Chapter 47

As expected, the waiter, being a mortal, knew nothing about the room.

Lu Chengtong, unwilling to give up, interrogated the entire inn from top to bottom and discovered that they didn't even know there was a cultivator's array in their inn.

Doing it so secretly!

Lu Chengtong erased the memories of these people he had interrogated, checked out early the next morning, and returned to the sect.

Now, wanting to find Hou Zhao, there was only one clue left.

That pill.

A pill could not appear out of thin air, or rather, it would not be given to Hou Zhao's hands for no reason.

There must be some secret in it, a process of communication.

Unable to determine the specific time, he could only watch Hou Zhao's life images backward day by day.

When the Treasure Mirror's divine soul power was exhausted, Lu Chengtong would use his own divine soul power to continue watching; when both divine soul powers were exhausted, he would just wait for them to recover.

At the same time, he was also drawing talismans to complete tasks.

Thus, nearly a month passed in the blink of an eye; finally, heaven did not disappoint those who tried, and he found the source of the pill.

Hou Zhao met a person in the marketplace.

A Foundation Establishment cultivator who looked to be about forty years old; at a glance, Lu Chengtong saw that this appearance was a disguise.

Frequently using 【Embryonic Transformation】 to disguise himself, he was very sensitive to such uncoordinated features of the face and body skeleton.

This cultivator brought Hou Zhao into an inn room and set up an array to prevent prying.

It was just a pity that this kind of array could not prevent prying from another space.

In the ball of light before Lu Chengtong's eyes, the scene of the two people's conversation was perfectly presented.

——

"Who are you, and what exactly do you want to tell me?"

Hou Zhao asked vigilantly, already clutching a talisman in his hand.

That person, however, said with a smile:

"You don't need to be nervous; I am here to help you."

Hou Zhao frowned and asked:

"Help me with what? I don't have any place where I need your help."

That person continued to shake his head and said:

"No, you do; you have hatred, and your enemy is very powerful."

"Hmph! I am a lone person, I have no enemies; you have found the wrong person, farewell."

Hou Zhao said coldly and then prepared to leave; intuition told him that this person was very dangerous and he could not stay with him for too long.

However, that person spat out three words, and he could no longer lift his legs.

"Lu Chengqin!"

That person turned his head, looked with burning eyes at Hou Zhao who had walked to the door, and continued:

"You have already found out, haven't you? Sun Xiao killed her, and you want to kill Sun Xiao, but you can't do it; relying on yourself alone, you absolutely cannot do it."

Hou Zhao turned his head abruptly; his eyes were full of bloodshot veins; this situation should not appear on a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.

This was a manifestation of being on the verge of falling into the demonic path.

At this moment, he was like a wild beast about to go mad, staring fixedly at that person, saying word by word:

"I! CAN!"

That person was not afraid at all of Hou Zhao's crazy appearance and continued to shake his head, saying:

"You can't. You have a superior fire-attribute talent with three spirit roots; your cultivation speed is indeed very fast, but Sun Xiao is also a three-spirit-root cultivator, and he is a fire-earth-metal three-spirit-root cultivator, among which the metal spirit root is superior, the earth spirit root is medium-grade, and the fire spirit root is low-grade.

Fire generates earth, earth generates metal; his three-spirit-root talent is above yours, so even if you cultivate at the same time, he is no slower than you.

He achieved the Golden Core early in his years and is now at the fifth layer of the Golden Core Realm.

On the path of cultivation, he is too far ahead of you; without strong external force assistance, you have absolutely no possibility of catching up to him.

And even if one day your cultivation is the same as his, he is the honorable Fifth Elder of the Ziyao Immortal Sect and is proficient in arrays; you, an alchemist who is not good at fighting, will also be unable to defeat him.

If there are people from the Ziyao Immortal Sect to help him, you will only end up dead.

And if you want to change all this, the only way is to join us and obtain our help!"

Speaking to the end, that person's gaze became very fervent; it was a kind of worship of a religious nature.

Hou Zhao, listening to these words that were quite a blow to him, calmed down instead and asked in a deep voice:

"Who are you, why do you want to help me, and what must I pay if I join you?"

That person straightened up, looked at Hou Zhao, and said with a smile:

"Let's formally introduce ourselves; I am Xie Yue, a Silver Medal Assassin of the Piaoxue Tower!"

Hou Zhao's pupils shrank upon hearing this.

Piaoxue Tower, an assassin organization active in this area, and also the largest intelligence organization, an organization that is active among various sects but seems to be above all sects!

He had previously heard Lu Chengqin say that Lu Family members had been put on a bounty at Piaoxue Tower and were killed one after another.

Hou Zhao suddenly asked through gritted teeth:

"Does Qin'er's death have anything to do with you!?"

Xie Yue shook his head once again and said:

"It does not. We haven't received many bounties, and that money is not enough for us to risk breaking into the Ziyao Immortal Sect to kill. However, some of her parents and friends might have been killed by some of us; don't be angry, I did not participate in that mission.

If you join us, you can also go and kill those assassins to take revenge; Piaoxue Tower does not prevent assassins from killing each other.

Of course, you need to investigate the assassin information yourself; Piaoxue Tower will not expose the information of any assassin."

Hearing him say this, Hou Zhao's clenched fists loosened again.

He did not have a very strong desire for revenge for the other Lu Family members; he only wanted to kill Sun Xiao now.

"So, what do I need to pay, and what can I get?"

Hou Zhao continued to ask.

Xie Yue replied:

"Once you become an assassin of the Piaoxue Tower, you must complete fixed mission quotas, which means you must kill a certain number of people every year; you cannot quit, and there is only one condition for quitting, which is death. Join us, and from now on you will no longer be yourself, but just an assassin.

We can give you a large amount of resources, let you grow quickly, let you master killing techniques and means, and let you be able to kill Sun Xiao one day; how about it?"

Hou Zhao was silent for a moment.

"One last question, why me?"

Xie Yue answered patiently:

"First, the desire for revenge; second, you have enough talent; third, you have a powerful enemy!"

Hou Zhao still did not answer; he was still thinking.

At this time, Xie Yue gave him a jade bottle and said with a smile:

"Inside is a pill; after eating it, your cultivation can increase by two layers, but after eating this kind of pill, you can't stop; you must eat one every year. If you decide to join, eat it, and then come to this address, and you will naturally find me.

If you don't join, don't eat it, otherwise you will die."

This was clearly a means of control.

"Why did you tell me the side effects? If you hadn't said it, I definitely would have eaten it."

Hou Zhao looked at him and asked suspiciously.

"Because the me of the past was the same as you."

After Xie Yue finished speaking, he left without looking back.

Hou Zhao was silent for a while, took the pill, and returned to the sect.

Lu Chengtong saw it up to here; he also knew everything that happened afterward.

His eyes were full of chilling murderous intent.

The hatred of the Lu Family members did not lie only with Zhao Yongcheng and Sun Xiao.

The remaining Han Family members of the Jinfeng Immortal Sect, as well as this Piaoxue Tower that he had previously ignored, must all die!