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A young girl appeared atop the wall.

"Don't follow me anymore," Chen Ping'an said. "Just stay by Gu Can's side and protect him. Also, tell him not to try and do anything about this, and he's certainly not permitted to take out his anger on Cloud Pagoda City."

Tan Xue nodded eagerly in response, then flew away in a hurry as if it had just been spared of some terrible fate.

Chen Ping'an set the pair of heads down onto a stone table in the courtyard, then sat down at the table as he turned to look at the assassin, who was petrified with fear.

"Do you have anything you want to say?"

The man seemed to have been convinced that he was going to die, and all of his fear washed away at this realization as he declared with as much venom as he could inject into his voice, "I'll be waiting for you on the other side!"

"What if I change my mind and decide to kill everyone that you know in Cloud Pagoda City?" Chen Ping'an asked.

"Why should I care? I'm about to die!" the man snapped as he glowered intently at Chen Ping'an.

Chen Ping'an turned to take a glance at the handful of residents of the manor who were standing at the entrance of the courtyard, then rose to his feet as he declared, "I'll come visit you again in a few days."

After that, he sprang onto the wall, seemingly planning to depart from Cloud Pagoda City.

As he did so, Fifteenth destroyed all of the assassin's remaining bonded acupoints.