The Devil's Tribulation

Chapter 291 I am even more awesome than Conan

Fuguang Town, Qian'er's office in Zhongjialou. An Yi strangely appeared in front of Qian'er, knelt on one knee and said: "Madam, I am back." Qian'er smiled and said: "An Yi, you don't need to be polite to me in the future, get up." An Yi stood up and said: "Etiquette cannot be abolished, An Yi dare not cross it." Qian'er put down the pen in her hand and asked: "Did you find out any news with Lian Hongtao?" An Yi bowed and said: "As expected by Madam, the three sects have joined forces. And what Lian Hongtao said to the young master here is not entirely true."

Qian'er seemed to have expected it and asked, "Oh? What else did you find out?" An Yi said, "Not much. The leader of Ziwei Sect, Ming Xue, is quite powerful. Her subordinates were almost discovered. And she should be best at charm." Qian'er said, "In that case, the two most powerful people in Wuqing Sect should not be the swords that Lian Hongtao mentioned." Then, An Yi narrated to Qian'er word for word what he had heard in the main hall of Ziwei Sect.

Qian'er pondered for a while and said, "An Yi, you did a great job. This is what you deserve." Qian'er handed a storage bag to An Yi. An Yi was surprised and thought to himself, "One hundred thousand top-grade crystal beads?" An Yi hurriedly pushed the storage bag back and said, "An Yi already has an annual salary of 10,000 top-grade crystal beads. I dare not be greedy." Qian'er smiled and said, "That is the salary for protecting me. You will get extra rewards for any extra work you do. You don't have to feel psychologically burdened. In addition, Chengfeng hopes that you can help the Zhong family train a group of intelligence personnel, and they will also get 10,000 top-grade crystal beads every year. Will you brothers take this job?"

An Yi said excitedly: "I will live up to the expectations of the young master and the lady." Qian'er said happily: "Okay, I have selected a hundred foundation-building disciples from the family. They will arrive soon. You and An Er will train them well. If they are disobedient, just punish them. Don't be polite." An Yi took the order and left. Qian'er fell into deep thought: "If the three sects join forces, how will the Zhong family deal with it?"

An Yi returned to his residence. Before he even took off his nightgown, An Er pushed the door open and asked, "Brother, what mission is this? Why did they specifically ask you to go? Aren't we here to protect the Madam?" An Yi said, "We just went to a small sect to get information." An Er was a little dissatisfied and said, "Why do you want us to do this? We are assassins, not spies!" An Yi glared at him and scolded him, "What are you talking about! Have you forgotten the assassin rules? If they are still organizing you, you will at least have your tongue cut off for saying this!"

An Er shrank his neck and murmured, "We left the organization, didn't we?" An Yi sighed and said, "Brother, I have been in contact with the young master and his wife for a few months. What do you think?" An Er scratched his head and said, "As for the young master, I am a little afraid of him, and I haven't seen him recently. We have been following the wife recently. The wife is really good to us. Last time, she even sent us some spiritual wine and tea. They are all good things~"

An Yi smiled and said, "Do you know how much this spiritual wine and tea are worth?" An Er asked in confusion, "I don't know, but I think they are all good things and should not be cheap." An Yi laughed at himself and said, "We have been practicing for seven or eight hundred years. When have we ever enjoyed these good things? Every day, we train and carry out missions. If we two brothers were not together all the time, I would almost feel like I am just a machine without any emotions."

An Er seemed to sense some of his brother's emotions, and said with some sadness: "We were picked up by the Yu family and secretly trained when we were teenagers. We have been like this all the time. We thought we would be like those predecessors, carrying out missions all the time, until one day we suddenly disappeared." An Yi sneered: "What do you mean by suddenly disappeared? Either they failed in the mission and were killed, or they were silenced by the organization. There is no third possibility, but we brothers have a third possibility. As long as the young master improves his strength a little more, he can help us completely get rid of the control of the organization."

An Er thought of Pan Chengfeng's smug smile and said with some fear, "I'd better not see the young master often. I'll follow Madam to protect her safety." An Yi smiled and said, "Okay! Then I'll earn the 10,000 top-grade crystal beads. You'll follow Madam for 12 hours to protect her safety." An Er was confused and said, "What do you mean by 10,000 top-grade crystal beads? Isn't this our annual salary?" An Yi explained, "Madam plans to train a group of intelligence officers and pay them 10,000 top-grade crystal beads a year~" An Er slowly opened his mouth and screamed, "You came back to talk to me for so long, just to get me to say this?"

Pan Chengfeng's practice room in Zhongjialou. Pan Chengfeng was sweating profusely. This practice room was specially built for him by Qian'er. It was different from the practice rooms of ordinary cultivators. Not only was it large, but it was also sturdy. The practice rooms of ordinary cultivators were usually only 200 to 300 square meters, but Pan Chengfeng's was at least 1,000 square meters, and the floor and walls were made of black gold. Although black gold was a very common material, it was a large quantity. The value of this practice room was no cheaper than that magic weapon embryo. But now that the Zhong family was rich, Qian'er built the practice room with a wave of her hand, without any regrets.

Pan Chengfeng has been in seclusion in the training room for three months, intending to break through the fourth level of the tendon-refining realm! However, he has not felt the bottleneck after training for several months. Pan Chengfeng carried the cauldron and turned around in the training room, so fast that only the afterimage could be seen. After turning for an unknown number of times, Pan Chengfeng finally stopped and panted, "What's going on? I can't feel the bottleneck, so I can't break through. Is it that my physical strength is not enough? No way~ Not only did I take the elixir of ten thousand years, I also used purple thunder to forge my body. How can my physical strength not be enough?"

I didn't understand, so I had to take out the Hunyuan Body Refining Technique to check. I couldn't find the reason after looking through it, but after seeing the description of the Overlord Fist, Pan Chengfeng thought of some possibilities: "The Overlord Fist skill says that only when you reach the fifth level of the Body Refining Technique, that is, the Bone Refining Realm, can you practice the Overlord Fist to a small success. I'm only at the third level of the Body Refining Technique, but the Overlord Fist can be operated more than four times. Is this the problem? Hey, without the guidance of a master, I rely on my own blind thinking, don't practice it well."

Pan Chengfeng put away the secret book depressedly, muttering: "It seems that the time for the breakthrough of the body refining technique has not come yet. I won't waste time and go to complete the sect mission first. Uncle Yun is really considerate. He assigned so many points to the mission I found, and it is so close to the Great Zhou Kingdom." He opened the mission volume and read it carefully. Pan Chengfeng thought to himself: "Two cultivators at the peak of the Spiritualization Stage assassinated the direct disciple of the Thunder Sect in Song Kingdom. Fei Yang, who was at the late stage of the Spiritualization Stage and only over 200 years old, was a very promising disciple, but he was assassinated. Fei Yang was the disciple of Elder Yi Meng, the elder of the Spiritual Medicine Garden of the Thunder Sect. Elder Yi Meng once sent his eldest disciple, Yu Qin, to track down the murderer. Yu Qin was at the middle stage of the Void Refining Stage, but he was away for three years and came back to say that he couldn't find the two murderers?" Pan Chengfeng touched his chin and thought: "Isn't Yu Qin Yu Fu's cousin? Are they all members of the Yu family?"

Pan Chengfeng was a little confused. Logically speaking, a Void Refining cultivator has plenty of ways to find the target. Fei Yang was a direct disciple, and he would definitely leave clues on the enemy before he died. How come Yu Qin said he couldn't find them? The mission only said that he was assassinated in Song State. It has been more than ten years, and the two murderers have never appeared again. This is not a chase at all, it is clearly an investigation and a chase! And there are no clues, how can people find them? No wonder three years were given. Before, I only looked at the reward points and the mission location, and didn't look at the other things in detail. Now after reading the content of the mission carefully, Pan Chengfeng felt that he had been cheated, and said angrily: "What is Uncle Yun trying to do? I don't have so much time to investigate! It would be better to just give a mission with a clear mission goal!"

Pan Chengfeng complained for a while, but finally accepted the reality. Since he had accepted the task, if he failed to complete it, he would lose 200,000 points! The tasks of the Yu Lei Sect were like this. If you are not sure, don't accept it. If you accept it, you will have to bear the consequences of failure! 200,000 points, Pan Chengfeng can't afford to pay now. Pan Chengfeng knocked his head and said, "Uncle Yun can't pick the task for me casually. There must be a purpose. Think about where the key point is."

Pan Chengfeng opened the task scroll again and said, "The sect's Lianxu monks rushed to the place where Fei Yang was killed the next day to check the scene. They didn't find anything unusual. They only saw two black-clothed monks in the last scene of Fei Yang's murder. They were at the peak of Huashen. From their attire, they determined that these two people were killers, and they were very professional. They didn't leave any traces at the scene."

Pan Chengfeng touched his chin and said, "Who the hell is so brave to assassinate the direct disciple of Yu Lei Sect? He must be very brave... Wait!" Pan Chengfeng suddenly thought of the assassination attempt by An Yi and An Er on himself, and muttered, "If I were to say who is so brave to assassinate the direct disciple of Yu Lei Sect, didn't the Yu Family just assassinate me? Could it be a killer from the Yu Family? It's very likely!~" Pan Chengfeng stood up, tidied himself, changed his clothes and came out.

Qian'er heard Pan Chengfeng coming out of retreat and hurried over to check. She found that Pan Chengfeng seemed to be the same and asked with concern, "Did you fail to break through?" Pan Chengfeng smiled bitterly and said, "No, I just couldn't sense the bottleneck. It must be that the time has not come yet." Qian'er comforted him, "Don't worry. Your current strength is comparable to that of a Void Refining cultivator. It is not easy to improve even a little bit." Pan Chengfeng stroked Qian'er's pretty face and said, "Don't worry, I'm fine. I don't have any inner demons. By the way, is An Yi back? I need to find them for something."

After a while, in Qian'er's office, An Yi and An Er stood with their hands behind their backs. Pan Chengfeng sat on Qian'er's boss chair and asked, "Are you feeling comfortable here? You don't have to be so reserved. Qian'er and I don't have that many rules." An Yi bowed and said, "Young Master, if you have anything to ask, we two brothers will do our best." An Yi and An Er thought that Pan Chengfeng had asked them to come because he had an important task for them. Unexpectedly, Pan Chengfeng waved his hand and said, "Hey, hey, hey~ Do I have to give you a task if I ask you? I just want to inquire about something."

An Yi and An Er looked at each other in bewilderment. They had lived for 800 years, and had spent the first 700 years assassinating or on the way to assassination. They had only stopped in the last few months. What could they ask them about? What did they know? Pan Chengfeng asked, "Have you ever carried out the mission of assassinating the monks of the Yu Lei Sect in the Yu family before?" An Yi and An Er's feet trembled, thinking that Pan Chengfeng was going to settle the score later. Pan Chengfeng knew that his question was a bit sudden, and hurriedly explained, "Don't be nervous, I'm just asking about something. I will never ask what you did in the past!"

An Yi and An Er breathed a sigh of relief. An Yi said, "Young Master, we brothers have indeed carried out the mission of assassinating Yu Lei Zong monks in recent years, and more than once." Pan Chengfeng was overjoyed and said, "It seems that we have found the right direction!" Pan Chengfeng asked hurriedly, "Do you remember who you killed?" An Yi said, "We don't know who they were, we only know their cultivation and appearance. When we accepted the mission, the adult only gave us the image bead, and then told us when and where the target would appear."

Pan Chengfeng asked, "Then how do you know they are all from the Yu Lei Sect?" An Yi explained, "Generally speaking, when a cultivator sees danger, he will announce his identity to scare off the attacker or disrupt his judgment. The Yu Lei Sect is very famous, and every target of assassination will announce his identity before dying. So we only know their name, sect, and cultivation level. As for who they are and what position they hold in the sect, we have no idea at all."

Pan Chengfeng stroked his chin, thought for a while and asked: "Do you remember the cultivation level and name of the Thunder Sect cultivator you successfully assassinated recently?" An Er continued An Yi's words: "I remember, I pierced his heart and destroyed his soul." Pan Chengfeng said happily: "Tell me when, what his name was, and what his cultivation level was?" An Er said: "My brothers and I took on this mission about a hundred years ago. His name was Luo Xiang, and his cultivation level was at the initial stage of Refining Void." Pan Chengfeng stood up and said: "Okay, you guys helped me a lot! Qian'er will give them 10,000 top-grade crystal beads each!"

An Yi and An Er retreated, and Pan Chengfeng immediately sent a message to Shuang'er, asking her to find Uncle Yun. Ask Uncle Yun to help check what position Luo Xiang held during his lifetime and who is holding this position now. Pan Chengfeng wanted to verify whether his idea was correct. If so, then Fei Yang's assassination was most likely what he thought! Pan Chengfeng said happily: "If this is true, the Yu family will be in big trouble! I am more powerful than Conan!"