Cultivating in Different Professions

Chapter 127: Chapter 104: Lichuan

Lichuan was a Tributor for the Hu Family.

He was originally a lone bandit, and at his peak, he was ranked sixty-first on the most wanted list.

Later, he was caught during a failed robbery, captured by the Government Office, and sentenced to execution by beheading.

It was the Hu Family who orchestrated an elaborate deception, having someone take his place, and rescued him.

From then on, he changed his name and became a Tributor for the Hu Family.

Lichuan was already a master at Bone Tempering Perfection. With the Hu Family’s support over the years, he had begun to touch the threshold of the Blood Transformation Realm.

If he were to be ranked on the most wanted list now, he could even make it into the top fifty.

Lichuan had clawed his way up through the Jianghu and possessed incredibly rich combat experience. Even Hu Guangshao was no longer his match.

Within the Hu Family, he was like a trump card; they wouldn’t send him out under normal circumstances.

But every time he was needed, he completed his mission cleanly and decisively, without a single failure.

This time, upon receiving news from the East City Bureau, a furious Hu Gongxiu directly deployed this trump card.

Lichuan’s figure was like a wisp of smoke, leaping between the rooftops. Not even the most agile civet cat could match his lightness of foot.

Seeing the East City Government Office in the distance, a cold smirk appeared on Lichuan’s face.

’East City Bureau Captain, Taiping Bureau White Clothes, a peerless genius who mastered the Kan Water Realm before the age of twenty?’

Any one of those titles made Lichuan want to kill him.

He had been captured by the combined forces of an Outer City Captain and a Taiping Bureau White Clothes. If not for the Hu Family’s intervention, the grass on his grave would be ten feet tall by now.

As for geniuses, he hated them most of all.

’Why is it that what I worked so hard to cultivate, those geniuses can achieve so easily?’

Killing geniuses before they could fully mature was exactly what he, Lichuan, loved to do most.

’The Kan Water Realm is indeed powerful, but your own realm is too weak. How much of its power can you truly wield?’

Lichuan sneered inwardly.

He knew Su Mu had defeated Hu Guangshao, but he could do that too.

Although he, Lichuan, had not mastered a Realm, he had mastered two levels of Force—and his experience was something those young brats couldn’t hope to match.

Most importantly, the world only knew him as Lichuan the lone bandit, but they didn’t know that he, Lichuan, was also a first-rate assassin.

When it came to stealth and assassination, he, Lichuan, was in the top tier.

’So what if a Realm is powerful?’

’If you never get a chance to use it, it’s just a decoration.’

As these thoughts raced through his mind, Lichuan landed silently in the shadows outside the East City Government Office.

He looked at the unlucky soul tied to a wooden post just a few steps away.

He had two tasks on this mission. One was to assassinate the East City Bureau Captain, Su Mu.

The other was to rescue this unlucky soul.

Even a dog belonging to the Hu Family would not be allowed to be insulted like this!

Su Mu’s actions had thoroughly enraged Hu Gongxiu.

Originally, Hu Gongxiu had planned to use a borrowed knife to kill, but for some unknown reason, the Qingcha Sect had gone mad and backstabbed the Hu Family.

Then Su Mu had gone all out, practically stepping on the Hu Family’s face and humiliating them to the extreme.

This made Hu Gongxiu completely lose his reason. In his fury, he directly dispatched Lichuan.

It wasn’t that the Hu Family lacked Blood Transformation Realm experts, but that the movement of such an expert would inevitably attract the attention of the City Lord’s Mansion and the Taiping Bureau.

Even the Hu Family couldn’t blatantly assassinate a Captain.

Lichuan was, for all intents and purposes, the strongest expert the Hu Family had below the Blood Transformation Realm.

Lichuan glanced over, but to avoid alerting the enemy, he chose not to rescue the man first.

Instead, with a light leap, he nimbly vaulted into the East City Government Office.

As a once-outstanding lone bandit, Lichuan had a unique skill: he was an expert in building construction.

He could find the master’s living quarters in any residence in the shortest amount of time.

For a standardized building like the East City Government Office, he could tell where the Captain lived with a single glance.

What he didn’t know was that his every move was being watched by a pair of eyes from the main building of the East City Government Office.

Su Mu watched the dark figure head straight for the backyard of the East City Government Office, moving with a familiarity as if he were returning to his own home.

"Interesting."

The corners of Su Mu’s mouth lifted slightly. He pressed a hand on the railing, vaulted over, and leaped down from the main building.

As he moved, it was as if a gentle breeze swept through the air.

"This should be it!"

Lichuan stopped outside a room, a hint of confusion on his face.

’Why is no one here? Is he still working out front? No, when I came through the front courtyard, it was just ordinary constables.’

Lichuan’s brow furrowed as he thought to himself, ’Could he have gone out?’

’Whatever. I’ll hide in the room and wait for him to return. A surprise attack will surely take his life!’

Lichuan took out a short blade, about half a foot long, and slowly pried open the window.

The blade seemed to be coated in ink to prevent it from reflecting light.

From his movements to his equipment, everything screamed professional.

CLICK.

A soft sound, barely noticeable in the night, as the window was slowly pushed open a crack.

A professional never uses the door, even if the room is empty.

Lichuan slowly pushed the window open a little wider, about to vault into the room.

Just then, a voice suddenly sounded in his ear.

"Are you looking for me?"

The voice wasn’t loud, but to Lichuan’s ears, it was like a clap of thunder.

A chill shot up his spine to the back of his head, and the hairs on his back stood on end.

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