"The aura is strange and harbors hidden danger. Which force wants to deal with us?"
Lu Qing sensed the several hidden auras heading straight for their courtyard and silently chanted in his heart.
He then transmitted his voice to his master outside: "Master, there are a few people coming over outside, and they seem to have ill intentions."
Just after sending a telepathic message to his master, Lu Qing felt a weight on his shoulder. Turning around, he saw Xiao Li looking ahead warily.
"Xiao Li, you felt it too?"
"Yes, Xiao Li senses that four very strong people are coming this way."
Xiao Li's childish voice echoed in Lu Qing's mind.
"It's alright, you stay here and protect Xiaoyan, I'll go out and take a look."
Lu Qing soothed Xiao Li's slightly bristling fur and said gently.
When Lu Qing came out of the room, he saw his master and Lin Zhirui standing in the courtyard with serious expressions.
"Young Master Lu, Elder Chen just said..."
Lin Zhirui was about to ask, but after seeing Lu Qing's eyes, he immediately changed his words: "You've encountered some problems in your cultivation, haven't you?"
"Indeed, during the battle with that bald monk from the suspended mountain today, I suffered some internal injuries from the backlash of his Vajra Body."
"It's not a big problem. I've already taken the medicine. As long as I meditate for one night, I should be fine by tomorrow."
Lu Qing coughed twice, his face pale and his breath weak as he answered.
"Young Master Lu, you'd better get well soon. Luckily, you concealed it well during the day and didn't let the people from Suspended Mountain notice anything amiss," Lin Zhirui said thankfully.
No sooner had these words been spoken than four black figures, wielding short swords, suddenly shot out from the shadows. Two of them rushed straight at Lu Qing, while the other two went towards the old doctor.
The four figures moved incredibly fast, and even though Lin Zhirui had received a prior warning from the old doctor, he was still taken aback.
Judging from the aura emanating from the attackers, each of the four figures was far stronger than him, at least at the level of Lesser Completion of the Innate Realm.
More importantly, he hadn't noticed their presence at all before they made their move.
He didn't even give the slightest warning about the sect's rare treasures that he possessed.
This was something that had never happened before since he began refining the extraordinary treasure.
"careful!"
Lin Zhirui couldn't help but exclaim in surprise.
Then, in the next moment, he witnessed an even more shocking scene.
Faced with the attack of two black figures, Lu Qing initially showed a look of panic, but when the two figures actually came in front of him, his expression suddenly became serious.
A long sword had appeared in his hand sometime during the night.
As the blade flashed, a terrifying killing intent surged towards the two figures like a storm.
"not good!"
Lu Qing's spiritual power was incredibly strong, and the killing intent it unleashed was terrifyingly powerful.
Even though the two black-clad figures were battle-hardened and had unwavering resolve, they still couldn't help but falter in the face of such terrifying killing intent.
In that brief moment of hesitation, Lu Qing's thunderous blade had already reached their heads.
Fortunately, the two figures were indeed formidable. Although their minds were affected, their martial arts instincts, honed through countless trials, no longer required mental control. At the last moment, they raised their short swords to block the blade's light.
Boom! Boom!
The short swords held by the two black figures were clearly not ordinary objects, but divine weapons.
Surprisingly, it was not immediately severed after receiving Lu Qing's slash.
Although they managed to block the blade, in the rush, the two figures were unable to completely withstand Lu Qing's terrifying strength.
With just a single collision, they were like two balls, sent flying by Lu Qing's slashing motion. They flew backward at an even faster speed, crashing through the courtyard wall and kicking up clouds of dust.
"Trying to leave?"
Lu Qing's spiritual senses were now incredibly sharp, and he immediately realized that his two strikes had not caused much damage to the two figures.
The other party, on the contrary, was trying to use this opportunity to retreat and leave.
His gaze sharpened, and without any visible movement of his feet, he vanished from his spot, disappearing directly into the smoke and dust.
The next moment, the blade flashed again, so bright that even the smoke and dust could not conceal it.
Two screams rang out, and then there was no more sound.
When the dust settled, Lin Zhirui saw that outside the broken wall, the two black figures had already fallen to the ground, their heads separated from their bodies, and were dead beyond any doubt.
Looking into the courtyard, two figures lay supine at the feet of the old doctor.
Each person had a sword scar between their eyebrows.
He clearly died from having his brow pierced by the old doctor's sword energy.
"Brother Lu Qing, what happened?"
At this moment, Magu and the others rushed out of the room and were shocked to see the situation in the courtyard and the corpse at the old doctor's feet.
"It's alright. A few scoundrels tried to sneak in and assassinate us, but my master and I have already dealt with them."
Lu Qing explained, and then sensed some of the sword energy remaining on the two figures.
He couldn't help but exclaim, "Master, your swordsmanship has become even more formidable after you finished studying the Sacred Pool!"
Lin Zhirui nodded in agreement upon hearing this.
He was so focused on watching Lu Qing fight the two black figures that he didn't notice how the old doctor actually dealt with the enemy.
He recalled the terrifying sword aura field that the old doctor had unleashed on the sacred mountain during the day, and knew that this senior's mastery of swordsmanship had probably reached an unfathomable level.
"The Sacred Pool is indeed profound, capable of greatly enhancing one's comprehension. When you break through to the Innate Realm in the future, you can also try to comprehend it," the old doctor said with a smile.
"If I have the chance, I definitely need to see it for myself."
Although Lu Qing possessed supernatural abilities, he was still very interested in this kind of magical place that could increase one's comprehension out of thin air.
Lin Zhirui, however, had a sudden thought after hearing the old doctor's words.
According to the old doctor, doesn't that mean Lu Qing is only at the Acquired Realm?
During the day in the Holy Mountain, he was actually Master Xuan Nu of Suspended Mountain, who had severely injured him with a single strike while only possessing the cultivation of the Acquired Realm?
For a moment, Lin Zhirui was deeply shaken.
It's hard to imagine how Lu Qing cultivated.
Even in the Acquired Realm, one can possess terrifying strength comparable to a Great Perfection Innate Realm expert.
"Your Excellency Zhi Rui, do you know the background of these people?"
Lu Qing used his knife to pry open the black masks covering the two corpses in the courtyard, revealing two ordinary middle-aged faces.
Although he had secretly used his supernatural abilities to find out the identities and origins of these people, he still wanted to hear Lin Zhirui's opinion.
Lin Zhirui looked at them carefully for a while, then shook his head: "Forgive my poor eyesight, but I have never seen these people before, and there is no record of them in the files I have read."
He also felt strange. Logically speaking, these people were so skilled, each of them a martial arts expert above the Innate Realm. Their Heavenly Mystery Pavilion should have a record of them.
"If I'm not mistaken, these people should be from the 【Broken Tower】."
Just then, a voice rang out from outside, and the Master of Tianji Pavilion slowly walked in.
"Master!" Lin Zhirui hurriedly went to greet him.
"OP, do you know where these people come from?"
Lu Qing was not surprised by the appearance of the Master of Tianji Tower.
Their battle just now was quite a commotion; it would be strange if a powerful figure like the Master of Heavenly Mystery Pavilion hadn't noticed it.
"I am late, please forgive me," said the Master of Tianji Tower apologetically. "These people's concealment skills are indeed remarkable. Even I was fooled and did not find their traces."
"It's alright, just a few petty thieves. There's no need for the landlord to take action. We can handle it," Lu Qing said with a smile.
"These people are no ordinary villains."
The Master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion conjured a sword aura in his hand and slashed at one of the corpses, tearing open the clothes on the chest and revealing a strange tattoo on the chest.
Seeing the tattoo, he sighed: "As expected, it's someone from the Wujianlou. I didn't expect that this terrifying organization still exists."
"Master, what is the Wujianlou? I don't think I've ever heard of this sect before?" Lin Zhirui asked.
"You have naturally never heard of it, because this sect disappeared hundreds of years ago."
"I thought it was completely extinct and no longer existed, but I never expected it to still be hiding in the shadows." The Master of Tianji sighed.
"This Wujianlou is a terrifying assassin organization that suddenly appeared more than four hundred years ago."
However, its rise was remarkably rapid; at its peak, it even surpassed the Seven Kill Tower.
"It was once even more powerful than the Seven Kill Tower?" Lin Zhirui was taken aback.
It should be noted that the Seven Killings Tower is the most powerful sect in the assassin world today. Its strength is so great that many sects in the Central Plains have to give way to it.
This so-called Boundless Tower can even suppress the Seven Kill Tower, so how strong must it be?
"Indeed, although the Seven Killings Tower is an ancient sect with a long history, when the Wujian Tower rose to prominence, even this ancient assassin sect with thousands of years of history could not compare to it in the art of assassination."
These two assassin sects once clashed over their dominance in the assassin world.
Both sides dispatched ten assassins at the Innate Realm and ten assassins at the Acquired Realm to compete in assassination techniques.
The result was a complete defeat for the Seven Kill Tower.
In the twenty matches, the Seven Kill Tower lost seventeen, and fifteen of its disciples died in the matches.
After that competition, the Seven Kill Tower was severely weakened and had to withdraw from the competition for the title of leader of the assassin world.
From this point on, the power of the Wujianlou expanded once again, reaching its absolute peak.
"Since the Wujianlou is so powerful, why have I never heard of this sect before?" Lin Zhirui asked.
"Because the Wujianlou has gone too far." A complex emotion appeared in the eyes of the Tianjilou Master.
"When this sect was rising to power, it acted rather recklessly, accepting any commission regardless of its nature and committing many cruel acts."
After defeating the Seven Kill Tower and seizing the position of the number one sect in the assassin world, their power expanded again, but they did not restrain themselves or digest their gains.
On the contrary, they became even more reckless in their actions.
Their assassination attempts became increasingly reckless; they were willing to accept any commission, no matter how unethical.
He would be willing to do even something as simple as stabbing an infant.
Even disciples from other sects had many assassinated.
Sometimes, they will stop at nothing to complete a task.
They even committed heinous acts, such as poisoning an entire city to assassinate a single person—actions that incurred the wrath of both heaven and man.
Such behavior terrified everyone who heard it.
Magu couldn't help but ask, "Has the Wujianlou gone mad? How can other sects tolerate such behavior?"
"So they disappeared later," said the Master of Tianji Pavilion.
"The Wujianlou sect's cruel and indiscriminate assassinations are no different from those of demons, and naturally cannot be tolerated by other sects."
Therefore, at the call of the Holy Mountain, all the major sects in the world immediately launched an attack on the Wujianlou.
Although the Wujianlou was powerful, no matter how strong it was, it was like a mantis trying to stop a chariot when attacked by the whole world.
After several years of cleansing and suppression, Wujianlou was uprooted, and even its most secret headquarters was breached and destroyed, with all its disciples killed and slaughtered.
In order to completely eradicate this sect, the major sects later sealed away all information about the Wujianlou.
This evil sect must be buried in history.
I thought the Wujianlou had been completely eradicated, but I didn't expect that there would still be remnants.
Moreover, judging from its current situation, it has likely already grown stronger.
The Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master's gaze fell upon the corpses, his expression extremely complex.
They were both shocked and filled with doubt.
"Master, you said that the Wujianlou has been gone for hundreds of years, so how did you determine that these people are disciples of the Wujianlou?" Lin Zhirui asked.
“Look at the tattoos on their chests,” the Master of Tianji pointed to the clothes he had previously cut open. “These tattoos are the unique mark of the Wujianlou.”
It is said that this tattooing technique is a secret method, and that the tattoo contains a very dangerous drug.
When disciples of Wujianlou encounter dire straits, they only need to use a secret method to activate and absorb the medicine from the tattoo.
In a short period of time, one's strength can increase more than tenfold.
However, this secret technique can only be used once, because after using it, the user will inevitably die from exhaustion.
Moreover, it takes a certain amount of time to activate, but as long as it is interrupted before the disciples of Wujianlou fully absorb the tattoo, there is no need to worry.
Back when the major sects were attacking the Wujianlou, they suffered heavy losses due to their lack of understanding of the inner workings of this secret technique, losing many of their experts.
All eyes were drawn to the tattoo on the corpse's chest.
It's hard to imagine that such a small tattoo could increase a person's strength by more than tenfold.
Magu and his companions felt even more fortunate.
Fortunately, Lu Qing and the old doctor killed them before they could use their secret techniques.
Otherwise, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Besides this tattoo, there's another one: their method of concealment," the Master of Heavenly Mystery continued.
"The Wujian Tower has a core inheritance called 【Wujian Walker】. This inheritance has a unique approach to concealing one's aura."
Once unleashed, even experts at the Innate Realm would find it difficult to detect.
It was precisely because of this lineage that Wujianlou acted so recklessly back then.
They were certain that once they wanted to hide, no one could find them.
Indeed, this was the case. When the major sects of the world launched their campaign against the Wujianlou, they were almost unable to find any trace of them at the beginning.
Later, it was the Seven Kill Tower that put in a lot of effort and researched a way to break the 【Internal Walker】, which finally made them have nowhere to hide.
However, judging from what happened just now, Wujianlou has obviously made improvements to their lineage.
Even I, an old man, was deceived and failed to discover them immediately.
At this point, the Master of Tianji Pavilion glanced at Lu Qing discreetly.
Even he couldn't detect these people from the Wujianlou, but Lu Qing could.
How did this boy manage to do that?
Lu Qing didn't notice the look in the eyes of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master; he thought for a while.
Suddenly, he spoke up: "Master, who do you think sent these assassins to kill us?"
