"Your majesty, the capital is not safe, we must quickly depart for the Rising Phoenix Manor and meet up with the grand general!" The chief eunuch said anxiously.
The emperor was too shocked to speak and could only nod, he understood the implications of such an assassin heading for his capital.
He feebly nodded, giving permission for the chief eunuch to prepare to evacuate from the palace.
The only man who could protect him now was definitely Gu Shang, though he hated to admit it.
In no time preparation started taken place, this caused the capital to go into panic mode.
Regular folks also began packing up, wanting to flee, but the capital gates where tightly shut, causing more despair and fear.
...
A thousand Miles away from the capital.
The lash green woods was now completely barren with no sign of life, the ground was charred black, no life in sight stretching for thousands of miles.
In the middle of the barren land, a large crater was formed with smoke rising from it.
In the middle of the crater, Gu Shang took in large breathes looking very exhausted.
But before he could even catch his breath, legion master Fu appeared right in the middle of the crater and pierced his sword through Gu Shang's hearts.
Legion master Fu eyes lit up, he didn't really expect his [ Vajra Sword Technique] to end the life of Gu Shang, since he was also an immortal king just like him, but he knew Gu Shang would be greatly weakened after dealing with his skill.
His [Vajra Sword Technique] was just a facade, his real aim was this move. He was betting all his all on this surprised attack when Gu Shang had been weakned after dealing with his technique, and it seems like it had paid off.
He felt the tip of his sword piercing through flesh, but before he could rejoice his sword suddenly came to a halt.
He tried withdrawing the sword back, but the sword didn't budge.
The misty smoke finally cleared out, revealing a man in white robes.
His robes looked clean without a single dirt on it, his breathing seemed to have stabilized as well.
In his hands was the tip of legion master Fu's sword which was dangerously close to his heart.
He then proceeded to knock the sword out of the legion master's hand.
"You really are an eccentric assassin!" Gu Shang said with a strange expression.
He had never met such a rush assassin who literally used such brute force in his methods, though he used the [Vajra Sword Technique] as a facade, he felt like legion master Fu was to direct in his attacks.
Shouldn't assassins be more stealth?
"Impossible!!" Legion master Fu said in shock, how could Gu Shang be unruffled by his attack.
Infact he looked so composed, this showed that his attack didn't even affect him. Defending his sword technique not only involved exerting too much pressure and expanding qi on the body, but it was also mentally exhausting.
In all his life, only two people had survived that technique, one died of over exertion, whiles the other was to weak to defend his sneak attack.
So he couldn't believe his eyes, the [Vajra Sword Technique] to some extent even affected him the user, no one in his entire life span had ever escaped the skill unscathed, that was common knowledge.
"Ho..h...how are you still unscathed!!" Legion master Fu did not expect the move to kill Gu Shang, but what he did not expect was that his most powerful skill would be useless against this young man.
Gu Shang took advantage of Legion master Fu shock which rendered him stunned and grabbed his neck raising him above ground.
"As an assassin, you really should not be losing concentration in battles like this!
Like I told you, tonight I'm the hunter, and you are the prey"
Legion master Fu was completely helpless against Gu Shang at this moment, he had lost all his energy and will to fight.
Tonight, he had used two extremely powerful techniques, which were very demanding in qi consumption rate.
The [Vajra Sword Technique] was even more demanding. Though cultivators could build small world within their consciousness which could connect them to the heavens, and give them the ability to control qi, there was a limit to how much qi they could control, that was depending on your cultivation.
Though Legion master Fu was an Immortal king, the skill he used today were of the superior grade.
This sort of technique could be used only once because of how taxing it was on qi consumption.
At this moment, legion master Fu was no more than a defenseless man. He could barely move his body.
He had gambled and gambled wrongly, his expectations were to swiftly kill Gu Shang after he exhausted him, but the irony of this was that, he was rather the one who was exhausted by his technique.
"Shall we continue from where we left off? I'll ask you one more time.
Who commissioned my assassination?"
Legion master Fu closed his eyes, "I don't know the person, and even if I knew, you still wouldn't get it out of me.
You can do your worst!" He said feebly.
"Very well, I'll do my worst then!" Gu Shang said coldly as he put his hand on legion master Fu forehead.
The pupils of Gu Shang eyes suddenly glowed white.
"S..s..s.. Soul invasion!!!" Legion master Fu shouted in fright but it was too late.
Gu Shang invaded legion master Fu soul and forcefully searched his memories.
[Soul Invasion] was a technique from the old ages, though it's existence was known, nobody had actually seen the manual for the technique.
The skill was mainly used to forcefully break into the spiritual root of the cultivator, and eliminate their soul without harming their consciousness, this basically turned them into living pupets without a soul, who could be easily manipulated.
But before eliminating their soul, one would have to erase all the memories of the person in question, this meant that one would encounter the memories of the subject before erasing it, so this method was mainly used for interrogation even though it disregarded the life of the subject reducing them to puppets, it was a still a sure way to find answers.
Gu Shang went through all his memories, and after gaining what he wanted dropped legion master Fu on the ground.
Legion master at this time had a completely lifeless expression on his face.
Liquid leaked from his mouth as he murmured some words incoherently.
Gu Shang looked down on him with cold eyes, "You don't deserve to live!" He uttered coldly. He had seen all the atrocious deeds master Fu had committed, and couldn't help but be disgusted.
This man was worst than a beast!
Gu Shang picked up the sword from the ground, as he approached him with the sword, he finally began to hear what legion master Fu was murmuring incoherently.
"S..spare m..y.. fa...mily!"
"I'll be doing your wife and daughter a favor since they'll never find out the man you are!" Gu Shang coldly said before beheading Legion master Fu.
He picked up the servered head, and kept it inside his Spatial ring.
"Hmm, even monsters like you have people you want to protect!" Gu Shang said as he took in a deep breath before soaring into the clouds and disappearing.