Chapter 464

Seeing that no one else went up on stage, the Ninth Princess started his performance again.

This time, whether she was sneering and sarcastic or directly naming and encouraging, no one dared to fight anymore.

"Every single one of them is a coward, all so afraid of death!"

The Ninth Princess finally had to stop helplessly. She was already shouting hoarse, yet no one dared to go on stage.

Ye Liuyun saw this and also knew he couldn't continue the act. He was merely a bit disappointed. The true geniuses inside the Royal City certainly hadn't shown up.

These people didn't even have anyone with a stronger bloodline. Just by sensing their bloodline power, Ye Liuyun could tell they weren't the strongest batch. But since those people didn't come out, he couldn't go door-to-door challenging each one.

Finally he had no choice but to step down from the platform and lead everyone straight out of the Royal City.

The road out of the city was also smooth sailing, with no one daring to block Ye Liuyun, especially the Royal City Imperial Guard.

Xiong Wuli had already issued a strict order that no one should block Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun originally came just to cause trouble; if you provoke him, with his guts and strength, he might even pierce a hole in the sky.

The royal family also sent out an old man of the Seventh Layer of the Heavenly Gang to negotiate with Ye Liuyun, hoping to keep the princess.

But the princess clung to Ye Liuyun's arm, refusing to let go and insisting on following him; the old man had no choice, and afterwards could only return to the royal family resentfully, not daring to block Ye Liuyun.

After leaving the Royal City, Ye Liuyun first released a flying boat and flew a stretch. Upon confirming that no one was tailing them, he stored everyone in his Storage Ring, then put away the flying boat, directly entered the void, changed direction, and rushed toward the Blood Hand's lair.

The Blood Hand's lair is located in a mountain range east of the Royal City, designed to be extremely concealed, with several fifth-layer Heavenly Gang feral beasts guarding the outside.

Ye Liuyun directly went past these feral beasts to avoid alerting them, then appeared right at the entrance of their lair.

This is a cave; feral beasts guard the mouth, and inside there is a stone door.

Ye Liuyun slapped Kong Zhan's token into a notch on the stone door, and the stone door boomed open. He did not enter the void, but walked straight in.

Ahead was a dim stone stairway. Ye Liuyun's Golden Pupil could see clearly that an assassin lay hidden, holding his breath in the darkness, and he also carried a treasure that blocked Divine Sense detection. Without his Golden Pupil, he would have been impossible to spot.

Ye Liuyun pretended not to have seen him, and as he hurried forward, he suddenly launched an attack using spatial displacement, cleanly cutting the assassin in half at the waist.

Immediately afterward he accelerated, directly passing that stone stairway.

At the end of the stone steps lay an expansive hall, and Ye Liuyun's view suddenly opened up. He had already obtained information about the entire hall from Feng Ren's Sea of Consciousness.

So he headed straight for the hall's core and attacked. In the Blood Hand organization, the leader is called the Sect Master; this Sect Master wears a mask every day, never taking it off even while sleeping, so no one has ever seen his true face.

Along the way, whenever Ye Liuyun encountered someone, he directly used a Spiritual Soul Attack to kill them. Although his movements were slight, this place after all trains assassins, and these assassins are skilled at hiding and evading.

Thus his attack still alerted a horde of assassins, who came out to investigate and then fearlessly rushed at Ye Liuyun to kill him.

Even when Ye Liuyun released his Spiritual Soul Domain, assassins still managed to approach him by various means, forcing him to also fight with his blade.

Ye Liuyun also broadened his horizons. These assassins could escape into the earth, hide in the void, or conceal themselves in water; their methods were endless.

If it weren't for his powerful Divine Sense and Golden Pupil, some of these assassins would truly be impossible to defend against.

These assassins completely lost their advantage before Ye Liuyun. An assassin's greatest strength lies in hiding and sneak attacks; based on sheer strength, they are no match for Ye Liuyun. Thus under his hand, they were utterly crushed, felled one by one with a single move each.

"Who dares to come slaughter our Blood Hand headquarters?" a deep male voice boomed, making the entire hall reverberate with a hum.

Upon hearing that voice, all the assassins immediately retreated back and did not lunge at Ye Liuyun again.

Ye Liuyun followed the sound and saw a middle-aged man wearing a ghost-face mask; beside him stood a slightly shorter young man with scarlet red eyes, who even had two fangs protruding, looking utterly non-human.

In Feng Ren's Sea of Consciousness, there were impressions of these two men: one was the Blood Hand Sect Master, Xue Wuchen; the other was the Blood Hand's top assassin, Xue Ying.

"Ye Liuyun, let's return the favor!" Ye Liuyun looked at the two men and said calmly.

In Feng Ren's impression, Xue Wuchen was at the Seventh Layer of the Heavenly Gang, and Xue Ying at the Fourth Layer of the Heavenly Gang—and that was when they weren't hiding their strength. Especially Xue Wuchen, it's hard to say he isn't concealing his power.

Therefore Ye Liuyun is now also focusing his whole body on monitoring their two movements.

Xue Wuchen frowned upon hearing that. "So you're saying Feng Ren and Kong Zhan both failed?"

Ye Liuyun immediately threw both of their tokens to the ground. Without a word, he had already shown that these two men were dead by his hand.

"Nice skills! Interested in joining our Blood Hand? I'll give you special treatment—you won't even have to leave the Iron Eagle Sect." Xue Wuchen suddenly tried to recruit Ye Liuyun.

Ye Liuyun's reply was just as simple: "I came to exterminate your Blood Hand! Anyone who wants to kill me must pay the price."

Upon hearing that, Xue Ying stuck out his scarlet tongue, licked his fangs, but did not move.

Xue Wuchen shook his head and sighed, "That's really a shame!"

But he immediately continued: "How about this? You fight Xue Ying; if you can defeat him without killing him, our Blood Hand will immediately swear publicly to no longer take your orders and will compensate you with five billion Spirit Stones plus three supreme artifacts. If you lose, it's a dead end. I won't harm your friends beside you—I'll let them all go. What do you think? This deal isn't a loss for you, is it?"

"You're just setting up an escape route for yourself?" Ye Liuyun naturally knew he wasn't losing out. He was merely curious why Xue Wuchen was doing this.

Xue Wuchen first shook his head, then nodded and said: "You can also understand it that way. Actually, I'm just being realistic. I don't know your background, and you don't know mine. So in our battle, the outcome is uncertain. I don't want to fight you to the death."

Xue Wuchen then laughed and said: "Between us there is no grudge. People in our line of work merely take money to do jobs. You don't need to exterminate us completely. What you worry about is nothing more than us continuing to hunt you. Now I promise not to hunt you anymore, so you have no reason to fight us to the death. Right?"

Ye Liuyun also nodded: "Alright, I agree. Let him come fight."

Xue Wuchen also glanced at Xue Ying. "Go!"

Xue Ying nodded and immediately strode toward Ye Liuyun, releasing his own Bloodline Power as he walked.

"It seems Xue Ying's forte is his own Bloodline Power."

Ye Liuyun sensed Xue Ying's Bloodline Power and immediately released his own, though his Bloodline Power remained just a bit lower than Xue Ying's at all times.

Although he had agreed to Xue Wuchen's deal, who knows if he'll keep his word? So for the moment he didn't want to reveal all his trump cards, hiding whatever he could; the more he concealed, the greater his chances of victory.