Chapter 68: City Lord’s Manor
Aldrian dodged another flying knife, but his opponent followed up with a strike of the blade, bringing the fight into close combat. The three envoys from the city lord manor joined in, supporting the assassins who had been sent to ambush Aldrian.
To their surprise and growing anxiety, this young man’s cultivation was not consistent with his combat power. His strikes were deadly, making the whole situation feel like a dream due to the sheer absurdity. They had expected to easily suppress an Earl stage cultivator like him and even thought it was excessive for their superiors to send Marquess level fighters like them.
"He must be concealing his true cultivation with some technique!" they thought. But at this point, it didn’t matter. What had started as a simple apprehension, with orders to kill if he didn’t comply, had escalated into a fight for their lives.
Aldrian deflected the incoming blade with ease, stretching his other hand toward one of the masked men in the back. In his palm, he formed a spear of wind and launched it like a dart. The spear flew at an unbelievable speed, too fast for even the Marquess-level fighters to react. It struck one masked man in the head, dissipating immediately after killing him.
With his free hand, Aldrian summoned a sword of fire and slashed at the two remaining masked men. They weren’t just waiting to die, though, and dodged with the nimble movements of trained assassins. One of them tossed a small ball at Aldrian. When it hit the ground, it released a cloud of poisonous purple gas that instantly engulfed him.
The masked men regrouped with the three envoys, all of them staring at the smoke where Aldrian had disappeared.
"Even if he’s strong, there’s no way he survives after inhaling the Black Venom from Death Valley," one of the envoys said.
"Let’s move. We don’t want that woman to breathe in the poison. Let’s bring her and the child here."
They swallowed antidote pills from their storage rings and approached the house. The purple smoke was still too thick to see through, but it completely blocked the door. As they neared, their bodies suddenly felt heavy—so heavy they couldn’t move their limbs. Then, a hand emerged from the smoke, choking one of the masked men.
And with a swift movement, Aldrian decapitated the other masked man with a slash of his fire sword. He then paralyzed the last assassin by unleashing his energy, following it up by dashing towards two of the envoys. All of them, having let their guard down, were caught completely off guard and were unprepared for the incoming assault.
Aldrian grabbed the heads of two envoys and smashed them into the ground with a hard hit, rendering them unconscious. As for the last one, he seized him by the neck and injected his energy, sealing his meridians and dantian, effectively ending the brief battle.