Chapter 135 The Rules of Hidden Killing

After entering the Secret Realm, Xu Chu ignored everything and found a place without heavenly treasures or demonic beasts for dozens of miles around. He dug a cave on a cliff face and set up numerous Formations at the entrance.

Xu Chu took out the Jade Slip containing the Beast Taming inheritance and began to study it.

While other Heavenly Prodigies were searching for heavenly treasures, Xu Chu remained hidden in the cave, studying the path of Beast Taming.

While other Heavenly Prodigies were hunting demonic beasts, he was still studying.

While other Heavenly Prodigies were meeting and fighting, he was still studying.

No matter what they did, Xu Chu responded to all changes by remaining unchanged.

"As long as I don't go out, there won't be any danger. This isn't cowardice; it's a wise choice."

"After all, once three days pass in the outside world and the Secret Realm opens, they will all leave. Then I'll be the only one left in the Secret Realm, and I can do whatever I want."

Xu Chen, on the other hand, strictly followed Xu Qingzhou's instructions and acted alone the entire time.

He encountered a few people who tried to ambush him along the way, but he counter-killed them all.

He also faced the encirclement of the Disciples of Tai Xu Sect and the suppression from the Royal Family's descendants.

Xu Chen easily handled everything with his powerful strength and extremely numerous trump cards.

Back when Xu Mu Ge entered the Secret Realm, he brought many treasures given by the Supreme Elder of Lingyue Sect.

Today's Xu Chen is no less impressive. After all, he traveled through the Three Great Dynasties with Xu Qingzhou, and the treasures they plundered were also astonishing.

Three days passed quickly in the outside world.

Ninety days had passed in the Secret Realm.

True Martial King opened the Secret Realm again. As long as the people inside activated the jade token given to them upon entry, they could leave.

The surviving Heavenly Prodigies naturally chose to leave, except for Xu Chu, who put the jade token aside and continued to study the path of Beast Taming.

There are many powerful demonic beasts in this Secret Realm, including some exotic beasts with special Bloodlines. The strongest even possess Xuan Dan Realm strength.

Xu Chu had already made a plan: within three hundred years, he would kill the useless demonic beasts, eat the delicious ones, and tame those with special Bloodlines.

After a moment, all the surviving Heavenly Prodigies had left the Secret Realm.

Xu Chu opened his eyes, got up, left the cave, and began to get busy.

First, he set up numerous large Formations to build a temporary cave dwelling, then he opened up a spiritual field, took out seeds and seedlings of spiritual herbs and plants to sow, and finally buried the spiritual wine he brought underground.

Xu Chu looked up.

"Phew… I will be living here alone for the next three hundred years. This can be considered getting used to having a long life in advance."

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Xu Qingzhou had long since learned the rules of Hidden Kill from Xu Luo.

Under normal circumstances, customers pay a high reward to hire assassins for assassination.

As long as the customer doesn't cancel, Hidden Kill will successively send out three assassins until the assassination is successful.

If all of them fail, then the mission is canceled, but this rarely happens.

After all, each time Hidden Kill fails, they will send out a stronger assassin next time.

Assassins are inherently skilled in assassination, and assassinating beyond their level is common. If targeted by an assassin of the same level or even a higher level, no one can remain calm.

The first time, at the wedding, Xu Qingzhou was at the early Nascent Soul Realm, and the assassin he encountered was also at the early Nascent Soul Realm.

It was only because it was Xu Qingzhou; if it were anyone else, they would have died on the spot.

This time, at the foot of Mount Wu Dao, he encountered an assassin at the late Nascent Soul Realm.

However, the opponent didn't expect that not only did Xu Qingzhou have a protective jade token and top-grade inner armor, but he had already reached the late Nascent Soul Realm, having merely sealed his cultivation all along.

After the opponent discovered this, the assassination failed, and he left without lingering to fight.

Therefore, next time, the assassin sent by Hidden Kill might be at the peak Nascent Soul Realm, or even a Heavenly Palace Realm expert.

Xu Qingzhou had to be vigilant at all times.

The Sixth Princess's mansion was indeed quite safe, so Xu Qingzhou stayed there and didn't go out.

This continued until the third day, when the Secret Realm opened.

Xu Qingzhou and Song Yushu went to the Secret Realm entrance together.

Actually, Song Yushu didn't need to go; she mainly went with him because she was worried about Xu Qingzhou being assassinated.

When they arrived at the Secret Realm entrance, True Martial King was already preparing to open the Secret Realm.

This time, without the overly powerful troublemakers Xu Mu Ge and Xu Luo, out of the eighty people who entered the Secret Realm, more than fifty came out, which was a normal ratio.

As expected, Xu Chu did not come out.

Xu Qingzhou didn't linger for long. He immediately took Xu Chen and left, using the Wanbao Pavilion's teleportation array to return to Lingyue City.

Returning to his own territory, Xu Qingzhou finally felt a little relieved.

The assassin from Hidden Kill was like an invisible sword hanging over Xu Qingzhou's head, making him feel like he had thorns in his back and a bone in his throat at all times.

Xu Qingzhou casually asked, "How was your harvest from this Secret Realm trip?"

"Very good, but being targeted all the time was annoying," Xu Chen replied.

Xu Qingzhou had an 'I knew it' look, "Tai Xu Sect and the Royal Family?"

After all, within the Great Qi Dynasty now, only these two forces still dared to openly provoke the Xu Family.

Xu Chen nodded.

"Although there weren't many people from the Royal Family, each one was very strong, and they even had attendants at the False Core Realm."

"The Disciples of Tai Xu Sect were generally average in strength, but they had the advantage of numbers and power. They even brought in some helpers and stayed in constant contact. When these people gathered together, I could only run if I encountered them."

If it were the Xu Mu Ge and Xu Luo of the past encountering this situation, the two of them could have dealt with them while killing them all one by one.

But Xu Chen was different. His Golden Finger was about accumulating power over time. After he went to more places and found some ultimate treasures, completing his initial accumulation, he wouldn't even need to fight when encountering enemies; he could just smash them to death with treasures.

However, for Xu Chen to retreat without injury from so many Heavenly Prodigies of the same age, and even counter-kill a few, was already very impressive.

If there had been slightly fewer of them, Xu Chen could have counter-killed them all.

Xu Qingzhou asked again, "Besides Tai Xu Sect and the Royal Family, which other forces' people were involved?"

Currently, Tai Xu Sect and the Royal Family were indeed difficult to deal with, but other forces were much easier. The current Xu Family was no longer the soft persimmon it used to be; if targeted, they would fight back.

After recalling, Xu Chen said, "I'm not sure about the others, but I know there was someone from Seven Stars Sect among them. He also obtained his spot through the selection competition."

Xu Qingzhou smiled.

"Seven Stars Sect, it's time to settle the old and new grudges."

Ten years ago, the Xu Family needed to look up to Seven Stars Sect. If Xu Mu Ge hadn't joined Lingyue Sect, any Elder from Seven Stars Sect could have destroyed the Xu Family.

Today's Xu Family not only doesn't need to look up to Seven Stars Sect, but they can also destroy Seven Stars Sect.

However, this matter requires some planning to maximize the benefits.