Chapter 798: The Creditor Arrives

"...Eh?"

The assassin saw the Shura field full of corpses and a flash of surprise crossed his eyes.

His starting point was not far from here. After the competition started, he casually slaughtered a few small fries nearby. Hearing the big commotion here, he wanted to come and see the situation. He didn't expect that such a tragic melee had already taken place so soon after the start.

He scanned the corpses on the ground and knew that these people's deaths were all caused by one person. He couldn't help but think carefully in his heart, wondering which of the top experts he knew was so impatient and so cruel.

He saw people in the surrounding darkness standing up rustlingly, seemingly all onlookers who had been scared silly, so he walked up silently.

"Who killed these people just now?" The assassin's sudden opening made the unprepared participants shudder.

The other party came back to his senses. Unable to see the assassin's appearance and attire, he thought he was just a passerby who didn't know the situation, so he said casually:

"I don't know... When I arrived, he had already killed three in a row, and then I watched him get stronger and stronger as he killed, until he killed a Fourth Rank in one move at the end."

"I'm not very familiar with the aura of that divine path, but it's highly likely to be the Soldier Divine Path. The fighting was really too fierce!"

"Yes, I remember someone said just now... his name seems to be Jian Wubing?"

Soldier Divine Path, Jian Wubing?

Hearing these two words, the assassin's eyes narrowed immediately. He looked at the direction where Jian Changsheng and Sun Bumian had left just now and muttered to himself:

"So it was him..."

The assassin recalled the young man at the Comet Hotel who had held a gun to his forehead. Given the other party's personality and strength, it was indeed possible for him to kill so many people at the start.

As the only [Assassin] of this era, he almost never missed an assassination below the Sixth Rank, let alone the fact that the other party was only Fourth Rank... He wanted to see how much ability this Jian Wubing really had to withstand a few of his assassinations?

He snorted coldly, and his figure gradually faded into the darkness, chasing in the direction Jian Changsheng had left in a flash.

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[Audience Expectation +2]

[Current Expectation: 56%]

As Chen Ling swung his blade and killed another participant he had caught up with, he finally saw a new prompt floating before his eyes.

Chen Ling had realized that except for the first two, the audience's expectation hardly increased when he killed others. Perhaps it was because the plot was too homogeneous, causing the audience's sense of novelty to gradually decline...

He had now killed nine people in a row, and the growth of audience expectation had also hit a bottleneck. But for some reason, the audience expectation seemed to have risen again just now.

It shouldn't be because of his killing, right?

Could it be...

Related to Little Jian's side?

From the moment he threw out the name "Jian Wubing" to the assassin, Chen Ling guessed that the subsequent development should increase some audience expectation... The seed he planted at that time finally yielded a return at this moment. Thinking of this, Chen Ling's expression was somewhat subtle.

"Sorry about that..."

Chen Ling felt a little guilty about diverting the disaster, but only "a little." After all, Jian Changsheng hadn't caused him less trouble since arriving in the Tian-Shu Domain. It was just right to use this assassin to put some pressure on Little Jian.

As for whether Jian Changsheng would fall into a life-and-death crisis because of this... Chen Ling had thought about it, but he just smiled it off.

He recalled again in the Gray Realm, when Jian Changsheng lost control and used his Domain for the first time, the black killing intent that surrounded him... At that time, Jian Changsheng had lost consciousness, but Chen Ling had truly felt the power of that Domain.

Even now, a few seconds of it still gave Chen Ling a feeling of being choked by the throat when he recalled it!

There weren't many people who could make him and the audience in his body feel uncomfortable, but Little Jian was one of them... Whether it was the killing intent from the deepest part of the ancient Soldier Path or the ancient existence hidden in his body, it was definitely not ordinary.

Little Jian suffered setbacks and was in a sorry state all the way, just because his fate was bumpy and he was too unlucky...

But if anyone really thought he was easy to bully, they would inevitably pay the price for it.

"Expectation hit a bottleneck, this is troublesome..." Chen Ling looked at the expectation that no longer moved, his brows furrowing tighter and tighter. "Perhaps, I need to change my thinking..."

Just as Chen Ling was still worrying about the expectation, a gaunt figure carrying a rake walked slowly from the dim street.

Noticing someone approaching, a flash of surprise crossed Chen Ling's eyes.

He had chased and killed so many people, most of them ran when they saw him, and the few who had the guts to stay and fight him were eventually beheaded by him... He didn't expect that at this time, someone would take the initiative to find him?

No, that's not right...

As the person approached, the aura of the Fifth Rank descended suddenly, like a high mountain standing in the darkness, directly blocking the road in front of Chen Ling!

"You, are you that Lin Yan that Fourth Master mentioned?" A cold voice sounded slowly.

Chen Ling: ?

Who is Fourth Master?

Chen Ling frowned tightly. Just as he was about to say something, the aura of a second Fifth Rank erupted from behind him. He saw a similarly gaunt figure carrying a long staff walking here with a fierce look in his eyes.

The two were one in front and one behind, directly trapping Chen Ling in the center of the street.

"Daring to run wild at Third Master's funeral, I think you're tired of living!" The figure carrying the long staff said grimly, "If it weren't for the fact that we two weren't there at the time, you wouldn't have been able to walk out of the funeral venue at all!"

Hearing the words of the two, even Chen Ling, who had seen a lot of the world, was dumbfounded.

He looked at the two again in confusion, and after confirming that he didn't know them at all, he asked suspiciously:

"What Third Master? Did you recognize the wrong person?"

"Stop playing dumb with me. At Third Master's funeral, it was you who carried an iron staff and swaggered in riding a red lion! Fourth Master said, your name is Lin Yan, you are of the Soldier Divine Path, and you know the Blood Escape Technique!"

"We followed you all the way just now and confirmed that you are indeed of the Soldier Divine Path... Is there a second Soldier Divine Path user named Lin Yan in this Old District?"

Chen Ling: ???

Riding a red lion, Soldier Divine Path, Blood Escape Technique... and named Lin Yan??

At this moment, Chen Ling suddenly remembered Jian Changsheng, who came back covered in dirt after chasing Sun Bumian... and that obviously sneaky "Be careful, safety first~" when filling out the registration form.

Chen Ling's expression was instantly wonderful!

Good, very good...

It's really that no one leaves anyone behind, you eliminate disasters for me, and I block calamities for you, right?

Chen Ling originally thought this was a one-sided, unconscionable backstab of his own... In the end, it was a two-way rush??

Both are Fifth Rank, I only threw one at you, and you threw two at me in one breath? Director Chen has pitted so many people, but he didn't expect that this time, he was actually taken advantage of by Little Jian!

The slight guilt Chen Ling originally had for Little Jian vanished completely. He silently clenched his fists...

Jian Changsheng, you just wait for me.