Chapter 20: The Darknet Organization

Outside the city, Lin Yu raced ahead alone, heading straight for the Primordial Yang Sect.

After leaving the restaurant, Chu Feng and Su Yanran arrived at a shop within the city. On the signboard above it were three striking characters—Heavenly Secrets Pavilion.

The moment the two of them stepped inside, the system’s prompt sounded in Chu Feng’s mind.

【Ding! Detected that the Host is in a Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Branch. Would you like to Sign-In?】

Chu Feng was momentarily stunned. He had not expected another pleasant surprise.

“Sign-In!”

【Ding! Congratulations, Host, on a successful Sign-In. System reward: the Darknet Assassin Organization!】

【The Darknet Organization is an assassination organization possessing exceptionally advanced assassination methods. This organization consists of three thousand members in total!】

【Among them, two thousand nine hundred and ninety members are at the Innate Realm, while the ten captains are at the Grandmaster Realm!】

【The system has already distributed the Darknet members throughout the Five Great Dynasties to gather all kinds of intelligence, and they await the Host’s commands at any time.】

Chu Feng’s eyes lit up at once.

This Darknet Organization had solved his most pressing problem.

Leaving aside their terrifying strength, the fact that they could provide him with information alone would allow Chu Feng to avoid many schemes in the future.

At the very least, he would no longer be dragged into storms or plotted against without even knowing why.

“I am Li Xiaobai, the manager of this Heavenly Secrets Pavilion Branch. Greetings, Your Highness, Seventh Prince.”

At that moment, a plump middle-aged man with a smiling face walked up to Chu Feng and bowed.

Hearing that, Chu Feng returned to himself and gave a calm nod.

Heavenly Secrets Pavilion was the number one intelligence organization under heaven. It was only natural that they knew his identity.

“Since Your Highness has graced our humble establishment, might you be here to purchase intelligence?” Li Xiaobai asked ingratiatingly.

“If I have come to Heavenly Secrets Pavilion, naturally it is to buy intelligence. What else could I be here for?” Chu Feng said flatly.

“Heh, heh...” Li Xiaobai let out an awkward laugh, then took out a scroll and handed it over.

“The information Your Highness wishes to know has already been prepared by this subordinate on another’s instruction.”

A flicker passed through Chu Feng’s eyes as he stared at the scroll. “Are you certain that everything I want to know is written on this scroll?”

“Of course. There is no secret in this world that Heavenly Secrets Pavilion does not know.” A trace of pride appeared on Li Xiaobai’s face.

Chu Feng said nothing. He took the scroll and opened it to read.

As he finished reading everything written on it, Chu Feng’s face turned incomparably grim.

A terrifying killing intent erupted from his body, and the scroll in his hand instantly vanished into nothingness.

Li Xiaobai’s face turned deathly pale. His whole body trembled without stop, and cold sweat soaked him through as he looked at Chu Feng in terror.

“What audacity! Chu Jingshan, you truly have extraordinary audacity!” Chu Feng laughed in fury, his eyes brimming with murderous intent.

He slowly let out a heavy breath and forcibly reined in his killing intent.

Chu Feng glanced at Li Xiaobai and said coldly, “I do not care who the master behind you is, nor what his purpose was in handing me this scroll.”

“This matter is one I, Chu Feng, will intervene in no matter what!”

“Yanran, pay him.”

With that, Su Yanran tossed Li Xiaobai a heavy money pouch.

Chu Feng then took Su Yanran with him and left Heavenly Secrets Pavilion. Grabbing her by the shoulder, he caused the two of them to vanish from where they stood in an instant.

Inside the shop, it was only after more than ten breaths had passed that Li Xiaobai finally recovered from his daze.

He walked into a hidden chamber, picked up a brush, and carefully wrote down everything that had happened on a sheet of paper.

“The information has already been fully delivered into the Seventh Prince’s hands. Everything is proceeding according to plan.”

“There is one more thing that requires attention. The Seventh Prince’s cultivation is at the very least above the Second Rank!”

After finishing, Li Xiaobai rolled up the paper and placed it inside a box.

In less than half a day, that very sheet of paper from the box appeared in the Eastern Palace within the imperial palace of the Great Xuan Dynasty...

Outside the entrance to the Primordial Yang Sect, martial artists from all directions had already gathered there. Chu Feng and Su Yanran quietly blended into the crowd.

Although Su Yanran was extremely curious about what had been written on that scroll, seeing Chu Feng’s dark expression, she tactfully kept her mouth shut.

At that moment, Lin Yu stood before the gate of the Primordial Yang Sect, his eyes fixed coldly on the swordsman blocking his way as his overwhelming vicious Baleful Aura gradually spread around him.

That swordsman was none other than Gu Feng.

With Chu Feng’s help, Lin Yu’s ‘Momentum’ had not dissipated in the slightest, and his mid-stage First Rank strength was fully laid bare before everyone present.

The martial artists who had come to watch the battle clicked their tongues in astonishment at the sight.

All of them were marveling at how terrifying Lin Yu was. In a single day, he had advanced from the early stage of the Second Rank to the mid stage of the First Rank!

They had never even heard of such speed before.

The overwhelming vicious Baleful Aura surged toward Gu Feng like a tidal wave, yet Gu Feng stood there with both arms folded, his expression not changing in the slightest.

He remained rooted where he stood, and it was as though an invisible sword existed one foot before him, splitting the vicious Baleful Aura in two.

“Lin Yu, let this matter end here.”

“My master already knows about your situation. He will give you recompense that satisfies you,” Gu Feng said as he looked straight at Lin Yu.

“Recompense? Heh!”

“How is he going to make recompense? One life for one life? Does your master have enough lives to pay for it?” Lin Yu sneered.

Gu Feng’s eyes turned cold. He slowly lowered his arms, and the ancient sword in his hand began to tremble, letting out wave after wave of sword cries, as though it could no longer wait to leave its sheath.

“That is more like it. Since your master does not have that many lives to compensate me with, then stop wasting your breath here!”

Lin Yu pointed his long spear at Gu Feng and shouted each word.

“Either get out of the way, or fight!”

“You are courting death!” Gu Feng snorted in anger. In the next instant, the ancient sword in his hand finally left its sheath.

A dazzling sword light flashed, and everyone present could not help narrowing their eyes.

When they focused again, the vicious Baleful Aura around Lin Yu had already been completely shredded by Sword Aura.

Lin Yu held the long spear across his chest as his body was blasted backward several hundred meters, and a clear sword scar had appeared along the shaft of the spear.

As for Gu Feng, he now stood calmly in the spot where Lin Yu had been moments earlier, ancient sword in hand. Sword and man had become one, and his whole being resembled a drawn divine blade—sharp and unstoppable.

“What a fast sword!” the crowd cried out in shock.

A trace of blood spilled from the corner of Lin Yu’s mouth, yet his eyes blazed with fighting spirit, utterly devoid of fear, as the Blood Essence within his body burned without restraint.

Lin Yu let out a furious roar. Blood-red Baleful Aura enveloped his entire body, and within it appeared a pair of bloodthirsty crimson eyes.

The instant the martial artists present saw those eyes, they all felt as though they had fallen into the depths of the underworld, as if the blood in their bodies were about to freeze solid.

“Kill! Kill! Kill!”

A savage roar burst from Lin Yu’s mouth. Holding his long spear, he left behind a blood-red afterimage in the air as he appeared before Gu Feng and swept the spear out with all his strength!

“Damn it, what a lunatic!” Gu Feng cursed when he saw the force of that attack.

He did not dare be careless. His body merged with the ancient sword, and the sword moved like a soaring dragon, shifting through countless transformations.

Wherever the sword edge passed, winds and clouds surged. It seemed as though it would tear apart the very space around them!

When the sword edge collided with the long spear, a shockwave rapidly spread outward from the point of impact.

Everything within several hundred meters of the two men was shattered by that aftershock. Cracks spread across the ground beneath their feet like a spider’s web, racing outward at terrifying speed.

Gu Feng and Lin Yu were both blasted backward several hundred meters at the same time.