Cultivation Pet Shop

Murong Yue paused for a second before saying to the people in red, "Team one, go and investigate. If you find anything, report back right away."

Ten of the people in red gave a bow before quickly disappearing from the alley, flying off in the direction of the bar.

Before they reported back, the only thing they could do was wait. Lin Fan would continue monitoring the situation through Brainy while Murong Yue would go back to interrogating the Gold Realm Assassin.

However, before either of them could do a thing, Lin Fan suddenly heard Brainy's voice say, "Master, something just killed that assassin."

When Lin Fan knitted his brows, there were cries that came from the assassins that had been lined up against the wall, as well as from the Gold Ranked Assassin.

Murong Yue immediately turned to look at the assassins lined up against the walls and shouted, "What's happening?!"

However, no one had time to answer since they were all checking the conditions of the assassins.

Every single assassin had a trail of black blood that came out of the corner of their mouth and their faces were very pale. It was clear that something had poisoned them and that they were dying.

Murong Yue immediately roared out, "Don't let them die! We still need to get information from them! We can't let them die before getting that information!"

All the people in red naturally knew this, but there wasn't a thing that they could do. The poison that the assassins had been affected with acted too quickly for them to even react and when they tried to save them, the assassins were already dead.

When they checked for signs of life, they knew that these assassins were truly dead and not just faking it since even their life energy was dissipating.

Murong Yue turned to the Gold Ranked Assassin and hoped that he would last a bit longer since he had a higher cultivation, but there was no hope on that side either. The Gold Ranked Assassin had the same trail of black blood coming out of the corner of his mouth, as well as the same pale face and he was slumped back in the grips of the two people in red.

When Murong Yue saw all of this, she couldn't help cursing, "Damn, was it all for nothing?"

She turned to Lin Fan and asked, "Mister Lin, what about the one that you were tracking?"

Lin Fan shook his head and said, "He's dead too."

Murong Yue knitted her brows and asked in a voice filled with doubt, "How are you sure that he's dead?"

Lin Fan just calmly said, "I have a special method that allows me to know these things."

Murong Yue's eyes still had a bit of doubt in them, but she didn't bother arguing with Lin Fan over this right now because there were more important things to do.

At the very least she knew where the person behind them was hiding since Lin Fan had given her that location. All she could do now was wait and hope that they would be able to get some information for her.

While waiting though, they also searched through the corpses of the assassins to see if they could find anything. However, these assassins were professionals, so other than having a few weapons each, they had nothing else on them that could identify them or provide Murong Yue with any information.

The sad thing was that the assassins really were poor.

Even though they were all Child Soul Realm Experts, all of the assassins were only using Embryo Soul Realm Artifacts as weapons. However, it made sense since they were only normal assassins.

They might be able to make money with assassinations, but that didn't mean that they would be able to get Child Soul Realm Artifacts that easily since those required prestige and not money to get.

The Assassins Association was different from the Hunters Organization, they took everyone that wanted to be an assassin in, unlike the Hunters Organization that only took in elites.

Since that was the case, there wouldn't be enough resources to go around like in the Hunters Organization, so only the best of the best would receive the best resources.

Otherwise if the Gold Ranked Assassin had a Child Soul Realm Artifact, that first clash would have ended much differently.

Lin Fan wouldn't have been able to cut through his sword that easily since it would have been an artifact on the same level as the Iron Eater Bone Artifact. Though part of the reason that Lin Fan could cut through the Embryo Soul Realm Artifact was because of his own absorption force and the Iron Eater Bone Artifact swallowing a bit of the metal in the Embryo Soul Realm Artifact.

It didn't take long for the people in red who had gone to check out the bar to report in.

When they did, Murong Yue revealed another look of disappointment because their report gave no new information at all.

When they had arrived at the bar, they had found that the bar was completely abandoned and there was only the corpse of the assassin who had escaped that was left on the ground. It seemed like whoever did this was very thorough with eliminating the evidence.

Murong Yue went back to look over corpses, but she couldn't find any clues at all.

It was at this time that Lin Fan said, "We know one thing about this at least."

Murong Yue turned to look at Lin Fan with a confused look, "What do you mean? We didn't learn anything tonight."

Lin Fan shook his head and said, "Look at their faces."

Murong Yue knitted her brows as she turned to look at the faces of the assassins again. Looking at it carefully this time, she realized that something was off.

There was an unwilling look on the faces of the assassins, like they hadn't expected this to happen.

When Murong Yue had seen that these assassins were poisoned, she had assumed that it was the Assassins Association silencing them since they didn't want this matter to be spread or traced back to them. After all, it was clear that they were currently in an alliance with the Thunder Sect and the True Spirit Sect, so they wouldn't want this blunder to be known.

However, based on the expression of these assassins, that didn't seem to be the case.

It would be fine if one or two had unwilling looks on their faces since that was just human nature, but for all of them to be surprised by this, it clearly meant that something was off. This shouldn't be the poisoning of the Assassins Association that they should have expected, but poisoning from someone else…

As for who that was, Murong Yue had a good guess.

However, that also raised another issue.

The fact that they had been willing to poison these assassins from the Assassins Association meant that there was a clear division of power in this alliance.

It wouldn't be the True Spirit Sect since they weren't willing to go this far to solve Shi Yan's personal grudge, so the only ones that could have instigated this assassins squad was Lei Feng from the Thunder Sect. After all, he had good reason to do so after how Lin Fan had provoked him at the banquet.

But for him to poison these assassins this openly, it seemed like the Thunder Sect must have some kind of edge over the Assassins Association in this alliance.

As for what it was, the only thing that was logical was that the Thunder Sect must be in control of the Ancient Era Ruin which was the cusp of their alliance. Otherwise, there would be no reason the Assassins Association would let their members be poisoned by the Thunder Sect like this…

While they hadn't gotten the information they wanted, at least they had gotten this information which was also quite valuable.

With this, they would know which other factions to start contacting to create an alliance against the Thunder Sect.

With these thoughts in mind, Murong Yue turned to Lin Fan and said, "Mister Lin, I think that it's time for us to return. There are many things that I have to report, so I won't waste anymore of your time."

Lin Fan just gave a nod in response to this as he continued looking over the corpses of the assassins.

Murong Yue saw this and didn't mind it as she told the people in red, "Gather up the bodies, we're heading back now."

Then she turned back to Lin Fan and said, "Mister Lin, the Hunters Organization will take care of your friend's problem with the City Lord. We will also offer separate compensation for what happened tonight. I hope that we can continue working together."

Then without waiting for Lin Fan's response, she turned to leave.

However, before she could enter the beast carriage, Lin Fan suddenly said, "Can you leave me a few of these corpses?"

Murong Yue was surprised when she heard this and she turned to look at Lin Fan with a confused look, but she didn't question it. She just said, "I can't give you that many of them since we still want to check them, but I can give you one of the weaker ones."

Lin Fan knew that she was already making a concession here, so he gave a nod.

Murong Yue turned to one of her subordinates and gave them a nod. That person in red gave the corpse of one of the Low Child Soul Realm assassins to Lin Fan who put it away in his Storage Ring.

After that, Murong Yue and the rest of the people in red disappeared, leaving Lin Fan alone in this alley.