Chapter Thirty-Six: Assassinating Sun Cheng
Before long, the warrior emerged and said with a stern expression: "Please follow me!"
Su Han followed the warrior into the military camp, passing through layers of guards, and arrived at a barracks.
The barracks were not spacious, and on the main seat above the barracks sat a burly man with big ears, a robust body, a full beard, and wearing fish-scale armor. This robust man was General Sun Cheng of this elite army. On either side of Sun Cheng stood eight robust guards with long breaths, high temples, and extremely high martial arts skills.
Sun Cheng swept a glance at Su Han below, his eyes widened, and a powerful aura surged towards Su Han: "Who are you?"
The eight burly guards standing in two rows beside Sun Cheng suddenly opened their eyes, staring intently at Su Han with a terrifying killing intent. These eight guards were all high-ranking experts who had followed Sun Cheng through thick and thin, emerging from mountains of corpses and seas of blood. Although each of them only possessed the cultivation of the Fifth Layer of the Acquired Realm, they could individually take on and kill ordinary True Qi Realm experts. When the eight of them joined forces, even ordinary Ling Qi Realm strongmen would be no match for them.
Ordinary people would have been intimidated by then, but Su Han was calm and unruffled, even smiling faintly as he bowed his hands and said: "I am Yun An's trusted aide, Yun Sheng. I've met General Sun."
Su Han's gaze swept over the eight guards beside Sun Cheng, and he said in a low voice: "This time Yun Sheng has come with confidential matters to report to Your Excellency, please dismiss your attendants."
Sun Cheng furrowed his brow, revealing a hint of skepticism: "Everyone here is my trusted aide, so it doesn't matter if I speak."
Su Han's face turned cold as he smiled: "General Sun, what I am about to tell you is related to the secret order of Lord Yongsheng. If even a hint of it is leaked out, I fear that not only will your nine clans be in danger. Please dismiss your attendants, otherwise I can only leave."
"Is this the secret order of General Yongsheng?" Sun Cheng's heart skipped a beat as he heard the words. General Yongsheng was known for being extremely strict and merciless towards those who disobeyed his orders, showing no quarter or leniency. One slight mistake would bring disaster to the entire family, so Sun Cheng didn't dare to be even slightly negligent.
Sun Cheng's gaze swept across Su Han's body, didn't see any weapons, and then waved his hand to order: "You two retreat!"
Eight guards responded in unison and immediately retreated: "Yes! Sir!"
Su Han handed a sealed letter to Sun Cheng and said: "This is the secret order from the superior, please take a look!"
After Sun Cheng received the secret letter, he hastily opened it. As soon as he opened the envelope, his face suddenly changed greatly, and a sense of foreboding arose in his heart. There was only one white paper inside the envelope.
Just as Sun Cheng opened the envelope, Su Han's hand flashed with a black light, and the Black Tooth Sword suddenly appeared, transforming into a poisonous dragon that stabbed towards Sun Cheng's heart.
Sun Cheng was completely unguarded, and in the flash of a sword, his heart was pierced. His severed head had eyes wide open, filled with incredulity.
With one sword, Sun Cheng was killed. Just as Su Han was about to leave, he suddenly felt a faint wave of spiritual energy emanating from Sun Cheng's corpse. He walked forward and took a closer look, reaching out with his hand to grab at the air, and with a swirl of true energy, he pulled in a blood-stained spirit stone.
Su Han looked at the Ling Stone, a flash of surprise in his eyes: "This is a Ling Stone! This guy actually has a Ling Stone, why didn't he refine this Ling Stone, instead letting me have it for nothing?"
This spirit stone is roughly the same size as the one Su Han luckily obtained at the bottom of the water, and it's also a water-attribute spirit stone. The spiritual energy inside is very abundant, but he doesn't know why Sun Cheng didn't refine and absorb this spirit stone.
In fact, the spiritual power in the Ling Stone can only be absorbed by cultivating superior techniques or special techniques that absorb the spiritual power of the Ling Stone. Sun Cheng is also a strong man in the initial stage of the Spiritual Qi Realm, but his cultivation technique is a medium-grade technique without the ability to absorb the spiritual power of the Ling Stone. After he luckily obtained this Ling Stone, he just wore it on his body and absorbed the scattered spiritual power from the Ling Stone, with an extremely low efficiency, naturally unable to compare with Su Han who cultivated the Nine Heavens True Water Technique.
With a mix of emotions in his heart, Su Han held Sun Cheng's Tiger Tally Arrow and strode outwards with large steps.
Out of the barracks, Su Han held Sun Cheng's token arrow and ordered the eight guards outside: "The general has an order, instructing you to strengthen your guard here, no one is allowed to pass through or enter."
The military order is like a mountain, and the eight guards responded solemnly: "Yes!"
Su Han killed Sun Cheng with just one move, his speed was as fast as lightning, these eight guards didn't hear a single sound, naturally they also didn't suspect Su Han, the special envoy of the Yong Victory Marquis.
Shou held Sun Cheng's token arrow, Su Han led the sheep out of the military camp and stole two fine horses from it, leaving the place with a swagger.
"General Sun is dead!!!"
"General Sun was assassinated!"
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Half a time after Su Han left, the military camp immediately heard a mournful cry. At the same time, the whole military camp fell into chaos.
"The next target, Yu Shenghou!" On the wide street, Su Han galloped his horse, a hint of killing intent in his eyes, quietly plotting the assassination plan.
Su Han learned from Yun An's memory. Unlike Sun Cheng, the defense of Yong Sheng Hou Fu was extremely strict and had many masters. Among them were one Post-Heaven Nine-Heavy Realm master, four Post-Heaven Eight-Heavy Nascent Soul masters, and Yong Sheng Hou himself was a Post-Heaven Seven-Heavy Spirit Energy Realm strongman.
Two days later, the Eightfold Refining Realm was cultivated to this realm. The true energy in the body can be freely manipulated, and even leave the body to attack the enemy. At first, Su Han was attacked by Yun Tianhai's true energy transformed into a true energy long snake, his meridians were broken, and his dantian was shattered.
Su Han relied on the black-toothed sword in his hand to challenge and kill strong masters of the Seventh Heaven of the Post-Heaven Spirit Realm, leaving those strong masters helpless. However, when facing a master of the Eighth Heaven of the Post-Heaven Spirit Realm, he didn't have much confidence. The true energy had taken shape, making it too difficult to deal with, greatly weakening the advantage of his divine sword.
For Su Han at this time, the Yong Sheng Hou Mansion was almost like a dragon's lair, and if he wasn't careful, he would end up with an irretrievable outcome.
Su Han furrowed his brow, took a deep breath, and his eyes were filled with determination: "It's really thorny, even if I advance to the Seventh Heaven of Later Tian, it's still uncertain whether I can kill that old beast. Unfortunately, our hatred will not end until one of us dies, and if we are careless, my Su family will be destroyed. Even if there is a glimmer of hope, I must take a gamble."
Youjing, the capital of the Dayan Empire, is also an ancient city of the six dynasties. Outside Youjing, there is a moat that is one kilometer wide and a magnificent city wall that is twenty meters high, majestic and resplendent to the extreme.
That dusty figure, with a face full of fatigue, Su Han arrived at the outskirts of Youjing on horseback. Looking at the vast moat and majestic city walls, a hint of surprise flashed in his eyes: "Is this really Youjing? Indeed worthy of being the capital of the Great Yan Dynasty."
