Chapter 102: What Makes a Powerful Assassin? (Request Monthly Tickets! Request Subscription!)

The members of the Zhongzhou team had no idea that they had just unwittingly become part of a “dog couple” play, still marveling at Zhan Lan’s enhancement choice.

Next, it was the turn of the other several veterans.

Zheng Zha and Chu Xuan, the dragon and phoenix pair, aside for now, Mu Gang and Li Xiaoyi both received an A-rank subplot and over forty thousand reward points, so as before, they both upgraded their bloodlines to A-rank.

Among them, Li Xiaoyi finally became a Spartan Demon, equal to Dante; to continue upgrading, he could only choose demonic or devilish branches.

Mu Gang’s Giant bloodline, after reaching A-rank, already had branching options, and under Wu Xian’s advice, he exchanged for the bloodline of an Asgardian descendant from Norse mythology.

According to Wu Xian, as long as he accumulated one more A-rank subplot later, he could directly exchange for Thor’s power, allowing him to create a Zhongzhou Thor.

After these two completed their exchanges, only Lingdian remained unenhanced among the veterans.

Because in “Curse of the Demon,” Lingdian’s actions were always supportive, he earned only two B-rank subplots, still lacking one B-rank to upgrade his Subhuman bloodline to A-rank.

But don’t forget, his primary profession is a sniper; previously enhancing the Subhuman bloodline was mainly to boost survivability, so he didn’t feel regretful.

Instead, following Wu Xian’s advice from the previous horror film, he directly enhanced the original work’s Point-Line Demon Eye and purchased a B-rank magical item that could freely transform into various weapon types, with self-enchanted annihilation effects.

Thus, in the current Zhongzhou team, Lingdian’s single-target damage output ranked among the top three, second only to Wu Xian.

By the way, due to the massive rewards from this team battle, all veterans received at least forty thousand reward points each.

In other words, except for Wu Xian, the stowaway, any two veterans could easily pool their points to let one Zhongzhou team member exchange for a return-to-reality option.

Yet no one proposed such an idea—even Zheng Zha, who constantly yelled about taking Luo Li home, seemed to have forgotten it entirely.

Wu Xian understood perfectly, silently sighed, and turned his attention to the several newcomers who had been eagerly waiting.

“Zhao Ying, let’s start with you.”

Meeting Zhao Ying’s expectant gaze, Wu Xian smiled slightly and pulled a transparent screen before her, saying:

“I don’t understand assassins, but I know a lot about becoming stronger… Take a look at this bloodline—I think it suits your needs.”

Hearing this, Zhao Ying looked at the text on the screen, her large, watery eyes gradually filling with confusion.

“Golden Horn Giant Beast… descendant?”

【Golden Horn Giant Beast Descendant Mutant Bloodline: A hybrid offspring of a powerful cosmic giant beast and humanity. Enhancing this bloodline greatly boosts all six attributes and grants innate skills such as enhancement, duplication, and internal space. As a descendant, the Golden Horn Giant Beast bloodline is diluted, requiring separate exchange for innate skills… Exchange requires two B-rank subplots and 5,000 reward points.】

“That’s right.”

Seeing Zhao Ying’s bewildered, adorable expression, Wu Xian chuckled, patted her shoulder, and began speaking with complete seriousness while lying through his teeth:

“Yingkong, listen to me—assassins have no future in the Main God Space. Just look at our veterans’ abilities; which one fears being assassinated?

Even if you’re given a divine weapon with an inevitable-death property, if you can’t even pierce armor or land a hit, what’s the point of assassination?

And if your assassination fails, you might get captured on the spot. With your looks, you’d be fully ‘righteous’ by tomorrow.”

“???”

Zhao Ying remained stunned, feeling she understood every word, yet the combination made no sense at all.

“But… my entire training since childhood aimed to become a powerful assassin.”

Zhao Ying said hesitantly, clearly still wanting to hold on.

“So, what do you think a truly powerful assassin should be like?”

Wu Xian raised an eyebrow.

“Strike once, flee a thousand miles; strike successfully, flee a thousand miles.”

Zhao Ying instinctively gave the standard answer.

“No, that’s just the survival principle of ordinary assassins—it has nothing to do with true strength.”

“A truly powerful assassin kills every living thing within sight during a mission—then no one knows he ever appeared. Isn’t that a perfect assassination?”

Wu Xian said this, then delivered the final blow: “Imagine you, impossibly strong, grinding your target into the ground, mocking him as a worthless fool, then slowly torturing him to death… Tell me—isn’t that satisfying? Doesn’t it feel good?”

Zhao Ying froze, then truly began imagining herself, like Wu Xian before, using brute, unreasonable violence to crush Zhao Zhui beneath her feet…

“Satisfying! So satisfying!”

The flame of revenge blazed fiercely in the girl’s bright eyes.

“Decided—I’ll exchange for this bloodline!”

“That’s the spirit!”

Seeing the assassin girl completely fooled, Wu Xian smiled with satisfaction, then added:

“Of course, if you really want to be a traditional assassin, it’s still possible—this bloodline allows you to exchange for the duplication skill; then you can give your clone another bloodline suited for assassination.

That way, when facing enemies, your assassin clone and warrior body coordinate perfectly, multiplying combat power many times over—tell me, isn’t that incredible value?”

Zhao Ying fell silent and immediately ran off to the Main God to make the exchange.

When Wu Xian saw the light pillar engulf her, he finally relaxed.

In truth, his reason for having Zhao Ying exchange for this bloodline was secondary to his “powerful assassin” speech; his real concern was her main personality issue.

The Main God’s version of the Golden Horn Giant Beast bloodline has no soul-splitting mechanism—if Zhao Ying’s secondary personality currently occupies the body, then once she creates a clone, there may be a way to transfer her main personality’s consciousness into the clone’s body.

At that point, unless her main personality overcomes her inner demon and becomes a true Level Four, she’ll be unable to resist the secondary personality’s will—a perfect reversal of heaven and earth, while also eliminating a hidden threat.

“Captain! Captain!”

A slightly excited voice rang out—it was Cheng Xiao, the comic relief of the original group, approaching Wu Xian with a sycophantic grin: “Take a look—what enhancement suits me? Recommend something!”

You? Of course there is—and if you're willing to make a little sacrifice, you could soon surpass everyone else and become the strongest main player on the Zhongzhou team, after me and Zheng Zha.

“Really? What bloodline’s that powerful? Do I have enough subplots to buy it?”

Cheng Xiao blinked, then a sense of dread stirred in his heart.

“You have enough—and plenty left over.”

Wu Xian watched Cheng Xiao’s nervous expression and smiled slyly, then summoned another semi-transparent screen.

Everyone turned curiously, then collectively sucked in a breath.

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