Chapter 1661

Clang.

The blade edge rang crisply, a cold light flashed on the wall, and a few broken hairs drifted away.

Su Xiao stood in the room that looked like it had been swept by a gale, while Lilith stood outside the door; she could not make a move now.

The room where Su Xiao was located was about a hundred square meters, empty inside, with a height of about 6 to 7 meters. He didn't know the original purpose of this place.

Thin, invisible threads were intertwined in the room, becoming denser the higher up they went. And that black-robed masked person was walking barefoot on the threads at the high point. Even more eerie was that his body was flickering like signal interference; this was some kind of high-level movement technique, not a space ability.

"Brilliant swordsmanship, no, it's exquisite."

The black-robed masked person's footsteps did not stop, because he had to keep moving on the thread web above, otherwise he would be captured by Su Xiao. Su Xiao's swordsmanship and perception were both too sharp.

Su Xiao's eyes swept left and right, and an iron-black coin appeared in his hand.

Ding~

The coin was flicked by Su Xiao and hit a thread. Su Xiao's eyes closed; he was using his Intuition ability to perceive the vibration of sound waves.

Objects conduct sound through vibrations, and those metal threads were the same. As long as Su Xiao perceived the subtle differences in these vibrations, he could judge which thread the black-robed masked person was stepping on.

Clang.

A blade light appeared suddenly. When Su Xiao struck, he was already at a height of about ten meters from the ground; he had appeared here out of thin air.

With a swish, Dragon Flash swept across the edges of the two short blades. Su Xiao's figure landed slowly, finally stepping on a few intertwined threads.

A few silver slash marks flashed by, and Su Xiao began to free-fall. The black-robed masked person's threads must not be stepped on for a long time; being almost strangled by the neck a few minutes ago was the lesson.

"You still have reservations, but I am the same. In a fight to the death, perhaps you are stronger."

The black-robed masked person's sinister laughter came. His hands flipped, and the two short blades were hidden back into his sleeves.

"I am Xiao, the seventeenth in Asaka."

The black-robed masked person, that is, Xiao, stepped out of the room. He had appeared too suddenly, and Su Xiao had always been vigilant against this guy. But upon hearing the other party claim to be the seventeenth in Asaka, Su Xiao was clearly stunned.

"You…… rank 17th in Asaka?"

Hearing Su Xiao's suspicious tone, Xiao almost had a mouthful of old blood surge up his throat. If it weren't for the need to maintain his 'cool' as a Black Abyss assassin, he would definitely have turned around and roared: "You, even if you are a bit stronger than your father, you don't have to be so arrogant, right?"

"Is there a problem?"

Xiao's eyes narrowed, his gaze unkind.

"It's not an important matter, it's just that I have always thought…… my combat power in the Black Abyss would be on the lower side."

Lilith: "??"

"……"

Xiao's mouth opened and closed, and finally he waved his hand.

"You are not weak, that's just your illusion. Speaking of which, which backwater place do you come from?"

"Rotanlan."

Su Xiao answered almost without thinking. If someone asked where his hometown was and he had to consider it, that would clearly be a temporary fabrication.

"What?"

Xiao was slightly stunned.

"Rotanlan Continent."

"Never heard of it. But speaking of which, you might be the strongest outsider I have ever seen. If you are not afraid of death, then follow me. As for her, let her wait in the territory of those hyenas. Those hyenas dare not provoke the Demon race, especially a big trouble like her."

Lilith nodded at Su Xiao, indicating that she was indeed not afraid of those people in Black Swamp. Not to mention Black Swamp, she was actually not afraid of Asaka either. This was the benefit of having a backer. Whoever moved against a Demon race with such pure blood, heaven knows how many old Demons would be provoked. Green eyes, sheep hooves—this actually represented too many things. Unless it was a life-and-death relationship, neither Black Swamp nor Asaka people would actively provoke Lilith.

Lilith walked toward the outer area. She seemed to have developed a shadow regarding something in the central area, although she herself didn't know what it was.

Su Xiao and Xiao walked on the cold street. Xiao looked like he had the 'cool' of an assassin, but in reality, he was a very talkative person who was also very willing to communicate with others. However, hindered by the identity of an assassin, he rarely had the opportunity to talk normally. He couldn't just talk nonsense with the target he was going to kill, so this talkative man was almost bursting with problems.

"We have known each other for 17 minutes and 25 seconds, and I still don't know what to call you?"

"Bai Ye."

"Hmm, a name very suitable for an assassin. What is your purpose for coming to the Black Abyss?"

"Looking for something."

"Specific details?"

"Sorry, inconvenient to disclose."

"Is that so? In other words, you want to join Asaka with a fake name and a purpose that is unknown whether it is true or false?"

Xiao's tone was slightly amused.

"Roughly that's it. Do you have any suggestions?"

"No suggestions for now, but…… I can introduce you."

"……"

Su Xiao's footsteps stopped, and he looked at the masked Xiao. He still didn't know the other party's purpose, whether it was the other party's sudden appearance or the almost inviting way he was asked to join Asaka.

In fact, Su Xiao ignored a very important point: his strength in the shallow layer of the Black Abyss was not weak. He couldn't be counted as top-tier, but he was definitely in the high-level echelon. What truly gave him a sense of crisis was the promotion mission with a difficulty as high as five tiers. In Sha's words, Su Xiao could already survive in the middle layer of the Black Abyss, let alone the shallow layer.

Travelers like Su Xiao, who had no obvious background, were full of bloodlust, and looked like bad people at a glance, were the targets Asaka liked to recruit the most. As for the problem of recruiting suspicious personnel into Asaka and causing hidden dangers, this problem simply did not exist. Even if the Redeemer Highlands were razed to the ground, Asaka would still exist. An ancient organization like an assassin group could not be destroyed so easily.

After Xiao took Su Xiao around the atrium area a few times, they arrived at a semi-collapsed house. As Xiao approached here, a 3D stereoscopic scan appeared around them.

Click, click, click……

The mechanism on the surface popped open, and a metal staircase leading downwards appeared. Xiao walked into the underground room swaggeringly as if he had entered his own home. In fact, this was really his home.

There was no sense of oppression in the underground room as imagined. It was decorated luxuriously, with an area of at least several hundred square meters. The left side was Xiao's living area, and the right side was filled with all kinds of weapons, densely packed with thousands of items. These were all Xiao's trophies; for every person he killed, he collected a trophy.

Bang, bang.

Xiao threw two packages, one large and one small, in front of Su Xiao.

"Welcome to Asaka."

"……"

The joining ceremony lasted only about 2 seconds. Su Xiao finally knew why Asaka was not afraid of having traitors. With this simple and crude way of recruiting personnel and the method of faction integration, even if there were traitors, what could they do? Perhaps even Xiao himself didn't know where Asaka's headquarters was, or rather, this assassin group simply didn't have a living target like a headquarters.

It could be heard of, but not seen, not found. When you need it, it will find you. This is the true assassin group.