms of being well-informed, is second only to the Tianji Pavilion.

However, the Tianji Pavilion knows many secret pieces of information and sells them privately; the Qiyan Workshop prints many public news items onto paper and sells them.

Now, someone from the Qiyan Workshop has come to the Tianji Restaurant.

Has something major happened?

Just then, the person from the Qiyan Workshop outside the door suddenly shouted.

"Five days ago, the Three-Color Pavilion... was destroyed!"

Once these words were spoken, the entire restaurant fell silent, and time seemed to be frozen.

A few breaths later, this stillness shattered, followed by an intense outpouring.

"What?"

"The Three-Color Pavilion was destroyed?"

"You're joking, right?"

Many martial arts heroes and warriors of the jianghu were inexplicably shocked, feeling as if something were wrong with their ears.

The Three-Color Pavilion is the number one assassin organization.

Among them are over ten Grandmaster experts, and nearly a hundred First Grade experts.

Even if four or five Grandmaster experts were to enter it, they could not claim to have wiped out the Three-Color Pavilion.

In the Great Yan Dynasty, there are only so many Grandmaster experts.

Now, the Three-Color Pavilion has been destroyed?

How could this be possible!

The crowd looked at the messenger from the Qiyan Workshop and asked all at once.

"Kid, you aren't trying to trick us, are you?"

"What exactly happened?"

"Who destroyed the Three-Color Pavilion?"

"No," the messenger from the Qiyan Workshop said with a heavy expression, "The Three-Color Pavilion has indeed been destroyed. I do not know at whose hands the Three-Color Pavilion met its end, but tomorrow's Hero Journal will publish the destruction of the Three-Color Pavilion."

The Hero Journal of the Qiyan Workshop is published once a month, recording major and minor events of the jianghu.

This issue had already been released.

This time, the Qiyan Workshop is preparing to release another issue.

Many heroes were inexplicably shocked.

Li Huanyun was stunned.

He never imagined that the Three-Color Pavilion would be destroyed.

From here on out, the entire jianghu will inevitably be shaken!

Thinking of this, Li Huanyun felt a toothache.

Doesn't this mean that the news of him just defeating the demoness Tai Mei will be unable to cause any ripples?

Who exactly destroyed the Three-Color Pavilion?

Li Huanyun was also filled with curiosity.

Inside the entire restaurant, it was incredibly lively and clamorous.

Just then, however, a voice of astonishment suddenly came.

"The Heavenly Secret Pavilion Master, Tianji Laoren!"

The crowd looked over and saw a white-haired old man enter the Tianji Restaurant with a grave expression.

The person who arrived was none other than the renowned Tianji Laoren of the jianghu.

The warriors present felt doubts in their hearts.

Did Tianji Laoren also come because of the destruction of the Three-Color Pavilion?

But why did he not go to the Three-Color Pavilion, but instead came to the Tianji Restaurant, this small outpost?

The implications were thought-provoking.

Li Huanyun could not help but recall the cloaked man from half a month ago; that cloaked man had entered the seventh floor of the Tianji Restaurant.

Could it be...

A terrifying thought arose in Li Huanyun's heart.

Is the destruction of the Three-Color Pavilion related to that cloaked man?

Was it that cloaked man who purchased the information on the Three-Color Pavilion's headquarters on the seventh floor of the Tianji Restaurant, and then took people to wipe out the Three-Color Pavilion?

Only in this way could the destruction of the Three-Color Pavilion and Tianji Laoren's arrival at the Tianji Restaurant in Tianqing Prefecture be explained.

Thinking of this, Li Huanyun was inexplicably shocked.

Upstairs in the Tianji Restaurant.

Wang Qiyun showed a respectful expression: "Greetings, Pavilion Master!"

Tianji Laoren is the Pavilion Master of the Tianji Pavilion and also the number one expert of the Tianji Pavilion.

"Are you already aware of the matter of the Three-Color Pavilion's destruction?" Tianji Laoren spoke, his voice carrying an indescribable charm.

"This subordinate has just learned of it." Wang Qiyun kept his head lowered.

Upon hearing this news, he was also inexplicably shocked, his sleepiness completely gone.

As a result, before he had even finished digesting it, the Pavilion Master had arrived.

"Half a month ago, did someone purchase information from you regarding the location of the Three-Color Pavilion's headquarters?" the Heavenly Secret Pavilion Master asked indifferently.

Wang Qiyun was stunned.

Hearing the Pavilion Master's words, and combining them with the fact that the Pavilion Master had run all the way here.

A peculiar thought arose in his heart.

Could it be...

"Yes." Wang Qiyun suppressed the other thoughts in his heart, forcing himself to remain calm.

"It is a half-month journey from Tianqing Prefecture to Fenglin Mountain; that person happened to purchase the location of the Three-Color Pavilion's headquarters, and the Three-Color Pavilion was destroyed half a month later," the Heavenly Secret Pavilion Master said in a deep voice.

Wang Qiyun could not help but think of the man from that day.

At the time, he had even felt pity.

That man's intention was to seek revenge on the Three-Color Pavilion.

At the time, Wang Qiyun had even thought about dropping a hint, speaking of the power of the Three-Color Pavilion to persuade that man not to do something foolish.

As a result...

Could it be...

"After that person purchased the location of the Three-Color Pavilion headquarters, did he say what it was for?" Tianji Laoren asked.

"He didn't say directly, but he did say he was going there to kill someone."

"How old was he, and what were his features?"

Wang Qiyun tried hard to recall.

"He covered his figure with a cloak, so I did not see his face.

However, he was roughly... no more than thirty years old, and he wore two swords on his person; they were the very Ordinary kind of swords, the kind that could be forged at any Tiejiang Pu."

(End of this chapter)