Chapter 490:

Chapter 489 – Following the Map
After getting his hands on all of Duanmu Lord’s stash, Chen Fei now wanted to know who in the world had spent so much to have the Mourning Shadow Sect come to assassinate him.

According to Chen Fei’s understanding from Duanmu Lord’s dream, the price of this assassination was extremely exorbitant, and the average early stage of the Harmonization Realm simply couldn’t afford to take out so many Yuan Stones.

As for the middle stage of the Harmonization Realm, it was true that they could take it out. However, if one really had the cultivation of the middle stage of the Harmonization Realm, they could directly find an opportunity to kill Chen Fei, so why would they need to find the Mourning Shadow Sect again and lose this amount of Yuan Shi for nothing.

What’s more, from the time Chen Fei came to the Thousand Feathers Alliance, from the time he broke through to the Harmonious Orifices Realm until now, he hadn’t even seen the face of a mid-Harmonious Orifices Realm powerhouse, so he couldn’t talk about who he had offended at all.

Chen Fei’s mind popped up in the middle of Mo Shi Yi’s several people’s appearance, to say that the ones who had offended the most, nowadays, it was also a few of them.

Blocking people’s way of wealth, blocking the way of wealth like the Third Order Mystic Realm, Mo Shiyi’s few people had every reason to get rid of Chen Fei.

Chen Fei did things with a clear distinction between grudges, just relying on speculation, Chen Fei would not do anything, but if it was really a few of them, then the next thing they needed to wait for was Chen Fei’s retaliation.

Therefore, Chen Fei needed to get the exact evidence, this evidence may not be able to show to others, but as long as Chen Fei himself to confirm can be.

Chen Fei walked into the store, the store’s handyman saw Chen Fei, could not sense Chen Fei’s cultivation, and could not help but turn his head to look at the shopkeeper. The shopkeeper was similarly unable to sense Chen Fei’s cultivation and hurriedly came forward to entertain him personally.

“Guest, what do you need?” The shopkeeper said enthusiastically.

“Sea Moon Stone!” Chen Fei looked at the shopkeeper and said.

The various branches of the Mourning Shadow Sect had some differences in the coded phrases they needed, and even sometimes the coded phrases differed when they corresponded to a specific assassin’s cultivation level.

“Guest, inside please!” When the shopkeeper heard Chen Fei’s words, his face slightly straightened and welcomed Chen Fei into the middle of the back hall.

A few moments later, Chen Fei sat in the middle of a dark room, looking at the jade on the desktop, Chen Fei took out a copper plate from his sleeve and placed it on the jade.

The jade emitted a faint light, Chen Fei made a seal with both hands, and put Yuan Power into the jade according to a specific technique, and a few moments later, the jade’s light gradually dimmed and returned to calmness.

A black shadow silently appeared on the other side of the table, his entire face was shrouded in a black mist, making it impossible to see his face.

“Sir Black Bureaucrat, I wonder what I can do for you!” The black shadow said in a deep voice.

Black Bureaucrat was Duanmu Lord’s nickname in the Mourning Shadow Sect, and the bronze medal just now naturally belonged to Duanmu Lord, while the technique was something Chen Fei had learned in Duanmu Lord’s dream.

This was the method of verification for every assassin in the various branches of the Mourning Shadow Sect.

According to cultivation levels, the bronze medals varied greatly, but the biggest difference was the set of hand seals that Chen Fei had performed just now.

That hand seal was set by Duanmu Lord himself, and it was similar to the formations that Duanmu Lord hid outside the iron boxes in various places.

Undoing the formation with the wrong technique, the iron box would directly self-destruct. In the Mourning Shadow Sect’s branch, the copper hand seal that was performed was incorrect, but there wouldn’t be a bunch of Mourning Shadow Sect’s experts showing up to arrest people.

The Mourning Shadow Sect would act as if nothing had happened, making false pretenses with you, but privately, they would report the true situation, informing all important people that the killer had been replaced.

After that, what kind of action the Shadow Sect will take against you depends entirely on the value of the replaced assassin. If the value is not low, in order to maintain its dignity, the Shadow Sect will take decapitation action, in order to suppress the curfew.

As a result, almost no one would pose as a killer and enter the Mourning Shadow Sect, because it was too easy to be recognized. Even if you tortured the killers to force confessions, but the bronze technique would be recognized as long as there was a slight mistake or omission.

As for the Mourning Shadow Sect’s headquarters, over there, from the beginning of entering that alleyway, all sorts of verification had already begun, and the procedure would only be even more stringent, and even less people would go there under false pretenses.

Duanmu Lord had been dragged into the dream realm by Chen Fei unnoticed, so naturally he wouldn’t have anything to hide, and thus all of his secrets had been seen clearly by Chen Fei as well.

Aside from the difference in scent, Chen Fei posing as Duanmu Lord would not arouse anyone’s suspicion, whereas the Mourning Shadow Sect branch, which would not verify the scent, did not have the conditions for this either.

“The last mission I took on, the target was very strong and had first-class stance, so I’m applying for a higher commission.” Chen Fei said in a deep voice.

The raising of the commission mentioned here was not for the employer to continue to increase the money, this kind of thing was not possible to go to the employer for negotiation unless there was a major error in the initial assessment.

What Chen Fei was saying was that he wanted the Mourning Shadow Sect to raise the commission given to the assassin, which meant that the Mourning Shadow Sect would have to extract a little less and give the assassin more rewards for the mission.

In order to feel out the situation of the Mourning Shadow Sect, Chen Fei hadn’t spent much effort in the middle of Duanmu Lord’s dream. It was also because Duanmu Lang didn’t know who the real person who ordered the mission was, or else Chen Fei wouldn’t have to make a special trip to the Mourning Shadow Sect again.

“This needs to be evaluated, I wonder if Your Excellency has any other requests?” The dark shadow did not refuse.

“Nothing else, you can report it directly, I have some leisure today and will wait for your news here.” Chen Fei waved his hand and said.

“Alright, please wait a moment, Your Excellency!” The black shadow nodded and disappeared into the chair.

Chen Fei closed his eyes and faked sleep, his mind perceived the surrounding, but there was a formation blocking it, Chen Fei’s mind was trapped and locked by the secret room, unless Chen Fei allowed his mind to forcibly break through, but then it would cause the formation to react again.

In less than half an hour, the black shadow reappeared in front of Chen Fei.

“Your Excellency Black Bureaucrat, after careful consideration of your request, the clan has decided to follow the original commission for the time being.” The black shadow whispered. “As I said earlier, the mission target is very strong!” Chen Fei’s body probed forward, his aura pressing towards the Black Shadow at once.

The black shadow’s body trembled slightly, and a wave of fear involuntarily surfaced from the bottom of his heart. Don’t look at the fact that his figure was shrouded in mist and looked as if he was extraordinary, but his true cultivation was actually only at the Orifice Practicing Realm.

Facing the aura of a Harmonized Orifice Realm like Chen Fei, it was like bumping into a natural enemy, instinctively feeling trembling and balking.

“Your Excellency, this is the clan’s intention.”

The black shadow subconsciously raised his head to look at Chen Fei, and a trace of bewilderment appeared in the black shadow’s eyes as he met Chen Fei’s gaze.

As if a long time had passed, and as if it was just a snap of the fingers, when the black shadow reacted, he realized that Chen Fei had long since stood up and turned around to walk out of the secret room.

The black shadow blinked his eyes and watched Chen Fei’s back disappear, his heart couldn’t help but let out a sigh of relief while cursing at the same time.

However, these Harmonization Realm assassins had an extremely high status within the Mourning Shadow Sect, and with the Black Shadow’s authority, he could not do anything about these Harmonization Realm assassins.

Cursing in his heart was already the limit of what could be done.

Chen Fei walked out of the Mourning Shadow Sect branch and circled around the city a few times to make sure that there were no followers before returning to the inn.

The mechanism that operated within the Mourning Shadow Sect was extremely strict, and a lot of information was kept secret from the killers, especially the employer’s news, which was the focus of the secrecy.

Killer, no matter what is impossible to know the employer’s news, to prevent the killer was captured, was forced to confess, then the Shadow of Death Sect’s brand will also be smashed.

Chen Fei was in the secret room just now, took the opportunity to perform the Dream Entry Technique, and saw the details of the black shadow that went to report just now.

The person that the black shadow reported to was not the final decision maker, and there was another procedure. It was good that Chen Fei had memorized that person’s breath in the dream.

Now, what he had to do was to follow this line, within the city, to find out these people one by one.

Regardless of how many times the program had changed, as long as Chen Fei’s line of search continued to open up, he would eventually be able to find out who the person who would eventually be able to see the details of the mission was.

Two days later.

Chen Fei appeared in a house, this was the southwestern corner of Muwan City, the poorest place in Muwan City, the people here, all of them were the people who performed the lowest level of labor in Muwan City.

But it was in this place that the person from the Mourning Shadow Sect who had the ability to view the details of the quests, happened to live here. In his obvious identity, he was an oil seller within Wooden Bay City.

Compared to a place like the Mourning Shadow Sect, it could be said that it was someone who couldn’t even hit the ground running.

And this person’s true cultivation level was actually at the peak of the Orifice Practicing Realm, but the technique he was practicing was quite subtle, and on weekdays, he could directly lock up his essence and vitality, making himself appear to be old and decrepit.

In a way, it was extremely similar to the Spirit Slaughter Technique. This gong method, however, could only be used on oneself, and could not be cast on anything else like the Spirit Slaughtering Technique side.

For two days, amongst Chen Fei, he looked for three people in a row before finally finding this one in front of him.

The peak battle power of practicing the orifice realm was already extremely extraordinary, but in front of Chen Fei, he still didn’t know anything, and fell directly into the dream realm.

The difference between the mind of the Orifice Practicing Realm and Chen Fei was too great, even for the peak of the Orifice Practicing Realm, and in the face of the Dream Entry Technique, they did not have the slightest resistance.

The Mourning Shadow Sect branch within Woody Bay City was manned by a strong Harmonization Realm practitioner, but this Harmonization Realm usually did not manage such trivial matters.

Only when the Mourning Shadow Sect branch faced a great threat would that person truly appear.

A few moments later, Chen Fei disappeared in the middle of the house after erasing the abnormalities in the person’s sea of consciousness.

A day later, Chen Fei appeared in a restaurant in Xuanlin City, which was the closest city to the Sea Peak Domain. And just a moment ago, Chen Fei had followed the information he had gotten from the Mourning Shadow Sect and placed a secret message in another small city.

This was the way for the Mourning Shadow Sect to contact their employers, and if the employers saw this secret letter, they could come to the designated place and discuss some matters with the people from the Mourning Shadow Sect.

Chen Fei took a cup of tea and drank lightly, waiting very patiently, this wait, was three hours of time. Suddenly, Chen Fei’s expression moved slightly and he turned his head to look at the street.

A figure was quickly speeding from the distance, and then stopped in front of the restaurant.

Jiang Liulin raised his head to look at the plaque of the tavern, and after ascertaining that the name of the tavern was correct, he raised his steps and walked up, and then caught a glimpse of Chen Fei in front of the window.

When Jiang Liulin saw Chen Fei, he was directly stunned, and his eyes could not help but widen slightly.

At this moment, although Chen Fei’s breath was not visible, this face, Jiang Liulin recognized it too well, that Harmonious Orifice Realm powerhouse from the Yuan Chen Sword Sect!
(End of chapter)