Chapter 1: The Yang Family's Trash

  At the beginning, Gu Lao and Gu Jing were separated. They knew that they are now at Ying Xian Inn, which is the largest inn in Kyoto. It has four floors: the first floor is for guests to eat and drink, while the second to fourth floors are for accommodation, divided into Tian Zi Fang, Di Zi Fang and Ren Zi Fang rooms.

  As soon as you enter the inn, you hear the shopkeeper say: "Sir, are you here for a meal or to stay..."

  Yang Lei interrupted him directly: "Find someone, find an old man with the surname Gu."

  "Oh, so you're looking for him? He went out with his granddaughter today and hasn't come back yet," said the shop assistant.

  It turned out to be a fluke, could this be fate? I'll have to take care of that gold medal killer myself. Hopefully, his cultivation won't exceed the Martial Emperor level. With Gu Lao not around, Yang Lei also had no choice but to leave.

  Just as Yang Lei was about to reach the door, the shopkeeper caught up with him.

  "Excuse me, sir, please wait a moment."

  Yang Lei stopped in his tracks and turned around, saying: "What's going on?"

  The shopkeeper said: "If you have an urgent matter, I can find someone to take you there."

  Yang Lei was taken aback and looked at him: "Do you know where Gu Lao is?"

  The shopkeeper nodded and said: "That old man had mentioned before he left that if someone came looking for him with something important, I should find someone to bring them over."

  "Oh?" Yang Lei was somewhat skeptical, why didn't the shopkeeper say anything before, but now he's speaking up? And if Gu Lao really had left instructions, there would be no need to find someone to guide him, just telling himself directly would do, so why make things so complicated? So this shopkeeper is a bit suspicious, and it's very possible that he's the Golden Card Killer from Xing Lou.

  Hawk Eye

  Under the real hawk eye, it indeed saw its original appearance. This guy had disguised himself, although the disguise was not very obvious, but he had indeed been disguised. Think about it, would a small shopkeeper need to wear makeup? Moreover, Yang Lei also noticed that this shopkeeper's hands, although they had calluses, were obviously not formed by long-term work, but rather by practicing swordsmanship.

  Appraisal technique.

  Jian Thirteen, Tianxing Building's Golden Card Killer, cultivation at Martial Emperor First Stage, skilled in disguise and sword killing techniques.

  After identifying the attributes of Sword Thirteen, Yang Lei let out a sigh of relief. This guy's cultivation was only at the first stage of Martial Emperor, so he didn't need to worry for now. If his cultivation were higher, such as the Great Perfection of Martial Emperor or even Martial Saint, then things would be really troublesome.

  "Alright, you lead the way." Since the other party wanted it that way, why not turn the tables around? Emperor Wu was still able to handle himself, he just needed to expend one of his violent rain pear flower needles.

  Jian Thirteen and the shopkeeper called out to each other, then headed outside, Yang Lei following behind. The two of them walked on, turning several corners before arriving at a small forest path.

  "Little brother, why are you still here?" Yang Lei said with his mouth, but the violent rain pear flower needle in his hand was already prepared and could be launched at any time.

  Jian Thirteen knew that at this time, Yang Lei had already been suspicious and was ready to take action. One strike would be fatal. Jian Thirteen practiced the Killing Sword Technique, which emphasized concealment of one's energy and a single, fatal blow. The sword must see blood as soon as it left its scabbard.

  "Young master, no need to hurry, it's just ahead, not far from here."

  At this time, Yang Lei had been observing carefully and discovered that Jian Thirteen was about to make a move. He immediately activated the mechanism of the "Violent Rain Plum Blossom Needle", and instantly, tens of millions of poisonous needles shot out towards Jian Thirteen, covering an enormous area with incredible speed, leaving Jian Thirteen no time to react.

  Jian Thirteen reached the Wu Emperor realm, but his aura was too weak to withstand the violent rain of pear flower needles. The dense steel needles instantly pierced his protective aura and entered his body, the poisonous needles on the steel spreading throughout his limbs and merging into his blood, entering his heart through the blood vessels, making it difficult even for Da Luo Golden Immortal to treat.

  "How...how did you find out?" After all, he was a strong warrior of the Martial Emperor's first stage, and yet he could still hold on to his last breath, which made Yang Lue involuntarily admire him.

  But as soon as he finished speaking, he fell to the ground and died.

  "Ding, congratulations player for killing Wu Emperor's 1st stage sword thirteen, experience +10,000,000, points +1,000,000, internal energy +1,000,000."

  "Ding, congratulations player level up."

  "Ding, congratulations player on acquiring the Sword of Slaughter."

  "Ding, congratulations player on completing A-level mission 'Sniper of Tianxing Building' Gold Medal Killer first phase."

  Rank promotion, entering Wu Huang realm, Yang Lei hurriedly took out the Soul Condensing Pill, swallowed it, and began to condense his martial soul.

  The Ningsheng Dan, as a low-grade sixth-rank elixir and a system product, is naturally not comparable to ordinary elixirs. Once it enters the body, the majestic soul force surges into the four limbs and eight meridians, then returns to merge into the brain, constantly fusing and compressing.

  Yang Lei felt his head was about to explode, the massive Wu Soul power began to condense, continuously condensing, transforming into **, then slowly gathered together, continuing to compress.

  Rumble...

  A deafening crash echoed through his mind.

  Martial soul condenses.

  A small, golden Martial Spirit condensed within Yang Lei's Sea of Consciousness, its eyes tightly shut. It was an exact replica of Yang Lei, only smaller in size. As soon as Yang Lei had a thought, the little figure opened its eyes, and this feeling was quite wondrous.

  At this moment, Yang Lei finally truly entered the Wu Huang realm, and his strength increased again. At this moment, even if he faced Sword Thirteen of the Wu Emperor's first stage, he didn't need to use the Violent Rain Pearly Needle to fight him head-on.

  With the completion of Wu Xuan, Yang Lei's spiritual power increased several times. The subtle changes around him were under his control, and his eyes became clearer, seeing farther away. In conjunction with the Real Eagle Eye, it became even more mysterious, allowing him to open the Real Eagle Eye for a longer time. Using the Real Eagle Eye required a lot of spiritual power consumption. Previously, Yang Lei could only open the Real Eagle Eye for an hour at most. Once the time was reached, he had to recover his spiritual power. However, now that Yang Lei's cultivation had broken through again, his spiritual power more than doubled. If he were to use the Real Eagle Eye again, he could increase it by another hour.

  However, what made Yang Lei astonished was that this assassination task had only been completed in part, which means that the Tianxing Building would continue to have gold medal killers coming to assassinate him, which is troublesome. It seems that he needs to solve the client who posted the task first, and the first suspect is naturally Yang Bing, followed by Yang Tianlei.

  Finishing one part at a time, but unexpectedly this part also had no reward, leaving Yang Lei speechless. The system was too stingy.

  Killed a first-class sword of Wu Emperor's thirteen, but only got a book of killing swordsmanship.

  Killing Sword Technique.

  Killing Sword Gate's ultimate technique, a 9th-grade earth-level skill that cultivates swordsmanship with killing intent. When facing an enemy, it conceals one's own energy and bursts out at the critical moment, unleashing a surge of killing intent that seeks to kill with a single strike.

  This is actually a good gongfa, but it's a swordsmanship training gongfa, and it requires strong killing intent. Condensing killing intent isn't an easy task, of course, but once mastered, the power of this sword technique is beyond doubt.

  If it were a knife method, that would be great, but swordsmanship is also not impossible to cultivate, but... after thinking about it, put it away for now and talk about it later.

  When Yang Lei came out of the small woods and arrived on the main road, he found Gu Lao sitting in front of him.

  Rubbed his eyes and found it was indeed ancient.

  So he walked up and said: "Gu Lao, it's really you, I thought I saw wrong."

  "Good kid, not bad! I was worried that you were in danger, but I didn't expect you to have such a powerful hidden weapon. You've even taken down a Golden Card Killer of the Martial Emperor's first rank! What kind of person did you offend, huh? They actually sent a Golden Card Killer to take you out?" The old man stood up, dusting himself off, and asked with great curiosity.

  "Old man, you've been following me all along?" Yang Lei was surprised for a moment.

  "Yes, when you came to me before, I knew it then, but didn't think that the target of that disguised killer was actually you, so I didn't stop him and just secretly followed." The old man nodded and said.

  Yang Lei heard this and was secretly impressed by the old man's incredible abilities, having followed him for so long without noticing. The gap between them was truly too great. However, he complained out loud: "Old Man, you're not being very kind, if you knew all along, why didn't you come out earlier? You let me waste precious hidden weapons on that guy, those things are one-time use only, and extremely valuable."

  The old man coughed and said: "This is not my fault. I was going to lend you a hand, but I didn't expect you to make your move so soon."

  Yang Lei was helpless, and this sentence is also a fact.

  "By the way, you little rascal still haven't told me why you were intercepted by the Golden Killer of Tianxing Tower? Getting involved with them is a big trouble. Those guys from Tianxing Tower are all about money and don't care about their lives. Once they accept a mission, unless the employer cancels it or the employer dies, they will keep chasing after you. There are several old guys in Tianxing Tower, their cultivation is terrifying." The old man said with a sigh, as if recalling something.

  It seems that Lao Jiu is also a person with a story, and this story is related to the Tianxing Building, otherwise he wouldn't have such an expression and tone.

  "Although I don't know who exactly, there are only three or four suspicious people anyway. I'll figure out a way to deal with this myself, but those hitmen really are a nuisance. If it wasn't for that kid accidentally discovering the weakness this time, we might have been in big trouble." Yang Lei said.

  "By the way, how did you little guy find out the flaw?" Gu Lao was very curious about this point.

  "Looking at his hands, there's a big difference between the hands of a shop assistant and those of a martial artist who practices swordsmanship. His fingers are slender and white, how could a shop assistant's hands be so fair? Moreover, the calluses on his palms are clearly different from those of a shop assistant, there's a huge gap, it can be seen at a glance." Yang Lei said.

  "As expected, you are meticulous." The old man nodded, "You can observe so carefully, it shows that you are a careful person. In the path of cultivation, one must have such thoughts to go far. However, the path of cultivation is not just about being careful, but also requires patience, perseverance, and the spirit of persistence. Moreover, one must be able to endure loneliness, only then can one achieve great things and reach the pinnacle."

  Yang Lei nodded, but in his heart, he didn't think so. These were all for others, while he only needed to kill, kill, and kill, constantly stepping on other people's corpses to achieve his own peak. As the saying goes, "one general's achievement is built on the bones of ten thousand". With the omnipotent cultivation system he possessed, the best way to upgrade was to kill people, constantly killing, all the way to standing at the peak of this Chongwu Continent, standing at the peak of this Xuan Yuan Star.

  "You're giving off a really bad vibe." The old man said with a glance at him.

  Yang Lei was shocked in his heart, he didn't expect the ancient feeling to be so sensitive, and his own killing intent that had just been released a little bit was actually sensed.

  "A cultivator having a strong killing aura is indeed a good thing, but if the killing aura is too heavy, it's not good. An overly heavy killing aura is detrimental to cultivation, especially when it comes to elevating one's mental state. It's easy to be possessed by heart demons, which can lead to falling into madness and entering the demonic path, from which there's no return in ten thousand kalpas." The old man spoke with a serious tone.

  "Thanks for the reminder, I'll remember it." Yang Lei was taken aback and nodded his head. Cultivating one's state of mind was indeed very important, he couldn't rely too heavily on the system. If one day the system were to disappear, where would he go?