Chapter 2356

At that moment, the patrol team had already arrived at the inn, questioning the Song Girl about the situation and checking her identification badge.

After Ye Liuyun returned, he said he had gone after the Martial Cultivators who attacked them, but he hadn't caught up.

"Those people were all cloaked in black robes, their faces unseen, and no one knew who they were!"

Ye Liuyun did not tell the patrol team who was behind the attack on them.

The patrol team just made a casual inquiry and removed the corpses from the two adjacent rooms.

Lately, there have been too many killings of contestants, so they no longer find it surprising and know it must be the work of some major faction.

Having an extra matter is not as good as having fewer.

Without solid evidence on site, they did not dare to casually suspect anyone.

Therefore, they planned to use the inability to find the culprit as an excuse to withdraw.

But at that moment, battle sounds and True Essence fluctuations also came from Hong Kun's residence.

"Another incident!"

The patrol team captain let out a helpless sigh, and Ma Shan led his men to rush over.

They did not want to get involved in the Martial Cultivators' battle, yet they had no choice.

This time, the battle fluctuations were indeed caused by those assassins' clones.

These assassins started off very smoothly, quickly and silently eliminating many Martial Cultivators.

But when they approached Hong Kun, the formation at Hong Kun's residence suddenly activated.

Two assassins were still trapped inside.

If it weren't for the clone controlling a Martial Cultivator and pulling him into the Space World, which delayed things a bit, the clones would have been trapped in the formation.

Helpless, the clone had to abandon the plan to assassinate Hong Kun, and together with the others bombarded the formation, creating a breach and rescuing those two assassins.

In fact, the clone had already seen Hong Kun and his son at this point.

But fearing there were multiple layers of formation inside, he did not dare to risk getting close.

He thought of using the Technique to kill them, but felt that killing them now would not obtain the Storage Ring and would reveal his Special Eye Pupil, so it was not worthwhile.

So he immediately scattered with the others and fled, temporarily giving Hong Kun a break.

Hong Kun and his son were only a false alarm; after the assassins fled, he promptly activated the outer Defense Array, shielding the entire residence.

When the patrol team arrived, Hong Kun did not let them enter the residence; he only sent someone to tell them the mansion had been attacked by Black-clothed Persons, and ordered the patrol team to investigate the culprits.

The patrol team could only verbally agree and left.

As for finding the culprits, they had already fled far away, leaving the patrol team nowhere to look.

"Who dares to act against me?"

Hong Kun also knew that the patrol team certainly could not catch the assassins, and he was pondering this in his mind.

In his mind, he considered one by one the forces capable of dispatching so many experts, and he had never thought of Ye Liuyun.

He had already received news of Ye Liuyun's setback, reported by the fleeing Martial Cultivator.

But now he did not dare to send anyone to deal with Ye Liuyun.

If he sent more people, there would be no strong protectors left in his residence.

Those clones, once they acted, eliminated over twenty of his subordinates, and together with the more than twenty people sent by Ye Liuyun's side, he suffered huge losses that day.

"Can't act any more! Tomorrow it's up to you!"

Hong Kun told Hong Feng.

"Don't worry, father, I'm confident I can take down that little girl!"

Hong Feng said confidently.

"Hmm!"

Hong Kun also nodded and told Hong Feng, "If you can't win, use poison!"

"I thought the same, I've been ready for a long time!"

Hong Feng replied.

Before the competition, Hong Kun specially prepared some deadly poison powder for Hong Feng, so that once he faced a strong opponent, he could use the poison to eliminate them.

However, Hong Feng's previous matches had all gone smoothly.

His own strength was not weak; even when facing strong opponents, Hong Kun had already handled them, and he would deliberately lose to him, so he never needed to use the poison powder.

Now the poison powder is hidden inside a fan he keeps in his scriptures; a flick of the fan disperses the fine powder, silently poisoning the opponent, while he only needs to take an antidote before the match.

Ye Liuyun gave the inn Administrator many Divine Crystals as compensation, making him grin with joy; not only did he stop complaining about the inn's destruction, but he also gave Ye Liuyun's party a better room.

Later that night, no one came to investigate them again, and they waited calmly until the next morning.

Ye Liuyun took the Song Girl to attend that day's competition.

But just before they reached the arena, Ye Liuyun suddenly sensed killing intent among the crowd.

"There's an assassin!"

Ye Liuyun was too familiar with the aura of a professional assassin.

The killing aura of a professional assassin differs greatly from that of some Martial Cultivators who intend to kill; it is extremely subtle.

Since he could feel that aura, it meant the assassin was already very close to them.

Ye Liuyun somewhat regretted that he had been only focused on Hong Kun, neglecting the ongoing Black Kill mission.

This assassin was probably a Black Kill operative from another region sent to carry out the task.

He immediately warned the Song Girl, and his Divine Sense instantly expanded, using his Golden Pupil to scan the surrounding crowd.

During such a large-scale competition, the arena was surrounded by many people, making it truly difficult to locate the assassin right away.

Before Ye Liuyun could find the assassin, he noticed a Soul, and it swiftly surged into the Song Girl's Sea of Consciousness.

"Oh no!"

Ye Liuyun was startled; time in the Soul world passed extremely fast, and even if he discovered it now, trying to rescue the Song Girl would probably be too late.

But before he could release his Soul to save the Song Girl, that Soul had already fled back.

Ye Liuyun's Soul immediately turned to chase, rushing into the Sea of Consciousness of a seemingly ordinary Martial Cultivator among the crowd.

However, Ye Liuyun found that this person's Soul was wounded, almost without any resistance, and he planted a Slave Seal on it.

Then, Ye Liuyun's Soul promptly withdrew from the Sea of Consciousness, and the Song Girl immediately told Ye Liuyun that she had just used the Soul‑Shaking Wave, severely damaging the Soul that attacked her.

Whew!

Ye Liuyun let out a breath, grateful that he had previously handed those two secret arts to the Song Girl.

That moment just now really scared him stiff.

The surrounding crowd was slightly thrown into confusion, and many Martial Cultivators saw what had just happened.

But it quickly returned to normal; in the world of Martial Cultivators, such incidents are perfectly ordinary.

Ye Liuyun immediately reminded the Song Girl to cultivate her Divine Soul Power more in the future.

Although the Song Girl was a captive he had captured, after so long she was already regarded as one of his own, and he would no longer use a Slave Seal to control her.

The Song Girl felt the same; sensing Ye Liuyun's care and everyone's affection, she also regarded Ye Liuyun and the others as her own family.

"Don't worry, I've killed as many as you; it's not that easy to be killed by others!"

The Song Girl blinked at Ye Liuyun and sent a Transmission Voice to comfort him.

"Alright!"

Ye Liuyun smiled helplessly, thinking that indeed, this girl now seemed harmless, yet she was originally a murderous Witch.

But he still warned the Witch not to be careless; she is still on Black Kill's mission list.