Chapter 1 Cloud Opens, Moon Appears

The swirling dark clouds in the sky were sliced and shattered by a giant black sword, revealing the blood-red moon, gradually transforming due to the Celestial Devour, and reflecting in everyone's eyes.

Beneath the blood moon, a black figure with a single wing hovered in the sky, surveying all living things like a god.

Everyone nearby who had been drawn by the dark clouds witnessed Fang Yue's godlike sword strike!

Among them were the late-arriving Di Shu, one of the Three Lights of the Red Division, and Nian Wushuang, the Wen Shu who had acquired a human medicine from the Cuckoo Tower auction.

"Unmoved by the torrential rain, this is... a Rain-rank senior!"

"Hard to say... but that sword strike earlier was indeed worthy of a Rain-rank attack... no, I even feel that the sword contained some kind of power even more special than Rain-rank!"

"Who exactly is this person? Which Rain-rank senior from the capital has taken action?"

"Although the capital has suffered a bizarre attack from the Black Moon organization, the matter happened suddenly, and most Rain-rank seniors prefer tranquility, so they are unlikely to come forward to deal with such matters."

Nian Wushuang stood behind the three Di Shu, listening quietly with his head lowered, a mocking sneer flashed across his lips when they weren't looking.

Rain-rank seniors prefer tranquility? That's not preferring tranquility, that’s simply not regarding others as people!

Which of the old monsters in the capital doesn't have a strange and selfish personality?

Unless it's their own family in trouble, or the imperial family begs at their door, wouldn't those old monsters all mind their own business?

Even for the Nian family, it's only when the safety of the Nian family is threatened that those grand elders and ancestors would deign to help solve the problem.

As for the current situation, where the capital is suffering a bizarre attack, and civilians and members of the Four Divisions are suffering heavy casualties, they wouldn't even bother with it.

How many close blood relatives do those old monsters who have lived for hundreds of years have? After a few generations, they basically start to become indifferent.

"If it weren't for these old guys doing nothing, how could my woman have been snatched away by that old thing!"

Whenever he returned home and had to face Ming, who should have been his wife but was now his 'stepmother,' Nian Wushuang's eyes turned red, and he was about to go crazy on the spot.

"I was the first! I was the one who discovered Ming in Qing Si County, I was the one who made the engagement first, taking the woman I loved most to meet the most important relative in my life, it should have been double the happiness, the pinnacle of my life, why... why did it turn out like this!"

He endured with all his might, his fingernails digging into the flesh of his palm.

He couldn't even hear the other discussions of the Di Shu.

These three guys, although they are also members of the Nian family, are only collateral relatives and have to rely on my father's breath, so even though I had such a falling out with my family, they had to keep me by their side for my father's sake.

"Human medicine! I must get more human medicine! Otherwise, how can I... chop off my father's head!"

Although he had already bid for human medicine at Cuckoo Tower, the amount was far from enough.

"Fortunately, I've already found a lead. Mu Liu, that woman, is far more daring than I thought. She wants to use the Serpent Seat of the Twelve Seats as bait to lure out the Phoenix Organization, and I can take the opportunity to... contact the Phoenix Organization! I believe that with the head of Qi Cai Guai Yan (Eccentric Genius), one of the twin stars of the capital, as a certificate of allegiance, the Phoenix Organization should be willing to give me a chance to trade."

The Phoenix Organization in the capital is far more secretive than the Phoenix Organizations in other regions.

Because many people know that this is the Phoenix Organization's lair, the management and transactions in this area are extremely strict. Without connections, it's impossible to even get in touch with them.

Even Nian Wushuang, as Wen Shu, couldn't find the slightest clue about the Phoenix Organization, not even much information.

This made him suspect that the Phoenix Organization in the capital was connected to the imperial family. Only in this way, only with the imperial family as a cover, could those materials and traces disappear so completely.

"Wushuang, keep up."

It wasn't until he heard a Di Shu call out that Nian Wushuang came back to his senses, nodded, and quickly followed the team forward, only to realize that the black figure in the sky had disappeared without him noticing.

One of the Di Shu, who had been paying attention to him and had a strong bootlicking vibe, said 'kindly'.

"We waited for the senior to leave before letting the team enter that area. Most Rain-rank seniors don't like being disturbed rashly."

Nian Wushuang twitched his lips when he heard this, but ultimately said nothing.

Endure!

Be patient!

The moment that stupid woman makes contact with the Phoenix Organization will be the moment I turn the tables!

...

Seventh Prince's Mansion.

"Ah... ah ah ah! Ah ah ah ah!"

"Help! Help!! Seventh Prince, Sixth Prince, they're dead! They're all dead!"

More than a dozen people scrambled and crawled out of the gate of the Seventh Prince's Mansion.

Behind the gate, the sight was of corpses strewn all over the ground.

The entire Seventh Prince's Mansion was a scene of carnage, the smell of blood permeating the air.

Some were people from the Seventh Prince's Mansion, and some were Blue Guards from Lan Shan.

Following the corpses to the main hall, one could see the wide-eyed, motionless body of the Sixth Prince lying on the ground, and... the body of the Seventh Prince!

Today was a special day.

The Seventh Prince had invited the Sixth Prince to his home as a guest for the first time in a long time.

But it was on this very occasion that they were assassinated!

Shadowy entities not only slaughtered everyone in the Seventh Prince's Mansion, but also killed most of the Sixth Prince's close guards and Lan Shan's Blue Guards.

When the Sixth Prince wanted to take action, he realized that he... had been tricked.

There was something wrong with the tea he had drunk!

Too much peace, too much insincere dealings with his brothers, had made him forget that when it came to truly taking action, these brothers wouldn't show the slightest mercy!

The Sixth Prince fell. As large shadows swept over, enveloping him and the Seventh Prince, he was pierced through the heart by the Seventh Prince with a dagger.

This was a fatal wound. Even with the same bloodline as the Emperor, and relying on the thin power of the bloodline, most members of the imperial family had considerable regenerative abilities, but it was still far from the legendary true power of the bloodline that could bring someone back from the dead.

So, the Sixth Prince died.

But as the Sixth Prince fell, as the Shadow Assassins scattered, the Seventh Prince also fell into a pool of blood, lifeless as a corpse.

Everyone fled in terror, hunted down and massacred by the Shadow Assassins, and in the end, only a dozen or so people 'escaped'.

After those people left the Seventh Prince's Mansion, the Seventh Prince, who should have been dead, got up from the ground.

And those Shadow Assassins, who should have been acting as assassins, were now standing obediently behind the Seventh Prince.

He activated the mechanism in the main hall, and the door to a secret passage opened.

"Happy cooperation!"

As the secret passage opened, Taurus appeared, extending his hand with a smile.

And standing next to Taurus was a man who looked almost exactly like the Seventh Prince.