Chapter 2347: Smooth Takeover

When the men sent by Cao Qingyun arrived at Misty Valley, Ye Liuyun and his clone immediately acted, using the Golden Pupil's Technique to begin exterminating Cao Qingyun and the Martial Cultivators inside the Cao manor.

The action was swift and caused no noticeable commotion.

Moreover, each victim was instantly sealed into the Space World, making it hard for anyone to notice.

Ye Liuyun also shapeshifted into Cao Qingyun's appearance, further preventing anyone from detecting any problem.

When the Martial Cultivators had been mostly cleared, Ye Liuyun gathered the remaining people in the manor together.

He executed the remaining Martial Cultivators, disbanded all servants, then released Ye Tiandao and some Sharp Blade Corps soldiers, had them don the Martial Cultivators' clothing, and seized control of Cao Qingyun's residence.

At the same time Ye Liuyun acted, those assassins also began killing the Martial Cultivators sent by Cao Qingyun.

As soon as Cao Qingyun was killed, the Martial Cultivator under Ye Liuyun's control immediately turned its weapon around to aid those assassins.

The sudden shift left the Martial Cultivators unable to react in time.

The Divine Soul Contracts they had signed with Cao Qingyun in their Sea of Consciousness also vanished simultaneously.

Coupled with the assassins' pursuit, they immediately scattered and fled.

Once they dispersed, the assassins gained the advantage, splitting up to chase them down and eliminate them one by one.

A few who fled back to the Cao manor in the city, though they noticed the disturbance, used Divine Sense to probe and found Cao Qingyun still present, returned to inquire, and were all slain by Sharp Blade Corps soldiers.

Ye Liuyun then gave the ten Stewards to Gu Xing, letting Gu Xing take them back to the business association to continue running the Qingyun Business Association.

A few days later, a sensational rumor spread in the city: Cao Qingyun transferred the business association and residence to Gu Xing, allowing the townsfolk to keep doing business, with nothing changing.

Then news circulated that Cao Qingyun had moved out of Qingyun City.

Cao Qingyun's residence was also auctioned off by the Qingyun Business Association.

Many Martial Cultivators in the city rumored that Cao Qingyun fled abroad to avoid assassination.

Thus, Ye Liuyun dismantled Cao Qingyun's defenses from within and smoothly took over his business association, acquiring his own enterprise.

Gu Xing doesn't understand how to run a business association, but Liang Xue and Wu Qingcheng can guide her from the shadows.

Moreover, with ten Stewards present, she essentially has no decisions to make; they are merely decorative.

The reason Ye Liuyun didn't let Liang Xue manage the Qingyun Business Association was fear that Wanwei City's tangled relations might prompt someone to fund a Black Kill against the association's president, and he didn't want Liang Xue to be endangered.

Having Gu Xing as the president ensures that local assassins are unlikely to act against her.

Among the local Black Kill members, eleven are Ye Liuyun's subordinates, and they will collectively protect Gu Xing.

Gu Xing immediately recruited Martial Cultivators to guard herself, preventing anyone from targeting her.

After taking over the Qingyun Business Association, Ye Liuyun guarded the place for another two months.

Although his actions caused no major stir, many people still noticed some clues.

But since it didn't concern them, ultimately no one came forward to cause trouble.

Marquis Wanwei's manor actually also detected the problem.

However, the Qingyun Business Association is a major guild, and Marquis Wanwei doesn't want the issue to blow up and affect city trade.

Thus, after observing for a while, Marquis Wanwei saw the Qingyun Business Association operating normally and chose not to intervene.

Ye Liuyun, after seeing everything stable, gathered the Pure Essence Brew that the Black Kill members had stockpiled and then returned to Haoyue City to report.

After returning to Haoyue City, Ye Liuyun intended to kill Liehu to file his report.

But Tong Xin, with Liehu's assistance, made major modifications to the Warship.

Therefore, he asked Ye Liuyun to keep Liehu to help design the Warship.

Ye Liuyun agreed to Tong Xin, did not hand over Liehu's head, but submitted Cao Qingyun's head instead.

Qi Sha had already received the news, sighing at Ye Liuyun's methods while asking him about Liehu's whereabouts.

Ye Liuyun didn't hide it: "Liehu's trap mechanism is well designed; I don't want to kill him, I want to keep him to serve me."

Qi Sha also agreed.

"You may keep him, but you must redeem his insignia and cancel his Black Kill member qualification!"

"No problem then!"

Ye Liuyun immediately redeemed Liehu's insignia.

Then Qi Sha discussed the upcoming missions with Ye Liuyun.

"There are still many missions in Wanwei City.

If you stay there, you can receive more missions.

And now that you control the Qingyun Business Association, you're even more suited to go there to accept missions."

Qi Sha said to Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun also acknowledged this.

The reason he returned to hand over the mission was simply to prevent the members there from learning that he eliminated Cao Qingyun.

Thus, Ye Liuyun didn't take any missions here; after chatting with Qi Sha for a while, he returned to Wanwei City.

After returning, he immediately went to the Black Killing Secret Realm.

Some Black Kill members there were discussing Cao Qingyun's eradication, wondering if Ye Liuyun was responsible.

So when Ye Liuyun appeared, someone asked him.

Ye Liuyun insisted that he had other tasks and knew nothing about Cao Qingyun's case.

Someone also inquired about Liehu, since Liehu's mission had ended and everyone knew.

He couldn't deny it, merely saying he had gotten a good deal.

When he killed Liehu, Liehu was already severely wounded.

For this, he even had Beard's crew deliberately show displeasure toward him, making people believe he had taken Beard's business.

Later, Ye Liuyun took on several missions from the Black Kill here and completed them smoothly.

After a while, his reputation points rose smoothly to level eight.

During this period, he also drank a jug of Pure Essence Brew every day, constantly tempering his body; the people around him also used Pure Essence Brew to temper their bodies, just not as diligently as he did.

But Gu Xing and the others ended up miserable; they went every day to exchange Pure Essence Brew, yet could only save it up for Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun felt he couldn't shortchange them, so he had Gu Xing take some soul-cultivation resources from the Merchants' Guild to give them, letting them increase their Divine Soul Power, lest they later be controlled by others using Spiritual Soul Attack.

Just as everything was going smoothly for Ye Liuyun, Black Kill suddenly released a large number of assassination missions.

Moreover, the targets of the assassinations were many of the contestants participating in the talent selection.

It is likely that someone wanted their own people to achieve good results, so they went to strike at some strong competitors.

Although few of these contestants had reached the Divine Realm, many of them were scions of great clans, with powerful experts guarding them.

The members of Black Kill began to busy themselves each day, and Ye Liuyun followed along, completing several assassination missions.

But there was one mission that no one could complete, and many Black Kill members even met their demise in it.

That was the daughter of the Garrison Leader of Ten Might City, Mu Tianyang.

Mu Tianyang was surrounded by many powerful experts guarding him, so ordinary assassins had no chance to strike.