PFC Chapter 214 Assassination
Chapter 214 Assassination
"That's right. Yesterday, another trial participant was assassinated inside the pass."
"I heard that those killed were all outstanding warriors in the late stage of fusion, and they were all killed with a single blow. Even now, the guides haven't figured out the reason."
"Sister Geng Ling, we have to be more careful. It seems that someone really dares to break the rules."
Geng Ling nodded. As an assassin, he could kill a late-stage fusion cultivator with one strike, so he probably wouldn't be that weak in a head-on battle.
Suddenly she felt someone was spying on her. Her main body silently sensed the surroundings, but she didn't find out who it was, and the feeling of being spied on disappeared.
"Sister Geng Ling, did you feel it?" Qingqing transmitted the message.
"Yeah, but it's disappeared now." Geng Ling took a bite of the bun.
"Could it be the assassin?"
"Who knows, but if he really sets his sights on me, he's going to be in big trouble!"
Qingqing's expression suddenly changed: "I'm eating! Don't say such disgusting things!"
Geng Ling: “…”
"Okay, okay, I won't tell you, I won't tell you!"
After the two returned to the inn, Geng Ling directly wrapped the room with two layers of defensive formations and three layers of trapping formations.
The suppressive effect of the third-level eighth-grade trapping formation would restrict even her for a while.
"Sister Geng Ling, judging from what the jade slip says, the passage to the second level will be opened soon."
"Well, it's said to open once a month, but if there are fewer people traveling with you, it will open next time. As long as you survive, you can enter the second level. There are only five days left until the next opening."
The jade slip also contains the trial content leading to the second level.
There are only two rules: racing and killing.
The passage was not opened the previous two times because there were not many participants, but it will most likely be opened this time.
Qingqing came to the bedside and practiced cross-leggedly: "Sister Geng Ling, is someone targeting you?"
Geng Ling thought for a moment and said, "Most likely. I haven't joined any faction, and I showed off my talents when I entered the country. I guess many people want to get rid of me first."
"I will protect you, Sister Geng Ling!"
"I knew you were the best, Xiao Qingqing!"
At night, the temperature inside the pass dropped significantly. The temperature difference between day and night on the Tongtian Road was huge, but even at night, the streets were still bright. The sun shone during the day, and the endless starlight cast its light at night, without any clouds or atmosphere to block it. The starlight was very bright.
The streets were still brightly lit, but inns and the like were generally not located in downtown areas, so Geng Ling's side was relatively quiet.
Both of them were practicing quietly, but Geng Ling did not enter the state of practice. Instead, he was alert to his surroundings.
In the six or seven days since entering seclusion, many geniuses in the late stage of fusion have been assassinated. It would take some effort for Geng Ling to confront geniuses of this level head-on.
Yet he was assassinated so easily. I guess the murderer's assassination skills had already reached perfection.
Suddenly Geng Ling chuckled and said, "He really came."
Qingqing opened her eyes, but before she could say anything, a wisp of imperceptible colorless smoke seeped into the room but was blocked outside the formation.
Geng Ling said softly, "When it comes to despicable tactics, you're still a lot worse than me."
Qingqing was speechless and complained: "What is there to be proud of..."
The dagger flew out instantly, and a cold light flashed in the starry night. Geng Ling and Qingqing quickly came to the place where the dagger landed, and saw only bloodstains.
Geng Ling's attack attracted a lot of people's attention. Dozens of heroic guides came to Geng Ling's side in an instant, followed by hundreds of geniuses.
The leader of the Jie Yin Envoys took a step forward and asked: "What happened?"
"The murderer's target tonight was me, but he missed. I think he must have consumed too much energy yesterday, so his aura was not hidden tonight and I discovered it."
"This is the murderer's blood and the smoke he used."
Geng Ling squeezed the smoke that seeped into the room into a small ball and led it, along with the bloodstains on the ground, to the guide.
The guide took it and examined it: "The murderer has escaped, everyone should disperse."
After saying this, he disappeared instantly with dozens of his men.
Hundreds of geniuses looked at Geng Ling with fear in their eyes. The assassination that even a person at the late stage of fusion could not avoid was actually avoided by a person at the first level of individual, who even injured the assassin.
Geng Ling frowned. It seemed that the probability of being besieged was still increasing.
But she didn't say anything and went back to the room with Qingqing.
"Sister Geng Ling, it seems like everyone is afraid of us."
Geng Ling smiled confidently: "Come one, kill one."
She really didn't believe that these people combined could block more than thirty sets of Mahayana formations.
Even if they all rush in, they are just a bunch of chickens and dogs.
The murderer continued to commit crimes in the following days, but no one caught him.
Geng Ling also tried to use her eighth-grade tracing array to track the murderer using the bloodstains left by the murderer, but still found nothing.
"This person's cultivation method is quite unique. Even the tracing array can't track him."
Qingqing was a little worried: "We have to be careful on the way to the second level."
Geng Ling also looked solemn: "Definitely."
"But this method is meant for me. I have to be more careful about the murderer."
On the last day, all the trialists who planned to proceed to the second level gathered in a square.
"Eight thousand and twenty-three people."
The guide spoke up: "There are quite a few people this time."
Most of them were people who originally lived on the road to heaven.
"With the Guardians here to protect you, there's no need to worry about your safety. Tonight, just focus on recuperating and restoring your strength to its peak. I wish you all success in entering Tongtian's Second Pass!"
Although the guide had given the order for guards to guard the place, no one let down their guard. Everyone had already adjusted their breathing to the peak state before coming. Everyone here was an enemy, and even those from the same force still needed to be on guard.
The same goes for Geng Ling and Qingqing.
Seeing this, the guide said nothing and stood quietly aside.
Directly across the square is the entrance from the first level to the second level.
Just wait until tomorrow's time, and the guide will control the entrance in his hand to open.
The night was quiet, and more than 8,000 people were standing in the square, ready for battle. Some of them rode on gray wolves, while others stood on the back of a golden Peng monster, looking down on the crowd in the sky.
People from several forces also released their pressure in their respective areas and were alert to their surroundings.
Geng Ling saw the woman in blue robe, and the woman also saw Geng Ling and smiled at her.
Geng Ling nodded in agreement. The leaders of the various factions were all at the peak of their combined strength. She could sense how powerful they were. If they were to face off head-on, even in a one-on-one duel without using any formations, her chances of winning would only be 50-60%.
After all, anyone who can become a leader must be the best among the geniuses.
And she was only at the first level of fusion, almost a huge realm behind them.
Geng Ling also felt a lot of hostility, including from the monk whose lance and halberd she had taken away.
There were also many people she didn't know.
"It seems that being besieged is inevitable..."
Geng Ling sent a message to Qingqing.
Qingqing rolled her eyes cutely: "You are quite self-aware!"
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