Chapter 40: Assassination

Kunxuzi, he was only a beggar begging for food in an unnamed muddy alley when he was a child.

He was often bullied and mocked!

Not only did those rich, brightly dressed young masters, when passing by, occasionally come over and kick him for amusement!

Even fellow beggars often dragged him into corners to use him as a punching bag!

What a miserable life!

His clothes didn't cover his body, his food didn't fill his stomach, and he might starve to death on the roadside any day, his corpse turning into a lump of rotting meat to be gnawed by passing stray dogs!

Just when he thought he would spend his whole life in a daze, an old man wearing a raincoat and bamboo hat suddenly appeared before him.

The old man revealed a mouthful of yellow teeth and said to him, "Young man, amazing—I see your bone structure is astonishing, you are a one-in-a-million cultivation genius……"

Afterwards, he followed that old man to cultivate!

The old man was right—he truly is a one-in-a-million cultivation genius!

He is quick-witted, grasps any martial art or technique faster than others, his cultivation advances a thousand miles a day, with no bottleneck, soaring straight to the Emperor Realm!

Also because of his childhood experiences, even after he became prominent, he still likes to dress in the style of a beggar!

Wearing tattered straw sandals, coarse hemp clothes, and disheveled, dirty appearance!

Whoever dares to mock him, he will kill!

Especially those who proclaim themselves lofty heaven's pride!

Whoever dares to give him a look of contempt, he will surely make that genius suffer worse than death before his eyes!

Gradually, he came to enjoy tormenting geniuses!

Over time, he developed two great hobbies—killing geniuses and slaughtering Emperors!

He earned the nickname 'Emperor Realm Shouji' precisely because he has slain enough Emperors!

Over these many years in the netherworld, he completes every assignment perfectly, no matter what it is!

He can guarantee that every employer will be satisfied and then willingly leave a five-star review!

……

At this moment, Kunxuzi stood on the white crane, feeling the rust‑stained sickle at his waist!

This sickle looks nothing special—just the ordinary kind used by old farmers to cut weeds in the fields!

But… this seemingly ordinary sickle has reaped who knows how many Emperor heads!

Kunxuzi can't even recall how many Emperors he has killed over the years, or what kind of people they were!

After all, those who die by his hand are not worthy of leaving an impression on him!

Ordinary assassins, after taking a job, will meticulously investigate the target's information and then devise an assassination plan!

But Kunxuzi never does; he thinks it's unnecessary!

He only needs to know two pieces of information: who to kill and where!

"Tsk tsk tsk, you're really handsome!" Kunxuzi let out a grim laugh while holding a portrait in his hand!

The portrait shows a white‑clad youth with a sword on his back—none other than Li Zhangsheng!

Kunxuzi swept his divine sense toward Ze Yun Immortal City ahead, confirmed he had the right person, and then swooped down from the white crane!

Just as he was about to land on the ground, he suddenly turned into a blurry black shadow!

This is the Darkness Law he controls, which can hide him within darkness!

Even the shadow of a blade of grass can become his hiding place!

This is also one of the reasons why he can complete every assassination mission perfectly!

Assassination is all about a single strike that kills!

As an assassin, Kunxuzi certainly won't openly duel his target!

How foolish would that be?

Soon, Kunxuzi turned into a barely noticeable black line, and after a few flashes arrived at a tile shadow on the already dilapidated Bright Moon Pavilion in Ze Yun Immortal City!

"Hehe, I originally had many other jobs this round; killing you was supposed to be near the bottom of the list!"

"But there's nothing I can do—the employer paid too much, and I hate to waste money!"

"For you brat to die beneath my sickle counts as a kind of honor!"

In the small shadow beneath the tile, Kunxuzi watched Li Zhangsheng leisurely drinking with Jiang Yuanqing, his whole body filled with an inexplicable excitement!

Every time he is about to kill someone, he feels this inexplicable excitement, and he is enamored of that feeling!

"Look at him still enjoying the fine wine—he probably never imagines he'll die any moment now!"

Kunxuzi couldn't help finding it funny; he was already activating that rust‑stained sickle……

On the other side, Jiang Yuanqing beamed as he raised a cup to Li Zhangsheng, "Come, senior, let me toast you again—it's a blessing of three lifetimes to drink freely with someone like you, senior!"

Li Zhangsheng chewed a mouthful of dragon meat, elegantly raised his cup, symbolically clinked it with Jiang Yuanqing's, then drained it in one gulp, "Hmm… not bad, your Jiang family's spiritual liquor still tastes just as it used to!"

"Hehe, as long as you like it, senior!" Jiang Yuanqing laughed and personally refilled Li Zhangsheng's cup to the brim!

At this moment, Li Zhangsheng's divine sense lightly glanced at a broken tile behind him!

"Just now it seemed like a mouse ran from outside the city to under that tile!"

"That 'mouse' seems to be an Emperor, and it's still staring at me right now!"

Li Zhangsheng smiled, paid no mind, and did not deliberately expose the mouse hiding under the tile!

He has always adhered to the principle of not taking initiative, not refusing, and not taking responsibility!

Buzz!

Just then, the mouse hiding under the tile finally moved!

It came so fast!

In the shadow, Kunxuzi activated the sickle in his hand!

His scythe is the life‑born Imperial Weapon he nurtured with his soul; it is not only steeped in poison, and even if the Emperor Realm is tainted with a fraction of that toxin, the Divine Body will instantly dissolve!

Moreover, this scythe carries its own spatial law, capable of cutting through any defense!

Ha ha ha, die!

Kunxu Zi's eyes were ferocious, yet carried a hint of enjoyment!

Each time he harvests the Emperor Realm's heads as if cutting weeds, he thoroughly enjoys the process!

Behold, mortals, the Emperor Realm you regard as lofty and omnipotent!

To me, it is merely like weeds; harvesting it is just as simple as weeding!

Boom!

A massive spatial law reverberated outward; at that moment, the space around Li Zhangsheng's neck suddenly warped into a dark arc!

Immediately, a rust‑stained scythe materialized from the darkness, sweeping toward Li Zhangsheng's neck to reap!

In an instant, the heavens and earth shifted hue, and the entire Ze Yun Immortal City was shrouded in a dark tint!

"Senior, be careful!" Across from Li Zhangsheng, Jiang Yuanqing suddenly saw a scythe sweeping toward Li Zhangsheng's neck, was instantly horrified, and hurriedly warned!

Li Zhangsheng, as if he hadn't seen the scythe, lifted the wine to his lips and gulped it down in one go!

Clang!

The scythe finally latched onto Li Zhangsheng's neck!

All of this occurred in the blink of an eye!

A tremendous clang of gold and iron reverberated through heaven and earth, and the surrounding void was torn apart in sheet after sheet!

Then… that rust‑stained scythe suddenly shattered into fragments that fell to the ground!

Not only that, Jiang Yuanqing also heard a bone‑cracking, snapping sound!!

Whoosh!

Kunxu Zi transformed into a black silhouette, fleeing toward the outskirts at a speed even faster than when he arrived…