Chapter 1529: Chapter 356_2
“Even for an assassination, it had to wait until the Heart-eating Demon left Black Nurturing Mountain.”
Beside him, a Golden Core Stage disciple with a mature appearance said with guilt, “Master, we understand that you have tried your best. This is all the resources you could gather.
Frankly, it’s our incompetence. If our cultivation base were strong enough, we wouldn’t need to issue a task through the Assassin Society to kill the Heart-eating Demon!”
“Indeed, we’re not strong enough. If we were, we could kill him directly and avenge Senior Brother!”
“No matter what, even if no one takes the mission to kill, this vengeance will be ours to claim!”
Their sect was just an ordinary small sect in the Eastern Province, with only one Earth Immortal Realm existence, their Master.
After their Master fell into slumber during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, the entire sect was overseen by their Senior Brother, who protected them like a parent. Many even regarded Senior Brother as their Master.
Without Senior Brother, their sect would have already been destroyed by others.
It was Senior Brother who shielded them during the Reversal Mini Epoch Period, allowing their sect to endure to the present.
Finally, the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth ended, and Senior Brother smoothly entered the Wind Fire Tribulation. Perhaps in a few years, he would break through to the Earth Immortal Realm.
Originally, Senior Brother intended to cultivate to the Earth Immortal Realm within the Immortal Sect before leaving.
However, Senior Brother received a letter from home saying a descendant in his family had shown cultivation talent.
Senior Brother felt he hadn’t gone back for some time, so he left the Immortal Sect and returned to his hometown.
Senior Brother always valued family ties deeply. Although his family now consisted of younger generations like his nieces and nephews, he would often visit them.
In his words, his parents passed away early, and without his family relatives adopting him, he would have starved and wouldn’t be where he is today.
Unexpectedly, after he left, he never returned.
Later, when they went to Senior Brother’s hometown, they discovered that everyone in Senior Brother’s village was dead, and each person’s heart had been removed. Only one person could do such a thing, the Heart-eating Demon!
They wanted revenge, but their Immortal Sect had only one Earth Immortal Realm existence, their Master, who was in the mid Longevity Period, far from being a match for the Heart-eating Demon. They could only seek an assassin for revenge!
They were not a large sect, and the fifty thousand Immortal Stones spent to hire an assassin had drained their sect entirely. If not for Senior Brother having a fortunate encounter during the Minor Era of Inversion of Heaven and Earth, their sect couldn’t have gathered so many Immortal Stones!
They knew that with those fifty thousand Immortal Stones, they could exchange for a large amount of resources to speed up their cultivation, but they unanimously demanded Master use the Immortal Stones as a bounty to hire someone from the Assassin Society to kill the Heart-eating Demon.
The Earth Immortal Realm elder looked at the angry disciples and sighed in his heart. This was the sorrow of their small sect. Their disciples were wantonly slaughtered, yet they had no means to retaliate.
Unfortunately, no one would likely take that mission.
In a few years, they could cancel the mission.
The Assassin Society’s missions could be revoked; if within a hundred years no one took the task, it could be withdrawn voluntarily.
Of course, this was a mission set during the Longevity Period, so it would take longer. Only after a thousand years without being taken could it be revoked.
Black Nurturing Mountain.
Unremarkably, two figures were concealed in a hidden place.
“Junior Sister, we actually don’t need to take this mission,” a voice from the darkness advised solemnly. “The Heart-eating Demon is an old hand in the Earth Immortal Realm. He has lived far longer than us. Although we are both in the late Longevity Period, we entered this stage after waking, while he has lingered in the late Longevity Period for a thousand years.
Teaming up, we’re not certain we can take him down. Besides, the reward this time isn’t very high.”
“Senior Brother, I understand everything you’re saying, but I still want to take on this mission. Have you forgotten why we originally joined the Assassin Society? On one hand, joining indeed earns rewards, but more importantly, we aim to uphold justice!
Villains like the Heart-eating Demon should have died long ago.
If we don’t take this mission, likely no one else will either. When the time comes, should we allow such a demon to persist in the world? With every day he lives, who knows how many more will suffer!”
“But, this is the territory of the Heart Captivating Devil Sect. We…” The man just began to voice another concern, when expressions changed abruptly, falling silent and restraining his aura, looking into the distance.
Beside him, the woman also turned her gaze in that direction, where a figure was heading towards Black Nurturing Mountain at a startling speed, descending onto the mountain gate in a blink.
Though Black Nurturing Mountain was not a sect, it had a mountain gate guarded by several Golden Core Stage cultivators.
These Golden Core Stage cultivators suddenly noticed someone flying over, and it was an Earth Immortal Realm existence. Their expressions grew grave, and some swiftly left the mountain gate, heading into the mountain, evidently to alert the Earth Immortal within.