"Brother Feng, do you need to be in a hurry?"
"I'm very sorry, brother Guo, I still need to oversee my business at my place. I'm sure brother Guo will be understanding the situation for us, merchant."
You Feng clapped his fist and bowed a bit as a sign of apology towards the Li family.
"Don't be in a hurry brother Guo. I see that your wife and daughter is still visiting the local market. At the very least, let me serve some good drink for you while you are waiting for them." Li Guo said, a bit insistence.
"Very well then." You Feng thought for a moment, and agreed.
"Thank you brother Feng. Servant, come. serve some good wine." Li Guo showed a happy expression.
A moment later, a servant served the drink. Li Guo and You Feng chatted while drinking the white wine.
Half an hour later, You Feng was sleeping soundly on the table.
"Hehe...hahaha... You Feng, You Feng. Do you think that by giving me half of the profit from your merchant business, you disregard the engagement of my son and your daughter? You are naive."
Li Guo smirked as he looked at the sleeping You Feng. "Guard, take him away and throw him inside the underground cell. Also, let him eat the Meridian Parasite."
Two guards come and fetched the sleeping You Feng.
"Hahaha. you are doomed now You Feng. As for your wife and daughter, I will take care of them really well." Li Guo smirked when he saw You Feng was carried away. As for the mother and daughter, he already planned to drug them first, before bringing them into his bed. It would be so nice to play threesome with these mother daughter beauties.
Swish! Chak!!
Suddenly, a blade was stabbed through Li Guo's body. The strike managed to stab through his heart, from his back and punctured out on his chest.
"Argh!!!" Spurt!!
As Li Guo screamed in pain, blood spurted out of his wound. He slowly turned away his head, only to see Li Zhang sharp glare at him.
"Wh...why?"
"I know what you did to my wife. Just go and die. From now on, I will take care of your wife and children." Li Zhang then pulled out the sword, causing blood to gush out of the wound. Li Guo fell onto the floor, and breathed his last not long later. In his eyes, he showed an unbelievable look.
"Guard, bring You Feng here. Let's make it look like Li Guo killed him, and he killed Li Guo in response." The guard once more got out, and brought the unconscious You Feng.
Li Zhang then stabbed a sword on You Feng's chest, puncturing his heart. The pain caused You Feng to open his eyes. However, he also breathed his last after a little over ten minutes.
Li Zhang then concerted the death of the two, by letting each of them hold a sword that stabbed through their respective heart. After that, he left the place silently. Before he left, he warned the servant to not tell the truth about the matter.
Soon, Li Guo's wife entered the room and saw her husband dead. She screamed in sadness, and anger.
"My poor husband. Why? How dare you, You Feng! How dare you kill my husband!"
Lu Shuyue's tears flowed like a river. She didn't expect that her husband was killed by You Feng while they are having a drink.
Some people run towards the room after hearing Lu Shuyue's scream. Among them, there is Li Zhang, and the mother daughter duo of You family, who just came back from the market.
"What happened sister-in-law?" Li Zhang pretended to be surprised and asked Lu Shuyue.
"You Feng killed my husband." Lu Shuyue looked at Xing Fei with a dark expression. "Xing Fei, what do you have to say on this?"
Xing Fei who saw the scene was frozen in place when she saw her husband die from being stabbed in his chest. However, she lost for words as her husband also was holding to a sword that stabbed Li Guo to death. Why did this happen? She wanted to answer, but found no word to reply.
You Ruo on the other hand slumped on the floor as she saw her father's body lay lifelessly in front of her. Tears slowly flowed on her cheeks. "Why..."
"Guard, kill these two. I wanted to let their bodies become the offering for my dead husband." Lu Shuyue screamed her command out of anger.
"Sister-in-law, calm down. This has nothing to do with these two." Li Zhang tried to mediate the situation.
"These two has everything to so with the death of my husband. If not because they disregarded the engagement between her and my Kuang'er, my husband will not die like this. I want an explanation from them. If they don't, I want them dead."
Xing Feng who was staring at the corpse in blank regained some clearity in her eyes. She said, "We don't really know who killed who first. They are already dead. Let's stop this matter here. As for my daughter broking off the engagement, we already give our compensation. Therefore, the matter about the engagement should also end here."
"That's it? My husband died for nothing? Are you kidding?" Lu Shuyue glared at Xing Fei. She demanded, "Compansate for the death of my husband. If not, you and your daughter will also die here."
"Don't try to test out MY PATIENCE!!"
Boom!!
A burst of energy and pressure was released from Xing Fei's body. It was the pressure of someone in the Step Emperor realm!
"Em...Emperor level cultivator!!"
The Li family was greatly frightened when they felt the strong pressure. Their knees felt weak, and they involuntarily kneeled on the floor.
"If I wanted to, I could wipe out your Li family with just the wave of my hand. Do you want to experience it?" Xing Fei looked at the Li family with a sharp and cold eyes.
"Please have mercy, my Empress. We Didn't dare to offend you." Li Zhang knocked his head on the floor in apology. He was sweating bullets as of this moment. He was very shocked when he found out that this woman is a strong cultivator. Hopefully, she didn't know that I was the one causing the dearh of these two, thought the frightened Li Zhang.
Lu Shuyue and all the servants in the room also bowed deeply in fright. They also never expected that this woman was so domineering.
Xing Fei looked deeply at the frightened people in front of her. In the end, she just signed and turned around. She let out some of her energy. That energy lifted the dead You Feng and brought it close to her.
"Daughter, let's go." After that Xing Fei left the Li family with You Feng's corpse. You Ruo followed her mother, while crying for the death of her father.
Li family just looked at them in helplessness. They can do nothing to harm the other party as they are too powerful for them to make an enemy. They could only fetch the dead Li Guo and started preparing for his funeral.
As for Li Zhang, he was glad that his plan was successful. He managed to divert the blame without anyone except the servant to know about it. As for those servants, he planned to dispose them after Li Guo's funeral.
Unbeknown to him, two pair of eyes were watching the even unfold inside the house.
"That man is really sinister. He killed his own brother, and make the You family take the blame." a maid said with some hatred as she watched Li Zhang.
"He is a merchant with some years of experience. He should know many underhanded ways while dealing with many business. Furthermore, his brother molested his wife. I'm not that surprised when he killed his own brother." a young man beside the maid spoke his own opinion.
The young man and the maid were the assassin and the maid that escaped from the Qin Royal Palace.
"So, Young Master Xian Wu, why are we hiding inside the Li family household?"
"That Li Zhang have something that belong to me. We will leave this place after I get that thing from him." Xian Wu replied.
The thing that he mentioned were those Fortune fruit that he didn't eat. At first, he got ten Fortune Fruit. After he ate one, he was left with nine Fortune Fruit. However, after that he got unconscious and got smuggled into the Qin Kingdom.
As for why was he so sure that Li Zhang have those fruit, he could feel some kind of connection between those fruits and his body after eating one. That's why he deliberately hid inside these family household.
...
While the others arranged the funeral for Li Guo, Li Zhang came to his own house. He was trying to calm his heart after causing the death of those two people.
As he entered his room, he suddenly felt a cold sensation on his neck. A blade was put on his neck, and the one holding the knife spoke, "Don't try anything funny if you wanted to leave."
Li Zhang froze on the spot, and didn't want to move. This is a trained assassin! He didn't even felt his presence.
"Wh...what do you want?"
"Give me back those thing that you have takne from me?"
"What...what item?"
"Nine Golden-Blue fruit."
"You! You are that assassin!" Li Zhang's face paled when he heard the person on his back. He almost pissed his pants when he was aware that the one holding the blade was that notorious assassin. He hurriedly spoke, "Please have mercy. I didn't know that you are someone formidable. I swear I didn't mean any bad intention on you. Please spare me and my family."
"Shut the crap. Do you want to return my fruit or not?"
"Yes yes. I will return it to you. Here." Li Zhang hurriedly took out the ring on his left hand, and handed it to Xian Wu.
Xian Wu took the ring and let go off Li Zhang.
Li Zhang hurriedly kowtowed on the floor and pleaded, "Please, spare my family. I will compensate you with anything you want."
Xian Wu didn't have much of a grudge towards this man. On the other hand, this guy unintentionally helped him enter the Qin Kingdom. It can be said that he helped Xian Wu to cause trouble to the Qin Royal Family. After pondering for a moment, Xian Wu got an idea.
He asked the man, "Do you want to become a king?"
"Huh!? Why?" Li Zhang was startled when he heard the question.
"Don't ask. I just wanted to know, do you want to become a king?"
"Yes!?" Li Zhang answered sceptically.
"Good. Then, I want you to become the king of Qin Kingdom."
"What!?"
"Now. To realize that, your first task is to spy on the Qin Royal Family, and gather information about them as much as you can."
"Wait..."
"Do that, and I will help you rise to become the King of this kingdom."
After that Xian Wu disappeared. Li Zhang dropped on the floor in shock. There was a great turbulence inside his heart as he pondered the words from that assassin. Becoming a king! Am I really going to become a king?