The base of the Blood Phantom Group was top secret.
No matter how much people say that the Blood Phantom Group has a great reputation in Sichuan, in the end they were nothing more than a bunch of assassins.
Those who had a grudge against them were as many as the grains of sand by the river.
The Blood Phantom Group just accepted requests for the group’s survival, but it made them bear the great resentment from families of those who suffered at their hands.
People who wanted to take revenge on the Blood Phantom Group were scattered everywhere. They wanted to tear down and kill the members of the Blood Phantom Group.
Knowing that fact, the Blood Phantom Group never leaked the location of their base to the outside world. In the end, no one ever knew where the base of the Blood Phantom Group was in Jianghu.
Most people thought that the base of the Blood Phantom Group would be in a quiet rural village without people or in a green forest. However, contrary to their expectations, the base of the Blood Phantom Group was actually located in the middle of the capital city roadside of Sichuan Province.
It was a dull-looking mansion made out of red bricks.
People thought of the mansion as just the house of a person who had made some money and retired. A mansion where an ordinary person who’s nothing special lives. That was the general feeling the people around the mansion had.
The mansion owner’s name is Gu Juyang. Another status of his, aside from being known as a retired person, was the head of the Blood Phantom Group.
Gu Juyang was listening to the report from the Fourth Sword at his residence.
“–Only me and my subordinates managed to secretly escape. “
“And the children?”
“The inescapable net has been used. Is it not impossible for them to get out?”
“What a pity! They were raised with care, but they ended up being thrown away like that.”
Gu Juyang clicked his tongue.
There was an expression of genuine regret on his face. This was because the children were so talented. He thought the children were a hand he could just throw away, but he never expected that they would immediately be discarded without being even able to use them.
He looked at the letter on the desk.
There was only one word in the letter.
[Canceled.]
It meant that all operations were abolished.
The person who sent the letter was the client who had originally requested the assassination.
As soon as he received the letter, Gu Juyang ordered the Fourth Sword and the regular assassins to secretly escape. The children did not notice their escape because they were immersed in their hiding with their Turtle Breathing Technique spread out.
Right after the Fourth Sword and his subordinate assassins escaped, the inescapable net unfolded.
Even the use of the inescapable net was unexpected.
It would have been impossible for the Fourth Sword and his subordinates to escape if the inescapable net had been fully activated.
Fourth Sword said,
“Isn’t this place in danger as well?”
“Because of the client?”
“I don’t know why, but they chose to kill and destroy the evidence. Wouldn’t it be much safer for them to get rid of us as well if they wanted to perfectly keep their secret from getting out?”
“That makes sense. But they’ll never be able to find this place. It’s impossible for them to find us in the normal way.”
This was not the only base of the Blood Phantom Group that existed.
There was one house about fifty steps to the north, and another house about seventy steps to the west. It wasn’t just a single house in the area.
Everyone in those houses was owned by people who had nothing to do with the Blood Phantom Group. And it was connected to this place through an underground passage.
If an unfamiliar enemy appeared, they could escape at any time through the basement.
No matter how smart an enemy might be, he would not be able to think of the houses to be in connection with the Blood Phantom Group.
“We just have to wait here for the storm to blow over. I don’t want to make the problem bigger by being hasty.”
“You really don’t know the identity of the client?”
“If you want to know, you can always know, but you have to keep the line.”
Gu Juyang grabbed the letter and shook it.
In an instant, the Fourth sword smelled a strange smell.
By shaking the letter, it emitted a strange scent.
In an instant, his complexion changed.
“It’s tracking incense!”
“What?”
“Someone has placed a tracking incense in the letter!”
It was such a subtle scent that he would never have been able to smell it if Gu Juyang had not shaken the letter. The Fourth Sword’s sense of smell was so developed so that was why he could smell it, if it were just an average person, they wouldn’t even have noticed that it had such a scent.
Even Gu Juyang, who is extremely cautious, didn’t even notice that there was a trace of tracking incense in the letter.
“Who? Maybe the client?”
It was the moment when Gu Juyang jumped up.
“Argh!”
“Keugh!”
The screams of assassins erupted from outside.
Gu Juyang and the Fourth Sword rushed towards the sound.
The scenery they saw was that of a group of soldiers breaking into the mansion and mercilessly slaughtering their assassins.
All those working in the mansion were assassins.
On the surface, they looked like ordinary workers, but each one of them was a very talented person. Such great assassins were falling apart without much effort.
Bang!
“Kerhyuk!”
One of the intruders swung their bare fists, and the sound of iron cannons being fired reverberated. And the assassin of the Bloody Phantom Group was crushed like fish meat and died. It was that powerful.
“All of you retreat! You’re no match!”
There was one who struggled alone.
It was the First Sword, Lim Sayeol.
He tried to extend himself by holding onto one of his enemies to save even one assassin. However, even with his abilities, he was unable to properly kill an intruder.
The ability of the intruders was that much stronger.
Bald-shaven hair, gray robes, and beads around their necks stood out.
Monks.
It wasn’t just the monks. There were also people in ordinary uniforms.
The assassins of the Blood Phantom Group were also experienced warriors who had gone through different battles since birth, but they were no match for the warriors.
Besides, it was the middle of the day now.
This is not the best time for assassins.
“Sweep away those dirty assassins, leave no one behind!”
“Start the killing!”
The monks pushed forward with a more frightening force.
The corpses of assassins started to pile up everywhere.
“Run away, Captain!”
The Fourth Sword grabbed Gu Juyang’s arm and dragged him away.
“Where to?”
“Anywhere!”
“Ha! Don’t you see? It’s me who they’re after. Since they came after me, do you think they would leave a place where I can escape?”
Flames seemed to burn in Gu Juyang’s eyes.
Kkadeuk!
He gritted his teeth.
He knew it without checking the identity of the intruder.
The client began to make a move.
“You’re crossing the line…”
His eyes came bloodshot.
Even between the assassin and the client, there was a line that had to be kept.
They crossed the line a long time ago.
Gu Juyang pulled out the sword he was wearing on his waist.
It was the Blood Moon Knife.
“Sir, we can still step back—”
“How far will we retreat? Can’t you see? They attacked us with such determination. There’s no way we can escape.”
The Fourth Sword couldn’t answer.
Gu Juyang shook off the hand of the dead sword and stepped forward.
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