Chapter 463: Bizarre Tactics

Seeing the Ninth Princess's involvement, the younger generation of Royal City became even more active.

Many young heroes, even just to win the Ninth Princess's favor, wanted to fight Ye Liuyun to showcase their own flair.

After learning Ye Liuyun's reply and his challenge, the Golden Peng Dynasty knew they could not act rashly and only sent people to monitor him covertly. Moreover, the Golden Peng Dynasty had only one or two Tian Gang eighth‑rank strongmen, and they dared not test Ye Liuyun's Trump Card. As for the Ninth Princess, let her go mad; she has always been like that, and the dynasty is too lazy to bother with her.

The Ninth Princess's guard Lao Wu, upon receiving the news, hurried to her side, greeted the princess, and then took on the duties of her covert guard.

Upon hearing the news, Jing Wudi of the Iron Eagle Sect laughed that Ye Liuyun was bold, and meanwhile dispatched several Elders to rush to Royal City to covertly protect Ye Liuyun's safety. He was not worried about the Golden Peng Dynasty; he feared the assassins sent by the Blood Hand Organization.

Jing Wudi immediately understood that Ye Liuyun intended to strike proactively—to bait those assassins out and, having nothing better to do, to disgust the Golden Peng Dynasty.

On the arena, more than ten challengers had already stepped up and were taken down by Ye Liuyun in a single move. Moreover, this time Ye Liuyun dealt a heavier blow, and those ten‑plus opponents were outright annihilated.

"Oh my, this young master Ye, truly the hero of my heart! I never knew before that those so‑called geniuses in Royal City are worthless before him, not even able to land a single move!" Ye Liuyun shouted after killing another, prompting the Ninth Princess to fan the flames as the arena fell silent.

Hearing that, Ye Liuyun almost burst out laughing. Beside the Ninth Princess, Lei Ming, Wu Qingcheng and the others covered their mouths and snickered.

Some youngsters, hearing the Ninth Princess's words, couldn't help but rush onto the arena, only to be split in two by Yi Dao from Ye Liuyun.

The news spread quickly, and gradually the true geniuses of Royal City began to appear one by one. For each challenger who stepped onto the stage to face Ye Liuyun, the Ninth Princess took charge of Transmission Voice, introducing them to Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun also felt that the opponents' strength was increasing, but for him it was still not worth watching.

Even without employing Soul power and without using any treasures, he fought purely on his own strength, not even tapping his Spatial Power.

He was waiting—for the real assassin to appear.

After Ye Liuyun fought a few more people, his True Essence showed no sign of weakening. At that moment, he suddenly felt a gust of wind blowing toward him.

He instantly activated his Golden Pupil, looked ahead, and spotted a man concealed within the wind, drifting with it, now not far from him.

The man's palm formed a blade shape and directly made a downward slash toward Ye Liuyun; then a surge of raging wind rippled, and a wind blade materialized out of thin air, slashing toward Ye Liuyun.

"Break!" Ye Liuyun didn't even raise his sword; he simply released blade intent to shatter the wind blade.

The sudden turn caused everyone in the arena to gasp in surprise; many couldn't even see what had happened.

Wu Qingcheng instantly grew tense, realizing a relatively strong assassin adept at concealment had arrived, and immediately warned everyone to stay alert.

The man hadn't expected that his wind blade, once Ye Liuyun shouted, would be broken.

He swiftly turned, instantly stirring another gust that whirled around Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun unleashed his entire blade intent, using his body to hard‑hold the wind blade within the vortex, while simultaneously launching a Spiritual Soul Attack that ripped the man's Soul into his own Soul domain.

"Can you see me?" the man asked in astonishment.

Ye Liuyun ignored him and performed a Soul Search. The man's realm was only Tian Gang second rank, his technique merely specialized in using wind for concealment, and his Soul was far inferior to Ye Liuyun's.

Ye Liuyun expended little effort to locate the information he sought.

This man was the renowned Blood Hand assassin Feng Ren, directly cultivated by Blood Hand. Within his Sea of Consciousness, Ye Liuyun not only found Blood Hand's secret base but also learned much about its internal situation and strength.

Ye Liuyun directly devoured his Soul, and his body finally appeared before the crowd, falling from the sky.

Ye Liuyun gestured, retrieving the Token tied to his chest.

These assassins go on missions carrying nothing extra, so they don't even have a Storage Ring.

The Token hanging on his chest, most people assumed, was a Blood Hand insignia, but in fact it was a key to the Blood Hand secret base.

Ye Liuyun was about to store the Token into his Storage Ring when he suddenly sensed a spatial fluctuation behind him.

He was now very familiar with spatial power fluctuations, and immediately employed that spatial power to vanish into the fourth layer of void.

The crowd saw, behind Ye Liuyun, a masked Black Shadow appear, a sword thrust toward Ye Liuyun's rear heart, piercing through. Then the Black Shadow seemed stunned.

Everyone let out a gasp, thinking Ye Liuyun had died that way. Especially Wu Qingcheng and the others stood up anxiously.

But the next moment, they witnessed a bizarre scene: half of the Black Shadow's body suddenly vanished, as if erased all at once.

Immediately, Ye Liuyun appeared beside it, pulling down the Token tied to its chest. The remaining half of the Black Shadow crashed to the ground with a thud; upon impact, its flesh burst outward, spraying everywhere.

"Dead? How did this person die? Where did the other half go?"

"Who is this person? Such a profound assassination technique!"

The onlookers began to chatter.

Wu Qingcheng and the others, seeing Ye Liuyun unharmed, relaxed; their pallid faces eased. They all sat down to calm their emotions.

"What method did Brother Liuyun use to kill that person?" Ninth Princess asked the others, bewildered, via Divine Sense Transmission Voice.

"It must be Spatial Power!" Lei Ming guessed.

The others shook their heads, indicating they were unsure. This Spatial Power that Ye Liuyun cultivated was their first encounter, and Ye Liuyun hadn't had time to explain it to them.

At this moment Ye Liuyun felt very tense; had his Spatial Power not been deeper, the assassin might have succeeded.

This assassin should be another famed Blood Hand killer, Kong Zhan. He hadn't expected Blood Hand to dispatch two experts at once to target him.

"Could there be a third?" Ye Liuyun wondered, and casually seized Kong Zhan's sword.

"A noble‑ranked sword. If pierced, even if not fatal, it would cause severe injury," Ye Liuyun thought, secretly relieved, while admiring the assassins' uncanny elusiveness.

"This technique is quite useful for assassinations; I could learn from it."

With that in mind, he sheathed the sword and continued to invite the Royal City's geniuses to battle.

The geniuses, having witnessed Ye Liuyun slay two assassins with such bizarre methods, now had a sense of his capabilities.

"This kid is unfathomable; fighting him never reveals his true strength."

"Indeed, we are no match; stepping onto the stage is merely courting death."

For a moment, none of the Royal City's geniuses dared to step onto the stage.